Wings
XKCD is a great online comic that regularly touches on maths and physics, which gets my vote. While the humour is often dark, the cell above is probably not about what you think it is. However, it is nicely drawn and from a good example of why I like the site. Check out “Wings” to see the whole strip.
Lonely Knights
“Lonley Knights” is another cool piece from Eoin Ryan’s Space Avalanche. Now you can buy it as a tshirt or a print too. Batman seems to be a recurring theme for Eoin. Take a look at “Getting Ready To Go Out“, “The Dark Knight“, and “Batman“. You can follow Eoin on Twitter now too at http://twitter.com/spaceavalanche
I never got around to seeing Watchmen, and probably never will. Maybe this movie can fill that void? Judging from the trailer though it looks a little bit like it’s going to fall into the “trying to hard to be funny and cool” category.
MacBook Lego Sticker
Don’t pretend that you ever stopped loving Lego. This Lego man sticker for your MacBook or MacBook Pro is only $14 from Etsy. A perfect stocking filler for that special nerd in your life. 
The driver blames this little million dollar mishap on a “low-flying pelican”. I kid you not.
[Via Geekologie]
Ginger Tache
So the ginger tache is coming along nicely, and donations have started to roll in to the Mo Selectah’s. If you have a penny to spare, please visit my Movember donation page. It’s all in aid of a great cause.
Buy, sell, and trade at face value.
Ticket touts have been around as long as I remember. In true capitalistic fashion, they buy low and they sell high, neatly filling a gap in the market for the last minute sale of tickets. However, given the amount of money that touts can make for a nights work goes into the thousands for expensive shows, they realised a long time ago that they could corner the market even more effectively by buying the tickets when they go on sale and reselling them later on.
This did happen to some extent when people had to queue on the streets for advance tickets to big shows, but it really took off when internet ticketing became common place. Limits are set per credit card as opposed to per person in the queue, making it even easier for the touts to block buy tickets to events. This moved touting from being a small time endeavour where a few guys made a few quid each to being a full on racketeering game.
Sometimes however, what the internet creates, the internet destroys too. Step forward Toutless.com, a site where users can buy and sell tickets for any type of show, but only up to face value, including any fees.
I used the site recently both to buy and sell tickets to two sold out concerts, and had very positive experiences with both. When I wanted to sell, I had a number of offers within minutes. When I wanted to buy, it was a little harder, having to keep an eagle eye on the site over the course of 24 hours, but I got the tickets I wanted, at face value. The only negative experience I had was that some people tried to inflate the prices of tickets privately when I contacted them, which is completely against the spirit of the site. Luckily the moderators of the site are very active and quickly banned anyone caught trying this on.
At the most basic level, I don’t really have a problem with an individual selling sought after tickets for an inflated price, because the market will pay it, but allowing that to be the norm is what allows large scale touting to flourish and remain acceptable. Overall, I’d much prefer to see more people using a service like Toutless.com to buy, sell and trade tickets.
[One thing that does strike me after writing this is, how do you prevent the touts from buying the tickets for face value on Toutless.com and then selling them at a mark-up somewhere else???]
This was going to be the second part of This Is What The Radio Should Sound Like, but then it mutated, and now I have another idea for that mix, so in the meantime, have a listen to this:
Philth – September Mix (Mediafire). <– Download
1. Elvis Presley – Crawfish (Pilooski Remix)
2. Friendly Fires – Paris (Aeroplane Remix feat. Au Revoir Simone)
3. Bag Raiders – Shooting Stars (In Flagranti Remix)
4. Beni – Maximus (Jori Hulkkonen Remix)
5. Simian Mobile Disco – 10,000 Horses Can’t Be Wrong
6. Fever Ray – Triangle Walks (Tiga’s 1-2-3-4 Remix)
7. Para One – Passion
8. Friendly Fires – Jump In The Pool (Wild Geese Remix)
9. Justin Martin & Claude Von Stroke – Beat That Bird
10. Beni – Fringe Element (Alex Gopher Remix)
11. Moby – Go (Vitalic Remix)
12. Fake Blood – The Dozens
13. The Glimmers – Frantic (Tommie Sunshine Remix)
14. Teenagers In Tokyo – End It Tonight (Heartbreak Remix)
15. The Kills – Cheap And Cheerful (Sebastian Remix)
16. The Chemical Brothers – Morning Lemon
17. Legowelt – Disco Rout (Johannes Heil Remix)
18. Hystereo – Cityspeak (Hystereo Vs. The Deadbots Remix)
19. Birdy Nam Nam – The Parachute Ending (Vitalic Remix)
20. Motor – Black Powder
21. VV Brown – Leave (Style Of Eye Vocal Remix)
Warming up for Boys Noize - Pic: Fionn Kidney / CantLeaveNow.com
Great fun in the Academy last night for the Boys Noize Power album launch party. Crazy crowd and good music. These are a couple of pictures taken by Fionn Kidney for his Can’t Leave Now website.
Boys Noize rocking the Academy in Dublin - Pic: Fionn Kidney / CantLeaveNow.com
Backstage at the Academy - Pic: Fionn Kidney / CantLeaveNow.com
Big up also to all the twitter folk that were out last night too: @BSpoll, @MrBrianBarnes, @UnaRocks, @NiallMorris, @AndreaHoran, and the backstage invader himself, @adnansorg. Who needs a Twestival, eh?
QlockTwo
QlockTwo. A simple idea, done well. I want one. Unfortunately for me, they start at €885. You with the cash at the back though, you can buy QlockTwo here.