pFiled under: a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/audio/" rel="tag"Audio/a, a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/web-services/" rel="tag"Web services/a, a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/social-software/" rel="tag"Social Software/a, a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/web-2-0/" rel="tag"web 2.0/a/pdiv align="center"a href="http://www.soundcloud.com/"img width="354" vspace="4" hspace="4" height="200" border="0" align="middle" alt="SoundCloud" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.downloadsquad.com/media/2008/10/soundcloudscreen-1.jpg" //a/div There are plenty of ways to share music, but most of them are slow or have clunky interfaces. a href="http://www.soundcloud.com"SoundCloud/a aims to be the first player in the market to catch on in a big way, by making things easy for its users. Soundcloud works like an inbox, so new songs come in from your friends (or from artists and record labels) and you can handle them all in one convenient place. You can also put a dropbox on any site (including MySpace, Facebook, and your blog) where people can click to send you a track.br / br / I love the idea of being able to play incoming tracks selectively before downloading them, and also the idea of letting them stream as one big playlist. Sending music looks to be just as easy. You can send to an email address or another SoundCloud account, and the result looks a heck of a lot better than MySpace Music. Also, there are no file size limits!br /br /If you're a musician, SoundCloud looks like a good place to post your new tracks. Each song gets its own URL and its own privacy settings, so you can decide who's allowed to listen to or download it. Create Digital Music says SoundCloud could be the Flickr of music, and after testing it out, I'm inclined to agree. br /br / [via a href="http://createdigitalmusic.com/2008/10/09/soundcloud-here-like-flickr-for-music/"Create Digital Music/a]h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/10/13/soundcloud-is-live-bringing-music-sharing-to-the-masses/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/forward/1338374/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/10/13/soundcloud-is-live-bringing-music-sharing-to-the-masses/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/weblogsinc/downloadsquad?a=ZYKMrZ"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/weblogsinc/downloadsquad?i=ZYKMrZ" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/weblogsinc/downloadsquad?a=b0r7m"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/weblogsinc/downloadsquad?i=b0r7m" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/weblogsinc/downloadsquad?a=hOYBm"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/weblogsinc/downloadsquad?i=hOYBm" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/weblogsinc/downloadsquad/~4/419494551" height="1" width="1"/

Thomas O'Connor's "USB Floppy Drive" is a nice reimagination of technology from the not-so-distant past. We've seen a lot of these imaginative USB drives and hopefully we'll see a kit soon that will let you easily create your own design.

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C’est en novembre prochain que sort dans la collection Shampooing de Delcourt le pavé Chicou Chicou. La collection – friande de publications de blogs BD – ne pouvait passer à côté du phénomène. Souvent drôles et parfois déjantées, les planches mettent en scène les personnages de Claude, Frédé, Ella, Juan et Fabrice ainsi que Fern dans la saison 2 (Fabrice n’étant pas mentionné en couverture).

Dès ses débuts en 2006, le blog attire de nombreux visiteurs et les forums débattent sur la réelle identité des auteurs – qui signent du nom des personnages. Les influences sont diverses, les thèmes abordés aussi – pirates, ninjas, zombie, la sexualité de Fabrice, le cinéma... une vie dans laquelle tout le monde peut s’identifier. Si le nom des auteurs n’a jamais été vraiment révélé, on croit savoir que Boulet, Domitille Collardey, Lisa Mandel, Aude Picault et Erwan Surcouf font partie de la bande. Reste que pour 35 euros, les fans hésiteront peut-être avant de mettre la main sur ce collectif de presque 500 pages.

Chicou chicou © Delcourt et les auteurs.

