Nifty browser tool (IE & Firefox) - McAfee SiteAdvisor - installs and tells you wether a site is 'good' or 'bad' based on the amount of mail you'll get if you sign up for its services along with the sites affiliates, downloaded cookies and reviews. It also parses search engine results and provides a summary for each hit relating to wether its a good or badly behaved site.

Pretty cool. Possibly a must-have for all home and corporate browsers.

You do wonder if it reports back on your browsing habits to McAfee ? Also how long will it remain free ?

(On my iPod Shuffle for the week ending 19/10/06)

Come, Codiene, Minor Threat, John Coltrane, Godflesh, Bjork, Sleater Kinney, Chills, Napalm Death, Sonic Youth, Tom Waits, Spacemen 3, Spirtualized, Nick Drake, Bailter Space, Mogwai, Thelonius Monk, Tindersticks, Boris, Mastodon

Sporting a stupid moniker is probably the biggest problem facing Kyuss. You can't help thinking about Gene Simmons and Kiss which means you can't really take them seriously when flipping through the 'K' section of any music store. I only cottened onto them after being hooked by Queens of the Stone Age - Kyuss was their precursor. I picked up 'Blue for the Red Sun' and was immediately hooked on their melodic stoner groove.

The audio and video quality is pretty ropey - you'll probably have to turn it up to hear anything. It looks like something captured by VCR in the late 80's and then digitised. The song is 'Asteroid' - looks like it was performed live for a tv show. Starts slow and quiet, builds to a crescendo before going into a spacey interlude and then picking up pace and volume towards the end. Love the shaggy bass player - like a real live version of Super Furry Animals 'Golden Retriever'.