December 9, 2008
I finally took the plunge a few weeks back and bought an Xbox360. I had been holding out for a long time because of the supposed 30% failure rate on microchips that allegedly caused Red Ring Of Death (RROD). I’m not so much of a bleeding-edger when $400 nets me nothing but a giant paperweight. [...]
September 4, 2008
Apparently Bloc Party are big Radiohead fans, in more ways than one. They’ve adopted the online-album download paradigm that so famously sold huge for last year’s In Rainbows, along with the same piracy-dodging last-minute album announcement. But business aside, they’ve also paralelled their art rocker cousins’ penchant for dabbling with programmed rhythms and sampling. Not [...]
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August 19, 2008
Old Spice continues its tounge-in-cheek Revival Of Manliness with the newly-launched Old Spice School of TV Medicine. Nice tie-in to the TV spots, featuring another recent tounge-in-cheek revival, the one and only NPH. He’s no Bruce Campbell, but it’s a fun moment. Site created by W+K (not to be confused with amazing street artist WK [...]
June 24, 2008
The engineers at BMW take reinvention seriously. For proof, I offer the BMW GINA, a car whose exterior is made entirely of fabric. Since nearly none of a car’s safety features involve the metal exterior, why not make the entire car leagues lighter with a replaceable skin? We may never see this in standard [...]
June 11, 2008
So obviously everyone’s heard by now, and even these guys are getting their lawn chairs ready to wait in line on July 11th. I think DaringFireball was among the first to write down exactly what a lot of people thought: Apple plans to stage an industry takeover by slicing the price of a Magic Jesus [...]
