Hello Readers!
It’s been a while since i’ve done some sort of post, so here i am just letting you know i’m still actually alive!

Well it’s a beautiful Friday morning and i’ve actually got the day off due to a public holiday in my area which means sitting in the sun, tweaking with some footage / photography hang out at the beach and blah blah. Right now i’m extremely hung over due to drinks which took place at work last night, so i’ve just been sitting here since six in the morning watching YouTube videos, and i’ve found some i really need to share.

Don’t get me wrong i hate Justin Bieber just as much as the next guy, but this recent finding i’ve made is absolutley amazing, it almost sounds as if hes gone over to Enyas place and she’s put him through some sort of awesome Enya type style training.

Normally a three minute song, once stretched at about eight hundred percent it goes down to a thirty minute minimal chill out track, the benefits of this song is the ability to not actually hear what he is saying whilst at the same time just being totally chilled out by the track itself.

There are other songs like this that have been made before like Miley Cyrus – Party in the USA.

And another from Sigur Ros – Hoppipolla which sounds just as awesome.

If Bieber threw his shit music into the garbage and did more like this, I’d probably go out and buy it!

Metafilter likens it to “Sigur Ros doing Vangelis covers in a cathedral being washed away by the sea.” (Here’s the original.)

DIRECT MP3 DOWNLOAD – http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13338/USMILEAMBIENT11.mp3

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s an early 20th century cyberpunk sky city flying thousands of feet in the air.

According to the word on the internet this is the new Rapture: it’s not a crumbling secret dystopia for the elite, it’s Columbia, a flying (literally) spectacle of American Achievement that hovers around the world showing the Russians and their communist friends exactly how fantastic Uncle Sam is.

The US City of Colombia floats on giant airships, moving from country to country as a beacon of great American endeavour… until that is, something goes horribly wrong. According to online reveals Ken Levine – who’s heading up the project – Colombia was always more than a symbol – it’s “armed to the teeth” like a 1912 Death Star, a secret that ends in disaster.

I’m not putting anymore information here as it’ll totally spoil the storyline, if you require more… Google It!

the ads were designed for an upcoming media seminar with the overall theme of “what’s new today, is old tomorrow”, so they retro stylized Facebook, Youtube and Skype (and Twitter, not in English).

Facebook: ‘the enchantment next look in social team-ups’ [brandrepublic]

It was inevitable that the Lost epilogue “The New Man in Charge” would leak online in advance of its official release as a special feature on the upcoming DVD and Blu-rays for Lost: The Complete Sixth and Final Season and Lost: The Complete Collection.

The 12-minute epilogue to “Lost,” which is included in the DVD box set that releases Aug. 24, leaked online this afternoon. And honestly, it’s like the good, ‘ol days again, when we all pored through pages of Lostpedia and tried to figure out if obscure references made by Benjamin Linus actually contained meaningful anagrams.

The epilogue, in which Mr. Linus plays a prominent role, may not explain everything. But it does cover the following much-debated topics: the island’s pregnancy issues, the presence of polar bears, Walt’s specialness, the relevance of Room 23 and the Hurley bird.

Alternate download links:
http://www.mediafire.com/?rxse9avaachwb8h

if that doesnt work theres another file just larger:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DUW87I0H

Gates, Buffett lead campaign to persuade America’s wealthiest to donate their fortunes

Nati Harnik / AP

Bill Gates, left, and Warren Buffett, seen in this 2007 photo during the annual Berkshire Hathaway shareholders meeting in Omaha, are trying to persuade other American billionaires to give at least half their wealth to charity.

A little over a year after Bill Gates and Warren Buffett began hatching a plan over dinner to persuade America’s wealthiest people to give most of their fortunes to charity, more than three-dozen individuals and families have agreed to take part, campaign organizers announced Wednesday.

In addition to Buffett and Gates — America’s two wealthiest individuals, with a combined net worth of $90 billion, according to Forbes — 38 other billionaires have signed The Giving Pledge. They include New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, entertainment executive Barry Diller, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, energy tycoon T. Boone Pickens, media mogul Ted Turner, David Rockefeller, film director George Lucas and investor Ronald Perelman.

“We’re off to a terrific start,” Buffett, co-founder and chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, said in a conference call also attended by Bloomberg and San Francisco hedge-fund manager Tom Steyer and his wife Kat Taylor, founder of OneCalifornia Bank.

