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Archive for December, 2008
Google Trends goodness
Dec 29th
Google trends is not only good to check what search terms your site is earning, but can also be used to picture trends in certain regions of the world.
Source: xkcd
Kina Grannis – 1 year later
Dec 27th
About 1 year ago, I posted the video of Kina Grannis’s song “Gotta Digg”. She posted that video to win a competition by Doritos, which probably thanks to this song she actually did win.
1 year later, she posted the famous song for free as a download on her website. You should definetly check out her album on iTunes too. My only problem is, it’s not on Spotify which is a real pity. Atleast get Gotta Digg up on Spotify 
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Stupidity Redefined
Dec 26th
This morning I received a small quote via Jaiku:
chewypow: so when i worked at Starbucks in little rock, there was this super hot 18 year old, miss teen usa right
chewypow: she came in one day and was talking to me and told me when she was brushing her hair that morning, a lot of it came out.. she then continues to explain that she thought she had ‘chemo’
chewypow: a week later she comes in and uses some mouthwash, and then swallows it. I point out to her that it says on the back if accidently swallowed to call poison control immediately
chewypow: she reads the label and looks at me and says “Oh.. it’s ok. I didn’t do it on accident”
muku: …
chewypow: exactly. brain synapses stop firing when you hear this story right?
Comment: Sadly a true story
It makes you wonder how we survive at all.
Ad Campaign done right
Dec 22nd
Evening.
Because I have danish blood running through me, I sometimes check some danish TV, and I stumbled upon the probably best ad ever! Watch and enjoy. Especially the second one!
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Amazing, right? The company also made some other cool ads, so be sure to check them out at: M2Film.dk
I love Spotify even more!
Dec 18th
WOOOT!
Spotify just released their update! And now get this: It supports Last.fm scrobbling! Amazing! So just set it up in the configuration of the client and starts scrobbling! The official announcement can be found here.
Now the only thing missing is playing Last.fm recommended songs.
So I’ll be resuming to scrobble finally!
Booty Luv live at Royal Holloway’s SU
Dec 12th
Last Wednesday was an SU night unlike the others. It started off with 1h30m waiting in line for tickets in front of the SU in the freezing cold. The queue wasn’t as long as it was for the Malibu night, which was surprising as the SU announced to have a live performance by Booty Luv. After nearly freezing to death, the SU openend 30 minutes late. It takes time to find out how to turn up the master volume 
For once, the DJ wasn’t too bad, he atleast tried to mix unlike some other people playing music there.
Around midnight we hear a short announcement that Booty Luv were about to start. What can I say? Everyone ran over to the podium, squishing everything in the way. The funny thing was, after 10 minutes, it was over. Booty Luv was gone.
I must say, that was the shortest performance I have ever seen. Unbelievable. How cheap is the SU?
To round this post off, here’s a small video of the shortest performance ever. Sorry for the crappy footage.
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The Weihnachtsmarkt invades the UK
Dec 11th
About a week ago, the RHUL German Society went to a ‘Weihnachtsmarkt’ in Kingswood.
We quickly realized that this was a joke. It had nothing to do with a real German Christmas Market. It only consisted of a few huts, and it was difficult to find german stuff.
However, apparantly there are some Christmas Markets in the UK that are closer to a real German Christmas Market. This aired yesterday in the German News, so I had to put this in. I’m sorry that this is a German Video, but I just can’t be arsed to write subtitles.
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Geek Life
Dec 7th
I just stumbled upon this image, and I can only say 1 thing about it:
What geek life should be!
Right?
Now this is what I call Internet!
Dec 5th
Finally I feel like home. I found a place where “Ze Tubes” of the Web connect, and are big enough to handle my huge demands.
Now I can finally use the internet the way it’s supposed to be used!
Procrastination 2008
Dec 4th
As I am procrastinating quite a lo the last few days, here’s a few pictures that motivated me for doing so.
And last but not least, a small something from XKCD. The best excuse for legitimatley slacking off.
