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Tuesday’s Digital Finds
Feb 3rd
To start off with, my buddy Tim Stone at C95 was blasting this in his office the other day while working on music logs.
The group is Justice. The album is called Cross. Yes… it’s 4 years old. Far be it for me to pretend like I’m discovering it… but it sounded awesome. The whole album is solid and I am now officially a fan.
Also on the interwebs, a TV show I used to watch when I was much younger (oh… in my early 20s) has now found a new life online. MTV’s Undressed was kitschy to some, sleazy to others, and just plain fun for folks like me. The story lines are hilarious… the acting is so-so… and the show is solid. One episode per week is now being posted at UndressedTV.com.
Finally, as you might have gathered by now I’m a huge fan of Twitter. Well, now you can track my stats (and those of others) — seeing just how often we tweet, and what we’re tweeting about. Check it…
That is all.
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PepSuber
Feb 1st
Brilliant marketing ploy by Pepsi to place these spots during SNL! At first, I thought NBC had a network issue and I had missed something… so I rewound the PVR and checked it again. Very impressed.
This, my TV-commercial-producing friends, is how you survive the PVR.
Not once was there a beauty shot of a product. Not once was there a slogan plastered on the screen. Not once was there an address or a telephone number.
Man… I’m kinda craving a Pepsi right now…
What the hell happened to Google this morning?
Jan 31st
According to the Washington Post…
A glitch in a computer security program embedded deeply into Google’s search engine briefly prevented users of the popular search engine from visiting any Web sites turned up in search results this morning. Instead, Google users were redirected to page that warned: “This site may harm your computer.”
People always keep pondering what the world would be like without Google. This morning, we got a brief taste… and it was scary as hell.
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The latest Digital Short (NSFW)
Dec 7th
Seems The Lonely Island boys will have a new album coming out in February.
To tease us, all three of them appeared in a digital short last night on SNL… titled… well… just take a listen 
Good night and good luck.
Nov 13th
I’m a huge fan of Countdown with Keith Olbermann.
Well, the fine folks over at 23/6 — one of the web’s finest humour sites — have managed to condense the KO experience in to 60 seconds… enjoy!
Notes from all over…
Nov 12th
The new album from The Killers – “Day and Age” – drops November 24th. The two cuts I’ve heard from it so far — Human and Spaceman — are fantastic. Spaceman especially. For some reason, The Killers manage to create a sound that sends my head back to when I was little — you know, wearing pajamas, eating cereal, and watching Saturday morning cartoons cross-legged in the living room. Simpler times…
I’ve been watching much more TV in the last few days of holidays than I have in a long time. In the process, I’m playing catch-up on some things. Like — for example — this (which is awesome.)
With Christmas not far away now, TV is starting fill up with commericals for the season. And, in an effort to stand out from the crowd, advertisers are really working overtime to find obscure Christmas-like songs to provide the soundtrack for the season of shopping. My favourite use of music right now is on the Sears commercials — where the song of choice is Badly Drawn Boy’s Donna and Blitzen. Very very cool.
Finally, Engadget/TUAW is reporting this morning that iPhone 2.2 firmware will start being available for download on November 21st. The two big additions for me will be the addition of Street View to Google Maps (damn Google vans… drive through Canada once in a while!), and the ability to turn off auto-correct (a good thing when you’re trying to talk in a corporate language and not in normal people words.)
On that note… I’m off to play some Blockles. You should too.
+J
“Good night and good luck…”
Nov 2nd
The indignation! The verbosity! The innocence of his Miss Precious Perfect!
Ben Affleck as K.O. Take it away…
As an Olbermann fan, I say… fab-u-lous.
Michael & Holly : Broken
Oct 31st
Poor Michael.
It seems every time he finds love, he gets screwed in the end.
The first time, it was by that she-devil Jan.
Now, the braintrust at Dunder Mifflin move his Holly 7 hours away after learning the two of them were dating.
This guy just can’t catch a break!