40 Noises That Built Pop

The Word Magazine has an extensive online article about what it believes were the 40 Noises That Built Pop. Obviously not everyone will agree with their picks but certainly worth a read.

How To Enable NTFS On The Mac

Someone in your family or a good friend has just brought a brand new shiny Mac and has attempted to hook up their USB hard drive full of multi-media goodness when ... *BA DA*!!! The drive doesn't show up and you get a frantic phone call. Whatcha gonna do?

Point them at Macfuse and (hopefully) the problem should just disappear.

EDIT: You'll also have to install NTFS-3G for Mac OS X

The Second Great Contraction

This article from Aljazeera is scary, scary stuff. In one of the best reasoned economic statements I've ever read in ages the author argues that we are not in fact in a recession but in a depression (or a Great Contraction). The misdiagnosis may cause more problems than it solves...

The Guy On The CoverOf "Abbey Road"

MTV News Explains the Internet in 1995

MTV's "Cyber Journalists" (fer chisakes!) get down and dirty with the Internet back in 1995. Hilarity ensues.

$25 PC Anyone?

A UK based organisation called Raspberry is looking to market a $25 PC (complete with USB port and Ethernet). The PC is in Alpha at the moment but is expected to launch soon.

Another proud cross post from Da Lone Groovers Linux Blog

This Is Why I'm Broke

Want a Water Jet Pack ($130,000.00)? How 'bout a hand crafted mahogany iPhone case (a bargan at $59.95)? Perhaps a Transparent Pool Table ($46,000.00)? If you answered "YES!!!" to any of these questions perhaps you should just skip this post all together....

Alternatively, if you've got heaps of money or simply WANT to be broke check out: This Is Why I'm Broke.

Hugh Grant and the Phone Hacking Scandal

Hugh Grant recorded a conversation between himself and a "journalist" who revealed details of phone hacking by the media. Details of the exchange were then revealed by Hugh in the New Statesman. The "journalist" in question, a certain Hugh McMullen, was a features editor at the now defunct News of the World and amazingly debated the issue with Hugh Grant on the BBC.

I love the bit where Hugh says: "...you should try real journalism, you're not an idiot Paul, you could probably do it" (it's right at the end of the clip).

The nice people over at at The Daily Show mention Hugh's heroics as well.