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200 orgasms a day is probably not cool after while, but what about collapsing every time you laugh? Or actually being allergic to modern technology, that’d be a bit shit.
Some cool kids furniture, not so sure how practical the accordian dresser is though.
Some stunningly beautiful motion blur photographs.
Common sense is just plain lacking in some people.
Hot Chicks with Douchebags. This is what the internet is for.
Canon 50D specs leaked, then announced. I cannot afford any of this but its still fun to ogle.
Banksy’s opinion on advertising.
A very relatable comic, thanks noclarity.
A very cool optical illusion. Just a bunch of squares.
Ubiquity looks like a very cool app. I need to read the tutorials though.
Lots of pretty rainbow colours.
I actually think I’ve been neglecting photography on this blog lately, so don’t forget I do post a new photograph every day on my photoblog.
This is incredible:
The french are just so horny:
The Summer Experiment play Auntie Annies on Wednesday 27th August. Then disappear into the night. Never to be seen again.
They said it better than I could
What happens when a band is faced with its own end before it even gets off its feet? Would this knowledge change their plan of action? Could it change the band’s dynamic? Could it even change the music? The Experiment is exactly this: a ‘band’ in its dying days from before you had even heard of them….it is what it is…no strings attached…just creativity. Doing what you can while you can. This is what we decided to make of Summer 2008 and we hope to remind everyone of the amazing things that happen when artists just allow themselves to create.”
The Summer Experiment taking place in Auntie Annies, Belfast on the 27th of August marks the end
of the three month project undertaken by the Summer Experiment Quartet. Through this period the ‘band’ has worked towards a handful of gigs to be rounded up with The Summer Experiment itself this week in Auntie Annies.
The Summer Experiment is not just another band playing music at you from the stage. It is not just another gig with some bands you might have heard of before. It is a chance for you to take part and become part of the histo
ry of The Summer Experiment.
There is no aim, method, result or conclusion. The arrangement of fixed sonic material may be based around theories of metric structure, perception of events, evolution and mistakes. There are no white coats or microscopes however there will be unfair tests conducted in uncontrolled environments with no safety goggles. There may be lab rats.
The Summer Experiment will be performing live experiments. These will be administered without anaesthetics and there will be no refund for unexpected results.
Attempting to bring audience participation and collaboration to a gig, The Summer Experiment will be the greatest band that never wanted to be…
John Baucher launched his Ttv (Through the Viewfinder) exhibition ‘Old meets New’ last week. The exhibition runs in the Black Box until 16th Sept. Here is a shot he took of me outside the venue:
10 yrs on, too much Google? Still doing no Evil?
They have amassed more information about people in 10 years than all the governments of the world put together. They make the Stasi and the KGB look like the innocent old granny next door.
Google’s tentacles are everywhere. It runs services for blogging, email, instant messaging, shopping and social networking. It offers a suite of word processing, spreadsheet and other tools to rival Microsoft’s products in the workplace. It is building a software platform for mobile phones that may challenge Apple’s iPhone and others. It has just launched Knol, a peer-reviewed encyclopedia to take on Wikipedia. In America, Google Health enables users to maintain their own medical records. The company is also working on language translation, speech recognition and video search.
Eight people actually bought the ‘I am Rich’ iPhone App: Six people from the United States, one from Germany and one from France dropped a grand for the gem in the first 24 hours it was available.
Some pretty surface pattern designs.
Orbitrunner: Try to keep the planets orbiting the sun in the allocated time, without going outside the given space. It’s bloody difficult.
Wired Up have some good band promo tips.
The Guardian does LOLBush.
A robot with the ‘brain’ of a rat.
Is this not taking the digital age a little too far?
Some incredible shots on the Pix.ie blog from the Guiness Storehouse photowalk last weekend. I so wish I could have gone.
Unfortunately racism is still rife in Belfast.
What is SlicethePie?
Slicethepie is a web based artist financing engine that raises money for artists to professionally record an album. It enables users to invest in, profit from, and trade in artists’ success by turning every music fan into a talent scout and investor.
On Slicethepie:
Artists can raise money directly from their fans to professionally record albums
Fans can become emotionally and financially involved at all levels of the music industry - scouting, breaking, investing in and influencing real artists
Investors can gamble on, trade in and profit from the success of these artists
Artists who secure finance pay Slicethepie a small royalty on album sales but keep all their copyright and publishing rights.
Essentially, Artsits join an Arena and once the arena is full (up to 1,000 artists) the Scout Room opens. The 20 highest rated artists from the Scout Room go forward to the Showcase.
In the Showcase fans vote for and finance artists by buying Backstage Passes. Fans buy Contracts that entitle them to a return based on the number of singles and albums sold by the Artist over a 2 year period.
The Artist receives the money (non-recoupable) and goes off to record the album, keeping in close contact with Backstage Pass holders in a private area of the site. The Contracts become fully tradable on the Slicethepie Exchange, fluctuating in value depending on the anticipated number of album and single sales.
