Grasshoppermind

Got this in my email the other day, nice one.

My brother sent me this email about a freshly released Flaming Lips album called At War With The Mystics.
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I’m sure he won’t mind me sharing his review with you…

Flaming Lips

Click on the Music Tab, then At War with the Mystics and listen to a few tracks.

Go for track POMPEII AM GÖTTERDÄMMERUNG or THE W.A.N.D. (THE WILL ALWAYS NEGATES DEFEAT) or THE YEAH YEAH YEAH SONG (WITH ALL YOUR POWER) and read the info behind the songs. My kind of guy.

Depending on the track you can (in my humble opinion) here influences of Beatles (tune building), Pink Floyd (sweeping scope), Zappa (organised chaos) and maybe even Gong thrown in for good measure.

Album was out yesterday, I already own it. Anyone who can describe a song thus deserves my money:

I was playing electric guitar, Michael was on fuzzwah bass and Steven was on the drumkit and we stumbled upon this druggy prog-rock riff and stuttery, funky beat. It was like Black Sabbath getting mashed up with Sly and the Family Stone or Stevie Wonder, and it sent us off in a wonderful new direction.

The low-res internet versions don'’t really do the songs justice, but gives you a glimpse into their odd musical world.

I know music is subjective. I can’t help preaching when it’s this good…Sorry.

Eddie

Maybe not entirely my cup of tea, but what do you think?

This is a neat little trick with Flickr. Erik Kastner has put together this tool to Spell With Flickr. You type in the text that you want spelt out, his code goes and finds the right pictures to match your letters.

There are many reasons that I choose to live on the Isle Of Man. Here’s one of them.

Unemployment has fallen by 14, which brings the jobless total down to 563. [from Isle of Man Online]

Yes you did read that correctly, that’s 563.

Found this amazing journey from the edge of the universe to the smallest discovered particles. The blog commentary is in Japanese?, but the commentary on the images is English.
Warning: lots of pictures, so possibly long load time.

This project by Airtight Interactive gives a nice simple flash interface to Flickr photo’s.
Best of all the viewer is available free here

UPDATE: Mentioned this to Jacko at Tuazon, 40 minutes later - this is up already

Here are a few links for the “Grasshoppermind” in you.

Pholph’s Scrabble Generator

My Scrabble© Score is: 26.
What is your score? Get it here.

Sudoku has become an epidemic in England with pretty much everyone talking about it. National newspaper The Times credits a gentleman called Wayne Gould with the introduction of the game. If you want to try it out buy a copy of The Times, or if you’re cheap like me, check out the excellent Sudoku Generator

Finally, another piece of trivia is the ASCII Art Generator. Those of you old enough to remember a command line will know what I’m talking about. If you haven’t a clue, check out Wikipedia’s entry. For some reason I can only think of subversive uses for this such as circumventing email profanity filters etc.

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