Download your SXSW Music Highlights

While you could sit on the SXSW Music website and listen to all the bands there (or be pushed towards their MySpace pages), that’s a lot of music to listen to. With SXSW rapidly approaching you might not have the time to get through all the bands. But never fear, the web is here.
Simon [...]

The PSP Show #117: Invizimals

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What happens when you take your PSP Go-Camera, add in some ARG fighting with a Pokemon style system, graft on a massive storyline and Fight Club style combat? Well you get an interesting game.
Add in a splash of Brian Blessed teaching you [...]

The PSP Show #116: Fifa 10

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Yes another year, another EA Sports update, but bear with me. While I liked Fifa 2009, I’m loving Fifa 10. Why? You’ll have to listen to the show to find out.
And before you get to the review, the latest news and views, including some home [...]

The Dr Horrible method of winning Eurovision

Quite simply, Pete Waterman has had his chance at winning Eurovision with Steps back in 1998, why should we let him have a go? Actually I don’t think there’s much chance of him beating the combined might of Niamh Kavanagh vocal’s for Ireland getting paired up with Joss “Dr Horrible’s Sing Along Blog” Whedon.
And here’s [...]

Move Over Conan O’Brien, Terry Wogan Just Beat You

Remember all the talk of what would Conan O’Brien do after he left The Tonight Show? And many in Silicon Valley were looking to him to take up the mantle of the one and only true online talk show that matter?
Well, Coco, you missed your window.
This weekend saw a rather interesting experiment by the BBC. [...]

The PSP Show #115: SOCOM Fire Team Bravo 3

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Just released is the latest SOCOM title on the PSP, Fire Team Bravo 3, and its the expected mix of tactical stealth movement and A-Team like blazing machine guns. But is it a good game?
You’ll find out in today’s PSP Show, [...]

Stop Twittering About Yourself

…which I will now illustrate by, err, mentioning myself. Nothing like getting the exception to the rule out the way first.
The Times has picked up on a Boston based survey that shows Twitter is just like every other social space, be it in the real world or online. The popular tweeters are those who build [...]

Carlsberg don’t make Eurovision follow up albums…

…but if they did, it would probably sound a bit like Fairytales by Alexander Rybak.
Over on Boom Bang a Blog, my irregular look at the music and discography of previous Eurovision entrants continues. This week I’m listening to the winner of last year’s contest, Alexander Rybak, and his debut album Fairytales.
The album has a certain [...]

Some thoughts on Dollhouse and Joss Whedon

So Dollhouse is over, and there are sure to be papers, studies and exploration about why the show lasted just the two seasons. Was it the scheduling on a Friday night, the interference in the first batch of episodes by the Fox network, the lack of a character for the audience to identify with, the [...]

He could write the Eurovision theme tune, sing the Eurovision theme tune…

This morning the BBC announced the man behind this year’s UK entry into the Eurovision Song Contest. Producing and writing the song will be… Pete Waterman.
Of course the inevitable Dennis “Little Britain” Waterman jokes appeared, and I hope that Pete is taking it all in his stride. I suspect that Pete, like Andrew Lloyd [...]

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