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Irene Emergency Radio Tracker Site Set To Ambient Music Is Creepy

8:20AM August 27, 2011 | Mat Honan

Emergency radio during a hurricane is undeniably fascinating (and potentially life-saving). But you need to know where to listen. You Are Listening To tracks emergency radio for you, combining it with ambient music for a mesmerising, if creepy, experience. More »

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Let Google Maps Help You Do As American Psychos Do

11:00AM August 11, 2011 | Adrian Covert

If you’re unfamiliar with American Psycho in its literary or cinematic incarnations, I’m sorry you’ve been deprived. For those in the know, consult this map compiled by NYT’s Dealbook of all the locales homicidal protagonist Patrick Bateman frequented whilst rampaging. More »

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Guess The Cities That Have Been Kaleidoscoped On Google Maps

8:20PM August 1, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

Google Maps mashups are just the breast, aren’t they? Especially when they’re as time-sucking as James Bridle’s Rorschmap, which turns satellite images of the world into kaleidoscopes worthy of being stuck at the end of a plastic tube. More »

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Rebecca Black And Nyan Cat Played Together Sound Awesome

6:20AM July 29, 2011 | Jesus Diaz

Well, maybe it’s not exactly awesome, but certainly sounds very good. Totally worthy of being copied by Coldplay for their next hit. You can listen to the original tunes below and see what an amazing job Lara did with this mashup. More »

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How To Mash Up Songs Live Like A Boss

7:00AM July 26, 2011 | Jesus Diaz

Watch as Chris from Ithaca Audio mixes a whole bunch of songs in real time using Ableton Live and an Akai APC40 live control surface. Like a goddamn boss. If you can’t identify all the songs, here’s the list: More »

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Watch This Sesame Street Beasty Boys Mashup

10:30AM July 23, 2011 | Jesus Diaz

You know your Saturday is going to be awesome when you hit play on a video and the first thing you see is Groover playing the initial notes of the Beastie Boys’ Sure Shot on a flute. Rock on! More »

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YouTube’s Creative Commons Licence Lets You Remix Videos

10:59AM June 2, 2011 | Kelly Hodgkins

Starting tomorrow, remixers will be able to mash up their favourite YouTube videos using a new Creative Commons licence. More »

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Daft Punk, Mashed Up And Visualized

6:20AM May 25, 2011 | Adrian Covert

Mashups kind of suck. Correction – they completely suck. But still, when someone takes 23 Daft Punk songs and provides a vizualised, infographicky, animated look at how each separate song fits into the equation, it’s hard not to love that. More »

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You Must Watch The YouTube Mashup Master’s Triumphant Return

2:20PM March 24, 2011 | Brian Barrett

Two years ago, Kutiman gave us one of the most amazing mashup videos we’d ever seen: bits and pieces from various YouTube performances clipped and smushed together to form a might Voltron of awesome. Now, finally, he’s back. And I gotta say, he’s really outdone himself. [YouTube]

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Run From Zombies In Your Own Neighbourhood With Google Street View

4:40AM February 26, 2011 | Kyle VanHemert

The fellows over at Wonder-Tonic have come up with a fantastic Street View mashup that lets you test your zombie survival skills on your own turf – just type in your address and run run run from the undead horde. If this is to believed, I’ve got a good 120 seconds or so to finish my bucket list after the outbreak pops off. [Wonder Tonic via [BoingBoing]