Alright, it's a bit late, but once again, for the suppression of your Internet cravings are the:

LINKS OF THE WEEK

cracked.com

Humour for those that want a fix of all things trivial.

deviantart.com

Eye candy. Good.

1.fm

Streaming music of all types, with no announcers, and occasional ads. Great quality. Great music. Great stuff.

King of Swords

Based in Napier, New Zealand, a shop with swords, knives, and axes to satisfy the inner medievalist in all of all. Heaps more, too.

The Nukes blitz the Little Theatre

When a group of musicians can get a room full of people smiling and tapping their feet with just their voices, a ukelele and an empty beer bottle, they are a special group indeed.

And so it proved when Auckland-based ukelele group The Nukes made their first foray outside of the big smoke to the Little Theatre last night for a workshop and concert.

The lineup of Ben Collier, David Theile and Dave Parker gave a packed house two hours of entirely original songs about everything from peas and carrots to the Manukau Harbour, and just about everything inbetween. With their skilfully arranged harmonies, and ukeleles of all types, along with a natural sense of humour, they engaged the audience from the very start, and despite a technical mishap along the way, kept everyone smiling until the very end of their two encores.

To top all that off, earlier in the afternoon, they hosted a workshop where anybody who wanted to have a go at playing a musical instrument could come along, be given a ukelele, and by the end of an hour, be playing along to a song written by the band. All in all, a muscial and humourous day, enjoyed by all, and we look forward to their return.

Many thanks to Dean Taylor of the Te Awamutu Courier for his help in bringing the band to Te Awamutu, and supplying the photo of the concert, and Ian and Sue Dobbs for the halftime food.

Links of the week #2 ! ! !

Dylanradio.com

Bob Dylan, poet and songwriter. Live 24/7 to your PC.

Arts and Letters Daily

The best in intelligent writing from newspapers and journals from around the world. Warning - a highbrow website - take your time to digest the content within.

Topgear.com

What do you get when you get three middle-aged Poms to mess about in cars? Bloke heaven, that's what. Warning! Content may be addictive!

Project Gutenberg

If a piece of literature has fallen out of copyright, it has ended up electronically here. Conan Doyle, Shakespeare, Homer, Ben Jonson, and more. A grab bag of great reading, with plenty of search options.

The Freesound Project

Have you, for any or no particular reason, wanted a sound effect? Of anything? Look no further. Birds, cars, doors, electronic tones, the human voice, its all here, recorded and contributed by volunteers at no cost. Enjoy.


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