Buffett said he and Gates, the Microsoft co-founder, and Gates’ wife Melinda made calls to fellow billionaires on the Forbes 400 list of wealthiest Americans — in many cases, people they had never met — to try to persuade them to join the giving pledge.

“We contacted between 70 and 80 people to get the 40. A few were unavailable. We don’t give up on them. Every saint has a past, every sinner has a future. We’ll keep on working,” Buffett said.

Bloomberg, who made the bulk of his estimated $17.5 billion fortune from financial news and information services company Bloomberg L.P., said it didn’t make sense to leave everything to his children and have them go through life as members of “the lucky sperm club.”

“You don’t want to leave them so much money that it ruins their lives,” Bloomberg said. “You want kids who can look back and say, ‘Yeah my family helped me but I did something on my own.’”

Added Steyer: “We need to support each other. I look at this as replanting your garden so that future generations will have a full bounty of crops.”

The United States has roughly 400 billionaires — about 40 percent of the world’s total — with a combined net worth of $1.2 trillion, according to Forbes. If they all took the pledge, that would amount to at least $600 billion for charity.

The 40 names that have pledged to date have a combined net worth surpassing $230 billion, according to Forbes. Several of them have said they plan to give away much more than 50 percent of their wealth. Buffett has promised to donate more than 99 percent of his wealth.

The pledge is a moral commitment to give, not a legal contract. It does not involve pooling money or supporting one cause or organization. It’s up to each person who signs the pledge how to divvy up their wealth.

In letters on the givingpledge.org website, the 40 billionaires explain what motivated them to follow in the footsteps of Gates and Buffett.

“I’m particularly thankful for my father’s advice to set goals so high that they can’t possibly be achieved during a lifetime and to give help where help is needed most,” CNN founder Ted Turner said. “That inspiration keeps me energized and eager to keep working hard every day on giving back and making the world a better place for generations to come.”

“My pledge is to the process; as long as I have the resources at my disposal, I will seek to raise the bar for future generations of students of all ages,” filmmaker George Lucas said. “I am dedicating the majority of my wealth to improving education.”

Gates and Buffett hatched the idea of a giving campaign in mid-2009 at a secret dinner meeting in New York with a few select billionaires. The campaign went public this June.

Buffett acknowledged that some wealthy people may find it beneficial to donate more so they can avoid or write off more taxes. But he said that’s not the reason billionaires are taking the pledge.

“Of the 20 or so people that I have talked to that have signed, not one of them has talked to me about taxes,” Buffett said.

“It may be a consideration but I think the motivation goes far, far beyond taxes.”

And of the billionaires contacted who didn’t join the pledge?

“There were a few people who gave answers that indicated their various dissatisfaction with government,” Buffett said. “A few had dynastic ideas about wealth … an intergenerational compact with family to keep that going. And there were others who said, ‘I’ve got a plane to catch and I’ll have to hang up.’”

This guide will show you how to jailbreak your iPhone 4 using the new JailbreakMe.com. In case you actually need a guide.

The guys at Intelliborn have just released My3G version 4.14, which now supports FaceTime over 3G. Or, as they put it: “Facetime over 3G!!!”

This app, which convinces other apps that they’re on WiFi instead of 3G, is a big one that will probably attract a lot of first time jailbreakers. Like 3G Unrestrictor, it works around iOS’s 3G/EDGE restrictions, allowing you to download files bigger than 10MB, play full-res YouTubes and use apps like Sling Player and FaceTime. Can’t wait to see how the video performs over 3G… and how long it takes to crash AT&T’s network.

It’s available on Rock now and it should be up on our repo shortly, we’re getting hit pretty hard today. Be sure to let us know how it works in comments.

- In-App popup request to enable/never ask for My3G to be enabled for that app
- In-App indicator when My3G changes the network from 3G to WiFi
- Ability to select which apps are My3G enabled and not.
- Default Apps – no configuration for the most popular apps!
- SBSettings Toggle! You can temporarily enable My3G for all apps or toggle back using your defined Apps list
- Dynamic enablement – Higher successs rate (near 100%) then 3G Unrestrictor (which does one off solutions for apps). My3G enables 3G indicators more dynamically.

4.1 Updates
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- Facetime over 3G!!!

It’s sad to see these two riding dirty around wallmart, but it’s good to see that love still exists even if it’s sweaty and smells of bacon grease.