N.E.R.F.

Erler Dingbats
“The world’s first complete Unicode dingbats font”

For the first time in the entire history of Unicode standard, the full encoding range for dingbats (U + 2700 – U + 27BF) is now covered by a complete, contemporary quality font.

To help support and encourage the use of the Unicode standard, publisher FSI FontShop International is giving away the Erler Dingbats completely free of charge.

About time we ditched Zapf Dingbats. Great looking glyphs with a consistent style. And free too.

Ferns - On Botany

This little indie pop masterpiece is a free download for a limited time. Ferns includes Adrian and Johan from another KL favourite of mine, Furniture.

Summon Auntie

How does Summon Auntie Work? You simply lock your vehicle’s location, and wait. If another user spots and alerts our system of a Summon Auntie near your parked vehicle, a notification is sent to you. IMMEDIATELY run or fly to your vehicle, every minute counts because Summon Aunties will say “Sorry hor, I cannot cancel one”.

Hilarious yet very practical app for every Singaporean driver. Available on iPhone, and I hear an Android version is in the works. Check it out - it’s free!

Ramen Music #06 is out, and it just keeps getting better. 13 tracks from independent and DIY musicians in the nicest mixtape/magazine format around. As always, it’s completely free to share, although I’m glad I have a lifetime subscription. They’ve come a long way, and while there’ve been some misses in the 77 tracks I’ve received this past year, it’s introduced me to so many unsigned, unknown artists that now form the bulk of my folk/indie/soft rock playlists.

I’m still making my way through this issue, but Liseli by June Miller has caught my ear.

Read more and stream/download Ramen Music #06 here »

singascene:

singascene #01: Finders, Keepers

August 9th, 2011. While everyone else is enjoying their super long weekend from calling in sick yesterday, I’m still happily jobless, and I find myself putting together a little mixtape. Armed with considerable online stalking skills and a propensity to download everything I come across, I’ve collected a small stash of forgotten music from my favourite bands — early demos, ripped off abandoned MySpace’s, tracks shared on blogs long deserted, recordings taken from that friend who knows that guy in that band. Some of these might’ve seen limited release physically or online, but those that haven’t… well, I found them anyway. I’ve kept it to the more recognisable names of the past few years, but even loyal fans should be able to find something new.

So it is with some pride — the patriotic kind, mind, lest I be labeled as some kind of indie snob, which I might be, but that is not within the scope of this post — that I present to you singascene #01. I’ve already put in the hard work as a slightly deranged fan and musical pack rat; you need only move your mouse a little over this way to share in the spoils.

Download singascene #01 (.zip)

Tracklist:
01 Adel Rashid - Sun Through My Window
02 Giants Must Fall - Whale Song (demo)
03 Paris In The Making - A lonely sky bids farewell
04 A Vacant Affair - How About Enough (demo)
05 For This Cycle - For What It’s Worth (demo)
06 I Am David Sparkle - Dance of Death (Live at Cactus Records)
07 Inch Chua - Cheers To Love (Caracal cover)
08 Elsa Kidspy - The Cloud Song
09 Amateur Takes Control - The Difference Is (live)
10 West Grand Boulevard - DKNY
11 Postbox - Find A Way (Plansunset cover)
12 Caracal - When Open Inverted Commas Close
13 Seyra - You make me go (demo)
14 B-Quartet - Rainbow Connection / Beautiful Crash (live)
15 Plainsunset - Checking Email (live)

Thanks to channers for naming this mixtape!

Hey guys, here’s something I’ve been working on.