cairo shell screenshots:

tired of the way your desktop looks? sick of how no matter what you do with the win­dows themes, it always still looks like… well… win­dows? con­sider repla­cing your shell. to most people, a desktop shell gen­er­ally refers to your start menu and desktop icons, but essen­tially, it’s just a graph­ical layer that makes it easier to use your com­puter. as such, there are a lot of dif­ferent shells, with a lot …

when jon stewart took over the reins of the daily show in 1999, i was a sopho­more in high school. i fol­lowed his show throughout my time in col­lege and he became one of my biggest influ­ences. he is one of the few voices in main­stream amer­ican media who con­sist­ently points out the bull­shit and con­tra­dic­tions of estab­lished news organ­iz­a­tions — prob­ably the single biggest reason why he res­on­ates with my demo­graphic of cyn­ical 18 – 35 year …

in what can only be described as a “big fucking deal”, 2k games and fir­axis have announced that devel­op­ment of civil­iz­a­tion v is underway and is sched­uled to be released some­time in the fall. and if my spidey senses are cor­rect, it will prob­ably be some­where between late october and early november to cap­it­alize on the christmas shop­ping boom.
Civil­iz­a­tion V takes this defin­itive strategy game series in new dir­ec­tions with the …

ARTIST: the ting tings
GENRE: british indie pop rocks
WWW: thet​ingt​ings​.com
TRACK: [02] The Ting Tings — That’s Not My Name
SUMMARY: there are a few things you can always count on when it comes to the british — james bond, an unhealthy addic­tion to may­on­naise, and superior pop music sens­ib­il­ities. while everyone on this side of the atlantic are going ape­shit over tal­ent­less hacks like lady gaga (sorry, wearing stupid looking clothing doesn’t make you unique, ori­ginal, or a good musician/​artist) …

From a British text­book on sex edu­ca­tion for girls written in the 60s… explains why life was so much better back then!

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It’s a trap!

Alex, age 4. LOL!

and last but not least, for Valentine’s Day!

first one of 2010. anthemic indie rock, electro cuties, cine­matic bal­ladeering, pro­gressive guitar riffs, mod­er­ately uptempo stuff. included is this pretty incred­ible song by a band from aus­tralia called ‘the temper trap’. you’ve heard it before if you watched 500 days of summer. also fea­tures a band from just out­side of my hometown, hollerado.
name of the tape is inspired by my favourite shut­down line in my girl-​chasing career.

artist: massive attack
album: heligo­land
label: virgin records
genre: the bristol sound is dead
street date: feb­ruary 8^th, 2010
web site: massiveat​tack​.com
rating: 1.5 out of 5

there was once a time, back in the early 90s, that bristol eng­land was the hotbed of the best new elec­tronic music. acts involved were some of the biggest and most legendary names out there: portishead, tricky, roni size, smith & mighty, way out west, the wild bunch, and of course, massive attack. the sound …