July 31, 2007
EW Popwatch: Alan Moore to star in Simpsons episode (Well, not star, but he'll be there in his hirsute glory, darn it!)
Gelf Magazine: 'Staying Awake by Switching Brain Hemispheres' (11 days? That's a while to keep awake.)
Chief Magazine profiles Japanese watchmaker Haruo Suekichi (Completely awesome steampunkish watches - via William Gibson.)
July 30, 2007
Music Thing: '10 MORE greatest beat making videos ever*' (Funky funky - also see Nullsleep's NY street performance.)
SimonWaldman.net: 'Digital investment:it’s no con, it’s a fact of life. Get used to it.' (Absolutely excellent editorial.)
GSW: 'GameSetPics: European Follies, The Final Countdown' (Final leftover European game pics from our trip.)
July 29, 2007
Linkbunnies points to Digital Bits HD-DVD/Blu-Ray article (Well summarized, I think.)
Gelf: 'Reviewers on 'The Simpsons Movie': 'The Lesson Is, Never Try'' (Oh, sweet headline puns!)
Evan + Sarah Dorkin working on super-odd Nick Jr. kids show Yo Gabba Gabba (Wow, guests include The Shins, Cornelius, Mark Mothersbaugh - sounds like Pee Wee-esque fun.)
July 26, 2007
YouTube: 'Unisex Chip Shop - Bill Bailey' (Absolute genius Billy Bragg spoof - really getting into Bailey, also see 'cockney music' classical expose.)
July 25, 2007
Gelf Magazine: 'Farking Up The Media' (The Fark creator doing a book on how the content normally featured on Fark is asinine? Uhm, you're definitely part of the food chain!)
Fast Company: 'The Knight's Tale' ('Living a quiet life as an animator, Travis Knight never dreamed he'd work for his father. Then the Nike founder gave him an offer he couldn't refuse.')
Quick Stop interview's MST3K/Rifftrax's Kevin Murphy (Another genius interview from Ken Plume.)
Gelf: 'When Fake Food Becomes Fact' ('Several other stores first seen in television and movies have been reified as lasting tributes to the fiction that inspired them.')
July 24, 2007
Prelinger Library: 'Scanning update' (Some absolutely gorgeous out-of-print/copyright periodicals being scanned.)
Shots Ring Out point out Daft Punk UK festival live footage (From June, darn - looks absolutely epochal!)
Scratchskunk: 'A Film Through A Tube' (As noted, Netflix Watch It Now's documentary selection is EXCELLENT.)
July 23, 2007
YouTube: 'How Michel Gondry Faked His Rubik's Cube Stunt' (A bit slow on this one, but Gondry/debunkers are lots of fun.)
Wigu's LJ: 'Ol Dirty Bastard FOOD (Think Responsibly)' (Big Lots! hitting up those rap snacks!)
OpenLibrary.org Beta version (Again, the Internet Archive trying to make books more open, w/links to out of print texts. Very, very important.)
University Of Illinois Digitized Book Of The Week Blog (Stuff like this is AWESOME - shame it doesn't get more press.)
July 22, 2007
Archive.org: Renzu - Reiha EP [mtk187] (Latest on my net.label, chilled Chicago CC-licensed idm, yum.)
July 16, 2007
Flickr: 'Tallinn, Estonia, July 2007' (Our last holiday stop - a really beautiful city.)
July 14, 2007
Flickr @ Helsinki: 'Lordi-licensed Vanilla cola!' (The ridiculous/cool Finnish metal band also has licensed licorice!)
July 12, 2007
Flickr: 'Helsinki, Finland - July 2007' (It's rather nice weather here for being so far North - huzzah!)
July 09, 2007
GSW: 'GameSetPics: British Gaming 'Gems', Part 2' (Apparently this is what I do on holiday.)
Flickr: 'Helen & Mark's Wedding, Surrey, July 2007' (Where I've been recently - sister's wedding, yay.)
July 03, 2007
Mike Nelson's Rifftrax releases fake Star Trek audio commentary as .torrent (HAH - here's the fake .MP3 - "it doesn't feel like a normal paid-for download".)
July 02, 2007
GameSetWatch: 'Announcing Our New Online Worlds Blog, WorldsInMotion.biz' (Run by Leigh Alexander, the blog covers worlds from Habbo through Eve Online and beyond - it's a v.important crossover market.)
Monotonik: BitBasic - Grating Rainbows [mtk186] (Latest drill+bass Squarepusher-esque CC-licensed neatness on my MP3 label.)
Flickr: 'Wiener Nationals, Alameda County Fair, Pleasanton, CA' (Mass dachshund confusion alert!)