Uptown Magazine - February 4/10
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After - Chick-sat-A (Fancy Chick-fil-A)
Fancy Fast Food
Sick of getting your dinner handed to you through a drive-thru window but love fast food more than life itself? Fancy Fast Food shows you how to transform everyday items from your favourite restaurants into gourmet meals. From Honey Apple Glazed Christmas Holiday Ham(-burger), made from Burker King’s Quad Stackers, to Seared Pollock Cake with Southwest Ramalan Sauce from McDonald’s, this fascinating blog takes fast food to a whole other level.
Explain This
Currently in beta testing, Explain This is an new online experiment that hopes to provide a forum for tough-to-answer questions “that cannot be answered by a simple, or even a sophisticated search. Or by the amateur expert who’s been reading Popular Mechanics since 1964,” writes Jay Rosen. Looking to utilize crowd-sourced information from journalists, Explain This is currently gathering questions in order to prove that the idea behind the site is going to work.
TwitAlbums
Hoping to add an extra level of privacy to social networking, TwitAlbums is a new online service that lets you upload photos, video and music, and share them only with a select group of approved people. While the concept behind this tool is interesting, the fact that the service is not entirely free is a huge drawback. Using a system of credits, users are given some space for free but must reload their account after they’ve burned through their ‘seeds.’ While some people with huge friends lists on Facebook and a lot of followers on Twitter may see some value in TwitAlbums, the bulk of everyday users probably won’t gravitate to this service.
Quick Hits
MP3 of the Week: Nacho Lovers
Known for their tightly wound DJ sets that connect the dots between old-school Chicago house, disco, Detroit techno and future-forward post-rave beats, Toronto’s Nacho Lovers (Fool’s Gold Records) recently offered up a stellar mix for The Curb Crawlers blog. Featuring cuts from 6th Borough Project, Shimmy Sham Sham and Hunee, this is one mix that you’ll want to add to your collection.
Video of the Week: Nirvana Live at The Reading Festival
Taken from the recently released Live at Reading DVD, these videos capture Nirvana’s headlining performance at the prestigious Reading Festival in 1992. Cuts include Territorial Pissings, Stay Away, Tourettes, Been a Son and Breed.
