lets fly, lets fly .....

the crazy frog may be about to get competition, in the form of mr superfly. mr superfly is a re-work of the ryanair song which if you've ever had the pleasure of flying europe's "favorite" low fares airline you'll have heard. anyway you can find out more and also buy the track from the mr superfly site here. would be very funny if this got to number one :P

now datz what i call music !!

just been reading about a new all you can eat/listen music download service called datz. for £100 a year which works out at £8.33 a month, datz will let you download and listen to as much music as you want. they use mp3's so you'll be able to upload the tracks on to your ipod and also copy them to cd. they don't support mac yet so i'll have to wait. it should be great as long as they have some decent music on there. find out more at the datz site. if anyone uses it let me know what you think ??

zombie house

just seen the promo for a new horror series on e4 called deadset. it's written by charlie brooker and looks like it's going to be set in the big brother house. i'm imagining a mix between 28 days later and big brother. looks very cool.

muxtape'd

they seem to be having a few problems with the riaa over at muxtape. the site was taken down a couple of days ago, claiming that they'll be offline till they "sort out a problem with the riaa.". although valleywag is carrying an article suggesting that the site may have ran out of funding due to massive hosting bills. either way lets hope that it's not the end of muxtape.

back in the north east

well i've completed my ryanair cabin crew training, start flying next week :) back in durham for the next few days. gonna try and get back on top of this blog soon, just not had much time recently :(

living in stn !!

so i've been down living in stansted for three weeks now. apart from being very skint, i'm totally loving it. best thing i've ever done. been based at stansted so just been getting myself used to the area and it doesn't seem that bad, but we'll see. anyway thats all for now.

summer heights hits the beeb

woah it's been awhile since i last posted, been really busy, getting ready to move down south to train for a new job can't wait. anyway just wanted to let everyone know that summer heights high will be on bbc three tonight at 10pm, this programme is amazing you have to see it. it's a mockumentary about an oz school which focuses around three characters all played by the same person, chris lilley. it's much better than it sounds, watch it.

pop culture 2.0

weezer posted their new video to their upcoming single 'pork and beans' a couple of days ago. as always they've managed to create something that taps right into current popular culture, by taking all the internet's biggest 'celebrities' such as tay zonday, daft hands, chris crocker, coke/mentos lab guys among others to create something that'll make you wonder what the world is coming to. ok-ish track wasn't blown away by it think the video kinda eclipses the track.

art house

189 pineview irvine california, is no ordinary house. over the last 2 1/2 years the artist who owns the house has been creating murals on every wall. but the house is for sale and the murals have to be painted over, so an exhibition is being held to show off the work before that happens. check it out here. 

shit !!!!!

i didn't realise how close we are to a peak in oil production, this could become really serious. this bbc article has just opened my eyes to how close we really are to running out of oil. lets hope that we can change to a new energy source before it runs out.

disturbing

i've just watched the most disturbing youtube video in the world. it's amy winehouse and pete doherty showing off their new baby mice. watch it here but be warned its scary

foam city

sony have just launched a new amazing advert for their range of cameras. you can watch it here. yet again sony have created some epic.

facebook is broken !!

... so i've decided to blog instead. actually i've just found this really funny video, well actually it was twittered by laughingsquid, but it just that makes facebook seem really scary. watch it here

adrian shaughnessy

adrian shaughnessy the author of 'how to be a graphic designer : without losing your soul' will be giving a talk on "the essential attributes needed by the modern graphic designer" at dance city in newcastle on june 3rd. you can find out more and buy tickets here.

fair threads

the bbc have just launched a site that i had thought about launching myself lol. it's a fashion site called thread, which looks at clothing styles that can be created with clothes which are manufactured ethically. check out the site here. nice design, not sure if the navigation is slightly confusing but nice all the same. also not sure if it really fits in with the beebs remit.

are tesco nazis ?

well if you believe what asda say they are. i've just noticed that in the new adverts for asda, the one with the arrows. they use a ska style version of the theme tune to dads army. and we all know the lyrics to that song. check out the advert here. i'm not the only person that has noticed this, check here and here. i'm amazed that no one's complained, especially tesco.

update : something else that has been brought up on other blogs, is the fact that tesco was founded my a jewish man (the co part derived from the surname cohen) which makes the asda adverts even more disturbing.

video on flickr

you can now add video to flickr. i'm not sure if i like this idea, just hope flickr doesn't turn into another youtube, packed with crap and people vloging about crap i'm not interested in. we'll just have to wait and see.

fun house

a pair of architects have designed and built a house which they say helps you overcome death. take a look at this article which tries to explain they're thinking behind the house. i'm still slightly confused by the whole concept. but the house does look cool.

engadget goes magenta

yesterday i posted a link to the letter that t-mobile sent to engadget asking them to stop using magenta in their logo. heres the post if you missed it. well today as a sort of act of giving t-mobile the finger they have given themselves a magenta wallpaper. have a look here. have t-mobile met their match ?

bowls sex scandal

the world of indoor bowls has been rocked by a sex scandal. yeah i can't get the image of pensioners at it on the bowling green, out of my head either. a friend posted the front page of scotland's daily record, which carried the story on his blog here. a short piece about this can be found on the daily records site here. sorry just thought this was funny.

mark steel on tibet

new mark steel article at the indie online. this week about the situation in tibet. really worth a read.

starbucks closing...

...but not for good unfortunately. the company are closing all it's 7,100 stores in the united states for a 3 hour training session. the story is here. maybe we in britain should boycott starbucks for a day.