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Barack Rock! Music and design to elect Obama

“One could argue that the banking crisis is just the cold...”
— International herald Tribune

Potential new alphabets

“While watching live news on the Web remains in its infancy,...”
— Forbes

Is this the worst media place  to work at? Even the...

“You can say something sounds like the Strokes,...

Why doesn’t Twitter want to make money? - Slate

Pirates have found a way to crack the Nintendo DS -...

Blu-ray bombs! In the US, Blu-ray represents less than 5 per...

Plug in hybrids have arrived - Wired

“LAST WEEK, something happened which I never expected to see...”
— Sunday Telegraph

Iceland is on the brink of collapse. Inflation and interest...

“Cullen knows tax revenues have already been hammered through...”
— Business-connected columnist...

A new report says business failures have increased in...

jmattx: A brillian quote! (via alanajoy)

jmattx: Advice! (via sneak / Frank Chimero)

Some models of Apple computers emit toxic...

“In the future, one website will try to serve all our...”
— Why MySpaceMusic won’t...

“It’s been a depressing summer for the delusional...”
— How the music business spent...

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Wow this is going to send movie companies into heart...

Plastic Logic has launched  a lightweight plastic screen...

Now free newspapers are in trouble. Profits are proving...

Strange thin blue clouds  have been spotted hovering at the...

OMG, 90210 is back. They have to be joking.

Four years ago Fox News Channel beat the broadcast networks...

This is fun.  Here, you can can upload the data you want to...

The Web, in its infinite iterations, is eroding all...

The Mormons buying Facebook?? !

Milan’s Osteria L’Intrepido restaurant  has won...

All over Los Angeles — on stop signs, underpasses,...

Haven’t bodybuilders learnt from the steroid evidence?...

Hillary is organizing a team to quell any anti-obama...

Bono performing on the “second stage” during...

“An Alabama woman filed a lawsuit yesterday against Apple...”
— ..and so it begins

Sen. Barack Obama has picked Delaware Sen. Joe Biden to be...

What is still missing from tumblr

“On the web, we’re making the same transition from classical...”
— Adactio: Journal—The Framework...

Poor man bought a Segway and was “treated like a...

Twitter… Amazon… Gmail… among the worst ...

Today’s silly technology is evil MSM scare:...

Web radio service Pandora on the verge of collapse,...

Today’s recession alert: Top Republican says US is now...

The collapse of dodgy companies is like the 80s all over...

Today’s recession alert: Australia’s Labour...

Today’s rcession alert: consumer spending is now in...

How much of himself or herself can an artist sell, and to...

L’Oreal has been accused of “whitening”...

“A research report out today says around 2.3 million...”
— The bottom line is that legal...

“If one of the great attractions of the newspaper was that it...”
— This writer says the newspaper...

US election ads are hitting MTV and  Comedy Central

Today’s recession alert: If anything, America’s...

Oops.. This Yahoo news story on Beijing was headed Tiananmen...

Today’s recession alert: the economy could...

Newspapers are in trouble. More people read them than ever,...

Interesting concept- new website lets you upload magazines...

A leaked trailer of the forthcoming movie  remake of...

The continuity mistakes made in the Dark Knight - did you...

20 Album Covers Recreated in LEGO

CNN”s Ireport reached a record 2.5 million unique...

Nasa confirms what it first thought: The Phoenix Mars...

How do you freeze time? It is at this point that art and...

I have been saying since day one and finally someone else...

The downfall of Starbucks is a lesson in how complacency and...

A Swiss motorbike courier, set out in May to eat in every...

Conceptually sophisticated and visually smashing, the...

It’s become a dark night for real bats. There are new...

Ribbit, “Silicon Valley’s first phone...

LA Times  will now be written by a computer software...

Plasma is dead. Front and rear projection? Fuggeddaboutit....

Since the Beijing Olympic Village press centre opened...

“We’re so overloaded by information bites that...”
— Maggie Jackson, author of the...

China has yanked off You Tube this secret video here of the...

“I typed “George W. Bush” in the Cuil search box....”
— More proof the new search...

Yes, the imploding petroleum economy has spoken, and this is...

Today’s financial collapse: 2 more US banks - and...

Food price alert: hedge funds and other investors are buying...

A Kiwi man invents “the world’s first practical jetpack”!...

Making animations at this new site is fun!

Today’s recession alert: Sony’s profit plunges ...

That silly old senator who thinks the internets is a series...

Wishd I had gone to Comic Con.

“The Dark Knight fails not by simply being a Caped Crusader...”
— Critic Michael Atkinson

This writer says TV will be the first traditional medium to...

This is how crazy the music business is right now. Certain...

The new phenomenon- Groovy Old Men - They are cool, soigné,...

For all the frivolity to be found in CD album notes, they...

Invasion of the Jellyfish! French emergency services...

Bush’s most used word? Awesome. As in Thank you, Your...

After reading this, I have decided on my next...

IT’S THE Cannes of Capes, the World’s Fair for...

“We can scale further. It will be an ongoing process...

Australian TV journalist arrested in...

The Leeds dental institute has come up with a mouthwash that...

Could there really be emptiness in space- or could that...

Oops. Apple’s MobileMe online service continues to...

Ebay now has scores of 3G iPhones promised to be ...

The Great Global Warming Swindle - which showed on prime TV...

Tivo & Amazon team up: Owners of TiVo video recorders...

“No we can’t afford to have another attack, and...

Today’s recession alert: Rock tours hit by gas prices...

Here’s a tip for concert artists with the prices...

Vanity Fair muses why people love to hate the New York...

New York Post gleefully points out the growing woes at the...

US magazine troubles plunge deeper with ad page and revenue...

“Apple won’t let you get out of the store without first...”
— So much for Kiwis thinking of...

Beatles music is still not on iTunes. US chain Bloomingdales...

Today’s recession alert: In what could turn out to be...

Try this colour Flicker

Media fooled again. This photo on the front pages of The Los...

Early Kiwi buyers take the iPhone apart

So looking forward to Hellboy 2: early reviews say it...

While the local media got sucked in by the “AUT...