Songbird 0.5 was released last week, and, while not technically inconsistent with claims that its RSS parsing had been “improved,” I was disappointed to see that two of my three podcast subscriptions still aren’t coming through. The problem has been migrated to a new bug ticket.
There’s also a new “Media Views” feature, which looks promising. […]

Of which I completely expected to find a copy on YouTube, but about which I could find only a single internet reference at all.
Do you remember that?, where the kid is walking past the lockers in high school, and he has those big can headphones on, and all the jocks or whatever are sneering at him, […]

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Portishead’s new album Third leaked recently, and, like so many leaks before it, is pretty bad. I’ve only listened to a portion of it but the first track ends abruptly, and the whole thing is rumoured to be a transcode. Nevertheless it keeps getting posted to trackers.
I don’t get where these poor leaks come […]

Today at Family Dollar Shannon and I played with a toy keyboard clearly made by non-English-speakers, with pre-programmed songs that included such classics as “Cut Wool” and “Read Hat,” and a rhythm bank option in the style of “New New.”
Oh and here’s the new Justice video, stolen straight from their MySpace page for extra awesome quality. […]

Wordpress 2.5 comes out in less than two weeks! I read something about the “Media Uploader” on the development blog, and, curious, I searched for more details, and came across this WordPress 2.5 Beta demo site. The login name is admin and the password is demo.
Aside from the stunning visual overhaul, there are several […]