Get a case for you phone that flips open.

I went to CyanogenMod and never looked back.

It really can't be stated enough how bad mass-market consumer audio equipment sounds nowadays, which is a real farce because for the same price you can get a decent amp and speakers, or even a pair of entry-level active studio speakers that will make you cry with joy when you play your favourite records. Hell, hit up…

Why use iTunes?

Catch a Swans concert if you can. Take earplugs.

I rip to FLAC for my hi-fi and office headphones and then LAME VBR for portable devices. VBR MP3 is damn good, but it definitely loses some of the low bass.

Good luck finding affordable speakers that can reproduce anything beyond 22,050Hz.

Older CDs, especially from the '80s, actually sound great when you crank them. They sound "muted" when you compare them to modern masterings because modern masterings have all the peaks shaved off to accomodate the louder signal. Level-match an old CD with a new CD and the old CD will nearly always have more bass and…

Get rid of the jewel cases and put everything in flat poly-sleeves. I have all my discs with their artwork in a big box under my bed. It would take six times the space if I'd kept the horrible, disc-scratching jewel cases.

There's no reason a digital production can't look like an analogue production, digital technology is if anything capable of much more than film nowadays. Film requires more care, planning and skill to shoot because it needs much higher light levels. People now shoot digital without much attention to the actual craft,…

You're actually wrong about pop music: http://www.reuters.com/arti…

Define "brick", though. If you're saying 17 1x1 plates, nobody is impressed. Duplo 2x4s? You're something special.

Nu Metal was crap, but it feel like this article lumps Rob Zombie in with that genre when he doesn't deserve it. Rob Zombie's tremendously good fun.

Addams Family Values

Just came here to post that quote. What a fucking monster.

I saw the headline and instantly knew this was a Caroline Siede post.

I liked the first two there.

James Woods and Peter Weller as rivalrous brothers. Directed by David Cronenberg.

I thought Ted was merely okay, but I'll give it credit for one thing: a female love interest that wasn't a humourless scold placed there to force the protagonist to grow up.

The point is that yes, German imperialism was actually genocidal. They just had a very small empire.