The actor’s recent Sky ad re-imagined as an eloquent rumination about the traditional Scottish potato dish.
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How not to be a Radiohead fan
“I’m Paul and I preferred Radiohead’s early work. I think Kid A is a bit weird…”
Amazon launches music into the cloud
While all the talk about cloud music in the last year or so was centered on when Apple would launch their service, it was Amazon, the leading online retailer who made the first move into the cloud last week with the announcement of their Cloud Drive & Cloud Player.
I’m sure a few of you are wondering what kind of hippy dippy nonsense I’m on about. Cloud music? It all sounds suspiciously like an ill-advised experimental ambient concept album, but fear not, this is THE FUTURE (probably). The cloud concept in computing is one that is becoming much more ubiquitous (ironically after the last big computing system concept was called “ubiquitous computing”).
Cloud computing allows you to harness the power and resources of multiple computers rather than rely on one computer or server to host your website, email or files. So, as we all become increasingly more connected, the theory is that everything we own on our hard drives could exist on the virtual cloud, so we could access it anywhere we needed it and our data will persist across our digital life. (more…)
Emma Watson vs. Kirsten Stewart: an acting showdown & other links of the week
- Bad stock photography you won’t see anywhere in your lifetime.
- Prince – the coolest tenant in the world.
- This year’s best April Fool’s pranks on the web.
- Emma Watson vs. Kirsten Stewart: an acting showdown.
- The 15 most inappropriate baby outfits ever.
Band of Blogs: Body Language, Danger Mouse & Jack White, Wu Lyf & the best of recent Irish music
Body Language
Headspinning dance-pop from a Brooklyn four-piece whose Social Studies EP has been slowly gaining fans on the blogosphere over the last four months.
Listen at Some Kind Of Awesome.
New Irish music
Goodtime John, Le Galaxie, Yeh Deadlies, Avalanche Ammo, The Karman Line, Estel and Moths are amongst the Irish acts who are impressing of late with new music, as well as keeping Irish music on its roll of creativity.
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Danger Mouse & Jack White
Superproducer Danger Mouse and composer Daniele Luppi (pictured) have teamed up for a Spaghetti Western-inspired album called Rome which features vocals from Jack White and Norah Jones.
Wu Lyf
Having spent the last year or so shunning labels and publicity, these Manchester kids will release a debut album of “heavy pop” in June. Their name may stand for “World Unite Lucifer Youth Foundation” but their debut single is much more gentle and intriguing.
Sites of the Week: White Whine, Letterheady & Noisey
White Whine
A collection of First-World problems.
Letterheady
An online homage to offline design, specifically letterheads of the rich and famous.
Noisey
Vice Magazine’s new global music site features original live videos from bands out of Melbourne, Berlin, Philadelphia, Edinburgh and more.
Kid Cudi Kid dances like a boss
Chevelle might be a young child but she knows what she likes. What she likes just happens to dancing like a boss to rap songs.
