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Best of the year....
The end of the year 'Best Ofs' are starting to trickle in, with Rough Trade beating a fairly similar track to some Chimpo favourites - but the numbers don't lie, and Last FM's chart clocks Coldplay as the favourite album and single of the year, with MGMT taking the artist top spot. Top 50s from Uncut and Mojo here
4th Dec 2008 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Relaunching The Conchords
The new Flight of the Conchords series is set to premier on HBO on January 9th, but the Ferrell/Apatow/McKay website funnyordie.com will get an exclusive heads up on the first episode, showing it for a week from December 17th. They also have a bunch of clips and stuff from the excellent first series.
3rd Dec 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Trial By Fire
Tim Ferriss, life management sensei and author of the excellent 4 Hour Work Week (more on that later), has a pilot coming for a TV show - Trial By Fire. The concept takes the ethos of his book, where organising your life better (i.e. not checking your email every 2 minutes) can leave you with lots of time to learn extra curricular activities super-quick. He's starting by attempting master the ancient Samurai sport of Yabusame.
3rd Dec 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
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The Devil Uses Poladroid
Looks like reality might be emulating art, with rumours spreading that long standing US Vogue editor (and inspiration for The Devil Wears Prada movie) might be getting the boot to make way for her French counterpart. More interesting perhaps is the fact that Gawker seem to be using Poladroid to make their graphics.
2nd Dec 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
One Man Flash Mob
Great commentary on this crowd-shot video of a protestor raining on the Queen's parade in Oxfordshire.
28th Nov 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
TVcatchup is back
Apparently it's been legalled - TVCatchup is back online with live coverage of the UK's Freeview channels...
26th Nov 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Steet View Fun
Plenty of fun spotted in Google's Streetview so far, particularly along Sampsonia Way in Pittsburgh, who may have had a tip about the cars coming their way.
25th Nov 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Dude Pics
Great book of photos up from the Iron Man set, over at the ever-entertaining website of Jeff Bridges. Don't miss the video clips of Bridges and Colin Farrell rocking out on the set of Crazy Heart either.
25th Nov 2008 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
YouTuuuuube
YouTube seems to have gone widescreen, perhaps in an attempt to keep up with Vimeo.
25th Nov 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
iZagat
The indispensable Zagat restaurant guide has finally popped up for the iPhone. The £5.99 app provides all the 2009 results, in the same manner as their Blackberry-centric version, Zagat To Go. It also uses the GPS of the phone to hook you up with the nearest listed restaurants, hotel and bars - with results you can order by rating, type, cost etc.
Get it here.
While the service has had a mobile phone version of their website for a while (zagat.mobi), for that you still have to be a website subscriber, which is a $25 annual subscription.
It's also worth getting the free Open Table app, which allows you to make restaurant bookings over the air, and ties in with the Zagat app.
AppleInsider has a more detailed write up of both apps.
24th Nov 2008 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Playing With Spoons
Sure, the whole Obama thing was so 2 weeks ago, but Spoon have compiled a great collection of YouTube clips from 16 states around the US all celebrating the historic victory. Play them all at once and it turns into an impressive sound piece that really captures the euphoria.
24th Nov 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
GWiki
Not sure what I'm thinking about Google's new wikiable search results. Why would I want to adjust the search results to give me the answer I want - as if I knew the answer, I wouldn't be searching in the first place? Time will tell, but I assume it's all part of another massive data-collecting exercise.
24th Nov 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Where You At?
You probably don't want to delve to deeply into the potential invasion-of-privacy issues, but recent developments are now allowing browsers to access your position, much like a GPS enabled phone browser - meaning websites such as Last Minute's Radar can provide you with location-centric data.
Google's Gears is one way of enabling such services, recent builds of Firefox include similar tech.
21st Nov 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Met Maps
The Metropolitan Police have a useful Google Map illustrating crimes in your area. 3 crimes in my sub-ward in September, nothing too serious.
Over and out.
21st Nov 2008 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Format 22
YouTube is quietly testing a further improved format, according to The Times. We tipped you off to Format 18 a while back, but now they've bumped it up even further with Format 22. I'm guessing that the same trick (add&fmt=22 to the URL) will work nicely, although the original video will need to have been uploaded in a suitable resolution. Try the sample clip in fullscreen.
19th Nov 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Xmas Kick-backs
Why not throw a few bucks Chimpomatic's way this Christmas, by doing your Amazon shopping through our affiliate store. It's the Amazon you know and love and it's all shipped as usually, we just get a slice of the pie.
Spread the word and tell your friends - because a Chimp is for life, not just for Christmas.
