Bi-Weekly WTF: Silent Music

Courtesy of Smads and news.com.au

RADIOHEAD Singer Thom Yorke teamed up with British Prime Minister David Cameron, tennis ace Andy Murray and others to record a single that consists of two minutes of silence.

The single, titled 2 Minute Silence, goes on sale on November 7 to commemorate Remembrance Day on November 11 honouring fallen soldiers, Stereogum reported.

Music producer Mark Ronson and actor Bob Hoskins are also featured on the track - being completely silent.

"Rather than record a song, we felt the UK public would recognise the poignancy of silence and its clear association with remembrance," said Royal British Legion Director General Chris Simpkins in a statement.
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Weekly WTF: OoOTie

Seriously WTF is this!

A bow tie store in Boston with an iPhone app that you hold up to your neck to 'try before you buy' each tie.

A great idea for all bow tie store proprietors - both of them
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Blog-o-rific

this hilarious little blog appeared in my bookmarks courtesy of the mrs, i think courtesy of her sister so good word basically.

you wont get a new entry every day or week but whenever the next story is ready.

what makes this blog extra interesting is the MS paint pictures which go along with the stories, an added hilarious bonus

Hyperbole and a Half

Open Your Ears Wk 40

U + Me = - Dan Black

i know zero about this guy and i'm not even going to wiki him for your benefit!

I dont even know another track by him for you to enjoy

so listen to this one a few times insted CLICK!

apparently its the theme music for "the cut" and I have equally no idea what that is

Faecesbook Strikes Again

What seemed like a rite of passage with every hugely successful Internet phenomenon is just getting ridiculous. Yet another security breach has been revealed about Facebook and this time there's evidence even you can see.

Facebook engineers have come under fire regarding how pictures are stored or rather NOT stored in the not so pretty server level. Say a user, lets call them Sheepy, uploads all their latest holiday snaps to their new Facebook album, but oops, they accidentally included that one of you know, with the you know shoved up their you know.

Does anyone know what actually happens now? Sure Sheepy can 'delete' the pic but is it gone? Remember when you created the album you uploaded all your pics to their servers, yeah? That took a few seconds per pic didn't it? Deleting on the other hand seems VERY efficient, click - GONE. There's a simple explanation for that, you see, its NOT deleted.

When you click delete, all that happens is the link is severed between your account and the picture including tags etc but, if you know the full web address to it (eg: www.fb.com/sheepy/images/farmerfuck.jpg) then you and everyone else can still see it clear as day.

Sheepy isn't alone, users all over the world have sprung up saying they have noticed this and emailed Facebook over and over to have their pics actually deleted off their servers. 2.5 years later and the pics are still there. FAIL

Facebook are standing behind one big 'if': You will only know the URL if you opened the pic when it was linked to a user.

To that I say "thwpppt" if I accidentally upload something it is immediately posted to my wall - viewable to all my friends. EVERYone has at least one of those friends who will click stuff straight away. As soon as they see something a little odd, they may save that URL for later use. Now all they need is some sort of electronic mailing media for sending that address to everyone they know, then everyone THEY know - oh yeah EMAIL

Yes I do have a Facebook account and I don't think this will have me diving for the Close Account link but it does send alot of alarm bells up. In light of this I have however deleted all of my pics and will be staying with Picasa for Cam pics from now on.

Happy Facebooking
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Weekly WTF: Penguin Club....by Disney

Open Your Ears Wk 39

Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away) - Deftones

In light of the lacklustre BDO lineup here is a decent heavy band you might not know much about

youtube vid

if you dig the nu-metal sounds then check out other cracka toons like

Minerva

Hole in the Earth

go forth and bang your head

Is Big Day Out Out?

Tickets went on sale for the Perth BDO at the stroke of midnight and in a whirlwind of tumbleweeds and crickets - nothing happened.

Have just checked again and there are STILL tickets available. Why?

1. BDO hype fluff is wearing off? Maybe its not cool to go this year.... maybe the EMO kids and goths are boycotting for some reason. The 30 somethings are spending their $150 on something else.... no
2. The lineup isn't very good yet? TOOL are great but outdoors at a festival - Pass. Surely more acts will follow and it hasn't slowed sales in previous years so perhaps but no.
3. People forgot?
4. Everyones on the edge of their seats, checking squidring for the next TAF11 update? Clearly the only credible reason for it!

So help me out. Why the indifference surrounding BDO 2011?
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Weekly WTF: Donkey Speakers

Are You The Last Pic?

During the morning scan of the tributary blogs that I cast my eye over, I've stumbled on yet another site I'm late to the party on.

http://www.lastpicstanding.com/

The concept is simple, the site contains 1 picture which anyone in the world can change to whatever they want.

Now a warning by use of propaganda ANYONE IN THE WORLD CAN CHANGE IT TO WHATEVER THEY WANT! So be warned, you have a pic of a puppy up there so you call over your work colleague "Hey check this site out!", hit refresh and its a closeup of a horses apendage inserted into an uncomfortable orrifice. The proprieters of this blog accept no responsibility for the content of the site and consequences of viewing it at your place of work. *phew*

Having said all that, I'm on it now and its only shown 1 titty pic in 50+ pics so its fairly safe. Click away if you wanna check it out, hit refresh every 30 secs to see what the world has chosen for you.

Ciao
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