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September 2007

IM IN UR KITCHEN

DOIN PARKOUR LOL! For peeps who ain’t knowin’ bout parkour… learn more here… i can has b-13? submitted by: trueborn via: gordon’s lolcat buildr (via bounder’s shared items in Google Reader)

Embed and breakfast man: Fiery Furnaces

A Saturday evening treat: This is the acoustic “work in progress” version of Japanese Slippers from Fiery Furnaces’ forthcoming Widow City CD. The album version is somewhat less, shall we say, linear. (via bounder’s shared items in Google Reader)

The Lumiere Manifesto

The Lumiere Manifesto for online video. In summary: * 60 seconds max. * Fixed camera * No audio * No zoom * No edit * No effects Other than the “no audio” limitation (cut voice overs yes, but natural background sound?) I think this is all eminently sensible. via Wellis [Later: Okay, having seen a few I get the silent thing now. Will have to have a go at this I think.] (via bounder’s...

HomePub.uk | brings life at home - HomePub →

“it emerged today in BBC News 24 reports that the minister - who recently told...”

– James Purnell drawn into fakery row | Broadcast | MediaGuardian.co.uk Mr Pot…

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I don't really like the Pet Shop Boys... but...

Pet Shop Boys signal the release of ‘Disco 4,’ the fourth album in a continuing series, with a groundbreaking video for the politically-inspired new track ‘Integral.’ Picking up on the song’s themes of ID cards and the erosion of civil liberties by the government, Pet Shop Boys have worked with new creative group the Rumpus Room to conceive and create a sinister mix of surveillance...

ace ,... fantastic ,... and top poster,...

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Capital of Culture: With the Beatles

If we remember the early days of Liverpool’s Capital of Culture bid clearly, one of the great drivers was proving to the world that there’s more to the city’s culture than the Beatles. Now they’ve announced the key event for the festivities, and it turns out to be a Beatle. Paul McCartney, in fact, playing a gig at Anfield. Anfield’s a great choice, in fact - visitors...

A year of following all the rules in the Bible

Kevin Kelly reviews The Year of Living Biblically, about a guy who “recently spent a year trying to follow all 700 plus rules he found in the Bible. These rules ranged from the obvious Ten Commandments to the more obscure details of Old Testament laws, which ultra orthodox Jews might follow: leaving side hair uncut, dwelling in huts on certain holidays, strict dietary routines. To give...

Hobotopia :: HTTP Errors Poster

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Russian Freedom of Speech... Part Three

Here’s the list (with thanks to Chicken Yoghurt) of the ever increasing number of bloggers sticking an online two fingers up at Mr Usmanov and his bullying tactics. Curious Hamster, Pickled Politics, Harry’s Place, Tim Worstall, Dizzy, Iain Dale, Ten Percent, Blairwatch, Davide Simonetti, Earthquake Cove, Turbulent Cleric (who suggests dropping a line to the FA about Mr Usmanov), Mike...

Amazon creates gigantic DRM-free music store!

Amazon is selling 2,000,000 tracks as DRM-free MP3s! Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) today launched a public beta of “Amazon MP3,” a new digital music download store with Earth’s biggest selection of a la carte DRM-free MP3 music downloads. Amazon MP3 has over 2 million songs from more than 180,000 artists represented by over 20,000 major and independent labels. Amazon MP3...

Ramones shower curtain

Sick of ducks and sea shells while you shower? You could go a bit more rock ‘n’ roll with this Ramones shower curtain. Yes, more bizarre Ramones-based merchandise (you may recall the alarm clock and the Converse Chuck Taylor), this time featuring the Ramones name and logo in alternate black and white. Cheap too at $18, which is around £9. Find out more at the Sourpuss website...

Morning! Here's your weekly ShortList!

Now listen, I have no axe to grind with Mike Soutar - I used to work with him at Emap and he always seemed a terribly nice chap from Smash Hits who got sucked up into the bullish world of men’s magazines and was forced to hand some of his morals in at the door. I wish no ill-will on ShortList either - it’s just magazine people getting on with their job, just like my friends at Word...

DA BEAR STILL CALLUN ME FAT

..I STAY UNDER HERE, K? MEAN BEAR! photo and caption by: kylejbritt (via bounder’s shared items in Google Reader)

Marks and Spencers' Apple iPod suit makes you...

