Written by Paul Love who lives and works in Edinburgh building useful things.
Manhole covers
August 14, 2019There are a lot of beautiful designed and colored manhole covers in Japan.
Apollo 11 in Real Time
July 18, 2019This website replays the Apollo 11 mission as it happened, 50 years ago. It consists entirely of historical material, all timed to Ground…
How to run a small social network site for your friends
July 16, 2019This document exists to lay out some general principles of running a small social network site that have worked for me. These principles are…
Goodbye orange kinesis roadmap
July 15, 2019After 20 years of on-again, off-again blogging, it’s become clear that writing essay-length posts while trying to focus on work is hard. I…
All you need
August 20, 2016health, social life, job, house, partners, finances; leisure use, leisure amount; working time, education, income, children; food, water…
Tabula rasa
August 09, 2016All landscape art reminds us: we live in a tabula rasa, and must write on it. It is our world, and its beauty is entirely inside our heads…
Carried Away
May 03, 2016The mind cannot carry away all that it has to give, nor does it always believe possible what it has carried away.— Nan Shepherd, The Living…
Transparency
March 02, 2016Interface evolves toward transparency. The one you have to devote the least conscious effort to, survives, prospers.— William Gibson,…
Exploitation
February 22, 2016A quote in an article by Oliver Burkeman caught my eye a while back:Eyal urges businesses to think ethically. (Creating addictive products…
Invisible machines
February 16, 2016The more perfect machines become, the more they are invisible behind their function. It seems that all man’s industrial effort, all his…
Codeship and curly bracket expansion
February 16, 2016This isn’t an issue with Codeship as such, but it can affect it.I had a task in an script that created some directories for a couple of cli…
Continuous deployment of static sites from Codeship to WebFaction with rsync
September 28, 2015Mmm, that’s a a bit of a mouthful.This example is written with Hexo, Codeship and WebFaction in mind but should work with any static site…
From Ghost to Hexo
September 24, 2015I’ve moved this blog from Ghost to Hexo.Why? I liked Ghost’s interface and it’s very straightforward compared with WordPress, but it has too…
It doesn’t matter that the tools are dumb
December 22, 2014That’s what technology is. It’s the world of things, some impossibly stupid, some smarter than we are, we have assembled around ourselves to…
HMTL Using Codeship talk
July 30, 2014Last week (last week!) I was going to give a quick talk about Codeship at HMTL. However, events conspired against me and I couldn’t attend…
Dangerous Instrument
July 10, 2014A growing body of opinion thinks … that PowerPoint privileges the presenter in an unhealthy way and has the effect of discouraging critical…
HMTL Vagrant talk
July 07, 2014Last year (last year!) I gave a quick talk about Vagrant at HMTL. And then promptly forgot to put the accompanying presentation in a useful…
The journey is the goal
June 18, 2014People commit to all kinds of activities, she said, “for the process, for the memories… The argument that there is nothing tangible at the…
Affiliates
March 26, 2014An argument with myself about modern blogging culture.
Trying out Ghost
March 25, 2014A couple of weeks ago I moved this blog from Tumblr to Ghost. I’d wanted to do so since Yahoo acquired Tumblr. I don’t have any trust left…
Machines
March 12, 2014If we believe that machines are ruining mankind, it may be that we are lacking a little in distance and cannot judge the effects of…
Noticings
March 11, 2014This is what I want to learn: to notice, but not to analyse. To still the part of the brain that’s yammering, ‘My god, what’s that? A stork…
Known Unknowns
March 10, 2014Only the unknown terrifies men. Once confronted, it is no longer the unknown.— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and StarsLet’s hope so.
