30 Oct 09 Chord Friday: Ever fallen in love – The Buzzcocks
Cracking song this one!! Like all good punk songs, the faster you play it the better it sounds 
The majority of the song is pretty easy, the trick is to get the changes right at the end of the “You should’nt have fallen in love with” line. The best way for me to explain it, is to spell it out phonetically. Its ‘Cee-Cee Eff-Cee, Cee-Cee-Eff-Cee’. The same pattern is used on the Bb/Eb bit.
Ever Fallen In Love – The Buzzcocks
Theres also a Db that pops up at the end. On the chord sheet ive written this as 4111, but it could also be played as 4456. Either way, you then just need to slide everything down 1 fret to play the C.
28 Oct 09 Food moving robots extravaganza!!
Many years ago when I was a student, I worked in a Pie Factory during the summer. One of the mind numbingly tedious tasks I had to do for 12 hours a day was taking pies off one conveyor belt, and putting them on to another, where some other poor bloke would pack them. At the time i remember thinking – “Surely there are robots who could do this kind of shit job?”
Well apparently, these days there are!!
First up, POPPADUMS!!!
(those badboys are fragile, so thats no mean feat!)
SAUSAGES!!
(two packs at a time – fair play!!)
CROISSANTS!!!
(thats a lot of croissants!!!)
PEPPERS!!!
(pretty clever, but to be fair, they look fucking gross!!)
PANCAKES
(they aren’t proper pancakes, you cretins!!)
Anyone found anymore?
28 Oct 09 Bricklaying robot builds sculpture
Pike Loop from Storefront for Art&Architecture on Vimeo.
More info over at Gizmodo – http://gizmodo.com/5390317/robot-bricklayer-flawlessly-builds-7000-brick-infinite-loop-without-mortar
Tags: Robots
27 Oct 09 Flight of the Conchords in Beatles Rockband!!!
Flight Of The Conchords are set to appear in a forthcoming edition of the “Rock Band” computer game, the comedy duo have revealed.
“There’s going to be three songs on ‘Rock Band’,” he said. “I’m serious. You’ll be able to look like The Beatles and play one of our songs.” The pair did not reveal which of their songs would be chosen to appear in the game.
I assume they mean that some of their songs will be available on DLC, but its still pretty cool!!
Nice ‘Tache Bret!!
Tags: Computers, flight of the conchords, Games, Rockband
23 Oct 09 The history of hip-hop. In five minutes. On the banjolele.
EPIC WIN!!!
22 Oct 09 Chord Friday: We’re From Barcelona
There arent enough 29 piece Swedish pop groups in the world, as far as i’m concerned. Its fortunate then that we have ‘I’m from Barcelona’…
This is a great song, its dead easy, and would sound good with a ukulele group or a load people singing
Im from Barcelona – We’re from Barcelona
Why are ‘I’m From Barcelona’ huge, and why was’nt this song No1 all over the world!?
22 Oct 09 Monkeys Racing Bears on Bicycles
Holy shit!! Ive watched this about 12 times now, and each time I can’t decide if i’m hallucinating, or having some kind of flashback. Even the title of the video seems to make me doubt my sanity…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxFqjPlbmaU
Its hard to tell, but i reckon the monkey wins. I bet the bears kick its arse afterwards.
21 Oct 09 Man with a robot hand that can ‘feel’
How cool is that?
Although actually, the hook was pretty cool
Tags: prosthetic, robot
