Warner Music, the world’s fourth largest music group, is putting its archive of music video online and making it available for free to fans.
Archive for May, 2007
Warner Music Gives it's Music Away
Thursday, May 31st, 2007Robbie McGregor (aka SBS voice guy)
Monday, May 28th, 2007Seriously this guy’s voice (Robbie McGregor) is so very distinctive. Australian’s out there will know him as the SBS voice guy, others may have heard samples of his voice around, either way you have to listen to this one recording he made, it’s seriously funny.
Oh yes and it’s not for children’s ears or anyone else who is easily offended. It may contain the following: butt plug, ejaculating, vaginal inspection kit, tool box, duck billed lip spreader, orgasmic dimension, and anal intruder.
The Download has been deleted from Robbie’s site (Very disappointed)
Live Journal, Fascists?
Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007Live Journal to make its site less attractive to sex pests seems to have backfired as the administrators purge the site of hundreds of sex-themed discussion groups.
Users are incandescent with rage after they found literary critiques and fan-written fiction about Harry Potter purged in an effort to protect children. Live Journal deleted around 500 journals this week in hopes of better “protecting children” following requests by activist groups.
While some journals were clearly dodgy the online journal burners seem to have demanded the removal of science fiction, fantasy or user-written “fandom” stories.
V-Tech (Virginia Tech) Rampage Game Insanity
Tuesday, May 15th, 2007So main stream media appear to have picked this one up, and what a varied reaction it has prompted. V-Tech Rampage, Virginia Tech Rampage for those with no clue, is a game created based on the shooting events at Virginia Tech University in April. A 21-year-old Sydney man (aka PiGPEN) created this charming little number. While some may find it distasteful, others have enjoyed it. Schadenfreude, I think yes. But also a good exercise in marketing for his site as well (googumproduce.com)
Telstra Has Further Cry Over Poll
Saturday, May 12th, 2007After reporting on the issue, APC Magazine‘s Dan Warne, received a barrage of emails from a Telstra public relations officer (Rod Bruem).
Telstra has Sook over own Poll Results
Thursday, May 10th, 2007It appears as though after Telstra placed a poll on its site (nowwearetalking.com.au) that the truth has now been shoved down their throats. The poll asked openly and plainly “Who do you think is blocking high-speed broadband for Australia?” after results clearly were pushed to 97.1% saying that it was Telstra’s fault that they pulled the poll. While at the time of writing this the poll is sitting in the poll archive I suspect that it will soon disappear from the site. Interestingly enough it was replaced with a poll asking “Have you ever tried to rig an online poll?”
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Microsoft Patchs Released
Wednesday, May 9th, 2007It’s patch day all, time to run Windows Update
Microsoft Lies
Thursday, May 3rd, 2007As I’m sure none of you are aware, my Laptop was flogged from my house last year, by some low IQ and minisculely genitaled fuckwit. This precipitated an insurance claim, which, with the current equivalent (new for old) replacement bearing the bane of all computing mankind, Windows Vista.
Being incredibly bored by my job, I decided to jump on Microsofts website, and check out exactly how vista is supposed to be better than XP… I found (somewhat unsuprisingly) a web (PUN!) of lies.
Here’s just one quote, which I found amusing:
Smoother-performing desktop
When you use Windows Aero, open windows glide across your screen as you move or resize them. You’ll see no redraw artifacts, latency, or “tearing” effects that sometimes appear on existing interfaces. In Windows Aero, you’ll also experience fewer graphics driver–related system failures and stop errors.
Dead set, I wonder if anyone at Microsoft has ever seen Vista on anything other than a graphics super computer!?!?!?
My computer is no small fry in the graphics department, and has more grunt than anything I’ve used previously (yes, it does exceed the standard ‘double the recommended’ minimum required to run MS software), yet, all I ever seem to see from Vista are redraws, tearing, and latency, and before anyone asks if I have Vista video drivers, yes I downloaded them recently, as vista doesn’t come with its own drivers, just to “add to the experience” as MS puts it…
They also seem to say windows vista is quicker, and manages its resources better, about thirteen hundred times, however, I had a race. I have a toshiba satelite, with a 486 dx processor, very little RAM, and no video card, running windows 95, widely acclaimed as the worst waste of resources since the united states.
I put both computers side by side, started the older, slower computer loading Works, the equivalent word processor of the time (I’m sure you all remember it, well, those of you who are old enough), Then I started vista loading word 2007 (which is, in my opinion, quite good), guess who loaded first, yes! the 486! Coming in at around 34 seconds fully settled! Ten minutes later (I stopped timing after about five minutes), vista and word 07 settled, ready for use.
In conclusion, because MS says so, I’m stuck waiting ten minutes to write a letter, which I could have had tapped out five minutes ago. When you buy a car, do you want it to be able to do the speed limit, or calculate the time it takes a car that can go the speed limit to get to your destination, and not achieve that time, because its weighed down by seven tonne of gadgetry?
Streamline your OS Microsoft, let us pick our ‘gadgety special features’.
Does anyone have Apples phone number? Cos even they’re looking better than Vista, though, you know not alot… (an Apple Bashing is coming next post)
Digg.com Taken Offline By Unhappy Nerds
Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007Digg.com was taken off-line in the last 24hrs after the site censored posts related to HD-DVD / Bluray encryption keys.
