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Promo Promo: Explosions In The Sky

Amazingly, this animated head trip through space and time is the first ever Explosions In The Sky promo. Enjoy.....

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29th Jun 2011 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet

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Promo Promo: Radiohead - Staircase

On the one hand it's not really a promo, on the other it only exists to promote something - a forthcoming full length episode of "From The Basement" with Radiohead doing King of Limbs.

And it's a new track.

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21st Jun 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

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Becoming Dazed & Confused

Chimpovich recently highlighted this "Making of Dazed & Confused" documentary over at YouTube. Well worth a watch, notably for a pre-mcromcomedy Matthew McConaughey. I love those redheads.

That's part 1 above, part 2 below. Continue to parts 3 and 4.

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30th May 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

Trailer Park: The Adventures of Tintin

I was never the world's biggest Tintin fan ....but here we have a teaser trailer for the first of three motion capture/CGI extravaganzas from Spielberg and Peter Jackson. Make of it what you will.

Via AICN

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17th May 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

Tape it

Jubru's great collection of blank tape inserts spotted by CNRTH - corporate art at its finest. amazing how many are instantly recognisable to my taping head. must dig out that Walkman 45 tape I've still got somewhere

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27th Apr 2011 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet

Fight! For your streaming rights!

full-form version of the Beastie's "every comedy dude ever" version of Fight For Your Right played out last night in the States, coming to C4 soon too

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21st Apr 2011 - Add Comment - Tweet

There's An App For That: Yurekuru

BC and I are in the field over in Tokyo this week ....and have been rocked by the frequent aftershocks from last months big quake (a magnitude 7.1 and a 7.4 being the biggest). A frequent sound prior to the tremor is the ding ding of the Yurekuru App, which gives locals a quick heads-up. You can even set a minimum intensity over which you want warning, as most people here don't get out of bed for less than a 7.

Japan doesn't use the same magnitude system as the West, preferring the Japan Meteorological Agency seismic intensity scale which records quakes in actual relative intensity - rating the quake bigger the closer you are to the epicentre. The ratings are also accompanied by a written description, ranging from "Hanging objects such as lamps swing slightly" through "Hanging objects swing violently. Most unstable ornaments fall. Occasionally, dishes in a cupboard and books on a bookshelf fall and furniture moves" to "Most furniture moves to a large extent and some jumps up".

Update: The USGS has data streams accessible by the "Quakes" app - in English.

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12th Apr 2011 - 2 comments - Add Comment - Tweet