Here are some awesome bands that you should listen to. Hopefully Ill make posts like this somewhat regularly so that you can always keep up with music that I think is cool.
MGMT: Hard to categorizes since their songs are all over the place, but all are cool
Vampire Weekend: South African beats + indie rock = awesome
Chester French - New band I heard at the Facebook party at SXSW, they were awesome live. Unfortunately they dont have many recordings at this point, but keep an eye out for them.
One of the more famous sketches featured the cast “going out for an English” after a few lhassis. They mispronounce the waiter’s name, order the blandest thing from the menu (apart from one of them, who opts for the safer option of a curry) and ask for 24 plates of chips. This parodies the often-drunk English people “going out for an Indian”, ordering chicken phall and too many papadums. This sketch was recently voted the 6th Greatest Comedy Sketch.
I have been shying away from using Google contacts despite how nice it would be to have my contacts online. The main reason being that I didn’t want to maintain a contact list that wouldn’t sync with my phone, and I was scared of having all my information stuck in one proprietary system. Not anymore.
Im excited to see what applications will start using the API, specifically I am looking forward to a Apple Address Book sync so I can sync Gmail contacts with my iPhone. Another cool application would be one that allows syncing between corporate Google Apps accounts, that way two co-workers could share a common pool of contacts.
Burritos better watch out!
I haven’t had a real burrito in a month so I plan on hitting Freebirds in Austin when at SXSW and then my local favorites when I’m back home in San Diego for a bit. Expect a burrito report and a big belly soon.
Not kidding… check this out. I spent way too long staring at her/it. Its amazingly realistic, in fact Andrew thought it was a video chat when he saw it from across the room. I think its actually 3D rendered to some degree to achieve the head rotation. It scales really well even with the browser window at full screen, I can only notice a bit of deterioration in her hair textures.
My only problem with it is the goofy smile she has every once in a while, no human smiles like that.
[UPDATE] So it seems like a Japanese company is responsible for this, their website is http://www.motionportrait.com/ but I cant read any of it.
So I am in the process of setting up my blog and wanted my Twitter badge displayed. Simple right?
Not quite… The problem is that you cant really customize it and it’s URLs aren’t clickable links. On top of that, I use a huge font for my badge so it doesn’t handle wrapping very well. Even a tinyurl would burst out of the boundaries of my Twitter box.
It turns out you can change the currency Skype uses from Euros to US Dollars. Just login to your account and you will find the option at the bottom of your preferences. I can now save myself from getting depressed by the declining value of the US dollar each time I use Skype.
I just found out about a new game called Echochrome, and I am REALLY excited. Basically its a puzzle game that makes Escher like sketches a reality. See for yourself:
It should be out soon for PSP and Playstation. I cant wait!
