Music recommendation: 8mm - Songs to Love & Die By
May 26, 2007
I hate seeing good bands not doing well. I’ve been listening to 8mm for ages now, I recently noticed their album was out so went to search on Kelkoo UK only to find Amazon UK were the only company stocking it in this country. So here’ my little bit to promote 8mm. They are a 3-piece trip-hop band, similar to Lamb, (one of my favourite bands) from the USA. So if that’s to your liking then have a look at their MySpace page here:
http://www.myspace.com/8mm
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Interesting link: The First Post
May 20, 2007
I’m starting to really like this site. It’s called The First Post. It’s basically an online news site. Very well written (though the sports articles appear to be from offline papers, well they did on Sunday) and nice big photos (which makes a change to the stupidly small thumbnail size pics you normally get). You can subscribe to several regular e-mail subscriptions and RSS feeds, which seem to come at you at about 9:45AM (in the UK anyway ;-)). I particular like the Arts section and their roundup of all the news for the week that is posted every Sunday.
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First movie recommendations
May 13, 2007
As I’m a big movie fan I thought I would add a few posts every so often on my recommended movies to watch. So have a looksee for some of these if you can: Read more
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Music recommendation: Maps - We Can Create
May 13, 2007
I cannot remember how I found this artist, but I’m really happy I did. Their new album is brilliant and is well worth a listen. They are said to sound like Ulrich Schnauss and Band of Horses and are classed are a indie-electronic band. For a preview of their sound check their MySpace page:
http://www.myspace.com/mapsmusic
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First music recommendations
May 13, 2007
Another new category, this blogging is becoming addictive. 
I thought I’d post some CDs I’ve bought recently. I just love music and in the last year or two I’ve started digging a bit further to unearth some lesser-known artists and bands (which you usual find are better than the drivel that you head in the charts), so you may or may not have heard of these. I rarely buy an album as most are just pants, when I buy a CD it’s becuase I love 90% or more of the tracks on it, liking 6 out of 10 just isn’t enough for me. So recent purchases are (in no particular order): - Read more
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Fun link: Viral Video Chart
May 13, 2007
When you work in a desk job like me you appreciate some funny clips to keep you going during the day, have a look at this chart (mainly YouTube videos):
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Interesting link: Unusual articles on Wikipedia
May 12, 2007
Short and sweet this one. One of my favourite sites on the web is Wikipedia - this its perhaps a little inaccurate here and there but it’s still simply the best encyclopedia you can find on the Internet. One interesting page is this page of unusual articles: Read more
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Useful link: MySupermarket
May 11, 2007
In the first (of many I would say) of my quick useful links articles, comes MySupermarket:
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Mind-altering media
May 11, 2007
Another good article from New Scientist was ‘Mind-altering media’. This is something that touches me personally as I’ve worked in the computer games industry. Myself, I find it very hard to believe that players and viewers of violent videogames and movies make for violent people. I think if you’re violent it will come up regardless of experiencing modern media. What I don’t like to see is violent games sold to underage children, someone somewhere needs to take responsibility for misselling these games. You can’t let a 12 year old play an 18 certificate game! A child will imitate, far more than an adult, what they experience, if they interact with a violent game then they are more likely to copycat the experience in real-life.
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How to make better decisions
May 11, 2007
Another interesting article from New Scientist, ‘How to make better decisions’. It’s a top ten list and I’ve written some highlights from article below:
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