pFiled under: a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/productivity/" rel="tag"Productivity/a, a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/category/web-services/" rel="tag"Web services/a/pdiv align="center"a href="http://dingitsup.com"img hspace="8" vspace="8" border="0" align="middle" alt="" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.downloadsquad.com/media/2008/12/dingitsup.jpg" //abr //div It seems like only yesterday that I was a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/11/30/notify-me-when-its-up/"writing about Notify Me When It's Up/a, a site that lets you know by email when a website comes back online. Actually, it was a few days ago, but someone has already built a fancier version of Notify Me. It's called a href="http://dingmewhenitsup.com"Ding, It's Up/a, and it adds SMS and Twitter notification options, and tells you when a site goes either up or down. Despite my praise of Notify Me's minimal approach, I am forced to concede that Ding outdoes it.br /br /I previously commented that it was nice that Notify Me keeps things simple, even though it could have added more features, or incorporated the functionality of Down For Everyone Just Me. I guess the creators of Ding, It's Up are basically sticking their tongues out at me, because they've done just that, and it's actually pretty neat. Just don't use it to sign up to receive updates by Twitter about when Twitter is down. You might want to use a href="http://istwitterdown.com"Is Twitter Down?/a for that.p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/12/02/a-few-days-later-a-better-notifier-ding-its-up/"A few days later, a better notifier: Ding, It's Up/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com"Download Squad/a on Tue, 02 Dec 2008 13:00:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://dingitsup.com/Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/12/02/a-few-days-later-a-better-notifier-ding-its-up/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/forward/1388620/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.downloadsquad.com/2008/12/02/a-few-days-later-a-better-notifier-ding-its-up/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/_Enu6w7X_wuv5uruNGbqvVwV4uQ/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/_Enu6w7X_wuv5uruNGbqvVwV4uQ/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/downloadsquad?a=nzpv4VKd"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/downloadsquad?i=nzpv4VKd" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/downloadsquad?a=SnOE8Gb2"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/downloadsquad?i=SnOE8Gb2" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/downloadsquad/~4/X2qCUQlzJm0" height="1" width="1"/

p style="text-align: center;"a href="http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126922/plushie-2_qjgenth.jpg?572189" rel="lightbox[article126922]" title="SackBoy 20plushies 20available 20now 20on 20Play-Asia 20- 20Image 201 20 26nbsp 3B 20 20 26nbsp 3B 20 3Ca 20href 3D 22http 3A//img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126922/plushie-2.jpg 3F572189 22 20target 3D 22_blank 22 3E 3Cimg 20src 3D 22/img/newwindow.png 22 20title 3D 22Open 20in 20new 20window 22 20border 3D 220 22 3E 3C/a 3E"img style="margin-bottom: 3px;" alt="SackBoy plushies available now on Play-Asia - Image 1" title="SackBoy plushies available now on Play-Asia - Image 1" src="http://img.qj.net/uploads/articles_module/126922/plushie-2_qjgenth.jpg?572189" align="" border="0"/anbsp;br/pbrCuteness alert! span style="font-style: italic;"a href="http://ps3.qj.net/tags/littlebigplanet/13193" id="tag" title="Sony's online community-based service"LittleBigPlanet/a /spana title="Sack 'em up: LittleBigPlanet Sackboy goes plushies" href="http://ps3.qj.net/Sack-em-up-LittleBigPlanet-Sackboy-goes-plushies/pg/49/aid/123656"sackboy plushies/a are finally coming! a href="http://ps3.qj.net/tags/japan/109" id="tag" title="island country in East Asia; capital city Tokyo"Japan/a will be getting them this month, but they are already available on Play-a href="http://ps3.qj.net/tags/asia/9954" id="tag" title="Continent"Asia/a. The US will be getting them sometime in the future.brbrModels currently available are Normal, Pirate, Soldier, and Sunflower. Nope, no a title="LittleBigVice - Sackboy struts his fashion sense" href="http://ps3.qj.net/LittleBigVice-Sackboy-struts-his-fashion-sense/pg/49/aid/126863"sackboys in their undies here/a, although I would like to see a sackboy a title="LittleBigPlanet getting Turkey Head and Chimera