Sample the Delights of Dan the Automator!

Dan "the Automator" Nakamura is one of hip-hop's most prolific DJs, working with Damon Albarn in Gorillaz as well as a host of projects under bizarre pseudonyms.

Here are my favourite records by Dan the Automator. If you want to buy one on Amazon try the used/marketplace sections, as they are often cheaper there than from Amazon itself.


Handsome Boy Modeling School
So...How's Your Girl


Deltron 3030


Wanna Buy a Monkey?


Gorillaz


A Much Better Tomorrow


Nathaniel Merriweather presents
Lovage - Music To Make Love To Your Old Lady By
(Instrumental version)

Roomania hits the web!

Apparently Wayne Rooney's success at Euro 1004 has launched a massive surge in Rooney domain names being bought. Me and Chris decided to launch our own site as a tribute to the man himself!

Visit our Wayne Rooney Fan Site.

Buzz Travel Services in Iberia

The buzz car hire website has now been added to with a discount hotels site. You can find the sites at the following addresses:

Buzz Car Hire - Value car hire at Airport Locations across Spain.

Buzz Hotels - Discount hotels in towns and cities all over Spain, Portugal, Gibraltar and Andorra.

My Favourite Newsletters

Like many people, I have signed up to quite a few email newsletters. Here are a few of my favourites:

Popbitch - Showbiz gossip. Bitchier than OK and Hello put together, this is guaranteed to put a smile on your face. Arrives on Thursdays.

B3TA - Links to very surreal websites, made by the B3TA crew and friends, and a selection of the best other websites out there. Compulsive reading which arrives on Fridays.

Crypto-Gram - A much more serious newsletter, but one that is no less compelling reading. Written by security expert Bruce Schneier, this monthly newsletter has easy to understand articles on the most important security and cryptography issues of the day. Arrives on the 15th of the month.

The Onion - A much talked about satirical news newsletter, The Onion lives up to it's reputation and more. From the cynical and cutting to just plain silly, there is something for everyone in the Onion's email. Arrives on Mondays.

The Silicon.com weekly roundup - One for the Geek, this email contains the pick of the weeks tech stories, written in a light hearted and usually funny format. I havent been able to get this one without the almost daily news emails that come with it, but the weekly roundup is worth the junk. Arrives on Fridays.

The BBC daily email - Customised daily news headlines from around the world. This allows you to go directly to stories that interest you without having to trawl the site daily to see if there is any news.

The Google Newsletter - Essential if you work as a webmaster to keep up with the latest development in the industry. Of course you will probably know most of the stuff in the newsletter way in advance of it arriving, but it is nice to hear stories direct from the horses mouth.

Feel free to recommend any great newsletters that you recieve, and I hope you enjoy some of these!

Maps of Ireland

Well, it seemed only natural, now that I am living in Ireland, to start making some sites based on it, so here is my first - Map of Ireland!

James Rosenquist

An artist that Mel & I discovered at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao, in their permanent Pop Art Gallery. I have always loved Pop Art, especially Roy Lichtenstein, and fell in love with Rosenquist's stuff immediately. I particularly like his more recent stuff including the 'Speed of Light' series and this untitled piece from 2002:

The Greek Mythology Link - Troy

After seeing and enjoying the movie 'Troy' this week, I did a litte digging on the Internet and I came accross this very detailed and complete site about the whole of the Trojan War and more. Very readable stuff.

Kidrobot presents The Dunny Show

The whole Kidrobot site is great, but this selection of toys from the Dunny Show 2004 in New York by various designers and artists is pretty hard to beat. The quality of the designs are very high and the originality superb (the prices are a little out of my league though).

These are two of my favourites: