I just discovered this site today. It does a great job of keeping track of your favorite bands and when they’re coming to town. Previously I tried to use ticketmaster for this, but that really only works for bands that play in venues like the Showbox or larger. Setup of my account was a breeze: it takes your iTunes export and grabs all your bands from that. You can filter those bands by how many songs you have of theirs and then pick individually.Then you can pick how often you want the site to email you about new shows.
It also has connections to Pandora and lastfm, so you can have your account auto-update as your tastes change.
One note is that I found the site a little slow to navigate, but for my purposes, I’ll be more relying on the email than the site itself.
In case you haven’t heard, there was a national election in Iran on Friday and Ahmadinejad was declared the winner by a landslide right after the polls closed. Then people started noticing that the results were announced before it was even possible to count all the votes. The people there have been protesting on the streets since, while the opposition leader that ran against Ahmadinejad is under house arrest. The Iranian government has been attempting to stop all news reports and images from coming out of the country, but in today’s world, that’s a tall order. Videos have made their way to the internet that shows just how big the protests are:
It will be interesting to see if this is the start of real change in Iran away from theocracy or if this is another Tienamen Square where the government just cracks down ever worse afterwards.
At the beginning of April, I started up a new aquarium and have been slowly adding to it since. I’ve been taking pictures periodically, so I’ve got a nice visual diary of how the tank has progressed in the two months since.