Waste
March 08, 2014There is another kind of waste … and that’s overconsumption. Eat food you really don’t need to eat and that too has been wasted.— Jay Rayner…
Yosemite HD II
March 06, 2014Yosemite HD II
Dopplereffekt - Gene Silencing
February 26, 2014Dopplereffekt - Gene Silencing
Thought and Design
February 21, 2014It’s obvious, but perhaps worth repeating, that everything raised is raised deliberately, nothing falls upward by accident. Everything the…
Infrastructural investment
February 16, 2014The idea that a private sector obliged to provide yearly dividends to shareholders and yearly bonuses to employees would be likely to…
Adam Magyar - Stainless (excerpt)
January 09, 2014Adam Magyar: Stainless (excerpt)
Metronomy - I'm Aquarius
December 22, 2013Metronomy - I’m Aquarius
Tim Hecker - Chimeras
December 05, 2013Tim Hecker - Chimeras
Orbital - Christmas Chime
December 04, 2013Orbital - Christmas ChimeDecember 4th, 2013 8:19pm
Gonzales - Let's Groove Again
November 26, 2013Gonzales - Let’s Groove Again
Happy cities
November 06, 2013As much as we complain about other people, there is nothing worse for mental health than a social desert. The more connected we are to…
Ukkonen - Viva Las Huelgas
October 12, 2013Ukkonen - Viva Las HuelgasOctober 12th, 2013 7:03am
Vagrant shell provisioning and usernames
May 14, 2013I’ve been spending a lot of time with the excellent Vagrant recently but was getting mildly annoyed by starting in when SSHing to a box…
A personal timeline of front-end web work
April 16, 2013I’ve been thinking about how much the process of building websites has changed since I laid down my first crappy nearly fifteen years ago…
Donationware March 2013
March 16, 2013I haven’t been keeping up with the donationware idea as well as I’d hoped. There’s a surprise. I’m blaming being stuck on one of those…
Issue tracking basics
August 17, 2012Some basic issue tracking concepts and tips, aimed mainly at project and account managers who may not have much experience in this area…
Chat tools: HipChat and Flowdock
August 08, 2012Update 2015-08-21Use Slack.Update 2013-03-22Both HipChat and Flowdock have added a bunch of new features that mean the comparison below is…
Donationware July 2012
August 06, 2012This month I’ve donated to (or rather, on behalf of) Xenu’s Link Sleuth. I’ve been using Xenu for many years; it’s one of the few reasons I…
Donationware June 2012
July 09, 2012The end of scoping and planning is nigh. Good-oh. We’ll be setting up tools over the next few weeks so I should be in a position to donate…
Security, passwords and whatnot
June 14, 2012I’ve been slightly concerned about my rather lax security habits for a year or so. My state escalated from ‘slightly concerned’ to ‘mildly…
Donationware May 2012
June 01, 2012Another month of writing documentation means another non-project-related bit of donationware.If you ever use the bundled OS X Terminal app…
Donationware April 2012
May 02, 2012This month has been all about writing reports, attending meetings and avoiding paper as much as possible, so my obvious donationware choice…
betterthan: Sublime Text
April 16, 2012I’m extremely happy with Sublime Text 2. It’s filled the big editor-shaped hole left by the slow development of TextMate. Posts on customing…
Comments
April 06, 2012A timely article from Smashing, Publish What You Learn:The collaboration on apps like GitHub should be exactly what happens on blog posts…
Busywork
April 05, 2012I had hoped to avoid blog-related busywork until I’d been posting for a few months but a few minor things were annoying me, so I thought…
Donationware
April 05, 2012I’ve been thinking a bit too much about paying for things.I take a lot of software for granted. I don’t mean anything that requires a…
Path Guidelines
April 04, 2012A while back I caught myself posting a work-related thought to Path. I realised that I’d broken one of my internalized guidelines (not rules…
betterthan: You What?
March 29, 2012I’ve found that attempting to use new tools and techniques during real production doesn’t really work for me. I get tied up in doing the…
Hello
March 29, 2012Right, blogging again. This time it’s vaguely technical.Towards the end of 2011 I decided to spend more time learning about all the exciting…
2010 Music
January 12, 2011Here’s some music I enjoyed in 2010, with links to download or listen on Spotify as appropriate.Moon Wiring Club – The ASDA MixI came across…
Month 107
December 06, 2010November was a quiet month and most of the things I did can’t be talked about publicly right now, so this monthnote should be mercifully…
Month 106
November 02, 2010One of the things I expect to enjoy about keeping monthnotes is looking back at the predictions for upcoming work from previous months and…
Month 105
October 04, 2010I tend to lose track of things I’ve managed to get done, so have been thinking about keeping weeknotes for a while. I reckon monthnotes…
The pursuit of happiness
November 04, 2008Stop buying stuff you don’t needPay off all your credit cardsGet rid of all the stuff that doesn’t fit in your house/apartment (storage…
I've got hips but I'm not a hipster
June 16, 2008Hipness is another thing you wouldn’t have seen on the list 100 years ago. Or wouldn’t you? What it means is to know what’s what. So maybe…
Cheese Kit Diptych
April 26, 2008Cheese Kit Diptych is an installation by artist Walter Willems consisting of two drum kits. In one, full rounds of real (mainly Dutch…
David Toop - Where in your world?