The album is released and Slicethepie receives £2 royalty on every album sale. The Artist keeps all their copyright and publishing rights and remains free to sign a record deal at any time.
Kitty and the Can Openers are one of only 16 bands in the current Showcase. If they get plenty of votes they will win £15,000 to put into recording an album. I would like to ask you to vote for Kitty and the Can Openers, the only Irish band in the current Showcase, and help them win this! It would mean a lot for this band. Don’t forget there are some free MP3s to help you make up your mind on their website!
All you have to do is sign up to the site (you have more than one email address you say? Why not add a few more votes!) and vote for the band on this page!
Thanks!
My brother who has started using MSN messsenger was recently hit by this scam that has been spreading over the last few months by ‘TST Management’. I think the advice here, like always, is never log into a site from a strange url. Bastard scammers.
in 2008 40 men will die from a lightning strike, 6,812 from brain cancer, 1062 from falling down steps and 270 from alcohol poisoning. How will you go out?
“Even worse, the growths were wiry, untamed and white. And if you really want me to be frank, the hair was essentially pubic.”
You mean Bigfoot isn’t real afterall? Wasn’t expecting that at all.
Unusual kitchen furniture anyone? This one reminds me of a doctors surgery.
Tracks from U2’s forthcoming album ‘No Line On The Horizon’ have been leaked online after a fan over-heard Bono listening to the tracks and recorded them. If anyone finds them, I even want to know about it.
Chinese police use force on Media, despite pledging to allow foreign media to do their work.
A decade of the iMac; I never did like the ‘Lamp-Mac’ or the colourful toy-like Macs, or… wait I didn’t like any Mac until the one I have right now…
Will this man ever go away? Hoffspace? Seriously?
Visions of the future in MS Paint.
Former astronaut Dr Edgar Mitchell Kerrang DJ that we have been visited by aliens, Roswell (and others) are real:
What started out as a lot of heavy rain as I headed to Enniskillen for the VibeFest with Kitty and the Can Openers, turned into widespread flooding across Northern Ireland.
Unfortunately the festival was first postponed due to the rain and flooding on the field, then eventually cancelled. So after much waiting around we made our way back to Belfast on the bus.
It continued to rain.
Here is what we saw on our way home (they aren’t great quality as the bus window was very wet also):
All the stuff in the centre is water, and that was a road!
Toddle, this week’s Tuesday Push, is a really nice startup for sending pretty newsletters, it’s very simple to use and in line with what I am currently looking for. Though also on the lookout for a simple way to manage subscribers to such newsletters.
Moviestar.ie Irish Web Awards details have been announced, and the cost of running such an event.
F is for Fucking, Austria. An A-Z of fun and inovative things on Wednesday’s Rocketboom.
Still time to get your bid in for the “The Tart’s Black Lacey Knickers (size humongous)”.
Twenty Major has the title of book II; ‘Absinthe makes the heart grow fonder’.
Downloadmusic.ie have released Ireland’s first USB album which includes Northern Irish band Driving By Night, among others.
Constrast.ie launch their site, photo by me.
Nathalie has done a great job of producing some incredible baby pics, thanks to Claire’s top tips.
Donncha has created a useful wordpress plugin for archiving twitter conversations; tweet tweet.
Damien points out some great irish webtools; I mean url.ie is shorter than tinyurl.com.
Alan remembers Omagh, 10 years ago.
Who doesn’t like to swear every now and then
Photo of the Day: ‘Waterfall of the Gods‘ by watchThisspace.
Watching Ben & Sarah smile all day brought a small tear to my eye. They are so happy together, always. It makes me so happy to see.
The wedding went really well; the weather was good, food was great, drink was drunk (understatement!) and everyone was happy.
I wish them both the very best of happy years together.
Very cool video of lightning in slow motion
There really is no price difference between Macs and PCs
A very long piece in the New York Times on ‘Photography As A Weapon‘
“Laptop Machines” is an anagram of “Apple Macintosh”
80 Things That Make Men Cry
MBTA won a temporary restraining order that will keep the students from discussing their findings at a tech convention
After a slow few months lately, Headphoneland has come back with some great shots over the past few weeks, including todays and yesterdays
The opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympics were incredible. Unfortunately it turns out there was fakery in the firework department as well as lip-synching.
Here are some great photographs from the ceremony
more links next week :)
I will admit that it is important, although the chaos that resulted after Gmail went down for an hour or so (for some, longer) last night was quite surreal. Thousands of tweets, widespread panic, and even an article to mark the occasion.
“productivity up of 20 million people” - Techcrunch
Though for many people, this quote is completely untrue. So many of us rely on Gmail. What do we do when it goes down? Should this make us think about having backups of our backups?
We all assume Google’s servers are safe for hundreds of years, but are they? Maybe they are, but sometimes things go wrong, even just for a short period of time. They tell us that although something has gone wrong, all our stuff is still safe - reassuring, but what if it wasn’t.
There wouldn’t be a lot we could do about it, we aren’t paying for anything after all, and mistakes do happen. Systems do go wrong.
But what if Twitter and Gmail were down at the same time??
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