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It’s like The Grauniad, but for teh Internet!

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Quickly, head over to Stef Lewandowski’s latest hack, tehguardian.com. I was telling Pascal Auberson and Bill Thompson, two of the other hackers about the fact that I owned the domain, and there were about seven of the Guardian team in the room, and well, wouldn’t it be really funny to demo something on-stage that was a hack on their site? And we riffed about what it could be, and somehow we found ourselves laughing about how it would be wonderful to take the piss out of the reputation that the Guardian, probably unfairly nowadays, has for typos in published articles. By inserting our own

The Silent DJ Is Here – How Did That Song Go Again?

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Probably the craziest music I’ve heard is the Silent Disco – where everyone piles into a location, grabs a pair of headphones, and starts dancing to the music on the headphones. The music is supplied by DJ’s which broadcast the music to every headset. So people who want to hear the music can hear it, and those that would rather listen to the DJ on the other side of the room can change frequencies and join a different disco. The point of this is to illustrate that music can be appreciated in many ways. And sometimes not head at all.