01V96 rhythm section

Have to try this some time - we have an old Yamaha desk kicking around somewhere... (not to mention a Mackie d8b, and a few dozen MIDI controllers...)

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Heavy metal band names flow chart!

There's a whole bunch of cool flow charts here, but this is my favourite...

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Slayer! In Christmas lights!

I know it's not time for Christmas stuff yet, but to celebrate my 500th post, here's Slayer, but, like, Christmassy....

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Otamatone Jumbo!

I picked up an Otamatone in Japan earlier this year (now available at Amazon and as an iPhone ap), but I wish they had one of these - the Otamatone Jumbo!.......

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Happy 40th to Rush...

Here's Tom Sawyer with the kids from South Park...

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Jon Bon Jovi Likes Cup Noodles.....

We saw Jay Kay was a fan before, but here's Bon Jovi selling Japanese pot noodles....

Once more, the evil effects of illegally downloading music show themselves.

Apparently translates as:

"the son is third grade of junior high school.

He was studying for his exams.

But Cup Noodle for midnight snack

His Mum has forgotten it.

The son......

Sulked."

Mmmmmmm. Not poodle......

(Thanks to Yohei for spotting that one)

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"Down On Me" - Keenan Cahill featuring 50 Cent from Chelsea Lately

I'm not sure if you have seen this YouTube sensation already... Keenan Cahill, over 1.22 million views.







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All Glory to the Hypnotoad

This guy has figured out how to get that hypnotoad sound - and written a pretty cool article about how he did it. Well worth a read for the synth heads and Futurama fans among you.....

And for the rest of you, here's a classic episode of Everybody Loves Hypnotoad......

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Random album cover, band name and album title generator

Does what it says on the tin: I got:

My band is From Stump to Ship and our new album is Khelyulya.

1. Zagroble
2. Abilene (biblical)
3. Barton-Kellogg reaction
4. Plectrohyla mykter
5. Odle Middle School
6. Paul Jenkins (poet)
7. I Will Dare
8. Charles R. Cross
9. Walter Watson Hughes
10. Kenneth W. Bilby
11. Delroy Lindo
12. Aishite Imasu 1941: Mahal Kita
13. Ahmed Adel Abd El-Moneam
14. SEMA3F
15. Wild Guitar

This was autogenerated from random Wikipedia article names. Get your own Wikipedia Album.

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Beavis and Butt-head return!

Yes! Yes! YESSSSSSS! I AM CORNHOLIO!....... heh heh, huh huh huh...

Accordin to the New York Post, Mike Judge has confirmed they're making new episodes. Just as a taster, here's a trailer for his film from last year, staring everybody's favourite frog baseball players.

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SeeSaw

Not really audio based, but pretty cool all the same. SeeSaw is kind of Spotify for TV, with a stack of free and rental programs.

In Beta at the mo', so get in early and register before they go invite only.

Anyway, back to catching up with classic episodes of the Young Ones....

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Party animals

Cyriac's video for Oddity features "surreal bovine choreography"...







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The Swedish Chef does Popcorn

Need I say more?

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Jay Kay likes cup noodles.....

Oh dear.......

See what all your illegal downloading of music has led to?

Here's Top Gear champion and funky hat wearer Jay Kay selling Cup Noodles in Japan......

Apparently it translates as "I am hungry, I am hungry, I like cup noodle, I don't need another one".

Head here to the Cup Noodle site if you need to see more....

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"this guy... he ain't my kinda guy"

Buddy Rich was a drum legend, maybe the best that ever lived, but he was also a man with an explosive temper...





...members of his band used to record Rich flying off the handle when they made errors in performances or even, legend has it, for wearing a beard...



...and as an example of his drumming prowess...





maningrey







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Ozzy at Madam Tussauds

You just know you'd do this if you were famous: Ozzy poses as his own waxwork at Madam Tussauds in NY....

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Pre-radar listening systems

In the days before radar, there were all sorts of acoustic aircraft localization systems. Here's one, but there's a collection of equally ridiculous looking ones here...

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DIY wireless midi from ADAFRUIT

Two videos here

The first is a demonstration of an inexpensive wireless midi kit which you can build with a kit and instructions from the lovely people at ADAFRUIT Industries (makers of my amazing xOxbOx tb303 clone, among many other things).

The second is an interview with the founder of Adafruit, Limor Fried.
It's worth watching just for the zen enjoyment of wide open space, uncluttered emptyness that you can sense in the presenter's head. Watch her eyes as she tries to keep up with Limor, or when she looks at a circuit board.



This takes a while to appear, slow server I imagine. If you don't see a video below this paragraph, just wait.



You can get more details (full step by step instructions in fact) from http://www.ladyada.net/make/xbee/midibee.html

This interview instead comes from www.rocketboom.com – go there to watch more pretty people talk about technology while wishing they had a job at MTV reporting gossip.



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Dark Side of the Moon - arranged for the NES

Says it all really....

Here's Money, but check out the YouTube page for the entire album.....

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New and very strange......

Here's new, strange........... and apparently a hit!



......and if you haven't had enough, go visit their website, oh yeah!

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