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- Вслед за Crytek, подарившей нам синее небо, золотой песок и экзотическую фауну абстрактных кокосовых атоллов, в туроператоры подалась Ascaron Entertainment. Старательный немецкий ремесленник устал от спекуляции на романтических настроениях жителей Порт-Рояля и Тортуги, понукания низменным инстинктам игроков в Sacred и безуспешных попыток креатива вроде Arena Wars. Устал и решил отдохнуть, поездить по миру. А поскольку путешествовать просто так (немцы, немцы!) несерьезно, было решено еще и поработать. |
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- That famed UK pop-gossip/tittle-tattle site Holy Moly talks to MediaGuardian. And reveals throughout that rather than being some kind of seedy teenager trapped in the toilets of Media Whorehouse Central, he is in fact a married 30-something Northerner who wants to "turn the site into a successful business model". Any donations you make to the site, goes to him to buy more fashionable clothes. Call me insane and hippy-esque, but it's disgraceful. I do wish people would stop seeing the Internet through nothing but green-paper-tinted glasses. |
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- One of the highlights of attending SXSW 2004 was going to a very entertaining blogging panel. Amongst the panellists was a very funny Justin Hall, who struck me as being a unique blend of someone who could be entertaining, funny, *and* knowledgable at the same time. In other words, someone I could aspire to liking, if I had heard of him before that day. Then amongst the morass of weblinks that get thrown at everyone all the time, I forgot to check out his website. (This is before I discovered Bloglines and the point of RSS feeds - to help you catch up on your web reading! |
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- On the Chris Moyles radio show this morning, the "gang" riffed on that classic early-90s two-albums-wonder Martika, and played a Japanese version of Love ... Thy Will Be Done. And howled at Martika singing Japanese lyrics with an English chorus, as if this was typical of the oddity of Japan. Except ... I'm pretty much certain that outside of English-speaking countries, an awful lot of the native pop does incorporate English and other multiple languages into songs. |
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- Oh for heavens' sake. BBC NEWS | Blogging 'a paedophile's dream' says a forensic psychologist adviser to the Scottish parliament. What next? Banning pens and paper on the grounds that if children write things, it might find its way over to that nasty child catcher? How on earth did paedophiles become such a bogeyman in today's society? |
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- It's the end of the world ... so it's time for Snow Patrol to do the video to that rather fabby song, Chocolate. They say it's all about madness, but I beg to differ. Certainly, it's much better than Ultravox's video on the same theme, with the added poignancy of some 9/11-esque imagery. Also pays "homage" (ie it rips off) to Don McKellar's great film Last Night. |
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- "If you want a working definition of a producer's job, it is persuading people to do things they don't want to do. And which are not in their own best interests." - Jeremy Paxman. So right. |
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- Since I spent 14 hours yesterday mostly monitoring/watching the Tsunami Relief Concert to provide on-demand broadband video clips (with my colleagues of course), I thought I might as well give my knee-jerk reactions of the artistes involved. Although of course I COULD HAVE BEEN THERE INSTEAD, if it wasn't for my cursed multi-skilling abilities. Rant to come. Katharine Jenkins - nice voice, but the songs seemed a bit too bland and were too anthemic at this early stage in the proceedings. Of course, at one point I shouted across the office: |
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- Well, it was a 14-hour workday producing on-demand broadband video clips from the Tsunami Relief Concert - and aside from the fact I've still got a glowing wristband on that would have allowed me backstage access throughout the entire gig and I had to babysit a video encoder instead - it was good fulfilling fun. Pumping out 8 hours of video content, checking it for swearing gives one a huge sense of achievement. Although not being able to spot when Badly Drawn Boy repeats a song twice is not one of my music appreciation highlights. |
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- tsunami concert goers start arriving Originally uploaded by badlydubbedboy. Like ants to a sugar cube on a picnic. And just when it gets interesting, and the music starts pumping out the stadium speakers, I have to go to the office to pump out 8 hours of broadband-quality on-demand video. Which will be fun, but not as fun as working backstage. |
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- an empty millennium stadium Originally uploaded by badlydubbedboy. Up from the sixth floor, just waiting... and waiting... |
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- Watch that Tsunami Relief Cardiff concert online in broadband. and guess which muggins is having to produce the on-demand broadband video clips, instead of using his backstage pass? Boy will there be a rant about that later... |
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- My sister popped round briefly in the post-Christmas haze of festivities. Having spent a couple of days in her suburban house stuffed full of toys, cute crabs, pillows and other girly things, I thought it was a bit rich of her to turn around in my penthouse suite overlooking the river and announce imperiously: "You're still living like a student!" I'm still not sure by which she reached this statement - probably because I still live with flatmates, rent the flat and don't own my own house. (Although of course, I do - it's just not the one I live in). |
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- Damn, Suw beat me to the first Welsh-language podcast. I think. I'm just thankful that this achievement in the Welsh language was not achieved by a remote geek somewhere in Welshpool extolling the virtues of php over perl. Although I guess for added obscurity, said podcast should have been done in a North walian accent. Now I'm waiting for complaints from ardent Welsh nationalist fascists that Suw not actually being Welsh, it doesn't count... |
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- Not knowing who every single band is on the setlist at Cardiff's forthcoming Tsunami Relief benefit concert, I thought I'd better try and update myself as to what the cool kids of today are listening to. And iTunes has a handy sample of all music bands in the UK. Or so I thought. A search on Embrace or Feeder on iTunes UK comes up with lots of bands, but none of them being the actual Embrace or Feeder. At least, as far as I know. |
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- There was always something about the "seminal" Call on Me: Eric Prydz music video that seemed distinctly Eurotrash/Europop about it. The complete disassociation from anything else, the lack of outdoor shots, the Euro-friendly look of the dancers. It just looked like something that was shot by the geniuses behind the Menthos adverts, or Cillit-Bang, for that matter... However, it turns out that the only thing European about it was Mr. |
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- (US) David Hardesty, 22, of 1009 Harley Drive in Carrollton and Jarrod Ginn, 22, of 1222 Trout Ridge Road in Bedford were jailed after police found marijuana, cocaine and drug paraphernalia at Hardesty s residence, police said. Possession of cocaine and tampering with evidence are felonies. [$drug_related(100%), $drugwar_propaganda(60%), $propaganda_theme3(50%), $propaganda_theme5(60%), $illegal_drugs(100%), $drugs(90%), $stimulant(100%), $cocaine(100%), $cannabis(100%), $paraphernalia(100%), $various_drugs(90%)] |
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- Virginia's assistant coach Tim Taylor, left, Siedah Williams and Brandi Teamer (32) celebrate their 77-62 victory over Florida State, Monday, Jan. 31, 2005, in Tallahassee, Fla. (AP Photo/Steve Cannon) (Click for Large Photo) [yahoo: 2, +virginias -coach -tim +taylor -williams ++brandi +celebrate] |
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- New Scientist is carrying this article detailing a new development in solar-sail research: Gregory Benford of the University of California, Irvine, and his brother James, who runs aerospace research firm Microwave Sciences in Lafayette, California, envisage beaming microwave energy up from Earth to boil off volatile molecules from a specially formulated paint applied to the sail. The recoil of the molecules as they streamed off the sail would give it a significant kick that would help the craft on its way. |
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- GIMME: This latest volume of the groundbreaking Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts explores the material, social, and cultural world of the large American hotel. Ten richly illustrated essays look at the architects, designers, and social forces that created this distinctive and complex urban institution, from Gilded Age New York to 1950s Miami Beach. |
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