Noisey.com Launches Today – Discover New Music
Last Updated on Saturday, 19 March 2011 03:14 Written by Alan Saturday, 19 March 2011 03:14
Although you may not have heard of it, as there has been little fanfare, today marks the launch of a brand new music website called Noisey. It is “a new music discovery platform that profiles some of the most talented new bands and local music scenes from around the world.” The debut was made official yesterday at SXSW with a live show that featured Bun B, Ariel Pink, Yuck, JEFF The Brotherhood, Oberhofer and Dirty Beaches.
They plan to add new content to the website on a daily basis. There are 38 artists on the site as of today’s debut. You can scroll across all of those acts on the main page. You can also sort music by Most Recent or Most Popular or view live shows by location, which include The USA, Spain, Mexico, Brazil, Japan, and many other places.
They also feature episodes which introduce viewer to new bands.
Each episode includes five segments, including a short documentary introducing viewers to the band and the local music scene, then four segments of uninterrupted performances. Launch episodes feature The Vaccines (UK), Das Racist (US), Pictureplane (US), Austin TV (MX), Duddi Wallace (ESP), Hotel Mexico (JP), Frittenbude (DE), The Shoes (FR), Bewitched Hands (FR), 24 Hours (CN), Criolo (BR), My Disco (AU), and No Joy (CA), among others.
If you’re a music fan, and enjoy being the person who discovers the latest up and coming artists before all of your friends, then this is a cool new resource. With the backing of Dell and Intel the site may have a very bright future.
Find Free Computer Games
Last Updated on Tuesday, 15 March 2011 08:14 Written by Alan Wednesday, 16 March 2011 01:00
If you are looking for old computer games then you may want to check out Free Oldies. They have links to hundreds of old games that have become abandonware. Since the games have been abandoned by their authors / companies there’s no need to worry about illegal downloading. You will find links to games in such categories as action, sports, and adventure. You can browse through the games by category. Yu can also search by title or release year.
Be warned that, while most of the site is in English, there are parts that are in French. There are a ton of games here, many of which you probably have never heard of, but it’s fun to browse and try them out. Every once in a while you will find a gem that will make it worthwhile.
Use MapMyRun To Track Your Training
Last Updated on Thursday, 27 January 2011 07:07 Written by Alan Saturday, 19 February 2011 08:00
If you are a runner and a fanatic, as most runners are, about stats like distance, time, pace, etc then MapMyRun is something you may want to add to your tool list. MapMyRun can do a lot of things – allow you map out course and get the distance and elevation of them, view routes created by other users, keep a comprehensive log, and many other things.
The primary focus of the website, as implied by its name, is mapping out runs. This is simple to do – with just some mouse-clicking you will soon have route laid out and have the exact distance and elevation changes. You can also save your routes so that you can build up a collection of choices you can peruse next time you are looking to do a run of, say, 5 miles.
You can enter all of your run’s statistics into the online log – even such information as heart rate, weight, calorie consumption for that day, hours of sleep, and personal notes. Just click on a date in the calendar and begin entering all of your info.
While those are the two main features of the service you will need to go there, create a free account, and play around with it for yourself to find all of the cool, but lower profile, features. There are also mobile apps available for iPhone, Android, and Blackberry.
When I started running in high school cross country my consisted of a notebook of lined paper and a pen. It’s amazing how far everything, even something as basic as running, has come.
