Month: January 2009

Debian to the rescue (again)

The PPC version of Debian Testing seems to solve all the problems I’ve been having with my iBook.

It’s also the only Gnome based Linux Distro I can use for more than 5 minutes without changing the theme and wallpaper.

It might only be a backup laptop, but with my luck recently it’s better to be prepared.

Freely available albums of the year 2008

As promised, a top 20 just including freely available music released under a Creative Commons license.

  1. The Wind Whistles – Window Sills
  2. Abscondo – Midnight Snow
  3. Girl Talk – Feed the Animals
  4. The Rest – Atlantis, Oh Our Saviour
  5. Robin Grey – Only the Missile
  6. Nine Inch Nails – The Slip
  7. Death by Panda – House Made of Glass
  8. Josh Woodward – Not Quite Connected
  9. Depressive Art – Bye Bye Dear Everything
  10. Robin Grey – I Love Leonard Cohen
  11. Josh Woodward – The Simple Life
  12. Brad Sucks – Out of It
  13. Icarus Crash – 13 Segundos de Caida Libre
  14. After The Ice – It Happens All The Time
  15. Mountain Mirrors – Dreadnought
  16. Death by Panda – One Fifteen Four
  17. Silence is Sexy – This Ain’t Hollywood
  18. Sungod Abscondo – Imperfect People
  19. Saint Jean – Zikophren
  20. Nine Inch Nails – Ghosts I-IV

Albums of the year 2008

As always, these are determined by number of plays per track, divided by number of tracks (with anything available for free hyperlinked).

  1. Elbow – The Seldom Seen Kid
  2. Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan – Sunday at Devil Dirt
  3. Elvis Costello & The Imposters – Momofuku
  4. The Gutter Twins – Saturnalia
  5. Jenny Lewis – Acid Tongue
  6. R.E.M – Accelerate
  7. The Charlatans – You Cross My Path
  8. Fleet Foxes – Fleet Foxes
  9. The Wind Whistles – Window Sills
  10. Okkervil River – The Stage Names
  11. Bob Mould – District Line
  12. Abscondo – Midnight Snow
  13. Mercury Rev – Snowflake Midnight
  14. Amanda Palmer – Who Killed Amanda Palmer?
  15. Girl Talk – Feed the Animals
  16. TV on the Radio – Dear Science
  17. Black Francis – Svn Fngrs
  18. The Rest – Atlantis, Oh Our Saviour
  19. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds – Dig!!! Lazarus, Dig!!!
  20. The Killers – Day and Age

    See also 2007 and 2006

    I’ll be doing a top 20 free/Creative Commons list later today (in theory).