MUXTAPE.com is fun site where you can upload songs to make a "mixtape". I decided to make a Kylie Minogue mixtape since I have been listening to her a lot lately. Here is the link ...

http://xanadistic.muxtape.com

Humyo.com is a place where you can upload 30 GB of media and share it with others. I decided to upload the majority of my M.I.A. songs to it ...

http://www.humyo.com/3451015-151695021 (there is a media player that lets you listen to the songs in each folder)

I stumbled upon an article about an architect named Norman Foster who has designed the "Green Tower", a building to be built in Siberia. It looks really cool. Here is the link to what it is supposed to look like ...

http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/07/18/norman-fosters-green-tower-in-siberia

Annie has a new song out called "I Know Ur Girlfried Hates Me". It's not as catchy as "Chewing Gum" and "Heartbeat", but it's not bad. I really love how Annie isn't afraid to put out a very electronic sound with her music.

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Although almost every day at Six Apart is Take Your Dog to Work Day, Friday was extra special because it was the official Take Your Dog to Work Day! Plus, as lovers of blogs and animals, we think it's great that active blogger and Human Society's President and CEO, Wayne Pacelle, thinks having dogs around the office is a good reminder of "who we're working for."

We realize some people have it ruff and aren't lucky enough to be able to bring their dog to work, but hopefully these pictures taken at Six Apart last Friday will get your tails wagging... And let me tell you, it's harder than it looks to get all the doggies and their fetching owners in one picture.

6adogs

And Penelope Trott took Rudy for a quick spin in her wagon while Mom and Dad were hard at work

Penelope and Rudy

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If you are wanting to watch a movie with the Netflix movie viewer, and you are using the Firefox 3 browser, the movie viewer will not work in the browser since it only works with Internet Explorer. However, you can install the IE tab add-on into Firefox 3, right-click on the movie's link, and choose the option, "open with IE tab", or something like that. Then, it will work perfectly and you will still be using Firefox 3 instead of Internet Explorer (the worst browser ever!).

Here is a link to the IE tab add-on for Firefox 3 ...
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419  

Here are two funny YouTube videos that feature Joan Rivers . . .

  Cliff Richard is also in the above video.

Here is a video of Joan Rivers on the British version of "The View". She talks some smack about Russell Crowe, and she doesn't realize that they don't have a 5-second delay for the purpose of censorship on the show ...

I hate censorship and love the Freedom of Speech so I think it is great that Joan Rivers did this. Russell Crowe probably is an asshole. I hate his movies.

Here are two new (to me) M.I.A. remixes by Instinct (MySpace for Instinct) ...

U.R.A.Q.T. (Remix)

M.I.A. vs. Instinct

Boyz (Remix)

M.I.A. vs. Instinct

The two photos of M.I.A. were taken by Mike Schreiber (and altered by me, of course).

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For those of us in the northern hemisphere, today is the summer solstice. For ancient civilizations, this day was akin to our modern day New Year's Eve and was viewed as a time to reflect and renew. So why not kick off your summer celebration with a new theme?

See all of our themes in the Design Area.

Or choose from one of  these brand-new themes. (Available under "New.")

Vox Themes June 08

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You can now download the official version of Firefox 3 by going here ...

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/

Mozilla was having some trouble earlier today, but now it seems like everything is running smoothly.

Google has updated its toolbar for Firefox 3. I love the Google Toolbar because you can add little buttons to it that will take you to sites like Wikipedia, Amazon, Gmail, and IMDB.com ...

Download the latest version of Google Toolbar (it will update itself when you restart Firefox 3 or maybe before then)

Here is some music I listened to today ...

Another song from the Amores Perros soundtrack, this song is called "De Perros Amores" by Control Machete ...

De Perros Amores

Control Machete

I read about an artist/band called Ladyhawke on the music blog, Arjan Writes, today. Ladyhawke's song, "Paris Is Burning", is pretty catchy and it slightly reminds me of Gary Numan's song, "Cars".

Paris Is Burning

Ladyhawke

  Here is a remix of the song, and it is labeled "Peaches Remix", but I don't know how accurate that is ...

Paris Is Burning (Peaches Remix)

Ladyhawke

Here is the video for Ladyhawke's "Paris is Burning" ...

I love how she wears a Snoopy shirt in the video!

"Ladyhawke" is also the name of a movie from 1985 with Matthew Broderick, Michelle Pfeiffer, and Rutger Hauer. I have never seen it all the way through. I think there is a Canadian rock band called "Ladyhawk", but don't get them confused with the above singer!

