Beer day is the day of the week where you go out with the guys from work. More often than not it’s Friday afternoon. The Beer oClock extension for Firefox puts a little reminder about that special time of the week in the Firefox status bar. Not the usual “x days y hours till Beer Day” but funny ones like 3500 lines of code ’til beer o’clock” or 10 ridiculous questions from clients ’til beer o’clock”.

It is even possible to add your own message to customize the add-on. The settings can be set to a specific day and time of the day until the office beer o’clock. The user can select the interval between messages that are shown and there is even a “getting close” period in which the reminders are displayed more frequently.

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As a tech blogger I am really embarrassed to say I haven’t heard anything of this service before it was rolled into beta today. However, this means I was thrilled this morning to try it. Lively is a social playground made by Google, more in common with SecondLife than any other site, but for my taste Lively is oh so much better.

First of all, it all runs in your browser, so no need to switch to a different app, it makes things quicker and smoother, although you’ll need a quite powerful machine to run everything in all its glory. It took me all of 2 minutes to install, so it’s also easier on your system. Second of all, it just seems like so much more fun than SecondLife, just look at the graphics.

Lively tries to stand out from the crowd by giving you some cool features, and if I know Google, there are many, many more along the way. You can interact with other users, watch Youtube videos on the TV’s (together if you want), create rooms, avatars and so on. So far nothing groundbreaking, but I’m guessing that Google Maps, search, and everything else Google has will be implemented soon enough, I’m particularly interested in seeing the maps development. So far Youtube implementation is most interesting to me, you can create screening rooms for fun videos, your own videos, or anything you’d like people to see.

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I’m usually very picky when it comes to posting links that offer free music but this one is definitely to good to keep for myself. Nuclear Blast is a Record Label that was founded in Germany and focuses on certain variants of Metal including Grindcore, Blackmetal and Melodic Death Metal and Hardcore Punk.

Some popular bands that they have currently under contract are Kataklysm, Nightwish and In Flames. That was a rather long introduction but if you like that kind of metal you might want to head straight to Amazon USA to download free songs from the Nuclear Blast record Best of Nuclear Blast: 20th Anniversary Compilation.

Nine songs can be downloaded freely including two from Kataklysm which is definitely on of my favorite bands at the moment. Here is the list of songs available for download:

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It’s Olympic year and this time we’re heading to Beijing to watch the best athletes in the world battle it out for glory. If you’re lucky enough to actually be going to Beijing for the Olympics, then you’re sure to enjoy yourself. However, if you’re like me, you have to make do with trying to watch it online.

NBC holds the rights to the Games and they’ve gone the online way by tying up with software TVTonic. The tie-up offers users the chance to download videos of Olympic events for free. In addition, you can also watch each event online with TVTonic 12 hours after it finishes, which is fine when you’re halfway around the world and are sleeping during the live event.

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Back in the days when the Internet was just a series of tubes music, movie and book fans had to get their recommendations from magazines, friends and the guy in the store that sold them the stuff. Recommendations on today’s Internet are a big thing. They are highly popular with users and companies alike. Users are happy that they find new bands, actors, movies and books while companies sell more if they offer recommendations.

Taste Kid (via Genbeta) concentrates on books, movies and music which is something that I have not seen that often yet. Normally it’s only one of the three and not all of them. The website consists of a form where the user can enter something that he likes that relates to books, music or movies. This can be an artist or a name of a product.

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