This is about the best thing I’ve seen in days – Katrina & The Waves’ Walking On Sunshine made out of video-sampled car-crashes. It’s created by video remixer Eboman. More of his Sample madnesS videos here.

A prison in the Philippines is using podcasting to share information about the jailhouse “paradise”. The Bureau of Jail Management and Penology in Bonuan Gueset, Dagupan City, The Philippines, is now podcasting, a first among jails in the Philippines. The goal of the podcast is to disseminate information on the activities of and their projects […]

What do you do with a dead iPod? Rhett and Link have some ideas for you. via iJustine

The BBC is warning about the rampant new problem of techno addiction – when gadgets get so damn sexy that people become addicted to them. According to the venerable BBC: Techno addiction can become so bad that people wake up several times a night to check their e-mails and text messages; Techno addiction can interfere […]

The Long Now Foundation has made a decision on the five year old bet between podcasting pioneer Dave Winer and the New York Times’ Martin Nisenholtz: Long Bets has arrived at a decision for Long Bet #2 between blogger Dave Winer and Martin Nisenholtz of the NY Times. At stake is US$2000.00 plus half the […]

A new report refutes claims that portable music players, such as Apple’s iPod, interfere with cardiac pacemakers. Howard Bassen, a researcher with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in Rockville, Md., led a research team that measured the magnetic fields produced by four different iPod models: a fourth-generation iPod and an iPod with video, and […]

Alberto Frias Transport “perceptual pod” isn’t like other iPod accessories: The Transport is a $16,000 composite fiberglass waterbed pod; It is handmade & numbered for authenticity; It has a built-in full-spectrum LED lighting system; It has a remote control so that you can control the built-in sound system and lighting effects; and, best of all… […]

Yesterday, when everybody was hyping the new ad-supported music service Qtrax, we said Qtrax was D.O.A. We noted that “Qtrax wants you to download software to watch ads to get DRM‚Äôd music that probably won‚Äôt work on your media player.” Not something that we really want to do. Others are starting to see through the […]

Animation producer Kevin Gamble, otherwise known as Tiki Bar TV‘s fez-wearing bartender Johnny Johnny, recently moved from Vancouver to New York. They say that New York is the most exciting city in the world, but Gamble got more excitement than anyone could wish or plan for this weekend when he rescued a woman who fell […]

The Super Boom Box is a $1,895, built-to-order tank of a boom box that plays radio, CDs & MP3s. Here are the specs: Play music from AM, FM, CD, or a USB Flash Drive source. Up to 65 hours of unique music can be stored on a 4GB Flash Drive (based on our benchmark tests, […]