Archive for March, 2009
If there is one thing guarnteed to cheer me up it’s music and the best sort of music is free music, particularly if I’m legally allowed to have it.
The South by Southwest Festival is a big entertainment industry festival held in Austin Texas. Each year there are loads of free tracks available from [...]
March 30th, 2009 | Posted in Media, Music | No Comments
Just spotted this free 5 track EP with unreleased tracks form Nine Inch Nails and Janes Addiction as part of a tour promotion.
Particularly nice is the fact they give you DRM free tracks with options for both mp3 and lossless formats.
March 22nd, 2009 | Posted in Media, Music | No Comments
An interesting idea this one, author Max Barry has decided to publish a new book “Machine Man” one page at a time in real time which means it could go completely of the rails or be quite brilliant. I do like the idea of reading something as it is written with no editing and rewriting [...]
March 19th, 2009 | Posted in Books, Fiction, Media | No Comments
Kutiman is a youtube genius, cutting and mashing up youtube content to create some really unique stuff. This is the first in a series of seven.
March 13th, 2009 | Posted in Media, Music, Video | No Comments
Have been feeling ill the last few days so it was nice surprise when the postman turned up with a nice new gadget for me to play with.
I read a lot of ebooks but I’ve been suffering a bit staring at bright screens so I’ve finally invested in something with an e-ink screen [...]
March 11th, 2009 | Posted in Misc, Stuff I Like, Tech | No Comments
The new Star Trek reboot is looking excellent, can’t wait for this one.
March 8th, 2009 | Posted in Media, Movies | No Comments
Random house are kindly giving away some free science fiction and fantasy ebooks over at Suvudu. Some pretty good stuff too, I particularly recommend Naomi Novik’s “His Majesty’s Dragon” for some alternate Napoleonic history with added dragons…loved that book and I still have the rest of the series sitting on my to read list.
Looks to [...]
March 4th, 2009 | Posted in Books, Fiction, Media | No Comments
Just noticed that you can watch a load of episodes of bizarre 80s claymation series The Trapdoor over on Joost. Used to love this when I was younger and it’s still pretty cool.
Children’s TV is rather boring these days, what happened to all the really weird, creepy stuff they used to feed us? [...]
March 1st, 2009 | Posted in Media, TV | No Comments