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Videos of The Week: Remembering R Kelly’s Sex Planet

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R Kelly’s Sex Planet
As R Kelly returns with a song that compares intercourse to topping the charts, it’s worth looking back to his jaw-dropping 2007 song ‘Sex Planet’ which uses takes the space as a metaphor for sex theme and runs with it. Sample lyrics- “We’ll take a trip to planet Uranus”. Oh dear..

Avatar trailer released
The world got its first sneak peek at James Cameron’s much-anticipated CGI-heavy space action blockbuster last week and collectively, the general consensus seems to be – disappointment. One astute web commenter compared it to Fern Gully for grownups..
http://short.ie/avatar

Special Forces!
Glad to see someone else thinks Bear Grylls episode in Ireland was a load of pants..

Irish Lord of the Rings fan film
We’ve already covered the impressive Lord of The Rings fan film The Hunt For Gollum. Here’s an Irish fan film along similar lines.
http://www.halifirienthemovie.com

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Linkage: Vote in the Irish Web Awards

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Eircom to block The Pirate Bay
Irish bloggers react to the news that Eircom is to block access to BitTorrent site The Pirate Bay from September 1st.
http://short.ie/pbeircom

Irish Web Awards
Nominate your favourite Irish site in 21 categories under categories like entertainment, news and media, technology, government, commerce and education before the nominations close at 6pm today.
http://short.ie/webawards

Why Twitter is more than mundane
Graham Linehan’s response to the many recent Twitter articles which focus on the worst aspects of the service.
http://short.ie/retwit

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Band of Blogs: Fake Blood, Neon Indian, The Very Best

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Pitchfork’s 500 songs of the decade
A mammoth list of the influential U.S. music site’s top 500 songs of the noughties kicks off their “decade in music” retrospective.
http://pitchfork.com/p2k

Neon Indian
Beautiful dream-pop psychedelia from New York/Austin duo that sounds like 80s smash hits updated by hipster kids.
http://short.ie/neonindian

Fake Blood remixes The Gossip
A dancefloor banger if there ever was one. Fake Blood and Simian Mobile Disco remind us of how good Beth Ditto can be in the space of a couple of weeks.
http://short.ie/bethfake

The Very Best 7” download
Ahead of their self-titled album release in September, Malawi’s Esau and London’s Radioclit are offering their current seven inch single for free download.
http://short.ie/whoa

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Videos of The Week: Patrick Wolf loses it onstage

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Patrick Wolf loses it onstage
The flamboyant London singer lost it at a German festival recently. The PA cuts off and Wolf proceeds to abuse a woman side of stage by throwing a mic, a stand and a stool in her direction topping off the spoiled tirade by spitting at her before departing.

Microsoft’s Waterslide viral
An effectively doctored Youtube video which apparently shows the test slide of the “biggest waterslide on earth” and a subsequent improbable landing into a small blow-up pool about 60 metres away is impressive but fake.

Harrison Ford’s Wife and Family
Harrison sure does feature in an awful lot of films where he manages to lose his family..

Slipknot mellow out..
After years of hardcore aggression, it’s good to see these masked metallers take a diversion into whimsical Disney pop territory.

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Linkage: 50 Irish influencers on Twitter

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50 Irish Twits
Simply Zesty picks 50 Irish influencers to follow on Twitter from Ray Foley to Rick O’ Shea to (cough) myself (cough).
http://short.ie/irishtwits

Ads out of context
23 examples of badly-placed internet advertisements.
http://short.ie/badads

An oral history..
Those who’d rather pull their own teeth out than visit the dentist may not want to look at this article on the history of dentistry through the ages. Ouch.
http://short.ie/dental

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Calvin tweets his spleen

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What a busy time it is for Calvin Harris. Hit singles, 8 successful JamTV episodes, the world’s first human synthesizer, regular high-profile festival slots and a new album Ready For The Weekend released only last week. So, you would think that Harris has little to complain about. Wrong.

Ready For The Weekend has been the recipient of generally negative reviews (Day and Night’s own John Meagher gave it one star) and Mr. Harris couldn’t take it any more. Rather than call up his mother for a boo-hoo or have a quiet mumble about the music press at home, he turned, in a fit of anger, to Twitter for an all-capitals Kanye-style rant: (more…)

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Sites of the Week

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Uniqlo
I think this site is advertising a clothing label but ultimately, all I know is that it’s Japanese and the music and dance sequences are very, very hypnotic.
http://www.uniqlo.jp/uniqlock/

Tweet Cabs
A Limerick taxi company which allows you to book a taxi through Twitter.
http://tweetcabs.com

Old Rock Dudes With Meg Ryan Hair
Just why do aging rockers feel the need to go for the straight feminine bob cut with highlights? I’m looking at you Billy Ray Cyrus. This blog doesn’t have the answers but it does have the evidence.
http://oldrockdudeswithmegryanhair.tumblr.com

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