David Emery OnlineHow Rainbows ruined the charts
I’d noticed that In Rainbows had been dominating the top of the Last.fm charts a while back – it’s amazing to see it’s still doing so. Maybe for last.fm the biggest improvement in scrobbles per week would be a more interesting metric…
Visit ➔Google Talk chatback
Pretty nifty – you can now embed a Google Talk widget into your webpage/blog/wherever and let your readers chat with you without them having to do any setup, logging in etc.
Let’s see if this works:
Visit ➔Jimmy Kimmel's Fucking Ben Affleck
Ok, so this is officially the most childish and immature thing I have ever posted to this blog. It is also possibly the funniest. Please be aware that I, like you, have an extremely low tolerance to ‘funny’ internet videos – rest assured that these are not some of them.
First, watch this:
Then, watch this (which manages to maybe even be better):
Visit ➔Bloglines Suffers Major Outage
This is exceedingly annoying; I would switch away from Bloglines in a heartbeat if I could find a alternative that worked in the same way. The two features I need are marking all of the items in a feed read when you view a feed (as opposed to having to scroll through them) and a view all function that groups by feed (not mixed together like Google Reader).
EDIT: Of course, the minute I post about it it starts working again…
Visit ➔Game Criticism, Why We Need It, and Why Reviews Aren't It
More good thoughts around the whole video-games-as-art thing.
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Like an indie, lo-fi Later… with Jools Holland (but without the boogie).
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Tapes 'n Tapes: Hang Them All
Great new song from the forthcoming new Tapes ‘n Tapes album – well worth a download (and available in FLAC as well – nice).
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