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pFiled under: a href="http://www.engadget.com/category/cellphones/" rel="tag"Cellphones/a/pdiv style="text-align: center;"a href="http://myphone2008.com/"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2008/10/10-13-08winmoiphone.jpg" alt="" //abr //div Most of the Windows Mobile / iPhone cross-breeding we've seen has either involved elaborate a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/30/video-iswish-puts-the-iphone-ui-on-any-windows-mobile-phone/"WinMo skinning/a or terrible a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/04/02/keepin-it-real-fake-part-cxv-cect-t5-t32-winmo-6-iphone-clone/"iPhone KIRFs/a, but we suppose it was just a matter of time before Microsoft's mobile OS was made to run on Apple's hardware -- or at least that's what it looks like here. Pretty much everything about this video is suspect, from the shadiness of the MyPhone2008 conference it was shot at to the interviewer's ridiculously inane questions ("You don't have girlfriends in Norway?"), but damn if that isn't WinMo happily booting on what appears to be an iPhone 3G -- we can't tell, but it's a good bet it's jailbroken. The developer, Erik Kristiansen, says that mod is in beta right now but that he's looking at a January release -- we'll see what more we can dig up before then. Video after the break.br /br /[Via a href="http://www.mactoday.nl/windows-mobile-op-de-iphone/"MacToday.nl/a; thanks Daniel]pa href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/windows-mobile-ported-to-iphone-we-think/" rel="bookmark"Continue reading emWindows Mobile ported to iPhone, we think/em/a/ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://myphone2008.com/Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/windows-mobile-ported-to-iphone-we-think/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/forward/1340477/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.engadget.com/2008/10/13/windows-mobile-ported-to-iphone-we-think/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~a/weblogsinc/engadget?a=CqNSXJ"img src="http://feeds.engadget.com/~a/weblogsinc/engadget?i=CqNSXJ" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=7i3cm"img src="http://feeds.engadget.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=7i3cm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.engadget.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?a=TGyMm"img src="http://feeds.engadget.com/~f/weblogsinc/engadget?i=TGyMm" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.engadget.com/~r/weblogsinc/engadget/~4/419551156" height="1" width="1"/

pFiled under: a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/mac/" rel="tag"Mac/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/pc/" rel="tag"PC/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/action/" rel="tag"Action/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/online/" rel="tag"Online/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/strategy/" rel="tag"Strategy/a/pdiv style="text-align: center;"img vspace="4" hspace="0" border="1" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/10/sc2trilogy.jpg" /br //div Blizzard's Vice President of Game Design Rob Pardo wants us to think about a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/10/10/starcraft-2-to-be-released-as-a-trilogy/"span style="font-style: italic;"Starcraft 2/span's/a two followups, containing the Zerg and Protoss single player campaigns, as expansion packs, so does that mean they won't contain as much gameplay as the Terran-based initial game? Plus, you'll have to wait at least whole year between "expansions." Said Pardo, "With any luck, it would be like a year for each successive one, but that's going to be a target date, that's not a promise."br /br /Since emSC2/em won't be out until 2009, you won't be able to play the Protoss single player until at least 2011. That's a long time to wait. Check out what Rob said after the break, and start yer speculatin'.pa href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/10/13/blizzard-vp-starcraft-2-trilogy-on-the-3-year-plan/" rel="bookmark"Continue reading emBlizzard VP: Starcraft 2 Trilogy on the 3-year plan/em/a/pp style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"nbsp;/ppa href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/10/13/blizzard-vp-starcraft-2-trilogy-on-the-3-year-plan/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/forward/1340020/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.technorati.com/cosmos/search.html?rank=amp;fc=1amp;url=http://www.joystiq.com/2008/10/13/blizzard-vp-starcraft-2-trilogy-on-the-3-year-plan/" title="Linking Blogs"Linkingnbsp;Blogs/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/10/13/blizzard-vp-starcraft-2-trilogy-on-the-3-year-plan/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.joystiq.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=niu4m"img src="http://feeds.joystiq.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=niu4m" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.joystiq.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=qRulm"img src="http://feeds.joystiq.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=qRulm" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.joystiq.com/~r/weblogsinc/joystiq/~4/419539656" height="1" width="1"/

