I don’t think I’ll ever get bored of this - It’s so well acted on both sides, and utterly hilarious.

YouTube - Patrick Stewart Fantasies.

Fifty People, One Question: Restored on Vimeo.

I really like the shooting style of this, and it’s pretty moving near the end. What’s your answer?

EepyBird’s Sticky Note experiment on Vimeo.

From the guys who brought you Diet Coke & Mentos, some awesomeness with stationery and pretty colours! What could be better?

YouTube - Sonny J Can’t Stop Moving

I’m loving this song - and the video’s cool, too! Happy happy fun!

For you, the reader, there should be more stuff to look at and read. Neat! If you’re not interested in seeing the things I stumble across as I look around the internet, you can view just the old-style articles (without the tumble-ness) in the articles section. There’s a feed of those available too. Planet SUCS now points at the articles feed (as I don’t want to fill it with tumble posts). If you currently only read this blog via Planet SUCS and you’d like to see the new tumble posts, then just subscribe to the main feed.

I still have a few tweaks to make here and there - posting digests of delicious links weekly, perhaps integrating Twitter somehow, but the basics are all in place. Enjoy!

I realised that a potential solution would be to have a kind of status update protocol, that all of the status update sites can conform to (some can have their own extensions, of course, such as pictures/locations, etc). Then people can host their own status update systems, much the way they host blogs now, or you can use one of the many ready-hosted services. The fact that all of these systems conform to the same protocol means that if, say, I used Twitter for my updates, I could still add you as a friend even if you were using your own self-hosted update system, and see your updates within my Twitter dashboard (and vice-versa).

Thoughts? Ideas? Anyone know if anything like this is happening already? Is there a big hole in my idea?

In short, I failed miserably! I did well to begin with, keeping up with the contest and sometimes posting in the wee small hours of the morning in order to get a post in. And then I pretty much dropped off the radar. I think mainly I ran out of things I really wanted to write about (or at least, write reasonable entries about). I’m sure if I had more of a tumblelog-style blog (where I’d post links, videos, pictures that I’ve found and linked) I’dve had more than enough material to keep me going. However, I have now developed a backlog of things I want to post about and thought I’d best round off the contest before making a start on those.

As for Nick, he did fantastically - as far as I’m aware he only dropped a couple of days - and wrote some brilliant entries. Great job, Nick! You were an excellent rival! I owe you a pint/ice-cream/ice-cream-in-a-pint!

List your five favourite artists, your five favourite songs by those artists and tag five other people to do it.

This was pretty tricky for me to answer as I generally seem to go in phases with music, and I’m not really ‘loyal’ to any particular artists. I also have a lot of single tracks from one artist in my collection (so, that artist only occurs once) which I love, but of course are no good for this meme. I used last.fm to determine my ‘top artists’:

1. The Offspring
2. OK Go
3. Pendulum
4. Belle and Sebastian
5. Jack Johnson

I wasn’t sure how accurate this would be, as I don’t always scrobble reliably (although, moreso recently) and I haven’t been actively using last.fm until fairly recently, despite being a member since 2005. However, I’d say The Offspring and OK Go should almost certainly be in my top 5, and the other 3 are all good too. Mika was just off the bottom of the list, here. Determining my top 5 songs for each artist was a little more tricky, but again last.fm came to the rescue!

The Offspring

1. Want You Bad
2. Why Don’t You Get a Job?
3. No Brakes
4. Have You Ever
5. All I Want

All great songs, and Want You Bad is almost certainly my favourite. All I Want is fantastic, too (and in Crazy Taxi!). In fact, I’m pretty certain it was Crazy Taxi that introduced me to The Offspring in the first place.

OK Go

1. Here It Goes Again
2. A Million Ways
3. A Good Idea at the Time
4. Don’t Ask Me
5. It’s a Disaster (+ Hello, My Treacherous Friends was on equal ranking)

OK Go are great, and their music has a pretty good range: some really energetic, some slower and gentler. Here It Goes Again deserves its place at the top - it’s my Power Song on my Nike+ running aid, and can just really perk me up when I’m flagging to complete that last quarter of a mile! Plus, fantastic video!

Pendulum

1. Blood Sugar
2. Slam
3. Distress Signal
4. Granite
5. Prelude (through the loop)

I was introduced to Pendulum… last year, perhaps? I can’t remember who by, but it was almost certainly one of Chris, Dave, or Steve. Some of their stuff is so damn catchy (if not a bit samey).

Belle and Sebastian

1. I’m a Cuckoo
2. Dear Catastrophe Waitress
3. Wrapped Up In Books
4. Expectations
5. Piazza, New York

Belle and Sebastian are great (especially the Dear Catastrophe Waitress album), and I discovered them through I’m a Cuckoo, which is most likely why it’s at the top. Expectations is perhaps my current favourite (and featured in the Juno soundtrack!).

Jack Johnson

1. Sitting, Waiting, Wishing
2. Constellations
3. Breakdown
4. Never Know
5. Do You Remember

Jack Johnson makes some good music, although I’m not sure I would’ve particularly considered him when thinking of a top 5 myself. That said, all of these songs are fantastic.

So, those are my 5/5 according to last.fm. I figured that whilst I was looking at some music-related stats, I’d post some other things that might be of interest:

My favourite album is almost certainly the Garden State soundtrack. I love every single track on there. It’s just awesome (although, perhaps best if you’ve seen the film).

As I mentioned earlier, I have a lot of individual tracks for many artists, rather than whole albums. I thought I’d take a look at my top 10 tracks overall, to see what’s in it:

1. Regina Spektor – Fidelity
2. Yael Naïm – New Soul
3. The Offspring – Want You Bad
4. Belle and Sebastian – I’m a Cuckoo
5. Jonathan Coulton – Code Monkey
6. Duke Special – Everybody wants a little something
7. Skins Cast & Cat Stevens – Wild World
8. José González – Heartbeats
9. Amy Adams – That’s How You Know
10. Pendulum – Blood Sugar

All of these tracks are fantastic (although, I haven’t listened to Heartbeats for ages), but note that this only includes two tracks from my ‘top five’ artists. Fidelity and New Soul are quite similar sounds to one another, I think, and they’re both fairly recent finds of mine so I find it fairly amazing that they’re already at the top of the list. Duke Special is another current favourite, that I discovered through The Cabel Yay! Awards. Oh, and That’s How You Know? Let’s just call it a guilty pleasure.

I tag Nick and Tom!