February 23, 2008David Toop essay from the Artificial Intelligence II sleeve. Republished without permission because I’ve never been able to find it…
Secret talent
February 06, 2008Nothing can substitute for depth of analysis, and there’s proven value in specialization — it’s what education, career paths, scientific…
The new needs friends
February 02, 2008In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to…
Space and time and the future
December 06, 2007We’re still making cutting edge shit, man, it’s wild shit, man, it’s raw, I love that ghetto perspective on space and time and the future…
LJ Kruzer - Koi Carp
November 30, 2007Koi Carp, a track from LJ Kruzer previously featured on The Wire Magazine’s website.Other free tracks from LJ: Mowzer (featured on the Ai…
Running from Camera
October 19, 2007The rules are simple: I put the self-timer on 2 seconds, push the button and try to get as far from the camera as I can.Running from Camera
Did You See the Words
August 30, 2007This is the archived, old school version of anglepoised. The latest version can be found at anglepoised.com.
Reboot
August 27, 2007Starting from scratch; there may be some slight turbulence.
Highly self-indulgent
August 21, 2007Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because…
Desktop Orb Could Reform Energy Hogs
August 19, 2007Clive Thompson Thinks: Desktop Orb Could Reform Energy Hogs
Paper Critters
August 16, 2007Paper Critters: Online Paper Toy Creator
Bad Thai cops to endure Kitty shame
August 06, 2007BANGKOK, Thailand - Thai police officers who break rules will be forced to wear hot pink armbands featuring “Hello Kitty,” the Japanese icon…
How to Grow a Tea Garden
August 05, 2007How to Grow a Tea Garden - wikiHow
Are there any 'famous' last.fm users?
July 26, 2007Are there any ‘famous’ last.fm users? | Ask MetaFilter
Private Dick Movie
July 21, 2007Private Dick MovieViral for Condom Essential Wear’s Private Dick Movie.
101 Ways To Know Your Software Project Is Doomed
July 17, 2007101 Ways To Know Your Software Project Is Doomed
In Cyberspace everyone can hear you scream
July 11, 2007Over the next few weeks – to celebrate and, yes, promote his new novel Spook Country – we’re planning a range of William Gibson activities…
Stereogum Presents… OKX - A Tribute to OK Computer
July 11, 2007Stereogum Presents… OKX: A Tribute to OK Computer
Attention Scum!
July 10, 2007Attention Scum!
LastGraph
July 09, 2007LastGraphJuly 9th, 2007 4:31pm
Last.fm-Mainstream-O-Meter
July 09, 2007Last.fm-Mainstream-O-MeterJuly 9th, 2007 4:27pm
Designer//Slash//Model
July 06, 2007Designer//Slash//Model
Fuck Yuo I Am a Robot
July 05, 2007Fuck Yuo I Am a Robot
The Electro Plankton Quartet - Planklantis
June 30, 2007The Electro Plankton Quartet - PlanklantisFrom Interesting 2007.
Where are the Joneses?
June 25, 2007An interactive comedy which you can participate in.Where are the Joneses?
Cornelius - Fit Song
June 23, 2007Cornelius - Fit song (via Crazy88Tokyo)
Last.fm Normaliser
June 22, 2007Last.fm Normaliser
Adventure Ecology Second Life Flood
June 21, 2007Adventure Ecology Second Life Flood (via greenormal)
Uniqlock
June 19, 2007Uniqlock
Bleep Sónar 2007
June 12, 20073 compilations themed around Sónar 2007, programmed and selected by the directors of the festival. Available exclusively at Bleep.com…
Exercises in Style
June 10, 2007Exercises in Style, written by Raymond Queneau is a collection of 99 retellings of the same story, each in a different style.Exercises in…
How do you put your heart into that?
