One thing I love about the Chemical Brothers is that their music is essentially timeless. While electronic genres these days get old almost immediately as most producers are constrained to write completely identical and generic tunes, Chemical's classic Hey Boy Hey Girl still gives me goosebumps whenever I hear it. Their work is simply beyond genres, and that's why they stand the test of time.

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I have always been a huge SimCity fan and played every single version religiously up until SimCity 4, which is the undoubtedly the greatest city building game in existence, still enjoyed and modded by hundreds of thousands of players. That's the one that made EA think that the gameplay got too complicated and that people were basically too dumb to figure it out, so for the next installment of the series they wanted something easier and hired a 3rd party developer to throw it together. What a great premise for a game, right? Well, that's how SimCity Societies came to be...

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Here's viral marketing at its finest. To launch a new TV channel in Belgium, TNT placed a big red push button on an average Flemish square of an average Flemish town. A sign with the text "Push to add drama" invited people to use the button. To see what happened when someone pushed it, check out the video below!

Australian photographer Dean Bradshaw takes you behind the scenes of a photo shoot as he creates high impact images of athletes in peak moments of action for Startrac's 2012 campaign. While these images go through quite a bit of post processing, none of that would do any good without his brilliant creative vision and stunning lighting setup. All I can say, wow!

Great video by blogger Chris Pirillo about the shortcomings of the new Windows 8 UI, which is an awkward combination of the traditional Windows interface and Metro, Microsoft's mobile UI.

// via Fixing Windows 8