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So other blogs have their caption competitions or their fluffy links, but this is as close as you’re going to get to a regular feature around here. I did it once before, and I may well do it again, but there is as yet no planned schedule.

Like the last installment, this one will follow a mainly musical theme.

I started by looking up a performance I saw on Later… with Jools Holland again:

I think I quite like Shy Child. Their mySpace page has some other nice songs. I particularly like The Volume and Summer.

After hearing The Avalanches’ Frontier Psychiatrist (above) on the radio a while back I looked them up. It’s quite a display of their sampling skills, and I think their Since I Left You has the potential to be quite the Summer song. Their myspace page is here.

When I originally heard Frontier Psychiatrist, I at first thought it might have been Messiah J & the Expert, and for that (if no better) reason, here’s Something Outta Nothing:

There’s more on their website and myspace (particular attention is drawn to Superfamous Supertune and All the Other Girls)

If this isn’t all over the internet yet, it soon will be.

Forget tags and keywords, folders and files. This is how photos should be organised:

via boards.ie photography forums

Amazing Stuff:

via Random Good Stuff

In case you’re one of those weirdo-nutjobs who believes that we’re all descended from apes, I present to you the inescapable proof of intelligent design… The Banana.

Before you go into the fact that the bananas we know and love only look like that after centuries of careful breeding in order to improve their ergonomics, have a read of the hilarious comments over at the video page

They include such gems as:

Pineapples anyone?

can an omnipotent being create a task he can not complete?

and:

If you hold your banana backwards when eating it, does that disprove the existence of God?

And yes, there really is a GodTube. Some good commentary on that issue over at TechCrunch, including my comment:

How dare you claim that GodTube is a rip-off of YouTube!

GodTube CREATED YouTube and all the other similar video-sharing sites (several years after the scientific evidence would show them to have been created) and controls all goings-on at these sites (including the huge financial success of YouTube, relative to GodTube)

(via Mulley, TechCrunch and Gratuitous Common Sense)

Oh, and Happy Easter.

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Nothing here in a while. Will have some photos from my new DIY Macro Photography Lighting Rig up soon.

Just to tie you over till then, an ad. The whole Jaguar “Gorgeous” thing seems a bit pretentious, but I’ll forgive them, if only for the music (Collarbone) provided by Fujiya & Miyagi (I took this photo at their gig in Crawdaddy in February). Not bad for a band who still had their day jobs until a week after that gig:

via the brilliant satirical cartoonist, Green Ink.

via TCAL:

Some Photos of it on Flickr too.

Saw this on TV a while ago, but just found it online today.

There’s also a ‘creak’ ad, but I prefer this one.

The agency is Dublin-based Chemistry, and the animation is by Head Gear of Toronto, directed by Julian Grey.

The always amazing zefrank talks about the web (I think)