costumes today" href="http://ps3.qj.net/LittleBigPlanet-getting-Turkey-Head-and-Chimera-costumes-today/pg/49/aid/126690"with a turkey head/a. These plushies made of pure cuteness are 4-inches tall and are going for US 9.90. The big plush doll heavyweight is going for US 15.90. brbrI want a 10-inch sackboy plushie with that trademark goofy smile and with its tongue hanging out. I bet if someone offered a service that makes plushies out of user-created sackboys from span style="font-style: italic;"LittleBigPlanet/span, they'd make some mad money. (I require a fee for giving you the idea.)brbrhr style="width: 100 ; height: 2px;"brspan style="font-weight: bold;"Related Articles:/spanbrullia title="Sackboy toy shortages explained by Sony" href="http://ps3.qj.net/Sackboy-toy-shortages-explained-by-Sony/pg/49/aid/124651"span title="Sackboy toy shortages explained by Sony" style="font-style: italic;"Sackboy toy shortages explained by Sony/span/a/li/ulbrbrimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/qj/ps3/~4/qoFi04HnsvM" height="1" width="1"/

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centera href="http://www.mbvmusic.com"img src="http://www.saidthegramophone.com/images/mbv_intro.gif" border="0"/a/center I'm happy to announce the launch of a href="http://www.MBVmusic.com"MBV/a, a new website bringing together Said the Gramophone, a href="http://www.fluxblog.org"Fluxblog/a, a href="http://www.largeheartedboy.com/"Large Hearted Boy/a, a href="http://www.catbirdseat.org/"Catbirdseat/a and a href="http://www.chromewaves.net/"Chromewaves/a - ie, five of the eldest, creakiest and most consistent musicblogs. All of our sites are syndicated there, but there will be additional content - including contributions from Matt LeMay. We're not entirely sure where MBV is headed, but we hope you'll head over there and help us turn it into a site for intelligent amp; passionate discussion. --- It was nice to visit Edinburgh a few weeks ago and find that at last, hooray, a community has formed there that makes great, wild music. I'm still trying to learn all the groups' names, but alongside a href="http://www.saidthegramophone.com/archives/since_there_is_no_desert_.php"Withered Hand/a there's certainly Meursault - who despite a few middling acoustic jams have made one of my a href="http://www.myspace.com/meursaulta701"favourite albums/a this year. I'm gonna get metaphorical in a sec but just to get two one-liners out of the way: a href="http://www.gramotunes.com/Meursault_The_Furnace.mp3""The Furnace"/a: It's M83 meets Phosphorescent! a href="http://www.gramotunes.com/Meursault_Pissing_On_Bonfires.mp3""Pissing on Bonfires/Kissing With Tongues"/a: They borrowed the melody from Neutral Milk Hotel's "Song Against Sex"! --- a href="http://www.gramotunes.com/Meursault_The_Furnace.mp3"Meursault - "The Furnace"/a. BREAKING NEWS: CYBERMAN 3000-D HAD HIS HEART BROKEN THIS WEEKEND. HAS GONE ON RAMPAGE THROUGH COUNTRYSIDE. VALLEYS OF CLOVER BEING BURNED BY CYBERMAN 3000-D'S ROCKET-BOOTS. BARNS SMASHED APART AND LEFT SMOULDERING. TWO SHEPHERDS DEAD. DOGS HOWLING. CYBERMAN 3000-D HAS BEFRIENDED A SWALLOW WHOM HE IS CARRYING ON HIS SHOULDER-MOUNTED ELECTRO-BAZOOKA. THE SWALLOW IS TRYING TO CONSOLE THE CYBERMAN. THE SWALLOW IS SINGING A SWEET SONG. NOW CYBERMAN 3000-D IS SINGING TOO AS HE CONTINUES HIS RUN OF TERROR. UNDER STARLIGHT HE HAS ENTERED THE FOREST. HE WILL EITHER BUILD A NEW HOME OR BURN THE WHOLE WOOD DOWN. MORE LATER. a href="http://www.gramotunes.com/Meursault_Pissing_On_Bonfires.mp3"Meursault - "Pissing on Bonfires/Kissing With Tongues"/a. BREAKING NEWS: CYBERMAN 3000-D HAS BEEN SPOTTED. HIGH-POWERED TELESCOPES PICKED UP MOVEMENT IN THE BLACKENED WRECKAGE OF THE FOREST. CYBERMAN 3000-D HAD BEEN PRESUMED DEAD AFTER TRANSFORMING THE WOOD INTO AN INFERNO. BUT THERE HE IS, ALL STEEL AND TITANIUM, A GLITTER STILL IN HIS PRISMATIC EYES. HE STAMPS THROUGH ASH, SMOKE SWIRLS AROUND HIS ANKLES. HE MOVES WITH A CLUMSY AMP; MECHANICAL REGRET. EXPERTS PEERING THROUGH TELESCOPE FEEL THAT PERHAPS HE IS BUILDING A HOME, BELATEDLY. BUILDING IT OUT OF CINDERS. HE LOOKS LIKE HE IS WAITING FOR SOMETHING - OR SOMEONE. NO ONE HAS SEEN ANY BIRDS. THE CYBERMAN GLITTERS IN THE SUN. [a href="http://www.myspace.com/meursaulta701"buy/a] pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/saidthegramophone/stg?a=iqSRXV"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/saidthegramophone/stg?i=iqSRXV" border="0"/img/a/pimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/saidthegramophone/stg/~4/471557874" height="1" width="1"/