August 2008
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My Top 5 (Week 2008.08.31) →
of Montreal
Da Bush Babees
Leaders of the New School
Anthony Green
FU-Schnickens
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Electric cars everywhere now!
There’s a really encouraging article in the latest issue of WIRED which focuses on a company called Better Place. They have feasible plans to knock oil off it’s perch and reinvent the auto-industry at the same time… In the not too distant future, it may be more like the current cellphone market, where there car may even come free! You’ll be renting the batteries /...
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Legomen turn 30!
The Legoman was born 30 years ago today… And over four billion Legomen have been manufactured since!
And let’s not forget The Brick Testament whilst we’re at it!
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My Top 5 (Week 2008.08.24) →
The Constantines
MF DOOM
Sonic Youth
Shearwater
Kind of Like Spitting
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Scientology illustrated... →
30 or so quick clicks of bite size info about Scientology and how ridiculous it all is… A little garish but it does the job! Alternately, you could read the really brief and fantastical story of Xenu, on which everything else in Scientology aparently hangs!
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WatchMeet the 23622” screen and what gets played on it! The Bunge Grain complex is made up of 81 individual silos 30 meters tall. In celebration of Quebec’s 400th Anniversary, the I’m-only-just-becoming-aware-of-him-ledgendary artist Robert Lepage, used the entire complex as a massive screen for an site-specific film called The Image Mill which tells the story of Quebec’s 400 years through...
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Keming →
keming. noun. The result of improper kerning.
A joke for the typographic fans from Ironic Sans… Too funny! And whilst we’re at it, check out these inspirational pieces from UK typographer, Craig Ward:
“Which bugs? Well, it’s still hard to say, but our voice suddenly sounds...”
– by Engadget on a recent iPhone firmware update
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My Top 5 (Week 2008.08.17) →
The Books
Aus
Woven Hand
Blonde Redhead
No Kids
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The Books - Take Time.
Inspired by a book, the...
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Batman - The Dark Knight
Watched Batman Begins last night in preparation for The Dark Knight which I’m off to see in a few minutes… This new one was shot and directed specifically for the IMAX …should be good regardless of the hype!
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Radiohead - Nude (Let’s up the Beat of them...
“I have always felt that in these cases one gives more than one gets, and there...”
– Emperor Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus on pets, as imagined by Robert Graves
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Jack Bauer is the new Chuck Norris →
…and it looks like I’m not the only one who thinks so! If you’ve ever had the dishonour of having to watch either on telly, here are some random facts to laugh at: Jack Vs. Chuck. I’ve been watching the repulsive Sutherland recently in an attempt to get a fix of comedy in the absence of new Family Guy episodes. I think 24 is a comedy…
Challenge: Read One Book a Week →
“…I want to swipe two ticks of your time and inject a deep passion for reading into your lovely behind. Relax and bend over. This won’t hurt a bit… More specifically, I’d like to delicately convince you that reading one book a week is not just perfectly comfortable, but also mind-altering, life-changing, and…”
I intended to reject this challenge when I stumbled onto...
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