September 2008
52 posts
Technorati report - State Of The Blogosphere 2008 →
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-9-28) →
Operation: Sleeper Cell →
Operation: Sleeper Cell is the world’s first massively multiplayer game designed to raise money for charity. The game came about as a result of Adrian Hon’s Let’s Change the Game initiative, a competition to develop an ARG that would raise money for Cancer Research UK. The 20 volunteers comprising the winning team, Law 37, worked for 8 months unpaid in their spare time to develop the...
Jeff Koons at Versailles - New York Times...
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2008/09/11/arts/design/20080911_KOONS_SLIDESHOW_index.html
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-9-21) →
The moon on a stick →
We made this when we were bored this afternoon. Perfect for that person in your life who is making unrealistic demands - send them the moon on a stick!
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2008-9-14) →
MoreCowbell.dj →
Read more over at Sleevelessness.
Extra industry rant
laurakaypea:
In addition - I hate how people always call record labels ‘greedy’. If they were greedy, would a typical record employee like me always be skint and earning significantly less than my peers who do a similar job? Even the loaded fat cats at the top probably earn less than their counterparts at other media/entertainment companies. Gah.
Don’t worry - it won’t matter a jot...
Chromeo’s “Fancy Footwork”...
RE-START Laptops go live. by Sasha Frere-Jones →
I DJ with a laptop. I like it better than my records because it weighs about 1/20th as much and I’ve always got all my tunes in case the crowd turns out to want something completely different to what I was planning to play (which is surprisingly often). Also, being able to buy music digitally is the difference between me going out and DJing and it being one of those things I used to do...
It's the end of The End :-(
I just found out from my friend Richard Hewitt than London’s legendary venue The End / AKA is due to close after 13 years.
I’ve got a personal attachment to the club as I’ve spent many late nights over the last five years making interactive flyers for my long standing client Sancho Panza’s regular night at the venue’s AKA bar. I’ve also spent many many late...
Introducing Mr T. Rettes
I made a (very) basic IM bot to test the IMified platform. His name is Mr T. Rettes and he swears back at you, ocassionally including some contextual information based on what you typed.
Simply add mr_t_rettes@bot.im as a contact in Google Talk / Gmail chat or any Jabber compatible IM client and send him a message. It’s supposed to work in MSN too but it didn’t work for me :-(.
If...