Chris Martin reveals his unexpectedly solid comedy chops in this Red Nose Day sketch. Oh and Peter Dinklage sings.
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Coldplay turns Game Of Thrones into a musical
DJ Earworm: 100 songs from the past decade in one mashup
Ten years, 100 songs, three minutes. Sheer. Fucking. Genius. Watch it before a Youtube copyright enforcement bot deletes it and DJ Earworm's channel with it. (via Metafilter)
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Music that inspired 1980s Japanese environmental music composer Yukata Hirose
Yutaka Hirose is a Japanese composer who was a key figure in that country’s ambient/environmental music scene of the 1980s that in recent years has been rediscovered by crate-diggers around the world. Hirose’s “NOVA” (1986) is a classic of the genre, a soundscape that Misawa Home Corporation commissioned as a “soundtrack” for the prefabricated houses. […]
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Youtube told them to use this "royalty-free" music; now rightsholders are forcing ads on their videos and claiming most of the revenue
'Dreams' by Joakim Karud is a popular track in Youtube's library of safe, royalty-free music, which it supplies to video creators who want to stay on the right side of copyright, but Sonyatv and Warner Chappell claim that the Creative Commons-licensed song contains an uncleared sample from the Kenny Burrell Quartet's 'Weaver of Dreams,' which […]
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Grow your skills before the year ends with these eBook collections
Need a boost on that resume? Get a valuable tech education on your own time with these eBook bundles. They contain guides from Packt Publishing that cover everything from game development to machine learning. The Complete Mobile App Developer eBook Bundle It’s a veritable gold rush in the App Store these days. Get in on […]
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This hi-tech turntable brings your vinyl into the modern age
Vinyl is officially back. People are hearing the proof behind the initial “retro” excitement: that records really do have a richer sound. And if you haven’t switched to old-school records for serious listening, it’s a new golden age. Why? Because quality turntables like the Altec Lansing ALT-500 are finally available to a market other than […]
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Save water (and money) with this smart home monitor
Between all of our apps, streaming devices, Bluetooth speakers, and energy-sucking decorations, paying for utilities each month can be…brutal. In fact, the average household spends roughly $70 a month on the water bill alone. That number might not seem terribly significant, but when you add it up, that’s $840 a year — a pretty significant […]
