We were able to shave 400 milliseconds off the shutdown time by slightly trimming the WAV file shutdown music.

›› John Curran, from Microsoft UK

What a cute/weird/bizarre video from the English duo, The Boy Least Likely To!

No news on why apple juice didn’t make it to the track title though.

After Karen O and Co’s awesome Show Your Bones, you would do well not to be too overwhelmed with the new album, It’s Blitz. Throbbing, pulsing disco synths sugar coat the music to the point where you will get instant tooth decay (as if it were). Save for the unexpected transition from great guitar rock to synthesizer dependent sonority, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs completely bring the house down with great melodies and Karen O’s voice. One of the highlights has to be “Heads Will Roll“, an absolutely infectious song that’s destined for the dancefloor.

That’s right, folks… Denon’s AK-DL1 is an ultra premium Denon Link cable that costs almost half a grand. The killer feature probably is the ’signal directional markings’ for ‘optimum signal transfer’, seeing as how the audio/data signals need little arrows to know which way to go. Wow, That’s Fabulous!

Wired has some awesome pictures of computer equipment and parts awaiting their end at an electronics scrap recycling factory in the United States.

Set up a torrent tracker, get fined, go to jail.

Join a bank, destroy the economy, profit.

›› Umair Haque, from the Havas Media Lab

I really do wonder how they disposed of the ‘trillions of bean bag balls’ that went into this video.

The great thing about Phil Spector, and also his weakness, is he’s a kind of one-trick pony. But his one trick is pretty impressive, like a dog that could talk.

›› Starsailor’s James Walsh

Beautiful hand crafted type and illustrations from Alison Carmichael.

The A List Apart Survey results are out. Last year, the results were published as a PDF, which was a bit of an anti-climax from a standardista perspective. But this year, they’ve got it all out in bread-and-butter HTML and CSS, the highlight of which has to be Eric A. Meyer’s mind-numbingly beautiful, yet accessible, CSS work for the graphs. Plain insanity, if you ask me, but it’s top-drawer production-grade code.

What a cheeky bastard, too!

The SOS collective of Desyn Masiello, DJ Demi and Omid 16B took on the 13th installment of the Balance compilation series and ended up with a quite hefty 3 CD set.

And what a piece of work it is. Featuring beautiful mixes of tracks from the likes of Aphex Twin, Speedy J, Aeroplane, Cocteau Twins and a whole bunch more of surprising and refreshing selections, all three discs contain a wide selection of music and finely crafted mixes.

I am usually very apprehensive about remixes of old classics but SOS’s rework of The Cure’s Lullaby is just beautiful. This compilation, my friends, is the noughties’ answer to the pretty awesome 90s Northern Exposure series.

Dark rooms were where photographs were developed back in the old days. Now, darkly lit rooms are the source of rich photographic ideas, like Brian Hart’s output.