Kom In I Garderoben is cool a Swedish site that will automatically generate an MTV-like video from any music file. The site is preloaded with a bunch of sample tunes, but you can actually upload your own MP3 file and watch as the video plays to its beat.

It’s very neat stuff, though it gets boring after a few minutes of repetition. I’m not really sure what this site is all about though, I wish I could understand Swedish

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It’s Super Saiyan Sonic!!!

(HINT: it’s near the end of the trailer)

What a way to start the day.

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It seems that Google wants a piece of the VR (virtual reality) revenue pie oh so famously milked to its bare skin and bones by Second Life, by introducing the new Google Lively (beta, of course!)

From the website meta-description:

Chat and hangout with your friends in rooms you design and customize your avatar. Experience another dimension of the web with Lively by Google.

Lively’s features include the following:

• Create your own virtual space

  Chat and interact with your friends in rooms you design

• Express yourself

  Customize your avatar and stream personal photos and video

• Add your room to your site

  Invite your friends to chat and help decorate

Google may have has also embraced the popular torrent based distribution method by providing a 450kb download, which is what I believe to be a torrent downloader. Note that this is just my unconfirmed hunch. After all, the mighty Google has all the bandwidth in the world to spare, and then some.

Of course, creating an account is easy as 1-2-3. If you already have a GMail account, all you have to do is sign in to the Google Lively website and it’s activated.
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Somebody sent this to me before. I lost the link and tried hard to find the link again. Luckily berg of PW posted the site on the forums. Taken from: http://logologos.blogspot.com/

Electrolux

Quaker

Apple

Wikipedia

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Stumbled upon a site called Designing The News while browsing Bryan Veloso’s blog. The author plays around with typography and similar visual elements to enhance “news” (aka text) and give it a visual flair.

His “Week of the Guardian” series is particularly interesting. I have special interest in the following entries:

“Wednesday”

“Thursday”

“Friday”

The rest of the series can be found below:

• Monday - A typographic and layout based piece previewing the contents of the paper as ingredients.
• Tuesday - A list of headlines contained in the paper illustrated with references to the article or subject.
• Wednesday - A polar graph inspired layout mapping the stories and categories on colour coded concentric circles.
• Thursday - A content map showing the relationships between information inside of a circular container.
• Friday - A text heavy piece highlighting the sheer amount of information contained within in the paper.
• Saturday - A grid based typographic piece, showing patterns and author relationships through the paper.

For more, head over to Designing In The News

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I love this new song! I had to search high and low for this, and I’m sharing it with everyone. UDD rules

Get it here.

Listen to it here:

Lyrics:

FLOAT AWAY
Up Dharma Down
McDonald’s Summer Colors of Love

Unusual yet so familiar
Surprising face I’ve never seen such glow
There is not one minute of refraction
You are my positive distraction

Level headedness versus heady bliss
What would you choose
Unbelievably, this feels so good to me
I’ve given myself away now

Taking leaps, clouds at my feet
Love makes you try anything once
Hues are better understood
But this is just a little too good

I am left believing, I thank you now for giving
Me the stars to chase around
There’s no going back
I’ve fallen pretty bad
This is the sound of being found

Taking leaps clouds at my feet
Love makes you try anything once
You and I float away
Tracing the seas

Pa-pa-ra-pa-pa… Love Ko ‘To

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One word: INTENSE. From the opening battle sequence up to the after-credit shot, this anime is a full-tilt adrenalin rush that will leave you breathless and wanting for more.

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Radiohead is just too awesome. What time scale is this on? 15/8? It takes real skill to play, even Phil (the drummer) can be seen counting from time to time to keep up with the beat.

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“The world’s thinnest notebook”. This is what Apple claims its latest tech toy to be. Having a dimension of 12.8′ (width) x 8.94′ (depth) x .76′ (height) (or 32.5 x 22.7 x 1.94 cm), this 3.0 pound (1.36 kg) notebook really does give new meaning to the term “notebook computer”. Time and time again, Steve Jobs and his team has proven that the mantra “less is more” applies very well to industrial design and make for very sexy and very cool products.

It is also reasonably priced, retailing at $1799 you get a small, light machine that packs a lot of punch: Intel 1.6GHz Core2 Duo processor, 80GB hard drive space, an LCD screen capable of supporting up to 1280×800 resolution, and the all new super shiny Mac OS Leopard X, among other things. What more can you ask for?

My only gripe is that it does not come with an Ethernet port so the user ends up having to rely on WiFi for internet connection — which is fair enough given the purpose of the machine is to be ultra portable, but an Ethernet port would have been nice as a backup. On second thought, forget the Ethernet port. Steve Jobs is a mad genius. Hail, hail.

As parting word when I first heard of “MacBook Air” I was going to come up with jokes but then I saw it and was somehow speechless.

Top notebook manufacturers Sony, HP and Dell were reportedly working on equivalents, dubbed the Sony VAIO “Feather”, HP Pavilion “Paper”, and the Dell Inspiron “Tissue”. Representatives from the three companies refused to comment on the naming convention.

… so I came up with this.

[tags]apple, macbook air, notebook, laptop, computers, technology, macintosh, tech toys[/tags]

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2007 was a great year for the music industry, with good releases left and right, a resurgence of supposedly retired musicians, and awesome albums from the Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears, Kid Rock, and Avril Lavigne. Anyway, without further ado, here is my own personal list of top albums released in 2007:

• 
  Radiohead - In Rainbows (quite possibly the best album of all time)
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  The Smashing Pumpkins - Zeitgeist
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  Korn - Untitled
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  Maroon 5 - It Won’t Be Soon Before Long
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  Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
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  Mika - Life in Cartoon Motion
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  Ben Harper And The Innocent Criminals - Lifeline
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  The White Stripes - Icky Thump
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  Fall Out Boy - Infinity On High
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  Linkin Park - Minutes to Midnight
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  Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero
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  Timbaland - Timbaland Presents Shock Value
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  Dolores O’Riordan - Are You Listening?
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  James Blunt - All The Lost Souls
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  Kanye West - Graduation
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  Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace

I was originally planning to do a writeup of each album, but music, like art, is very personal and the best ones definitely need no explaining.

While I realize that most of the albums listed are rock albums, it should be noted that there were many great releases in all genres by artists like Tori Amos, Rihanna, Norah Jones, KMFDM, Paul Van Dyk, Chemical Brothers, Atreyu, Cartel, T-Pain, 50 Cent, Motion City Soundtrack, Foo Fighters, Rascal Flatts, Marily Manson, Mandy Moore, The Eagles, Serj Tankian, Amy Winehouse, just to name a few. I restricted my list to albums which I felt were very well made.

Check out my Last.FM profile to see what I’m currently playing.

[tags]Radiohead, Smashing Pumpkins, Korn, Maroon 5, Arcade Fire, Mika, Ben Harper, Fall Out Boy, Linkin Park, Nine Inch Nails, Timbaland, Dolores O’ Riordan, James Blunt, Foo Fighters, 2007, best albums, music, roundup[/tags]

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