Tuesday, November 29, 2005

pandora's (music) box

just found a brilliant web site.. pandora asks you to select a musical artist that you like, and then plays a radio stream of similar types of music. i had a brief play with it and it chose some really nice tunes from artists i had never heard of!! way cool...

m

Monday, November 28, 2005

i may be an internet junkie with a new found addiction for blogging, but at least some random website says my life is good...

This Is My Life, Rated
Life:
8.8
Mind:
8.9
Body:
8.8
Spirit:
9.2
Friends/Family:
6.3
Love:
5
Finance:
8.7
Take the Rate My Life Quiz

ooooh. i feel sick

okay, so i lied about going to bed... but i just stumbled upon a really cool animation and just had to share..

in other important news, absurd patents, and gollum, the cool wikipedia browser. if you're as hooked on wikipedia as me, you'll dig this. also discovered that wikipedia doesn't have an entry for ani difranco, one of my favourite musicians. if you're a fan, and you get to it before me, you can write the entry :))

i also have to rave about stumbleupon. if you haven't seen it yet, check it out. it's guaranteed totally addictive. on the other hand, maybe don't check it out unless you want to be blogging crazy f-ing websites at 12:30am when you really need to be in bed.

m

festivals: 1 down, 5 to go

summer is officially here. just got back from earthcore last night. not really my scene (i actually slept on both friday and sat nights. definitely against the spirit of the festival), but had an awesome time. see photos here. highlights included jelly wrestling, dudie swamp divas, my spontaneous jamiriquai impersonation, and general lushing out in the sun.

the australian film industry is back with a vengeance. the australian film industry awards actually gave awards to good films! after a hiatus of several years, the industry has this year produced such gems as look both ways, little fish, the proposition, and the magician, seeming to suggest that australian films might be worth watching again. for those of you overseas people who have probably never seen any aussie films (except maybe priscilla, or crocodile dundee), they have a grittiness and realness that is totally missing from hollywood, and much more akin to european arthouse.

okay. definitely past my bedtime - still haven't really caught up my sleep from the weekend. til then.

m