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Lounge singer Richard Cheese, the swankiest one around, and his band, Lounge Against the Machine, are giving away FREE CD’s to active-duty military personnel & veterans since 2000. Today they updated their site saying that the demand is overwhelming and new requests may not be fulfilled because they will probably run out of CDs.

Operation Cheesey Freedom

Why are they doing this? They state that they are running out of space in their warehouse, so instead of trying to sell all of these unsold CDs, they thought they’d just give them away to the most deserving people they know: the fine men and women of the U.S. Armed Forces.

Hurry up and get your order in! Supplies are very limited! All you need to do is follow the steps listed on Richard Cheese’s web site.

Thank you for serving to protect us & our country!

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In case you missed it last week, TapulousTap Tap Revenge 3 iPhone app became a FREE app (down from $0.99). It’s still free and Tapulous has doubled the number of Premium music that you can pay, download, and play. Some good stuff too! And they’ll be adding more music too! What’s also good is that all Premium tracks have their own theme.

Here’s a list of the new Premium artists/bands that you can get:
Duran Duran, Motorhead, Lily Allen, Depeche Mode, Papa Roach, George Thorogood, Sublime, The Hives, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Elton John, David Guetta, LCD Soundsystem, Steve Miller Band, Ok Go!, Jackson 5, Spoon, Dashboard Confessional, Smash Mouth, Wolfmother, Evanescence, 30 Seconds To Mars, Fat Boy Slim, Keane, One Republic, Rascal Flatts, Thievery Corporation, War, Lifehouse, Jimmy Eat World, The Temper Trap, Silversun Pickups, Rush, Lady Antebellum, Flyleaf, Ingrid Michaelson, Schwayze, Steppenwolf, The Prodigy, Thriving Ivory, and New Kids On The Block.

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Also, there’s a new system of achieving levels, in which you unlock awards, weapons, and music, and online features have been added including new weapons, shields and radar. There are still weapon-free rooms for those purists who just want to do skills-based online games.

Achievements have been enhanced with more challenging options rewarded with better prizes. You can also redeem coins in the store for avatar gear, weapons and music.

Unsurprisingly, a lot of new music has been added, including special channels for labels such as Big Sounds International, Black Hole Recordings, Bug Music, Downtown Records, Fearless Music, Nettwerk Records, Quango Records, Rocket Science, Ultra Records. You can download ten tracks for each of those labels, and play in their online rooms.

Tapulous says that they’re aware some people might be annoyed that they’ve spent $0.99 on what’s now a free game however and so it’s handing out special avatars to those players who’ve paid for the game. And it points out such users will be protected from the majority of the in-app ads that the players of the free app will view.

Here is Tapulous’ blog post on this topic.

Info from PocketGamer.co.uk

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A 2-part interview of the UK’s Culture Show’s interview of John Lydon of Public Image Limited during their rehearsals for their upcoming (starts tonight) reunion tour in the UK.

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Jon Stewart of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show is a big Public Image Limited (PiL)/John Lydon fan (that’s Johnny Rotten of The Sex Pistols if you didn’t know). He even had John Lydon on the show once. So when the time came to spoof the U.S. Health Care Reform Bill’s Public Option, Jon and his writing staff went for it. They used the logo from Public Image Limited and turned it into “Public Option Limited” on tonight’s show. I’m also a big fan of Public Image Limited (and of John Lydon’s solo stuff & The Sex Pistols) so I spotted this right away.

Public Image Limited Logo Spoofed on Daily Show 10/28/2009

Public Image Limited Logo Spoofed on Daily Show 10/28/2009

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Dragon*ConTV’s first music video – a live action video for Jonathan Coulton’s “Re Your Brains”. The song is used at the end of the podcast for Sci-Fi Party Line #36 Zombieland, in which I was on.

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I caught this video last week. Not bad. Carl Sagan used to rock. Melody Sheep on YouTube created his own musical tribute to two great men of modern science: Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking. The video is called “Carl Sagan – ‘A Glorious Dawn’ featuring Stephen Hawking (Cosmos Remixed)”. Melody Sheep says that almost all samples and footage were taken from Carl Sagan’s Cosmos and Stephen Hawking’s Universe series. I think it’s quite catchy.

You can also download the video, audio, and the ringtone for the song from Melody Sheep’s web site.

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It was announced (late) yesterday that on TechCrunch that Tap Tap Revenge 3 was coming. Around 4pm EDT today, they retweeted an update to the original story stating that TTR3 was out. And it is. You might be shocked to find out that TTR3, unlike TTR1 & 2, is $0.99 in the App Store. But wait! There’s more! You can BUY a bundle of 6 tracks or 2 tracks form your favorite artist. This is “premium” content. I was a bit happy about this because they had a 2-track bundle of one of my favorite bands, Social Distortion (Far Behind & Story of My Life). I wished it was a 6-track bundle, but at least they’re there with a 2-track one. Which makes me think back to a few months ago when I suggested that Tapulous (makers of the Tap Tap Revenge group of iPhone games) make a version for Social Distortion. If only they would. Other bands include Blink 182, Fall Out Boy, Smashing Pumpkins, Foo Fighters, No Doubt, Tiesto, The Killers, Korn, Megadeth, QOTSA, Weezer, AAR, AFI, Keith Urban, Crystal Method, and Lynyrd Skynyrd. A 6-track bundle will cost you $2.99 and a 2-track bundle will hit your wallet for only $0.99. Not too bad. But wait! There’s even more! Don’t fret – there are over 130 FREE tracks that you can download too!

What else is in TTR3?

  • Improved online play, where you can SILENCE your opponents, throw GOO at them and much more. You can now also send private messages, browse user profiles, or chat while waiting for the next game to start.
  • Create your own unique avatar. Levels, points, and achievements give you status in the game, and also let you access exclusive game rooms and purchase special powers.
  • A fresh look and feel, plus many more features, including 90-second Quick Games and the popular instant game replay.

  • I’ve only played TTR3 a few times. I’ll get back to you for a possible review later. Get your own copy of it from the App Store!

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    Check out Rammstein’s new video “Pussy“. It’s x-rated at the end. NSFW!

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