In an ever increasingly frequent occurrence of technology meeting fashion, Marks and Spencers have released a suit through which you can surreptitiously control your iPod. Through the power of the Elektex fabric, the suit’s lapels become the control centre for your Apple device, so you don’t need to keep unsheathing your baby (easy now) every time you want to turn up the volume...

Steve Jobs is AT&T Hacker, not against iPhone...

Back in 1971, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak went into business to build ‘Blue Boxes’. A device that allowed free illegitimate phone calls by faking the signals used by AT&T. Why would Jobs take a stand against iPhone/AT&T hackers now? An interesting story about how Steve Jobs started business. (via bounder’s shared items in Google Reader)

Workshop on "Exploiting the Potential of Blogs and...

Bookings are now open for this workshop which will be held at Austin Court, Birmingham on 26 November 2007. The event will provide an opportunity to hear examples which illustrate the diversity of approaches which are being taken in the provision of blogs and the exploitation of social networking … (via bounder’s shared items in Google Reader)

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Software: Download Old Versions of Popular...

If the newest version of your freeware application doesn’t seem to work and the official web site does not archive older versions, OldApps.com might save the day. OldApps.com archives many previous releases of popular programs for such emergencies. The site is very much like the previously mentioned OldVersion, but it appears to include a slightly larger number of applications. For...

Plays No More: Virgin closes downloads service

Virgin is canning its windows media music download service, phasing it out over the next month. Oh, that does mean, of course, if you’ve been subscribing rather than buying, your music collection will stop working on October 19th. Surprise! Which could be an illustration of exactly what people warned you about when you were thinking of hiring instead of buying outright. The company has,...

Hello Kitty WordPress Theme

For those of you who have been following this blog for awhile, you may have noticed I recently changed the look of the blog. While I eventually chose the theme that you see in front of you, my wife thought that I should go with the Hello Kitty Wordpress theme: Yes, you know things are bad when the evil Kitty has her own WordPress theme. Of course, it makes no sense that this blog would go with...

The Manics are definitely going to do a Christmas single, and don’t care about the consequences: “I think people take music too seriously. We are cross that Radio 1 don’t play us. But we’ll do a Christmas single to completely shred any possible credibility we have left. “A Christmas single is a creative institution. But we haven’t quite decided which way we will...

Panda squeaking and "Ehn!"-ing

Look, ONCE AGAIN, it’s my patented rule, when in doubt WHINE! Always works. Even at the office. Sender-Inner Emily M., I bet you let out a couple of Panda squeaks trying to send this to me. (via bounder’s shared items in Google Reader)

Robert Llewellyn rants about the BBC iPlayer

I have so much to say about this video by Robert Llewellyn, the BBC iplayer and drm but maybe not together and specially not right now. Comments [0] Trackbacks [0] (via bounder’s shared items in Google Reader)

War of the Worlds with Orson Wells and a load of...

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Amazing Journey: The Story of The Who (2007)

Music biopics and documentaries seem to be popping up all over the place this year and one of the new music documentaries currently getting rave reviews at the Toronto International Film Festival is Murray Lerner’s Amazing Journey: The Story of the Who (2007). The film was authorized by The Who and it’s being called “the definitive” film about the band. The documentary...

“So maybe it is still worth blogging on a Saturday, but only for an exclusive...”

– diamond geezer

Animals carved from vegetables

These vegetable animals (shown here: eggplant penguins) are incredible — I imagine that getting kids to eat their veggies is much easier if said food is pre-sculpted into elaborate animals. Just think of the sound-effects you could make at the dinner table: “Oh God no, please don’t eat me, ow ow ow!” Link (via IZ Reloaded) (via...

Videodrone: PJ Harvey Is Still The Greatest

I’m obviously biased in her favor, but PJ Harvey’s forthcoming “piano record,” White Chalk, is an astounding piece of music that’s as up-front and urgent as Rid Of Me, only with a bit more world-weariness/howling at the moon—and like pretty much every other album I’ve loved this year, it’s had its release date pushed back (only a week, but still)....

Germany bans all music and video copying,...

AV sez, “Germany’s parliament on Friday approved a copyright law, which makes it all but illegal for individuals to make save and make copies of television, films and music, even for their own use. It goes into effect in 2008.” Nice going, Germany — between this and the new anti-hacker laws, you’ve managed to criminalize every productive member of the information...