Mark Wahlberg has his panties in a bunch over a Saturday Night Live sketch from last week called "Mark Wahlberg Talks to Animals." It features Andy Samberg playing Mark as he introduces himself to barnyard animals. Unfortunately, Marky Mark hated it so much that not only does he never want to host SNL, but he wishes Joe Piscopo was still on it. Whoa! Jesus. Let's not say things we can't take back. The New York Post reports: "Someone showed it to me on YouTube. It wasn't like Tina Fey doing Sarah Palin, that's for sure. And "Saturday Night Live" hasn't been funny for a long time. They've asked me to do the show a ton of times. I used to watch it when Eddie Murphy was there and Joe Piscopo and Bill Murray. I don't even know who's on the show now." I embedded the clip after the jump which I thought was funny. Then again, I was suckered into watching Adam Sandler's You Don't Mess with the Zohan this weekend, so right now everything seems hysterical in comparison. I'm pretty my own penis could fall off, and I'd giggle like a schoolgirl.

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pThe story goes that in the landmark first Kennedyndash;Nixon debate, in September 1960, many of those who listened on the radio believed Nixon had won. Yet most of the 70 million or so citizens who watched on television were sure Kennedy had prevailed. On that night, (between 9:30 and 10:30 Eastern time), our understanding of the power of the visual image in politics entered a new era./ppToday, when every exchange can be repeatedly replayed and every nuance and gesture, however slight, can be analyzed and deconstructed, a candidates nonverbal communication is just as important as anything he or she might say./p a href=http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=debate-body-language[More]/a

Christopher Bonnette has some great Halloween-ish paper craft downloads on his site. Patrick the Pumpkin Patch Prince is here, and La Catrina is here. Via Paper Forest

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pFiled under: a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/government-legal/" rel="tag"Government/Legal/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/gm/" rel="tag"GM/a, a href="http://www.autoblog.com/category/earnings-financials/" rel="tag"Earnings/Financials/a/pa href="online.barrons.com/article_email/SB122367879305124601-lMyQjAxMDI4MjEzMTYxNzE4Wj.html"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" align="right" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2008/10/gm-logo_250.jpg" alt="" //aA report by emBarron's/em over the weekend cited (again) two unnamed sources that divulged General Motors has been after a loan from the Federal Reserve since last September. The emBarron's/em article got somewhat specific about the unspecifics, namely how much, saying that the amount the General is after is unknown, "but it needs $5 billion to meet its goal of completing a $15 billion liquidity program, which actually is coming from cost cuts."br /br /emReuters/em (via emAutomotive News/em) reports that GM isn't after the fed's cash, but isn't averse to the idea or "taking dramatic steps" to make ends meet during these tumultuous times.br /br /GM spokesperson, Greg Martin, said that the automaker isn't "actively pursing" the loans, but "you really can't rule out anything." M-kay.br /br /[Source: a href="http://online.barrons.com/article_email/SB122367879305124601-lMyQjAxMDI4MjEzMTYxNzE4Wj.html"Barrons/a, a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssConsumerGoodsAndRetailNews/idUSN1142263220081011"Reuters/a, a href="http://www.autonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081012/ANA02/310126566/1200/rss01amp;rssfeed=rss01"Automotive News/a - Sub. Req.]h6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/10/13/gm-sorta-denies-seeking-5-billion-direct-loan-from-feds-to-st/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/forward/1339480/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.autoblog.com/2008/10/13/gm-sorta-denies-seeking-5-billion-direct-loan-from-feds-to-st/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~a/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=Jupqkb"img src="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~a/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=Jupqkb" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=Fj3Lm"img src="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=Fj3Lm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?a=c5CSm"img src="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~f/weblogsinc/autoblog?i=c5CSm" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.autoblog.com/~r/weblogsinc/autoblog/~4/419559286" height="1" width="1"/

Interbank lending rates fall as governments promise coordinated action.

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A set of nicely illustrated Star Wars ABC cards. A is for Ackbar, S is for Sarlacc, etc.

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