New 2008 indie punk-ass xmas mix is up!

Posted on December 21, 2008 by Thomas Purves

It’s back! My (in)famous indie punk-ass Christmas mix for 2008. This is the 3rd year running and last year’s mix nearly blew out a year’s worth of bandwidth allocation, but here we go again. Because sometimes ordinary Christmas Carols just won’t do.

This year’s mix is an update from last year with some of your old favourites and a couple new 2008 tracks mixed in. First of the additions we have the new Yeah Yeah Yeah’s Christmas song as well as a nice Barenaked Ladies version of God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen. But then if the BNL isn’t quite high enough on your punk-ass o’meter I’ve balanced that off with Oh Come All Ye Faithful by … wait for it … Twisted Sister — OH GOD YES.

01 Stars Fairytale Of New York
02 Barenaked Ladies God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
03 Sufjan Stevens Get Behind Me, Santa!
04 Ramones Merry Christmas
05 No doubt Oi to the World
06 sex pistols 12 days of christmas punk
07 the vandals A gun for christmas
08 Eels everything s gonna be cool this christmas
09 Twisted Sister Oh Come All Ye Faithful
10 The Raveonettes The Christmas Song
11 the knife Reindeer
12 bright eyes little drummer boy
13 Saturday Looks Good To Me Christmas Blues
14 Rufus Wainwright Spotlight on Christmas
15 Casiotone for the painfully alone cold white christmas
16 Sufjan Stevens O Holy Night
17 Aimee Mann God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
18 The pippettes white christmas
19 the go team the ice storm
20 Pogues Fairytale Of New York
21 Yeah yeah yeahs all i want for christmas
22 Tom Waits (bonus track) Silent Night A Christmas Card from a hooker in St Paul

 

Grab the big giant zip file (93MB) here, download, import the included playlist file to itunes (or whatever your music program) to get all the songs in the right order and burn to CD and or listen away. Should *just* fit on an 80min CDR.

enjoy!

UPDATE: 7am Dec 22. Well that didn’t take long, bandwidth exceeded on server #1, give me an hour or two to set up some more bandwidth. BTW. Anyone else got a mirror they would like to lend for a few days?

UPDATE2: 2:14pm Dec 22 Alright you rapacious revelers found a new mirror for the file. go at it.
Meanwhile tonight’s project: learn how to make and host a torrent (any tips?)

UPDATE3: 9:35am Dec23 That twisted sister rendition? The internets have just informed me that there is a video… 🙂 🙂

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The future is here, it’s just not evenly distributed yet

Posted on December 17, 2008 by Thomas Purves

I love that little inventions like the internets were invented nearly 30 years ago and yet we’re still figuring out, and still will continue to figure out wonderful things to do with them.

The distribution is here, the future just isn’t evenly invented yet
If the future is distribution, are we here yet?
The future is like a series of tubes
The distribution is the future
The medium is the message

Just incidentally, here was one more wonderful and inspiring thing we discovered that you can do internet, just earlier this week. link link link

Also, because you should know, this link is awesome (if you don’t value the rest of your afternoon): Timeline of inventions I’m don’t know how that’s related.

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#hohoto the tech event of the season

Posted on December 4, 2008 by Thomas Purves

description via leila:

HoHoTo

That’s the Toronto Technology Party we are planning! In Toronto, on Tuesday December 16. Of course this is a last minute thing, but we are used to it; we bring you DemoCamp, Mesh and all sorts of Toronto geek gatherings so we are used to putting our heads together and getting things done.

We need you to get the word out to everyone in the software/technology space in Toronto as we would love to see everyone before the year end. The number of tickets for the party is limited so getting your ticket is a must – ’cause begging ain’t gonna to get you in the door.

When: Tuesday December 16, 2008 starting at 19:00

Where: The ModClub

Who: Geeks! and everyone else.

You are all welcome to join us. All proceeds from the party will go to supporting the Toronto Daily Food Bank. More details to come your way in the very near future but don’t let that stop you from getting your ticket(s) now.


In the first 24hrs we’ve sold 100 tickets and raised over $1000 dollars. keep it going!

Official website (which I swear didn’t even exist yesterday, amazing): hohoto.ca

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