My Brother-(in-law)^2's band. Fine garage-rawk tunes can be found at their MySpace page.
Win32 remote controller for Slimserver. I now have toast popping up on track changes, which makes me happy.
Indie news/reviews website. Focuses on the shiny, fun, P!O!P! side of the indie coin, to my immense delight. And it’s named after a bis song, so how can you go wrong?
Visualizations on how Yahoo, Google and MSN (and comment spam bots) spider through content.
Bacon suffered a back injury this week -- A slipped disc or a pinched nerve, reckons the vet. Poor little bugger has the be kept in his crate (except for "short leashed walks") for two weeks.
Since he's caged and being fed steroids, Keith suggested we should rename him "Veal".
Panic catalogue some of the odd places their (beautifully-designed) iconry has ended up on the web.
Slicing and dicing an HD DVD player. A Pentium 4 processor, a 256Mb USB flash drive (running ext2), and a gig of RAM are amongst the goodies.
Improv Everywhere send 80 folks wearing blue polo shirts and kahkis into a Best Buy. “Hilarity” “ensues”.
The Onion AV Club’s snark-filled guide to this summer’s movies.
Apache for your S60 cellphone. Includes mod_python so you can write your own scripts!
Radiohead have announced some summer US tour dates. Boston is 4th & 5th of June.
Kathy Sierra promotes the “Shangri-La Diet”. The skeptic in me believes that this is, of course, complete bobbins — extra light olive snake oil, if you will — but I’m still curious to try it.
“Wikipedia is a new paradigm in human discourse. It’s a place where anyone with a browser can go, pick a subject that interests them, and without even logging in, start an argument.”
Damnit! Why didn’t I find out about this until I was already at my desk? I could totally have done with pulling a sickie, and pretending it was a political statement.
Incredible story of how a fan bought the DVD rights to the excellent, but forgotten, BBC sitcom “Joking Apart” (written by Stephen Moffat of Press Gang and Coupling fame). I only caught a couple of episodes, but loved it, and can’t wait to buy this.
Thanks to the magic of MultiBlog, I’ve finally gotten around to moving my linksblog out of its left-hand-side purgatory, and mixed it up in the main column of the site. Since about 99% of my activity here is linkage, it seemed right to promote it.
And hey! Perhaps it will shame me into writing more proper content sometime, since now it’ll drop off the front page even faster. (Or—more likely—I’ll continue being a lazy arse. Who can say?)
Napster (remember them?) launch free streaming of most tracks in their catalogue. Unlike Rhapsody’s service, it requires registration first, and forces you to sit through advertising every few tracks.
The last.fm Flickr group's been a bit quiet of late. Here's the first seven rows of my current album chart. Compare and contrast with last February.
Stephen Colbert performs a superbly scathing speech at the White House Correspondents Dinner. President? Not laughing. “When the president decides something on Monday, he still believes it on Wednesday - no matter what happened Tuesday.”
I'm Rod Begbie -- A 32-year-old Scottish geek who lives in San Francisco, CA.
Fire Eagle thinks I'm currently in San Francisco, CA, and have been for around 2 months, 2 weeks.