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“Most of us, of course, think we know what a depression looks like. Open a history book and the images will be familiar: mobs at banks and lines at soup kitchens, stockbrokers in suits selling apples on the street, families piled with all their belongings into jalopies. Families scrimp on coffee and flour and sugar, […]
Continue Reading“I know it is absurd to debate the rules of a reality that does not exist, but this genuinely irks me. You cannot kill a vampire with an MDF stake; werewolves can’t fly; zombies do not run. It’s a misconception, a bastardisation that diminishes a classic movie monster. The best phantasmagoria uses reality to render […]
Continue ReadingMicrosoft has only just decided that the official name for Windows 7 is going to be “Windows 7”, and is already calling it something else. “So we decided to ship the Windows 7 code as Windows 6.1 – which is what you will see in the actual version of the product in cmd.exe or computer […]
Continue ReadingMinnie Ripperton, Deadmau5, and Soulwax in one DJ set? It could only be the next installment of the Unadopted Podcast, bubbling up and building until your ears almost pop. Get stuck in, turn it up loud, close your eyes, dance like an idiot, and don’t miss the incredible ending! Röyksopp – Remind Me (DLake Remix […]
Continue ReadingThe Unadopted Podcast does guitars! I was getting nostalgic for a time before the likes of Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance, The Arctic Monkeys and all that dodgy chav-indie/cry-me-a-river-emo-bollocks. A time when you could go to a indie/rock night and you’d hear song after song after song of awesomeness. Did everyone forget about this […]
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Continue ReadingI’ve put together some more music for you in a nicely mixed fashion! Give it a whirl, it’s quite good this one. This one’s NOT part of the podcast for various reasons, so grab it while its hot! [audio:http://unadopted.co.uk/dj/Minimix%20001.mp3] Download
Continue ReadingRails on Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard to most people), is fantastic. It’s already there, and it just works. From the very second Leopard finishes installing, you can run rails yourAppName in a terminal, and boom, it gives you a default Rails app. Move into the directory that just got created with cd yourAppName, and […]
Continue ReadingTime for more music! Quite a varied pick this time, but it seems to work well together. Without further ado, here’s what I’m loving at the moment… Digitalism – Echoes The Wombats – Moving To New York (The Touch Remix) The Ting Tings – Great DJ (IDC Rerub) Cassius – Cassius 1999 (Remix) (Long Version) […]
Continue ReadingIt’s mashup central here at the Unadopted Podcast this time around! Every track in this mix is a mashup of some sort or other. I think that more people need to hear some of the awesome stuff being pumped out by the likes of ElectroSound, and Loo & Placido. Sadly I don’t know all the […]
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