Apple store in Brighton

posted by Dean at 09:29

For those who love the Apple, they seem to be opening a store in Brighton.

They've been recruiting for several weeks in the press, and now boards have gone up in the mall.

As you can see from the pic.

Interestingly, the company has been mostly utilising grandiose retail outlets - this is quite a small store, though I'm sure it's sufficient to serve Brighton et al.

Nitro Circus on MTV

posted by Jaitu at 22:17

MTV has recently started showing Nitro Circus on Sunday nights in the UK. I caught this by chance and am hooked. It's like Jackass but more focused on jumps and stunts and less on vomiting and public humiliation. The group of regulars is lead by Moto X and freestyle rider Travis Pastrana and includes other Moto racers, mountain bikers, bmx riders and base jumpers.

Each week sees a collection of insane stunts ranging from racing kids big-wheel trikes downhill to sky-diving without a parachute to loop the loop slip'n'slides through the woods to driving a trophy truck across the desert at 170mph to base jumping from Las Vegas hotels to attempting to back flip a monster truck.

It looks like the whole lot is available online at the Nitro Circus Vimeo channel. I'm currently resisting the urge to watch more online and just letting 'traditional T.V.' drip feed it to me.

To find out whether it's something you might like then check out the clip below which appears to be the whole of the first show.

Nitro Circus ep. 1 - Welcome to Pastranaland from Nitro Circus on Vimeo.

WIRED UK Edition

posted by Jaitu at 19:04

U.S. technology magazine WIRED has recently launched a U.K. specific edition. There was a short-lived U.K. WIRED a few years back but this is a new start.
I've read and enjoyed WIRED for a good few years now and it's one of the few magazines I subscribe to. As an overseas subscriber of the U.S. edition I received an early opportunity to subscribe to the U.K. edition but decided not to until seeing the first issue and checking out the level of 'overlap'. I picked up the launch issue recently and gave it a quick scan to see how much I recognised. Straight off the bat there were two major multi page articles that I've read before as well as a couple of double page spreads and some other bits and pieces. One of the large articles was on the formula that broke the banking system and had been in the U.S. edition in the last couple of months. The other a brilliant year-old piece on a deep sea salvage team (that has since been optioned for a movie adaptation). It's a mild, though thoroughly understandable, annoyance that an amount of content will be duplicated between the two editions. If the first U.K. issue is any measure the quality and quantity of unique material is sufficient for me to continue with my overseas subscription and with the current U.K. offer of only £24 for twelve issues I am most likely to take up a U.K. sub too.

An introduction to Java

posted by Dean at 15:47

I'm going to be doing an intro to Object Orientated programming and Java on a new blog, which I suspect will simply become an extension of RTDL2.

I'm hoping one or more of you will find this of interest.

Another Tech Blog

It's good to crank call Jaitu

posted by Dean at 19:46

With this:

Bring on the trumpets!

Dexter

posted by Dean at 19:28

Currently watching series 3 of Dexter, as we speak.

It's an amazing series (again) without much press over here. Go grab it from your favourite source asap.

However, every episode I find it slightly creepy that I find myself agreeing with some of his sentiments, especially those regarding the human condition in general - and certain qualities/ideas he has regarding solitude....

(For those not in the know, he's a serial killer)

Re: Stacks

posted by Dean at 13:07

And just in case you were wondering about Bon Iver, check out this highlight 'Re: Stacks' from the recent debut album 'For Emma Forever Ago'.

If you don't love this, there's something inherently wrong with you. Inside. Wrong.

New band - Midlake

posted by Dean at 13:01

I quite often come across new music that I fall in love with pretty quickly.

Bon Iver's debut last year is an example of an album that immediately propels itself into my top 5 of all time, which is no small mean feat.

However, this is a post about a beautiful album, that I discovered via some related music listings on Amazon (probably). It's not as immediately striking as Bon Iver, but they seem to have much less press over here in Blighty. Midlake is their name.

'Bandits' from the brilliantly titled album 'Trials of Van Occupanther' is what caught my ear to begin with...