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5 Scary Album Covers

These are just amazing.

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10 Songs that are good for Saturday...er, Monday February 13th, 2006

We are a little late on this one, sorry if your Saturday had no good music in it.



1. Artist: Q and Not U
Song: Fever Sleeves



2. Artist: Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Song: Maps



3. Artist: The Dandy Warhols
Song: Heroine is so passe



4. Artist: The Cure
Song: Lovecats



5. Artist: Air
Song: The word Hurricane



6. Artist: Blonde Redhead
Song: Equally Damaged



7. Artist: The Gloria Record
Song: Ozona and Sonora



8. Artist: The Detroit Cobras
Song: Hey Sailor



9. Artist: Piebald
Song: Grace Kelly with Wings



10. Artist: Rilo Kiley
Song: The Execution of All Things

Labels: lists, music

Posted by istoica at 1:11 AM 1 comments  

Four Things...

Rannie tagged us...so here goes!

Four Jobs We've had:
(since we're young'ens we're going to pool our experiences and come up with 4 between the two of us...)
1. ica: i think i babysat, like once- it wasn't fun for me or the kids.
2. Being students...does that count?
3. Dairy Queen: we both worked there- isto never perfected the swirl on the top of the cones. we quit on the same day.
4. Current job: Design and Development

Four movies we could watch over and over:
1. I am Cuba
2. Rize
3. Run Lola Run
4. Chungking Express


Four places we've lived:
1. Kitchener/Etobicoke (separate)
2. Burlington (at the same time)
3. Beaches (together)
4. Downtown Toronto (together)

Four T.V shows we love:
(we only watch T.V when it comes out on DVD....so that limits our options...)
1. 24!!
2. Desperate Housewives
3. Penn and Teller
4. Family Guy

Four places we've vacationed:
1. Vancouver
2. Florida
3. Amsterdam
4. Paris

Four of our Favorite Dishes:
1. Roti from Gandhi Cuisine
2. General Tao's Chicken
3. Spring Roll food (everything.)
4. Sushi! Dragon C Maki from Sky Sushi.

Four Sites we visit daily
1. Flickr
2. Netvibes
3. Del.icio.us
4. Gmail

Four places we would rather be right now:
1. any beach anywhere
2. Vancouver hanging out with elliot who just turned 1
3. Hong Kong taking pictures with D'Arcy
4. Las Vegas

We hereby tag the following people:
1. Todd
2. Valerie
3. Lex!
4. Jenn

Labels: istoica, lists

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10 songs that are good for February 4th, 2006.

1. Artist: M83
Song: "Slowly"















2. Artist: The Strokes
Song: "The Other Side"















3. Artist: The Streets
Song: "Fit But you Know It"















4. Artist: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Song: "Is This Love?"















5. Artist: The Unicorns
Song: "Sea Ghost"
















6. Artist: Secret Mommy
Song: " An Apple a Day Keeps the Mac Voice Away"















7. Artist: The Octopus Project
Song: "Music is Happyness"















8. Artist: Royal City
Song: "Is This It" (cover)















9. Artist: Isolee
Song: "Schrapnell"















10. Artist: Deerhoof
Song: "Panda Panda Panda"

Labels: lists, music

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10 songs that are good for January 28th, 2006.

1. Artist: Maximo Park
Song: "Apply Some Pressure"


2. Artist: The Ponys
Song: "Chemical Imbalance"


3. Artist: Sufjan Stevens
Song: "The Tallest Man, the Broadest"


4. Artist: The Joggers


5. Artist: Belle and Sebastian
Song: "I'm Waking Up to Us"


6. Artist: LCD Soundsystem
Song: "on Repeat"


7. Artist: Les Savy Fav
Song: "Hold on to Your Genre"


8. Artist: Wolf Parade
Song: "You are a Runner, and I am my Fathers Son"


9. Artist: The Boy Least Likely To
Song: "Fur Softest Fur"
(Come on, it's Saturday)


10: Artist: Death from Above 1979
Song: "Blood on our Hands"

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10 Tools to Make Things Easier

Pixelpost - Free PHP-based photoblogging software.

Picasa - One of the best ways to organize and view your images.

Microsoft OneNote - All-in-One way to keep notes. Great for To-Do's and image integration.

Extensis Photoframe - A superb plug-in for Photoshop. Allows for the creation of an indefinite number of stylized frames.

MSN Desktop Search - Similar to Google Desktop, but has the advantage of integrating with Windows Explorer.

Flickr Uploadr - Easiest way to get you pictures up on Flickr.

Del.icio.us Firefox extension - Allows you to Tag from in the browser.

CSSVista - Makes testing CSS in Explorer and Firefox a breeze. Gives you a dual-plane view of what your page will look like in both browsers.

Microsoft PowerToys - Things that should be on the XP installation CD.... a great time saver is the image resize tool which saves you from opening photoshop.

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Posted by istoica at 10:27 PM 1 comments