January 2010
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MusicDNA, the new MP3 on the block →
The days of listening to music in MP3 file format will soon receive competition from MusicDNA. MusicDNA is aiming to take the way users experience their music to the next level. The new format can be considered a tree of the popular MP3 format as its creator, Dagfinn Bach, worked on the very first MP3 player. One of the investors in MusicDNA is also Karlheinz Bradenburg , who is credited as...
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-24) →
Avril Lavigne (50)
The Veronicas (24)
Blue Stone (16)
Frou Frou (15)
Fionn Regan (12)
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“A man should not believe in an -ism, he should believe in himself.”
– Ferris Bueller
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Seven-year-old raises £60,000 for Haiti appeal →
Charlie Simpson was so upset by the devastation wrought by the earthquake that he told his mother he wanted to do anything he could to help. The boy set out to raise £500 for Unicef’s Haiti appeal by riding his bike five miles around his local park – but the schoolboy’s efforts inspired hundreds of people online who donated a total of more than £60,000 in just one day.
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Get Naked: It’s Good for Your Brain →
by Hank Hyena
Okay, buck naked? I am. Fun. Toes wiggle in the shag carpet. Butt cheeks stick to the chair. Nipples goose-bump. We’re natural… nudists! Our huge organs (skin) tingle with sensual data that’s zipped to our thrilled brains. We feel… wild, healthy, alert, spunky. Alive.
Clothing is crushing us! Trapped in tomb-like textiles, we exile our flesh from experiencing the...
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'I'm a person with a good heart' →
Tsukudu (Sam) is a tall, burly, 42-year-old who has five children and loves to spend his time gardening or watching birds with a glass of Coke. He joined Pick n Pay in 1986 as a shelf packer and today works in the vegetable department.
But his real job is to charm. To banter with customers in Greek, French, Italian, Portuguese or even Chinese. He knows greetings and a few key phrases.
He...
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-17) →
Within Temptation (47)
Avril Lavigne (25)
Emilie Autumn (22)
Giant Drag (19)
Tracy Chapman (17)
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Ogori Cafe: Service With a Surprise →
Cabel Saasser brings word of a mysterious cafe that he recently experienced in Kashiwa in Japan. Located inside the Urban Design Center Kashiwa-no-ha, the Ogori cafe looks innocuous enough, but holds a surprise in store for its patrons. In a nutshell, you get what the person before you ordered, and the next person gets what you ordered. Thus, if you’re in on the game, you can choose to be...
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How to wrap a cat and alienate your mother →
How can anyone not repost this? I actually giggled. With noises and everything!
….read the post here
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Mystery Google: Get Somebody Else’s Search Result →
Head over to Mystery Google and search like you normally would — except get not what you searched for, but what the person before you searched for. Lots of potential for random weirdness here.
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SA polygamists horrified by women who want... →
Most South Africans reportedly oppose polygamy, believing that it is a patriarchal society’s way of giving men an excuse to have sex with loads of different women.
However, this morning the Presidency’s Cultural Advisor, Casanova Dlamini, rejected the criticism and defended polygamy as a treasured ancient tradition standing proudly alongside other treasured ancient traditions like...
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-10) →
Within Temptation (81)
Lily Allen (27)
Garbage (20)
Michelle Branch (12)
Harris Tweed (1)
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Into the darkness they disappear. For the better. →
Seems like all the stores are just shutting down in the Rivonia block. Mugg n Bean shut its doors last month, their premises still empty as I walked by today en route to the Global Wrapps, which, it…
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My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-1-3) →
Paramore (88)
Garbage (64)
Avril Lavigne (47)
Blue Stone (32)
Roxette (30)
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50 Things we know now that we didn't know this... →
If there was an award for best quote of the year, our money would be on Richard Fisher, the director of NASA’s Heliophysics Division.
Fisher was interviewed in October by National Public Radio after NASA scientists discovered a mysterious ribbon of hydrogen around our solar system.
The layer, a sort of protective barrier called the heliosphere, shields us from harmful cosmic radiation. Its...
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15 Greatest Lies All Women's Magazines Tell →
Women’s magazines have come under fire in recent years, and for good reason. It’s taken a long time, and many hurt women, but these so-called publications are all getting called out more and more frequently for spewing loads of hot air — and often outright lies — to their readers. Spending no more than five minutes reading one of these rags can be enough to cause mild brain-damage,...