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threadless loves threadless design competition and sale

threadless are running a threadless loves threadless design comp with a real nice prize package worth over $6000 including a MacBook Pro.
They’re also having a $10 tee sale including a reprint of the Loch Ness Imposter which I missed out on last time it was reprinted cos it moved so fast.

In the spirit of taking things too far…

MagicCube5D - A fully functional 5-dimensional analog of Rubik’s cube!
Windows Live Local - Virtual Earth Technology Preview. Drive around Seattle or San Francisco and see the map and what it looks like from behind the wheel. I feel compelled to drive the wrong way down one way streets and mount the footpath, er sidewalk.

Not Another Music Festival

It’s more than just a music festival…
Latitude Festival, Henham Park, Southwold, Suffolk
featuring The Lemonheads!!! Evan Dando is in the studio recording a new album with Bill Stevenson and Karl Alvarez of The Desendents.

Not Another Skull Tee


Triptych begins

eek Triptych begins today and I still haven’t got any tickets even though I’ve known about it for ages. I’ve missed out on The Silver Jews which sold out pretty quick. So I’ll be making do with the video of Silver Jews - Trains Across the Sea live at Ottobar on youtube. I’m gonna try [...]

IE7 beta preview no go Opera beta 9 go!

yikes I finally got round to installing IE7 beta preview and I managed to use it for a couple of minutes before I had to kill it in task manager. The default Microsoft IE7 tour page opened a new window on me….urgh tabs dammit tabs. The window chrome wasn’t refreshing and it was just being [...]

Fat Freddy’s Drop at Garden Party

Fat Freddy’s Drop are playing Garden Party in Ireland on Bank Holiday Sunday 4th June as part of their UK summer tour. The gig is in an 18th century walled garden at Ballinlough Castle. Asian Dub Foundation, The Orb, Toots & the Maytals, DJ Marky, Louie Vega, Scratch Perverts are playing too and there’s an insect circus!! [...]

Flaming Lips make me wanna play hack

All those yellow balloons bouncing round everywhere…oh how I long for a good game of hack. Anyone in Edinburgh who stumbles across this and fancies a game hit me up; anyone in NZ who fancies a hack come visit - winter is for suckers and I have a futon in the boxroom.
The Flaming Lips put [...]

The Flaming Lips supported by The Go! Team

Excellent! I just rang Usher Hall to see what time The Flaming Lips are on tonight and found out that The Go! Team are supporting! Two bands one stone and all that. Nice!
More exciting than IE7 Beta which I still haven’t got round to installing.

More Radiohead tickets for Meadowbank on sale tomorrow

There’s more tickets avaiable for Radiohead at Meadowbank Stadium on 22 August available from 9am tomorrow (Friday 31/3). The capacity has been been increased to 20,000 after the first tickets sold out in under one hour at the weekend.
In other news… Radiohead Get Reggae Makeover, by the same cats that were responsible for Dub Side [...]