album review: niagara and the hitmen – st. valentine’s day massacre

Up now over at RHUM.

crappy taxidermy

This site is just… wow.  Like a clown dying, both creepy and hilarious.

(thanks to Erin)

why you shouldn’t use google chrome

You may have heard of Google Chrome, Google’s attempt to take on Internet Explorer and Firefox by releasing a stand alone web browser (no doubt part of Google’s secret plan to gradually take over the world).  As with…

Яolcats, a fusion of felines, 20th century russian history and hilarity

“Commissar Markov has long been a loyal party member, but I fear his growing influence in state policy. Perhaps it is time to cash in a favor from my friends at the Kremlin.”

More Яolcats here.…

album review – gomez – a new tide

A review of the new Gomez album, A New Tide by yours truly is up over at Rabbit Hole Urban Music.

Executive summary: I like it, but I miss the Good Old Days™.

Right this way if you’d like to…

screwing your customers just makes sense

I thought this was an interesting little article about the present state of the music industry and where it’s heading.

In summary, the big labels know that people paying $30/album and $2/track for recorded music is not going to…

tiny art director

This site is funny, in a slightly sickly-cutesy kind of way – an artist receives briefs from his toddler daughter who then critiques the results (read: gets angry and hurls abuse).

manage your digital rights

I came across this very informative summary of the current (purported) rights that various on-line communities claim over the content you, the user, uploads.  For example, Facebook’s terms of service are completely horrendous, whereas Flickr is relatively respectful…

questionable footwear of my roommate’s escort

I don’t know what this is, but I like it: one man documents the extraordinarily bad shoes worn by his crazy Russian housemate’s prostitute(s).

Somewhat NSFW, but not completely (depending on where you work).

if you like it so much, why don’t you go live there?

Random website of the week: spEak You’re bRanes.  An hilarious collection of mockery and analysis of the UK equivalent of the Australian “we grew here, you flew here”/”Australia: love it or leave” brigade.  Oh, and it’s probably NSFW.…

grim future

DRM-free itunes music files are spying on you for the music industry

You may have read about how Apple, in its benevolence, is finally releasing its entire music catalogue in a digital rights management-free format – i.e., you can copy them freely as you see fit. Sounds great…

new comments system – recaptcha

Until recently, commenting has been restricted to registered users due to the ridiculous torrent of spam which any website automatically attracts.  Before registration was required, I was using Akismet, which was fairly effective, as in it caught 99.9%.  Despite…

getup save the net campaign

iinet case update

This is quite a good summary of some of the legal issues in the iinet case.