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If you haven’t heard of The Civil Wars, it’s the duo of Joy Williams and John Paul White, who together make absolutely fabulous music. I am currently in love with their song “Poison and Wine”…

Check out their free live album, “Live From Eddie’s Attic” at their MySpace page: www.myspace.com/thecivilwars

You’ll thank me later!

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A bit of a different Free Friday Post today… found some good free songs from around the Internet the past week or so, and though I’d share them:

Artist: Freelance Whales
Where to get it: www.freelancewhales.com and click “Get it Now” on the front page.
Notes: The quintessential upbeat hipster sound, Freelance Whales (what a FANTASTIC band name) is a fun mix of different instruments with an almost “organic-electric” sound…I know that’s a contradiction, but it somehow fits. Anyhow, the song they have for download is pretty good…it’s called “Generator 2nd Floor”.

Artist: Bon Iver
Where to get it: www.boniver.org and click “Downloads”
Notes: A very chill sound. I definitely recommend “Skinny Love”.

Artist: Josh Garrels
Where to get it: www.joshgarrels.com and click on the Harmonica (listen).
Notes: Very unique and cool sound, with a very good beat. Lots of hip-hop influence, but I wouldn’t necessarily call it hip-hop.

Anyhow, hope you enjoy the music.

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Welcome back to Free Friday. Today I thought I’d geek out a bit and share with you possibly my favorite thing on the Internet: Wordpress.

Wordpress is at it’s core a blog engine, but it can be so much more! I’ve seen and used it before to create entire websites, and it’s more than up to the task.

And the best part about it is because it’s Open Source GPL, Wordpress is FREE! With thousands of themes available, it’s easy for newcomers to set up a blog or site, and if you are willing to learn a bit, it’s easy for you to create your own themes.

What It Is: Wordpress is open source “web software you can use to create a beautiful website or blog.” You can install it for free on your hosting platform and customize, extend, and design it to your heart’s content.

Where You Can Get It: Download the latest version over at Wordpress.org or if your web hosting provider has a “One-click install” get it there.

What I Use it For: Pretty much any and everything I design on the interwebs. This blog is powered by Wordpress, and most of the stuff I’ve done in my portfolio is built on Wordpress. It’s the most flexible and easy to use software out there.

Awesomeness Scale: 9.5 out of 10. The only reason this doesn’t get a 10 out of 10 is because you technically still have to pay for the hosting. But other than that this is probably the coolest thing out there. I <3 WP!

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If you follow this blog, you know I’m a fan of Cupcakes. I blame my friend Lindsay. Anyhow, DC is probably the best city in the world to get cupcakes, and no one makes better cupcakes in DC than Georgetown Cupcakes (although there are some haters…we’ll call them the cupcake snobs). Anyhow, the fact is that Georgetown Cupcakes makes amazing cupcakes.

What makes them relevant to today’s Free Friday Post is that every day they give away 100 cupcakes for free to their followers on Twitter. Each morning they tweet out the Secret Flavor of the day, which is not on the menu, and the first 100 people who order it get it for free.

What It Is: The Georgetown Cupcake Secret Free Flavor of the Day. These are GOOD flavors too. Not just boring chocolate or vanilla.

Where You Can Get It: You can get them at either the original Georgetown location, or at their new Bethesda location (I know…Georgetown Cupcakes in Bethesda…weird). You also need to be watching their Twitter account to see what the day’s secret flavor is. Follow them at http://twitter.com/GTownCupcake.

Awesomeness Scale: 7 out of 10. Free Cupcakes. Every Day. The only downside is you need to get there early enough to get one.

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Do you like books but really really wish you could read them while driving? Are those other motorists getting annoyed when you try to do so? If you answered yes, then it might be time to try audiobooks.

I can’t say I’m a huge fan of audiobooks, but I do enjoy listening to them on my commute. Anyhow, I discovered this wonderful way of getting a free audiobook every month.

What It Is: ChristianAudio.com offers a different free audiobook each month on their site. I’ve downloaded such awesome titles as Desiring God by John Piper, Stuff Christians Like by Jon Acuff, Crazy Love and Forgotten God by Francis Chan and The Hole in Our Gospel by Richard Stearns in the past few months. Really, there are some GREAT Christian books available each month.

Where You Can Get It: You can get it by going to http://christianaudio.com/free_download.php. Don’t forget to enter the code they give you during checkout.

This month’s book is The Pursuit of God by A.W. Tozer. (See, I told you there’s good stuff!)

What I Use It For: Mostly listening in my car. I’m lucky enough to have an aux jack in my car that I can plug my iPod into, but you could always burn them to a CD as well. Now, I would always prefer to have the dead-tree version of the book, but hey, the audio is free and I can listen to them in my car.

Awesomeness Scale: 5 out of 10. When you get a good one, it’s a 10 out of 10, but sometimes you have to wait a few months for a book you want. Anyhow, there’s lots of good stuff here, and it’s free!

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