Yesterday I asked Jumpy to point my standard email address (myfirstname at theprf) to my new Gmail account. I still caved and ran Outlook Express at home this morning, because it auto-forwards my Footballguys newsletters to work. I can’t have them sent to work directly because they’re interpreted as spam and don’t make it through [...]
Another good Guardian article/experiment where they sent a 17-year-old kid to see concerts by The Who, Paul McCartney, Kraftwerk, Brian Wilson and Diana Ross, whom he had never heard, and then asked him to write about the shows. Clever idea, interesting result.
An MCV Nuclear Medicine outing to the bowling alley made for some cool phone and Zire photos. The pictures got extra cool once the bowling became extreme.
The Guardian has a nice write-up on Oasis as they get ready to play Glastonbury. This passage made me a little sad: “They are the 90s’ solitary contribution to a club largely comprised of 60s and 70s survivors – Paul McCartney and the Rolling Stones among them – who remain a vast concert draw, despite [...]
This is 15 kinds of awesome. It’s a group of 4th and 5th grade music students performing “Light and Day” by The Polyphonic Spree.
Just so you know, this was a QoTSA side project that spawned this album after the main Queen kicked out the other guy. This has been in very heavy rotation for the last couple of weeks. It’s tailor-made for the gym with it’s up tempo drums and drving guitar. Most of it is even okay [...]
Here is his AMG entry. I just saw his video for Postales on Subterranean. Good stuff.
90 days of Mars rover-ing in 90 seconds is pretty damn cool! [found at buffoonery.org]
Well, it must be going production soon because I got one. michael dot flynn at gmail dot com Jenblossom was cool enough to hook me up. Thanks Jen!
This is the only belt clip I’ve ever seen that has interested me. I usually avoid these things like the plague, but this one has potential. I think it’s because it looks like a system that you could use to attach or mount your phone (or other small electronic item) anywhere, not just on your [...]