A few days ago, Craig Mazin blogged that he’s not taking a possessory credit on his new film, which he’s writing and directing. Because, as he points out, the film isn’t “by” him. It’s by him and everyone else who worked on the film. The “A Film By” credit has become meaningless. It doesn’t mean you did something special beyond directing....

Baker And Kelly: The Podcast →

They’re back.

HRNNK!!! Listen to some new Kylie...

If you’re very quick and go to Mylo’s MySpace you can hear ‘I’m In The Mood For Love’, the track he recorded with Kylie Minogue but which isn’t on her album… http://myspace.com/mylo (http://myspace.com/mylo) Oh, and the Kylie.com forums have the album tracklisting: 1. 2 Hearts 2. Like A Drug 3. In My Arms 4. Speakerphone 5. Sensitized 6. Heart...

Creative Lunchbox

Creative Lunchbox: “Whether you are a Designer Faker, Shaker Maker or Quaker Baker - If you need funding towards buying an unnecessary service or 3 year imaginary business plan that you will never use or even part funding towards overpriced office space that one of our subsidiary companies can’t seem to rent to real businesses, you’ve come to the right place.” Via Created in Birmingham (via...

Someone Shoot The Marketing Department.

From the BBC. TV channel UKTV G2, which shows cult comedy and game shows aimed at young men, is to be rebranded Dave. UKTV says the new name is based on the idea that “everyone knows a bloke called Dave”. The head of Dave, Steven North, said: “Changing the channel name to Dave enables us to create a strong and noisy personality for the channel that immediately aligns us with our core 16-34...

"So please spread the word! If you think you might...

“So please spread the word! If you think you might be able to help by putting up some posters and flyers (I think the proper way to ask would be “Do you want to be part of our street team?” but this would mean I’d feel a strong urge to shoot myself in the face) we would be most grateful! Just send us a message saying “Yes Gareth, I understand the question and am happy to...

Bearwood Blogger silenced

Bob Piper is another blogger currently without a platform thanks to the events surrounding Uzbek millionaire Alisher Usmanov. Rather annoying for us both as judging by my blog stats, a large number of people have tried accessing his opinions on democracy in the Labour party today. We all hope you get back up and running soon, Bob! (via bounder’s shared items in Google Reader)

Labour Gains Brandwood

A brief post, given the hour - for much of the past month Councillors of all parties in Birmingham have been campaigning in Brandwood Ward in South Birmingham for the by-election caused by the sad and sudden death of Conservative Councillor Ken Hardeman. I’m therefore very pleased to be able to say that the people of Brandwood have elected Labour’s Mike Leddy to represent them. Mike...

.. I solvez ur Rubiks cube photo by: ? capped and submitted by: Rubiks (via bounder’s shared items in Google Reader)

Pub customers happily line up for drug testing

Police in Bicester set up a drug testing station in a pub, and swabbed the palms of every customer before they were allowed to enter. The swab was checked for drug residue. Anyone who tested positive was searched on the spot for possession of drugs. 150 people submitted to the test. The police explained that it was part of a crackdown on violent street crime. But for some reason, they did...

…when we sez u can kleen! photo by: ? capped and submitted by: Jason Hoffman (via bounder’s shared items in Google Reader)

O2 taxis offer free calls

Taxi passengers are to receive free calls to all UK national and mobile numbers in O2 branded cabs across London and Birmingham on the back of a new deal between the mobile phone brand and TaxiMedia. Unique O2 branded hands-free phones have been fitted in over 100 taxis across London and Birmingham along with O2 branded charging units compatible with the most popular mobile phones, MP3 players...

Barry Manilow makes political stance

Of all the popstars in the world who may make a political gesture against the right wing bastards, you wouldn’t pick Barry Manilow would you? The nasally challenged on scrapped plans to appear on the USTV talk show “The View,” because he did not want to be interviewed by its conservative co-host. Manilow was scheduled to appear on the show to promote his new album,...

Synopsis t-shirts - Only films buffs need apply

In a similar vein to the Last Exit to Nowhere tees that we featured a few months ago, Synopsis tees from 2KTShirts take a vague reference to a movie and print it on a shirt without actually revealing which film it’s regarding. In this case, 2K use the official one-line descriptions used to advertised films in TV guides, along with their star rating. Some of them are pretty easy to...