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  • The Good Die Young: Cut From

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    My favorite Anthemic Indie Rock band, The Good Die Young have just put out their first video – for Cut From…actually my good buddy Paul Key is the drummer and has great hair 🙂 Enjoy both! (but watch out for the flashy-flickry effects, epilepsy people…)

  • Apple House Party!

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    Carbon‘s new landlords, Leeds Met‘s NTI are holding a party to celebrate their newly acquired status as one of Apple’s Authorised Training Centres. Come and join the party at Old Broadcasting House on 16th October…it’s a great chance to meet the trainers, check out the beautifully refurbished OBH facilities and find ou more about NTI’s…

  • Hotel Chevalier

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    ‘Wanna See My View Of Paris?’…so ends Wes Anderson’s prologue to The Darjeeling Limited, a 13-minute short set in Paris’ (fictional?) Hotel Chevalier. Simple, sweet and poignant…the final shot lingers over the heartbreaking final moments of a relationship; a coda that’s as cold as it is intimate. Nicely crafted Wes 🙂 — { US viewers…

  • A Ramadan Message…from Bob Dylan

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    Who’d have thunk? Dylan sends us a timely reminder of the virtues of Ramadan 😉 { Inspired by Bob Dylan’s warning of a Cylon Invasion }

  • meecard+Yuuguu @ FOWA Expo

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    At the beginning of August, I challenged a bunch of Northern startups to take up complimentary booths at the Future of Web Apps Expo. Today, Blognation UK has a full roundup of exhibitors and I’m really pleased to see that two of the eleven (that’s 18%!) companies at Expo are from the North of England…

  • DNAStream

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    TechCrunch namechecked DNAStream a few days ago in a round up of Joost copycat services. Though the DNAStream user experience is obviously inspired by Joost and picture quality is sub-YouTube, I kinda like DNAStream for a whole bunch of reasons… Firstly, users arriving at the site can start watching content and exploring channels without signing up…

  • Leeds Open Street Mapping Party

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    Tim Waters has finalised plans for Leeds’ first Open Street Mapping party on 15+16th September… Tim’ll walk everyone through how things work and has a few GPS units as loaners for people without the necessary gear. Tim’s arranged a private room at the Starbucks on Albion Street, for some coffee, a chat and some planning…

  • Photobombing

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    A couple weekends ago, I took some visiting family to the Keighley & Worth Valley Railway. Later that day I geotagged my photos of the trip before uploading to Flickr. Whilst exploring other photos taken in the vicinity I came across a charming phenomenon called Photobombing. Photobombing is essentially the act of attaching printed photographs…

  • OpenCoffee {Quattro}

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    Just over a week ago, I was worried that the numbers for Leeds’ fourth OpenCoffee event weren’t going to be as stellar as the previous month’s turnout. I was wrong 🙂 Thanks to some voluntary PR efforts from local PR hero Richard Hamer* and a last minute uptick in Upcoming registrants, we managed to attract…

  • Sigur Rós: Heima

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    ‘I sometimes get this strange and sort of uncontrollable urge to want to go home…’ Sigur Rós’ forthcoming album Hvarf-Heim is gonna be accompanied by what appears to be a magical DVD movie entitled Heima…Icelandic for ‘at home’. I first heard Sigur in Vanilla Sky…and ever since imagined their work to be ‘widescreen music’…Heima‘s breathtaking…