Month: March 2014
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Christopher Walken Dances Don’t Worry Be Happy
Another one that’s been doing the rounds but I’ve only gotten round to checking it out now (videos and mobile data plans do not mix…also I much prefer text and images, videos can be real time sinks) and I was surprised by the greatness of this dance compilation of all the Christopher Walken films by…
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Rhumbleboogie Andrews Sisters video remix
Talking of Zoot Boots 2, love this video by Mad Buddha for pomDeter’s Rhumboogie, a lot of fun…like the Bugs Bunny bits 😀 And that’s not all, there are videos for every one of the Zoot Boot 2 tracks – how’s that for prepared? And unsurprisingly oki’s and pomDeter’s Shimmy in the Bathtub (Wu-tang Clan…
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Zoot Boots vol 2
I know this has been slowly bubbling under for ages, but finally Zoot Boots 2 has arrived, the album of 1950s or earlier electroswing and vintage mashups. Loving PomDeter’s Rhumbleboogie (yay! Andrews Sisters!) and g4gorilla’s Mony Mony Billy Idol vs Tommy Dorsey swing bootleg atm, and anyone who mashes Secret Love by Doris Day is…
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Grindr Connection
I’m sure Jim Henson if he was alive wouldn’t approve but here’s the Grindr Connection by Paige Turner and friends. “The lovers, the gayboys and me!” – Oh very much NSFW, this isn’t children’s puppets you know… (via Madge Weinstein)
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Future Islands
Sometimes new music is like a splinter, you know you shouldn’t play with it, but in a grotesque fashion you do, transfixed by the mortality. The same could be said for Future Islands – that strange performance doing the rounds, not wanting to say ‘me too’ about a band that’s been around for over a…
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How to secure WordPress
Horrified by the amount of login attempts my WordPress sites gets (something in the region of 1-5 a day, sometimes more – and this is after each one being blocked), I tweeted today about locking down your WordPress. I’ve already had a few responses confirming that they too have this deluge of hackery, some of…