The first single, Silent Shout, of their forthcoming album can be previewed online at the Rabid Records MP3 site. That uses an interesting method to stop people copying the tracks. It plays them in about 30 second segments that fade out at the end. Nice idea.
You can also buy Jenny Wilson’s album from that site.
Lots of people are raving about the José Gonzàles song that is featured in the Sony Bravia advertisement that’s on TV and in cinemas. The song in question is called Heartbeats. His version is good, I bought it myself from iTMS. But lets not forget the original version by the inestimable Swedish duo, The Knife. It can be purchased on iTMS as well.
How many times have you been in a presentation where the slides were simply read to you? Death by PowerPoint anyone? The Presentation Zen web site is a really good resource for avoiding this in your own presentations.
I’ll be trying to do more visual presentations in future. Keep the text to a bare minimum.
This, as the title suggests, is a parody of The Matrix Trilogy by Adam Roberts who also wrote The Soddit. If you have seen the films, and you are not too precious about them, then you’ll probably enjoy this. It’s not as good as The Soddit, and you have to have seen the films I think to get this, but does have some interesting commentary towards the end on the whole cult of celebrity thing we seem to be immersed in these days.
Blast from the past. Queen’s A Day at the Races was the first album I bought on my own, with my own pocket money. I’d been given A Night at the Opera for Christmas in 1975, along with most of the rest of the UK! I can still remember going into Belfast on the bus to get ADATR. 30 years ago this year. It’s still bloomin’ brilliant and fresh to me. Tie Your Mother Down has to be the best rock song ever written. Been listening to the album for the last hour or so. Marvellous. I’ve had 30 years of joy from the 10 tracks on that piece of plastic. Thanks guys!
Well, not really. But the image composited from different wavelengths captured by several space telescopes certainly looks like one. See image and story at New Scientist.
Nice.
Mark Morford ponders this question.
The Edge website asks many scientists and philosophers a question for the new year and publishes their responses. In 2005 the question was What do you believe is true even though you can’t prove it?. This generated a lot of interesting responses and arguments 🙂
The 2006 question is What is your dangerous idea? Responses are now available. Should make interesting reading. Think I’ll start with Richard Dawkins.
Sam Harris puts it very well in this article.
I got the complete series of the excellent BBC comedy Coupling for Christmas. This is one of the funniest shows ever. I was laughing so much earlier today watching it the back of my head hurt and I couldn’t breathe. Some of the lines that the character Jeff comes out with are unbelievable. Well worth checking out.