"In another example of shortcut marketing, McDonald’s recently launched a new campaign to pay rappers a bounty if they name-drop the Big Mac in their songs. Rappers can earn $1-5 each time their song is played on the radio."
Month: April 2005
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McDonald’s just got served
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Apple Soundtrack Pro
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Apple – Final Cut Studio
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P. Diddy: “New Level Person”
Words of wisdom from P. Diddy:
Q: What’s up with so many people becoming so interested in carrying an iPod or other device that plays their music?
A: It’s expressing a certain style of your life. It’s like driving a Mercedes or a classic Harley rather than any ol’ ride. When you have the new black Razr [phone by Motorola] in your hand, that new Razr is not just your phone, it’s saying you are a new level of person.
ALL I HAVE TO DO IS BUY STUFF TO BECOME A NEW LEVEL OF PERSON? I’M OFF TO THE MALL RIGHT FREAKIN NOW! [via]
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del.icio.us links into Typepad
There are tons of ways to get your delicious links into a blog but if you want to get the links to show up as a daily post in Typepad here’s how you do it:
Go here: (add your username)
http://del.icio.us/settings/YOURUSERNAME/daily
Click "add a new thingy"
Fill out the boxes as follows:
You can find your blog_id from the url from when you go to hit POST in Typepad:
https://www.typepad.com/t/app/weblog/post?blog_id=N
N is your blog_id.
Sit and wait for that hour to occur. See the previous post for an example of how it will look.
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Google Video (Beta)
Google Video (Beta) – Video Upload. You can now upload video to Google. PC only :(
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The Weakerthans and Constantines Tour
The Weakerthans is one of my favorite bands. I’ve got tickets to see them at the end of the month here in Vancity so I’m pumped. So, who gives a shit you ask? Well if you live in Canada and enjoy this type of music you should attend as well. It’s not too late…Tour dates.
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PunkRok Tour
My Buddy Menno is touring with his band The Delegates again. You can follow the tour on their site. Check out this recent post from the road, it’s so punk.
"So it turns out that Jean Claude damn
Van really likes northern quebec. In fact he likes it so much that he
wanted to retire here and he gave us his 5 hours notice in the form of
dropping his tranmission on the side of the highway about 200
kilometers north of quebec city. Funny thing is the van made it to the
show before we did. It pulled into the St.-Fabien punkfest on the back
of a tow truck. We had to hitch hike so we got there a while later. Now
we are stranded in northern quebec and really its not so bad. St-Fabien
has 1200 friendly residents who like to drink coffee and brandy in the
town’s only bar. It took alot of convincing but we finally got Jean
Claude damn van to agree to go back into the USA with us and as i write
this he is in St-Fabien’s only garage getting prepped for major
surgery. Here the snowbanks are still 10 feet high. I have been wearing
the same clothes (yes underwear too) for over a week. There is no hot
water in place we slept last night and i still have no idea where we
might end up tonight. and am being so honest when i say we are having a
damn good time. merci au rocknroll."
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William Gibson Quote
"The future is here. It’s just not evenly distributed yet." Think about that mofos…
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Skiing at Whistler
Rebecca and I went to Whistler last weekend and we had a blast. It was the first time I had gone skiing skiing since I was 13. Skiing skiing, meaning not snowboarding. When I was 13 I decided skiing was for lame old people. Now I’m lame and old so I went skiing…