14th Nov 2008 - 3 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
The War Is Over
....well, according to this bizarre fake copy of the New York Times, it will be. On July 4th next year.
Liberal pranksters The Yes Men are behind the fuzzy stunt apparently.
12th Nov 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
12.5m to 1
The odds are low, but those damn spammers are still making a profit. Blanket coverage makes those small odds pay, apparently to the tune of $2m a year.
11th Nov 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Feature Films Coming to YouTube
Thanks to the success of Hulu.com (a US iPlayer style site that has generated 3x the ad-revenue of YouTube), Google have re-negotiated some of their relationships with Hollywood, and MGM will be the first studio to offer feature films on YouTube. Hopefully that's all going to lead to the watch-anything-whenever holy grail that has been slowly evolving, as online movies follow the lead of the audio revolution.
CNET has the details.
10th Nov 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Is Kim Jong Seriously Ill?
Some very hokey Photoshop work has cast further doubt over the health of Team America nemesis Kim Jong Il, thanks to some mis-matched shadows and blurry pixels. Surely if the party spin doctors had worked on the photo they would have done something about that jacket? BBC News has the story.
7th Nov 2008 - 1 comments - Add Comment - Tweet
Freedom of Speech
And I thought we got a lot of comments. Check out the monster tirade aimed at new writer Peaches Geldof's inaugural posting over at the Nylon website.
5th Nov 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Google Streetview
Just when the Google Maps / Earth combo couldn't really get any better, they go and introduce Streetview. While the previous mapping technology pulled in a lot of existing data and re-formatted it for Joe-public, streetview involves Google driving cars with 360 degree cameras on the roof down every street in a city. The images are mapped onto the correct co-ordinates, giving a keyhole view into the actual street.
While some of the US cities have been available on the system for a while, things are really starting to take off as it becomes a more widespread technology. Despite some sensitivity backlash, Japan is now online, as well as France and Australia - and after jumping over some privacy hurdles, London is coming online soon.
Here's Mann's Chinese Theatre in Hollywood, the Hollywood sign, George McFly's house (actually in Pasadena), Shibuya crossing in Tokyo and my old flat in Melbourne. There's already dozens of strange sightings, as well as lists of best-ofs...
God know how Russia will embrace it.
6th Oct 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Da Font
For my reference as much as yours .....check out Da Font for a vast array of great free fonts to re-design your tired, aging website with.
3rd Oct 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Skypedya
Following in the footsteps of advertising wet-dream Sleeveface, website Skypedya provides the creative basis for next year's Christmas cards.
23rd Sep 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
The Last Wordle
Tired of working out what they're saying for yourself? Wired have a wordle friendly summing up of political speeches. Barack Obama and John McCain above.
22nd Sep 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Fact Checker
Internet inventor Tim Berners-Lee has stepped in to back up Puskas' stance that sites (including us) are doing an irresponsible job of covering some news and promoting a fair amount of gossip, unchecked fact and idle speculation.
After last week's powering-up of the L.H.C., it is being reported that the world has not been sucked into a black hole and life goes on. While I was genuinely interested in the story, it may be argued that the semi-serious tone of much of the reporting on the matter could be over-looked and many people were expecting trouble. With Berners-Lee suggesting some sort of ratings guide to gauge how reliable sites might be, I would suggest that anything written on chimpomatic should be rated 'pinch of salt'.
18th Sep 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Some Photos Of That Day
Great piece up on website Some Photos Of That Day, a blog documenting daily Polaroids taken by a film student called Jamie Livingstone who shot one every day from 1979...
13th Aug 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Gawker Stalker
Spotted anyone famous today? Send the details over to Gawker and they'll map it onto their stalker map ....although I know marmot wouldn't be impressed by a sighting of Trey Anastasio.
11th Jul 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Zoomii
Sick of online shopping? Check out Zoomii.com, an online mash-up that let's you browse Amazon as if it was a real bookstore.
9th Jul 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Topographical
As noted in our recent article on music service Topspin, they recently assisted in the digital distribution of Nine Inch Nails' album The Slip. The distribution data from that release was then adapted by the NIN tech team into this awesome graphical representation in Google Earth. Love what NIN are up to with all this stuff.
4th Jul 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
clustrmaps
been wondering where all the chimps are? clustrmaps knows...
27th Mar 2008 - Add Comment - Tweet
Google's Katrina Coverage
Google have added satellite coverage from August 31st of New Orleans.
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SS2K
Mucho approved Weezer bootlegs available over at this fan site....
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20th Jul 2005 - Add Comment - Tweet
G-Force
Thanks to an anonymous tip-off we are now secretly entrenched in the contoversial GMail system.
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The new evil empire?
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15th Oct 2004 - Add Comment - Tweet