there are some good bands playing at the in oakland wednesday night. down-home garage rockers , seattle band featuring paul from , and the debut of local boys east brother light station. the night promises to be a lot of fun.

this video is a truly amazing demo of two new apps (environments?) from microsoft live labs. is described like so:

“takes a large collection of photos of a place or an object, analyzes them for similarities, and displays them in a reconstructed three-dimensional space.”

is a powerful browsing tool and wants to do the following:

“change the way we use screens, from wall-sized displays to mobile devices, so that visual information can be smoothly browsed regardless of the amount of data involved or the bandwidth of the network”

one caveat… there are lots of bmw ads in the video.
(thanks, janella.)

this kid started playing drums at age 2. he’s about 11 now. this video shows him playing through the years. it’s just a little bit frustrating.

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(thanks, steph.)

the great disco band has new video consisting entirely of muppet footage tightly edited to their music. really really highly recommended. (via, .)

i finally picked up 1987 record . i’d been meaning to get it after being reminded about the great song “ahead” that’s on it (check quarterbar’s re-work of it below). well, the record is good. some of it’s kinda of goth-sounding with foreboding vocals and sparse, droning instrumentation. other songs are upbeat and bright. it definitely doesn’t sound anything like the artsy punk wire of the 70s. good but different.

wire “madman’s honey”
wire “ahead (II)(quarterbar drum-up)”

the human body is a crazy machine, this site has scans of the heart, arteries and blood vessels. you can even get them delievered to your iphone.

the notes state that this is just a practice, not the final performance. it’s a serious wtf’er.

from 1985 series the computer chronicles.

if you love internet browsing, you probably appreciate the firefox web browser. techdo.com has an interesting which is due out in november. looks kinda sweet.

the pagans are pissed over this huge donut wielding homer simpson, painted in bio-degradable paint right next to the “” above cerne abbas, dorset used to promote the new simpsons movie. the orginal ancient chalk outline of the naked, sexually aroused giant, (not homer) is believed to be a symbol of ancient spirituality.

(thanks, magic jeremy.)