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August: A dotcom movie


I’m a huge movie fan but this is my 1st blog post about one…not sure why and I’m not sure how it’ll go!

I’ve just watched “August”-a 2008 Josh Hartnett film that looks at the dotcom bubble and overall-I think it’s pretty good. I skipped most of the bits about relationships but Josh Hartnett gives a great performance that makes the film dynamic, enjoyable and watchable…which is what you want from a film is it not?! Some great “start up founder-not acting like everyone else does in the boardroom whilst wearing a t-shirt” 90’s bubble style stuff going on 😉

If that isn’t enough-our good old friend David Bowie makes an appearance which is great as always.

It’s also got some real world tech presence with:

Ron Insana – CNBC Senior Analyst

Ron Insana

Jason Calcanis – Entrepreneur/Blogger/Mahalo man

Jason Calacanis interview

Buzzword quote of the year goes to:

“You want bleeding edge, mission critical, cross-platform, robust, scalable architectures…?”

It isn’t the best film ever made, but it’s definitely worth a watch-so go find it!

If you’ve got an unlimited subscription to Lovefilm (so you can watch stuff online) and you take a short (2 mins) Dell survey-you can watch it on there…that’s how I did it. Plus you might win a laptop! It might be possible to watch it online without taking the survey-I haven’t checked…

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Ice Cube Flow Chart


If you like Ice Cube and you like Flow Charts-then this is awesome! It’s a flowchart of Ice Cube’s seminal classic “Today was a good day” and it’s really well done-props to the creator!

The original can be found on Geekologie here but I’ve also made a SeaDragon version-which rocks 🙂 Unfortunately I don’t seem able to embed it into this blog so the link for all the zooming and panning goodness is:

http://seadragon.com/view/aje

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Wordle


I’ve just made my first Wordle-it’s something I’ve seen around the net on various occasions but have only just got round to playing with…don’t ask me why!

Here’s a Wordle of this very blog:

Blog Wordle Sept 09

I think this is an excellent idea and I’m now trying to think of ways to include these as much as possible at work 🙂

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Dictionaraoke


Haha, I’ve just stumbled across this online and it’s pretty awesome…it’s classic hits performed by online talking dictionaries 🙂

Black Sabbath’s “IronMan” is particularly excellent-go check them out at:

http://www.archive.org/details/dictionaraoke

Admittedly some of them are more noise than anything, but the one’s that work definitely work in my opinion 😉

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New Raekwon Joint


I’ve just been watching the new Raekwon video for one of the tracks of his upcoming “Only Built 4 Cuban Links II” album and it’s freakin awesome!

I’ve been a fan of the Wu-Tang ever since 36 Chambers so a good 16 years now (blimey!) but even I have to admit that the last few albums haven’t been as classic as those of yesteryear. 8 Diagrams had a couple of good tracks and some wicked samples but we’ve not seen a “Protect Your Neck”, “Wu-Tang Ain’t Nuttin to F**K Wit”, “It’s Yourz”, “Hellz Windz Staff”, “Incarcerated Scarfaces” or “Liquid Swords” for quite some time…but I think that might be about to change 🙂

This new track is called “House of Flying Daggers” and features Raekwon, Inspectah Deck, GZA, Ghostface and Method Man-with production by the late J-Dilla and RZA’s in there too hooking it up with some fly kung-fu flick soundbites! This song really takes me back to the good old days of the Wu, I couldn’t keep my head form nodding 😉

I can’t embed it so go check it out over at Vapors Magazine here.

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ps: The album drops September 7th according to HMV’s site!

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A great little IT cartoon


Usually I don’t find IT cartoons very funny, but this one is excellent!

Shout out to Marc Holmes for tweeting this!

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NFL Stars show some skills


I’m not a huge fan of NFL to be honest. I’ve tried watching a few Superbowls and I’m of the opinion that when it’s good, it’s pretty good…but when it isn’t good-it’s really boring-and that seems to be the majority of the time! I’d also never really considered that NFL stars have got “mad skills” for tricks and fancy show off party tricks…but this video shows that they certainly have!

We’re all used to football (soccer) players showing off and also those is the world of basketball but this is something I’d never seen before-and it’s pretty amazing…enjoy 🙂

Thanks to RBK for the advert and Blograid.de for having the vid 🙂

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Kevin Spacey on Twitter


I’m a fan of Kevin Spacey and this video of him schooling David Letterman on the “intricacies” of Twitter is excellent.

Letterman really doesn’t seem to know what’s going on and asks some classic questions…I particularly like his surprise at the thumbs 🙂

Good skills to Geeks are Sexy on this…

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Total Eclipse of the Heart: Literal Video


It’s been a while since I’ve seen any new literal videos but we’ve got one now 🙂 While it isn’t made by the originator of the literal video craze/meme, it’s still pretty freaking awesome! Check out this great re-working of Bonnie Tyler below:

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Cassette Boy vs The Bloody Apprentice


This YouTube video is excellent-it makes me cry with laughter each time I watch it and I haven’t found anyone it doesn’t crack up! Not only is it awesomely funny, the amount of time and work that must have gone in to creating it deserves respect…so here it is, and if you’ve ever wondered about Sir Alan’s balls-you’re in luck 😉

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