Here is the trailer for the movie, "Ladyhawke" ...

 
Here is "Cars" by Gary Numan ...

Cars

Gary Numan

Here is the video for Gary Numan's "Cars" ...

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Austin is way too hot right now. I went out Saturday, and even at night it was too hot. Instead of getting alcohol to drink at a bar, I was drinking bottled water. I hate the cold, but this heat is becoming very irritating. Last year, Austin had tons and tons and tons of rain. I think all kinds of records were broken, and the heat was never this bad. Anyway, I thought I would post this Olivia Newton-John song to describe what I wish the weather in Austin would do ...

04 Coolin' Down

Olivia Newton-John

The above photo is from Only Olivia.

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There is a remix of M.I.A.'s "XR2" by Blaqstarr that I was able to download from the M.I.A. Fans message board. The picture that I put with the song is from a party at the Museum of Modern Art in New York called the "Party in the Garden", I think. There is a better picture of M.I.A. at the same party at People's website. I got the picture for the song from Bonafide-Hustler.com.

XR2 (Blaqstarr Remix)

M.I.A.

Here is the photo from People's website that I like, but I wish it was really large ...

M.I.A. at the Museum of Modern Art's Party in the Garden

You can download the song here if you like.

Mozilla wants 1 million downloads or more on June 17th when the official version of Firefox 3 will be released. I have been using the "release candidate" of Firefox 3 (I don't know what "release candidate" means, but I think that is the right phrase ... kind of like "beta" or "testing version"), and I really love it. It is definitely the fastest browser I have ever used. I hate, hate, hate Internet Explorer, but I have always loved the Firefox browsers. I try to tell all of my friends, co-workers, relatives, and even members at my credit union to use Firefox because it is safer (especially when combined with Google Toolbar), and it is faster and more customizable (I don't think that's a word).

Here is a video about the release of Mozilla's Firefox 3 on Tuesday, June 17th ...

In case you don't know where to go to download Firefox, the website is right here!
You can also download the latest "release candidate" of Firefox 3 before the real, official version comes out on Tuesday.

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Blog It

A couple of months ago, we told you about Blog It powered by TypePad, the first cross-platform blogging application for Facebook the enables you to post to your Vox blog - and ALL your blogs - with a single click.

Within a week, Blog It had nearly 4,000 active users posting tweets and creating blog posts, as well as updating their status messages with the title and link to the published post. Today, Blog It's Facebook application has nearly 10,000 users. But here's the thing: You're not always sitting in front of the computer when the inspiration to blog strikes. And at Six Apart, it is our goal to provide you the tools you need need to blog where you want, and when you want.

Blog It for iPhone

Which is why this week we introduced Blog It for iPhone, a free web application just like the one we introduced for Facebook - only now - on your iPhone. Built specifically for iPhone's Safari browser, Blog It for iPhone enables you to post blog entries or status updates from wherever you are to more than a dozen different online services. And just like the original Facebook version, you can choose to share your posts with the people you know across various social networks.

To start blogging with Blog It for iPhone, go to  http://blogit.typepad.com with your iPhone's Safari browser and install the Blog It icon onto your mobile desktop. Then, all you have to do is click the Blog It icon and start creating posts!

Whether you're riding the bus to work, cheering on your team courtside, or enjoying a picnic by the lake, now it's easier than ever to Blog It.

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This is such a mainstream, overplayed, everyone's-heard-of-it kind of song, but I thought about it again tonight after seeing an article in the latest issue of TIME about Coldplay's new album. I love this video because it is really happy and tragic at the end since the two people are alive and back together, but you know the girl will die soon. It's weird how all the bad news and death in the world mean nothing to me, yet I can watch a simple video like this and it totally gets to me on some weird emotional level. There are a million movies that have done the same thing to me, but I don't have time to list them right now. I need to go to bed.

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My friend, Cristen, is fluent in Portuguese and plays the guitar. She loves the song, "Fragile", by Sting. Sting did a Portuguese version ("Fragil") of the song, too, and that is the one that Cristen is singing here ...

Fragile (cover of Sting song)

Cristen

I have had the song, Amnesia, by Control Machete in my head a lot lately. It's a very relaxing, hypnotic song. It is a cover of a Jose Jose song by the same name, and it is featured on a tribute album to Jose Jose called "Un Tributo".

Here is the song ...

08 Amnesia (Control Machete)

José José

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