May 2005
6 posts
Amateur rooftop U2 concert (prank)
For obvious reasons, this may be the coolest thing I’ve seen this week. Back in January, U2 announced the dates of their “Vertigo” world tour. I contemplated trying to purchase tickets for the May 21 gig at Madison Square Garden. I was a big U2 fan growing up, and MSG is right across the street from my apartment. I ultimately decided it wasn’t worth the steep ticket price....
May 31st
Napster "To-Go" vs. iTunes
Although I don’t plan on renewing or paying for anything on Napster, I’m all-over the all-you-can-eat downloads in the Free Trial. Whenever you use iTunes it’s always so stressful since you’re paying for music you can’t really get a feel for — a 30 second sample just isn’t enough. I love having the Napster-To-GO Trial to preview, then being able to buy...
May 31st
Mobile17 launched.
UPDATE: Both of these features were discontinued. However, Mobile17 is now a streamlined version of “SmashTheTONES”! “Is that an AM radio? Why no, it’s my cellphone.” mobile17… formerly smashTheTONES… now lets you put almost any podcast on your phone as a series of ringtones, for free of course. The coolest feature is, you can store your five favorite...
May 11th
The Killers
…are an awesome band. This song is definitely their next hit. (that whole album is good, including Mr. Brightside — another awesome song.)
May 8th
High-res images.
Here are some higher, non-camera-phone-moblogged pictures of my new car. (a Volkswagon GTI VR6 ‘03 — 200HP V6, 6 speed, 2.8L, 17-inch wheels… — totally clean.) Rather than decking the car out with a body-kit, wing, neons, and all of that NFSU underground crap, I decided to keep things low-scale by just putting some blue neons under the dash. Took me like 15 minutes, and...
May 7th
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"Word of Silence... ooohhh NOOWWWW!!! .. Ohh, my,...
” Shinin’ ” the first, and best, song from Lumines (the Tetris-like game on the PSP… it’s also the best game on the PSP) is stuck in my head. Turns out this song is by Mondo Grosso, a Japanese Electronica/House group. It’s a pretty awesome song, if you can’t find it I suggest you download it.
May 2nd