Category Archives: Music

Something different

In the interests of lightening the mood after the previous post, I offer you Queen’s “We Will Rock You” as performed using World of Warcraft:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3Q8bINOPV8[/youtube]

Links o' the day

Two out of three Irish who surf the net log onto social networking sites. They’re bloody addictive. (Irish Examiner)

The future of news: rational business decisions. Some US publications are making the conscious decision to scale back on some services because it costs too much per subscriber — with consequences for the quality of journalism. (Scholars and Rogues)

The Kennewick Men. Catholicgauze continues his look at the pre-Columban settlers of North America with a post on Kennewick Man, who was of Caucasoid rather than paleo-Indian origin.

Band releases album on floppy disk. It’s 74 minutes of music compressed to fit into 1.44mb. (PC Pro)

Egypt plan to green Sahara desert stirs controversy. Well it was grassland and forest a few thousand years ago… though it may deplete already sparse water sources. (Reuters)

Serj rocks

Serj Tankian offers a look into his new album while playing the parts of interviewer, interviewee, four-piece band, label president and producer.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJZvwifqzCY[/youtube]

I’m not so sure about the video for his first single, “Empty Walls”. A bit too blunt with its politics, even if they are dressed up as children. Love the song though:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmmcV8MMT0A[/youtube]