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28th Oct 2008 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Free Stuff 0011010100100100100111
Codeweavers are offering all of their software FREE for today only. If you are on a Mac or Linux, get yourself a free copy of their CrossOver program, which allows you to run Windows programs.
28th Oct 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trailer Park: Gran Torino
With The Changeling opening in cinemas next week, Clint Eastwood has already wrapped up his next movie Gran Torino, which will be opening in December - in time for Oscar consideration. Clint also stars, in his first role since Million Dollar Baby.
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Where's Jack Bauer When You Need Him?
An assassination plot, rogue bombing of a foreign state to distract the masses in the build-up to an election, and a credit crisis hitting £1.8 trillion - it's all getting pretty 24 in here
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Get Off Of My Cloud
Microsoft is belatedly stepping into the cloud computing arena - with it's 'Azure' platform set to debut along side Windows 7. Planning to take on already established over-the-net services from the likes of Amazon and Google, Azure will offer services such as storage and program access - as well as allowing developers to build their own apps.
And, mildly off-topic, while Adobe might have an online version of Photoshop up and running, they've been beaten to the post for an Illustrator-style app by Sumo.
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Piece Of Ass
Here's a match - your face and your ass. Turns out chimps take a tush over a mugshot any day.
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Portable Earth
The Earth is now available in the palm of your hand. Google have released Google Earth for the iPhone - using the tilt feature of the phone to adjust your viewpoint. More info on CNET.
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Back In The Black
AC/DC are number one again - do they only do well when we're in a recession?
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Animal Collective Mess With Your Mind
Like, woah dude, Merriweather Post Pavilion is totally twisting my melons
25th Oct 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Pretty, pretty good.
Looks like Larry David will be back with a seventh season of Curb Your Enthusiasm in 2009.
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Skate or die: The Crossover
As CSF is winding up his mammoth tour of California I thought I'd keep his weekly skate section alive with these two selections. Instead of one skater getting all the glory I found two films with a common theme, and that is, they have both been made or presented by an artist of some description who has links to the skate scene. First up is The Foreigners, directed and edited by No Age's Randy Randall. It follows the Altamont skate team on their tour of Paris and is all set to the music of No Age including the atmospheric sounds of Keechie and the awesome Nouns opener Miner. As far as the skating is concerned it's a pretty standard film but Randall manages to evoke a nice sense of nostalgia with the flickering, bleached out footage and there's a healthy display of long hair and beards.
The next film is by Ari Marcopoulos but is presented by the New York fashion designer Adam Kimmel. It's called Claremont and it features some of the most hair-raising downhill, old-school speed skating i've seen for a long time. Again 'beards on boards' seems to be the order of the day as both skaters do the whole run in Kimmel's AW08 collection. Swapping the camera over between each other on the way down and having little concern for oncoming traffic this is an awesome movie.
24th Oct 2008 - 2 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
I liked it so much, I bought the company
Jack's had a shave, which means there must be a trailer for season 5 of Lost online.
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More Watchmen
More Watchmen footage online. I'm willing to bet that this is going to bomb. It seems so nudge-nudge-wink-winky that I can't see it appealing to anyone that hasn't read the comic...
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GNR: it's actually online
15 years later... a new GN'R song... that sounds just like a GNR song. thanks Axl, that was worth the wait
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McCain ads
if only he could get some help from that liberal media elite...
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Gmail preview on Android
as you'd expect, sounds like Gmail's neatly integrated w the Anrdoid phone
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30 Rocks
no idea why Five won't get on with showing us season two...
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D.U.D. (Dumb Up Dudes!): Obama's not in yet
nice piece on not getting complacent about "President" Obama - still got that Kinnock "triumph" running through my mind...
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As easy as ABC
The Atheist Bus Campaign is up and running in London
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Art Of Darkness: Rothko and Warhol
Can thoroughly recommend two exhibitions from two of my favourite all-time artists on in London at the moment. Tate Modern's Mark Rothko exhibition focuses on his late work, with the epic Seagram murals taking centre stage. The Hayward's Andy Warhol: Other Voices, Other Rooms includes greatest hits like his silver clouds, some Marilyns and the flower series, but also includes his screen tests, video diaries from the Factory and clips of his 80s TV series for cable and MTV, featuring everyone from Debbie Harry to Donna Karan, David Hockney, Grace Jones, Phoebe Cates, Nick Rhodes etc etc
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The Chimpomatic World tour of CA, AZ & NV
On tour out in the South Western states of the US this month, taking in the Griswold-approved sites of Joshua Tree, Flagstaff, Grand Canyon, Route 66 and Las Vegas - before heading back to LA.
Having fun so far, and surprisingly spotted a potential snow-spot in the Old West town of Flagstaff, which it turns out has an altitude of 7000 feet.
'Living the dream' seems to be the order of the day, with an uncountable amount of middle-class, silver-haired Americans touring the country in Ford Mustangs or on Harley Davidsons. If everybody's living the dream, you have to wonder who's running the emerald city?
A quick head count in Vegas matched the 80/20 rule, with 80 fatsos for every 20 barely acceptably-weighted Americans. One exception was muscle bound ginger-nut Carrot Top, who provided some laughs at a Vegas show.
