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There are some Sigur Rós videos available on their official website including the Heima trailers I’ve already mentioned. One video I’m particularly fond of is Glósóli from the album Takk. (The video is available on the DVD part of the special edition Sæglópur EP.) I just love the concept of the video set in a […]

Visiting Iceland this summer was wonderful. Seeing the impressive landscape lets you understand the origins of Sigur Rós’s music. Listening to their music while driving on Icelandic roads is just perfect. On November 5th Sigur Rós is planning to release the documentary Heima (at home) about their 2006 tour on Iceland. Watching the trailer makes […]

This has to be the worst product name ever: TrekStor sells an MP3 player named i.Beat blaxx. Via Daring Fireball TrekStor removed the i.Beat from the player’s name. That was quick.

The only reason to get your iPhone replaced by Apple: the iClip! Be sure to check out the Google code page for an open source alternative and take a look at the issues list.

Spacializer is a flash animation of slowly moving clouds of different colors by Sébastien Chevrel, an artist, designer and programmer focusing on interactive media. The animation itself creates a faint background noise when left alone. Moving your mouse cursor above different colors and the spots where different colors mix results in changing sounds all very […]

Found via digg because of its 3D menu Screenvader‘s flash-based site had a lot more to offer: Interactive graphics and random audiovisual animations using vector graphics, images and short video sequences of Looping Housewife’s Duties. If you thought The Ring‘s video sequence was scary take a look at Easy to Open; fullscreen, in the dark, […]

Introducing a clean, non-permanent and — more than anything else — geeky way of tagging buildings, the Graffiti Research Lab presents a project named L.A.S.E.R. Tag. Using a “blinds-your-eyes-forever”-grade laser, a bright beamer, a security camera and some open software (complete list and instructions) you can virtually tag any build you like (and can park […]

This is a follow-up to my previous post Even Our Sun is Tiny but this time a video (via digg) shows you how small we really are and which monstrously large objects are “floating” around in our galaxy. A size comparison1 of the Sun to VV Cephei A (the supergiant of the binary star system […]

Kiwi! by Dony Permedi.

You can solve the Rubik’s Cube from any mixed up position by following the Doing The Cube instructions.

Tangerine1 is a new OS X application (currently a free beta) to automatically analyze the BPM of your music in iTunes. Potion Factory states: Tangerine lets you easily create playlists with upbeat music, or playlists for relaxing. [...] it analyzes the songs blazingly fast to the tune of more than 3 per second (on an […]

This guy knows how you should answer the final question on Who Wants to be a Millionaire with style. Hilarious!

Just four easy to remember steps are required. Who hasn’t been is this situation?

A few things you would never know without the movies. Very true. (Thanks Anne-Marie)

onAirNow is a simple but functional WordPress plugin. It reads information about your currently playing track from a file uploaded via FTP and displays it on your blog. It includes an options page and template files for your theme.

By now you should have found out about the secrets of Diet Coke and Mentos. It was and still is all over the internet. If you don’ know what I’m talking about take a first look at this: a basic reaction. Now you’re ready to watch the fun clip at eepybird.com and see what happens […]

Though I’ve never been a fan of Star Wars this is very amusing. The people at blinkenlights.nl still operate their ASCII art version of Star Wars after more than four and a half years. (Nearly an eternity for the internet.) Start your favorite telnet client and connect to towel.blinkenlights.nl (use Apple’s Terminal.app, Microsoft’s cmd.exe and […]

Neben besoffenen Elchen und verrückten Fröschen für das jugendliche Telefon gibt es – wenn man der Legende Glauben schenken möchte – auch Musik auf MTViva. Doch wo ist die gute Musik geblieben? Es folgt eine kleine Suche in der deutschen Fernsehlandschaft.

Das Festival … gab es 2002 zum dritten Mal. immergutrocken.de verrät einiges über die Geschichte des Festivals und deshalb möchte ich mich nicht mit trockenen Daten aufhalten (Faulheit? Nein!) und nur soviel sagen: Dieses Jahr (31.05. & 01.06.) gab es 4000 Besucher auf dem Festival. Die Karten (20€ + VVK) wurden limitiert, obwohl noch einige […]