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Babelfish in your pocket

Google's Babelfish gizmo now comes in app format for iPhone - allowing you to stick a mic in the face of some innocent Japanese person and translate what they are saying to you. Or vice versa.

Android version here.

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10th Feb 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

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New Strokes: Under Cover of Darkness

First Impressions of this: they've turned their back on the critically panned (but awesome) sound of First impressions of Earth for the casual pop sing-a-long style of their debut.

MP3 here.

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10th Feb 2011 - 2 comments - Add Comment - Tweet

The Creme Bru-log

Wacky pranksters M. Ward and Jim James have a new website - reviewing crème brûlée from around the world. Possibly including Paris, France.

Let's hope they put this much effort into each of their new albums.

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9th Feb 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Ad Nauseum: Superbowl Special

At $3m for 30 seconds (or something like that), a spot during the Superbowl ad break is advertising nirvana, with many advertisers creating special spots that air only once. Nothing particularly flashy about this one ...just a clever idea, well made. With a very large licensing budget.

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7th Feb 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

Ad Nauseum: The Psychology of Mad Men

Great article over at the BBC Blogs looking into some of the psychology and thinking behind the advertising boom of the 1950's and 60's.

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7th Feb 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

Fleet Foxes Sighted

new Fleet Foxes album on the way, from the sound of Helplessness Blues it's more of the same, which is fine by me

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2nd Feb 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

The Big Picture: Space Shuttle Challenger

It was the 25th anniversary of the Challenger disaster last week - a traumatising event that I remember watching on live TV as a child and one that would set back the space programme by many years.

Via The Big Picture

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1st Feb 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

Trailer Park: Beginners

Indie alert: trailer up for Mike Mills' new feature - Beginners, with Ewan McGregor and Christopher Plummer. Think there might be some idea-pooling going on in the Mills' household. Wife Miranda July's latest movie The Future is narrated by a cat.

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31st Jan 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

Promo Promo: She & Him

Promo up for "Don't Look Back" from M.Ward / Zooey Deschanel side-project She & Him.

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28th Jan 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet