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tuneage:

Far East Movement - Like a G6

I am guilty of falling into the same patterns of listening to music (I’m not as pretentious as my music taste seems to indicate). Sometimes, it’s good for me to break out of that mold and this song has been an awesome nighttime jam.

I have no idea what a G6 refers to (a pontiac G6?) but this song is so good, probably because it has a predictably catchy beat and repetitive lyrics.

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Tokyo Police Club - “Bambi”

This is one of my favorite tracks off TPC’s upcoming album, Champ. It’s catchy, melodic, and hooky, and for me, goes exactly where I expect the song to go in my head. That doesn’t seem to happen very often and when it does I can’t help but take notice and overplay the heck outta the song. If you like what you hear, you should check out the rest of the album when it comes out June 8th!

All in all, a great, upbeat indie rock tune, perfect for kicking off your (long) weekend.

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Active Child - “I’m In Your Church At Night”

What do you do get when an ex-choirboy decides to write his own music and is influenced by the likes of Joy Division, New Order and Tears For Fears? Active Child, AKA Pat Grossi.

Cinematic electronic-pop music clouded with booming programming, glowing synths, and sweet harps create the groundwork for Grossi’s exquisite vocals which, with their unearthly sound and evocative lyrics, take on an enchanting, hymnal quality that would not be out of place amongst the richly colored sunlight of a church’s stained-glass interior. In a word, I find it captivating.

Active Child’s debut EP, Curtis Lane, is out June 1st on Filter Recordings.

willhui:

“This changing of the guard caps one of the most stunning turnarounds in business history for Apple, which had been given up for dead only a decade earlier, and its co-founder and visionary chief executive, Steven P. Jobs. The rapidly rising value attached to Apple by investors also heralds an important cultural shift: Consumer tastes have overtaken the needs of business as the leading force shaping technology.”

willhui:

(via fuckyeahcomputerscience)

A new way to babysit

(Portal 2) via portalwiki.net

willhui:

“Users of 30-inch monitors face the terrible, terrible problem of how to effectively use all of that space. You don’t often want to maximise a folder or document window on a screen this big; either you’ll end up with a lot of white space and important program buttons separated by a vast expanse of nothing, or you’ll get lines of text 300 or more characters long, which are difficult to read.”

xkcd: Campfire