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Month: June 2009
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Best Theme for your Nokia
If you’re in the mood to give your phone a breath of fresh air, or you’d just like a change of phone-scenery for a bit, be sure to check out the Touch Zen theme. You can download it free for your S60 device (3rd edition, E Series and 5th edition). Personally I prefer the “Seven” Icon set. It sure is pretty, although the image above doesn’t do it much justice.
[Via: ICantRemember]
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Seether Careless Whisper Video
Rock band Seether usually do a pretty good job with the creativity in their music videos, and this brand new Commodore-64 inspired video has that same cleverness to it, but I get the awkward feeling this music video is meant for a very different song. It feels quite contrived and the two just don’t quite gel together. Either way, have a look and make up your own mind.
[Via: RollingStone.com]
Apparently the 2010 Durban FIFA World Cup site cost 6.5 million bucks to develop. Yeah. R6.5 million. R 6 500 000. I’m making that a tax deduction on my IRP5 next year.
I asked for more details, but only time will tell if they release that info.
Anyway, according to their Privacy Policy the site does not use cookies. Firefox has something else to say about that.
It doesn’t really matter, but it adds to the general feeling of incompetence coming from Adapt-IT, the site “developers”.
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Awesome Free Music on NPR Podcasts
- Image via Wikipedia
My latest musical discovery, which I’m quite happy to brag about, is the “NPR: Live Concerts from All Songs Considered Podcast“, from which I’m hurriedly downloading a couple episodes as fast as possible. I’m a real sucker for live performances and getting a true indication of an artist’s ability, which is why this is so awesome.
There’s a lot of great free stuff in this and a couple of NPR’s other podcasts – this one has live recordings from SXSW 2009, including The Decemberists pulling off their first live performance of their new record, The Hazards of Love, and SA boys BLK JKS giving their first appearance at the festival. Other stuff in the podcast includes Rilo Kiley, Jenny Lewis, Radiohead, Wilco, DeVotchka, She&Him and even Tom Waits, so it’s definitely worth checking out.
If you’re impatient for all the content to end up in the podcast, head over directly to the corresponding NPR: Live Concerts from All Songs Considered website, where you’ll find even more great stuff, including Kings of Leon, Regina Spektor, Arcade Fire and Death Cab for Cutie.
It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas!
And the Christmas bonus is the NPR: All Songs Considered Podcast (yes, I know they kinda sound the same, but all these links actually go to different content). On this show you’ll get a regular chance to hear a further variety of damn good music.
So who said radio is dead? NPR shines at it leads the way forward.
[Thanks for the inspiration, Wendy!]
Related articles:
- SXSW: free tunes (crookedtimber.org)
- Regina Spektor gears up for album release (idiomag.com)
- 5 Ways NPR Beat the Rest (blonde2dot0.com)