The DYH iMix 04.07 is the first in a monthly series of iMixes that will feature unique music for you to download and enjoy. Each iMix will contain 10 songs, and is going to be a compilation of genres, ages, and popularity levels. The goal is to highlight new music that you haven’t heard of, and to provide you with a source of songs to add to your music collection. For the first month, the tracks are as follows:
Cat Stevens – Where Do The Children Play? – A classic from the man now known as Yusef Islam.
José González – Heartbeats – The song made famous by the Sony Bravia ad.
Michael Andrews & Gary Jules – Mad World – The song made famous by the Gears Of War ad.
Carrie Underwood – Before He Cheats – Hell hath no furry like a woman scorned.
Britney Spears – (You Drive Me) Crazy – Considering the recent Britney news, the irony of this song continues to grow on a daily basis.
MIMS – This Is Why I’m Hot – Takes every currently popular hip-hop niche and mixes them all into one catchy track.
John Mayer – Waiting On The World To Change – Feel good music with a message.
The Pack – Vans - A group of high school students from Berkeley California rapping about their shoes.
O.A.R. – The Was A Crazy Game Of Poker – A story song that makes you want to jump out of your chair and dance.
Brad Paisley – She’s Everything – A love song about the subtle things that make someone special.
Sounds good, right? I thought so too. Though I’m trying to do the work for you, I’m also open to suggestions, so if you think that you’ve found something iMix worthy, let me know. Rock out.
Today is one of the Internet’s favorite holidays. Though I’m not going to try and trick any of the DYH readers (I promise), I am going to be covering the hoaxes and pranks that appear around the net. Here are some of the better ones:
Google announced Gmail Paper, a permanent archive service that prints your emails for free onto paper that is supported by giant ads that are printed on the back. It handles attachments, is good for the environment, and there is no limit on the number of times you can use it.
Google announced TiSP, a free in-home wireless broadband service that taps into your toilet. The service is supported by the use of “information gathered by discreet DNA sequencing of your personal bodily output to display online ads that are contextually relevant to your culinary preferences, current health status and likelihood of developing particular medical conditions going forward”.
Woot sold a $1,000,001 bag of crap. When users clicked on the picture of the bag, they were given a coupon code that knocked the cost down to $1.
Tech Crunch, a site that focuses on Web 2.0 startups, announced that it had acquired Fucked Company, a site that focuses on Web 2.0 shutdowns.
ThinkGeek announced “stuff for smart asses”, including a WiiHelm(et), an 8-bit tie, inhalable caffeine stix, and a lonely guy dream vacation digital photo frame. (They also announced that the iPhone was now shipping, but that’s just cruel.)
CollegeHumor made it look as if their domain had expired and was now for sale through GoDaddy.
Technorati switched around their letters and renamed their site haterTonic.
World Of Warcraft introduced a new item called the Tinfoil Hat. “Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not out to get you”.
CrunchGear gave their entire site a 1999 redesign, complete with flashy gifs, a horrible background, and a no structure (though it still reminds me of a lot of current MySpace profile pages).
During my daily travels through the tubes of the Internet, I like to collect bookmarks for things that I think would be interesting to feature on Didn’t You Hear. The problem is, I now have a huge stockpile of links, and I never get to post about them because new stuff is always coming in (and I post from the top). Thus, my offer to the DYH readers is as follows: I have always avoided posting a list of links because I think that you deserve more than that (at least a little background information about why I choose each link that I post). As potential posts build up though, I would like to clear out some of the older (but still good) stuff from the bookmark collection. I’m going to call it Stockpile Saturday, and I promise to only use it when necessary (it’s not going to be a weekly thing). I’m still going to include some brief background information about why I think each link is interesting, though it won’t be as thorough as a normal post. I’m going to make today a trial run, so see what you think, and let me know in the comments if you like it or not. Thanks.
Urban Monarch and Modern Drunkard put together two great guides about how to score free drinks when you go out. Put down the credit card, and slowly step away.
Artist Felix Beck created a non-visual graffiti project called Soundbombs, “innocuous-looking 6-inch plastic shells that broadcast short clips (lines from Shakespeare, flatulence, or anything else you record) to unwitting passersby”. He doesn’t sell them, but instead takes applications, and prospective users must tell him where they will use it and how much they’re willing to pay. Get loud.
Sodium Laurel Sulfate, and ingredient in toothpaste, blocks sweet sensors on your tongue, which explains why orange juice tastes so bad after you brush.
Stuart Haygarth created the Tide Chandelier out of man made debris that washed up along a stretch of the Kent coastline. “The sphere is an analogy for the moon which effects the tides which in turn wash up the debris”.
Nissan is pimping their new Push Button Ignition Altimas by ‘losing’ 200,000 sets of keys in bars, concert halls, and other public places with a keychain attached that reads:
If found, please do not return. My Next Generation Nissan Altima has Intelligent Key with Push Button Ignition, and I no longer need these.
The stunt was created by the TRUE Agency in Los Angeles, and finders of the keys can enter a code found on the keychains into a special website that rewards them for their kind deeds with prizes and more Nissan information. What do you think? Nuisance, or clever campaign?
The Titanic DNA watch from Romain Jerome doesn’t just get its name from the sinking ship; it also gets its steel from the vessel as well. The design also uses recovered coal to paint the face black, and salvaged platinum and other metals for pieces and parts on the inside. There are only going to be 2,012 of these beauties floating around (2012 will mark the 100 year anniversary of the wreck), so if you want one, don’t wait. Just make sure you take it off before attempting any cross-oceanic adventures.
Zug.com claims to have pulled off the biggest prank in pranking’s short and undocumented history. Though they say they hacked the Super Bowl and broadcast a “secret message” to the world, the prank’s ultimate target might just be anyone who believes that Zug was actually able to prank the Super Bowl. A good idea, but questionable tactics and a lack of proof make me wonder, who’s pranking whom?
Ever wonder what causes people to go over to the dark side of music piracy. One avid music lover named Jarrett wrote a letter called “How I Became A Music Pirate”, describing his downfall from a $20,000 music collection, to copying friends’ CDs. Best quote of the letter (when describing DRM):
Could you imagine the consumer response if Coke could only be consumed from specific Coke-approved equipment, and then only in the specific ways that the folks at Coke wanted the product to be consumed. “drinking Coke with fast food is no problem, but we must warn you that your license forbids the mixing of Coke with any alcoholic beverages…”
Looks like the dark ships of piracy have captured another.