Have notched up a good 1000 miles so far, but the trip highlight has to be BW facing her worst fear: a 4 foot Arizona rattlesnake, 6 feet in front of us.
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World's Best Restaurant
how to solve that whole "tip or not tip?" problem
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Bugs v Daffy
Jimmy Cauty Splatter Exhibition, The Aquarium, London Oct 2008
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A Hefti Blow
RIP Neal Hefti, composer of the Batman theme, one of the most perfect soundtracks ever
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We Can Be Heroes Free
oh my god you guys! the first ep of Chris "Summer Heights High" Lilley's other show We Can Be Heroes free on iTunes UK at the moment
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Tokyo Jogging
I haven't got a Wii, I don't jog and the website is less than instructional - but I imagine if you did want to use a virtual Tokyo to go for a virtual jog in this might be pretty cool.
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Space Elevator
If they can just crack the carbon nanotube problem, Japan hopes to let us take the express elevator to space.
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American Life On Mars
more Martian fun on the way: the US version of Life On Mars has Harvey Keitel and Michael Imperioli as the 70s ball-breakers dealing with modern day coma-cop Jason O'Mara. Lisa Bonet's in it too, just to add to the 80s triv factor...
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Christmas On Mars
The Flaming Lips film, Christmas On Mars, is coming...
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Eno Apps
Brian Eno apps for the iPhone popping up: a bootleg version of Oblique Strategies and his own Bloom here's the promo blurb:
Part instrument, part composition and part artwork, Bloom's innovative controls allow anyone to create elaborate patterns and unique melodies by simply tapping the screen. A generative music player takes over when Bloom is left idle, creating an infinite selection of compositions and their accompanying visualisations.
"Bloom is an endless music machine, a music box for the 21st century. You can play it, and you can watch it play itself." - Brian Eno
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Guitar Face
Loving Flickr's Guitar Face photo pool. This pic was nabbed from Red~Cyan.
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Still Unbreakable
No doubt inspired by the woeful performance of his recent offerings, culminating in the dire-looking The Happening, over-rated wunderkind M. Night Shyamalan is mulling a sequel to his one good film - 2000's Unbreakable, which featured Bruce Willis in a comic-book tale of superpowers.
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Time For Democracy
With the US election only 26 days away, Axl Rose seems to be cashing in with a hastily released new album, entitle Chinese Democracy. Latest rumours peg the actual, total, final release date for the oft-delayed record as November 23rd....
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Entourage 6
Looks like my snack-related side-project has been commissioned for another season by HBO.
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Promo Promo: Troublemaker
Weezer have stepped into the record books for new video Troublemaker, setting a record for most-number-of-records. Biggest custard pie fight, biggest game of dodgeball, 22 people on a skateboard, largest air guitar ensemble.... just watch the pretty hectic video for more.
9th Oct 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Just Like Heaven
Wedding Present, Frank Black, Tanya Donnely and Joy Zipper are amongst the acts lining up for The Cure covers album Just Like Heaven. No mention of Dinosaur Jr....
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A Party Political Broadcast From Randy Randall
------ Forwarded Message
From: Randy Randall / NO AGE
Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2008 01:16:40 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: No Age vs. CBS
Hello All,
I apologize for mass email but I feel that it is important to get this out to as many people as possible. I have recently come under what can only be called extreme censorship. On Oct 2nd No Age was scheduled to perform on the Late Late show with Craig Ferguson, to be broadcasted on CBS later this month. I felt it was important to voice my choice for presidential candidate, Barack Obama, seeing as the episode would air 8 days before election day. We rehearsed on the stage and were waiting to film our performance when I was told that I would not be able to wear my Barack Obama t shirt. I was shocked, it seemed like some kind of joke, especially coming from a show like the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, produced by David Letterman's production company World Wide Pants. The representatives of CBS said that by wearing an Obama T-shirt I would be violating the FCC rule of equal time for all candidates
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal-time_rule
however there there is a doctrine of fairness that former President Ronald Reagan and current president George W Bush supported the repeal of in order to allow themselves more time in the media.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairness_Doctrine
Regardless, the Equal time rule clearly favors candidates with more financial support. Ralph Nader and Ron Paul are not seen nearly as much as Obama and McCain.
I had to look at what I was up against and with 5 minutes before we were supposed to shoot I had only a hand full of options. I could either A) walk away from the show and decline from appearing on the show, or B) change my T-shirt. My first choice was A. However, after talking way past the 5 minute mark, Dean and I decided that it would be better to take advantage of the stage we had at our disposal. I decided to make an appeal for "Free Health Care" on my T-shirt seeing as I was unable to voice my support for Barack Obama. Access to affordable health care is an issue very near to my heart for many personal reasons and I am sure that many of you can relate. I have lost and stood by as many of my close family members have battled with terrible illnesses. I have myself gone through traumatic hospitalizations only to come out the other side alive but horribly in debt.
I encourage all of you to speak out about your political views and your feelings about the many issues that are up for discussion at this crucial time in American history. CBS and major media outlets DO NOT speak for me. I do not look to corporate media to inform my views on the issues. Together through our communities we can make a difference and make it a point to express our views in order to shape our world into a better place.
Thank you,
Randy Randall
9th Oct 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
