Pretty limited audience for this one but I had to do it.
To get this you’ll need to have been exposed to both the delicious convenience of McCain oven chips and payattention.org’s attempts to improve voter registration amongst the under-represented binge-drinking 21-35 year old urinal user demographic.
This is Usher’s “Love in the Club” played by the mighty Rock-Afire Explosion.
The insane genius behind this has a number of other performances on YouTube but he’s really hit his stride with this one. Wikipedia, as always, has more.
Web app HopStop (via LifeHacker) allows you to access public transport directions directly from your phone. It’s currently available for some of the major metropolitan areas in the US and based on my tests in Chicago it works pretty well.
My CTA card has been playing silly buggers for the last couple of weeks. My rather uninformed theory is that it has been locked in an unending radio-frequency conversation with my Oyster card about the correct pronunciation of the word ‘tomato’ and finally stopped talking altogether as matter of principle.
My other pet theory is that while I’ve been fumbling around at the card reader with an increasingly agitated line of commuters building behind me, it has been randomly deducting credit from other people’s accounts. It’s the little moments of Schadenfreude that keep me going.
The Tories missed a trick back in 1991. With ecstasy use on the rise and alcohol consumption by young people dropping, they could have embraced the love drug and created a youth culture of docile, friendly ravers. Instead we got the Criminal Justice Act and alcopops for the Jilted Generation. Ah well, at least the music survived. Hardcore people never die and all that.
The idea of online backup is to avoid losing all your digital media when your house burns down, or more realistically someone breaks in and nicks your beloved puter. I’m going to go against the herd and say that IDrive is a better solution than Mozy for keeping your precious photos and stolen music safe.