June 07, 2007I explained all of this to the student. When I was finished he replied, “So, rather than just taking on jobs you can put your heart into…
Thieves steal brick wall
June 07, 2007Islington Gazette - Thieves steal brick wall
Strange
June 06, 2007I’ve not read ‘The God Delusion’ but I do not need to: I simply imagine the kind of arguments he makes and then demolish them one by one…
Change Your World
June 05, 2007Change Your WorldJune 5th, 2007 5:17pm
Tumblr Radar
June 04, 2007Tumblr Radar (alpha)June 4th, 2007 7:09pm
Correlate.us
June 03, 2007correlate.usJune 3rd, 2007 9:02pm
Vogel The Young Modernist
June 01, 2007Not only is Christian Vogel an avid user of the site, he uses his journal to publish stories of his life as a musician, his record label…
TwittyTunes
May 31, 2007TwittyTunes - Post your tunes to Twitter using FoxyTunes, and more…
PasswordMaker
May 31, 2007PasswordMaker. One Password To Rule Them All.™
Squirrel eating a bourbon biscuit
May 30, 2007Squirrel eating a bourbon biscuit (via maskingtape)
Last.fm Acquired By CBS
May 30, 2007Last.fm – the Blog: Last.fm Acquired By CBS
Wire
May 29, 2007Wire (via ohskylab)
Field Day 2007
May 29, 2007Field Day - Saturday 11th August 2007, Victoria Park, London
The brainstorm - a trojan horse of mediocrity
May 28, 2007A facilitators main task is to ensure that ‘everyone goes home with a balloon’ after a brainstorm - that they all feel that their pointless…
Dan le Sac VS Scroobius Pip - Thou Shalt Always Kill
May 28, 2007Dan le Sac VS Scroobius Pip “Thou Shalt Always Kill” (via splintereddigital). Still can’t stop singing this in my head. They’re just a band…
Client quotes
May 27, 2007I need more pesshht peesshht chuttt chutt papapapa on this animation.— The classic client quotes (originally at dreamless.org, archived at…
Hacking Tumblr - Add FeedBurner Stats to your Tumblelog
May 27, 2007Hacking Tumblr - Add FeedBurner Stats to your Tumblelog
Burst Culture
May 27, 2007The hurdle to credible publishing on the web, now, is the nine dollars it costs to buy a domain name from GoDaddy, which can be mapped on to…
Von Südenfed - Fledermaus Can't Get It
May 27, 2007Mark E. Smith and Mouse on Mars, together at last!
Banana for your thoughts
May 27, 2007banana for your thoughts (via hallywoods)
Tom and Paul
May 27, 2007Tom and Paul (via Peter Costello)
Cursor Miner - Baby Universe
May 27, 2007Baby - a vast parisitic cultural organism feeding off the love expounded in pop songs. — blog.myspace.com/cursorminer
Fujiya & Miyagi - Ankle Injuries
May 27, 2007Like pixellated scraps of jazz mags…Fujiya & Miyagi Ankle Injuries (via groenlandrecords)
I pinch
May 27, 2007“Yes… I pinch”.Honda Element Gil “The Crab” (via Gilthecrab)
Cassette - Voyager
May 27, 2007Line Rider mayhem from The Flippers.Voyager (via CassetteMusic)
Battles - Atlas
May 27, 2007Top-draw math-nerd rock.Battles - Atlas (taken from the album Mirrored) (via WarpRecords)
Celestial crabs
May 27, 2007“From celestial crabs descending Pie for Maureen, round her shed”Songs of Praise (with subtitles) (via AdamBuxton)
If the library burns down, you get a first
July 20, 2004The Guardian on urban campus myths and the annual ISCLR Conference:There was this student who flipped during his finals and killed himself…
There Is No There
July 01, 2004Anyone want to be at Loggerheads with me? Staffordshire or Denbighshire; your choice. Actually, I’ll be near Staffordshire next week. You…
Doom Doom Doom
July 01, 2004Ooh, Invader Zim on DVD:Invader’s blood marches through my veins like giant radioactive rubber pants! The pants command me! Do not ignore my…
Earworm
June 23, 2004The Chap: (Hats Off To) Dror Frangi.The Chap’s Clissold Park EP should be out at some point on Artrocker.
Enjoy Your Worries, You May Never Have Them Again
June 23, 2004Double Fold, an album from Scanner inspired by the Nicholson Baker book of the same name.Sourcing sounds from his own domestic tape archive…
The Holiday Song
June 23, 2004Just back from Sónar2004 in Barcelona. Well, bits of Sónar, anyway; turned up a few days late due to back trouble and so only caught the…
Underneath the Yellow Lights
June 12, 2004Worked in Westbourne Studios for a bit, before moving to less cramped quarters.The roof is all the more remarkable when the penny drops…
No UFO’s
June 10, 2004Who would have thought that the universe sounds like a game of Defender? Moon Cresta would’ve been better, mind.
Earworm
June 10, 2004Two Lone Swordsmen: Sex Beat. 2: http://www.warprecords.com/bleep/currentitem.php?id=WARP119DM-05 “Bleep.com: Two Lone Swordsmen’s “Sex Beat…
Keep It On Ze Rinky-dink
June 10, 2004Time passes. Things happen. Beer is drunk. No functionality is added (to the weblog, at least). Re-design? Don’t even go there. Just get…
Universal Opaque Escape Clause
January 24, 2004Can’t post at the moment, I’m afraid.Haggis reasons.You know how it is…
Some Machines Have Big Knobs
November 17, 2003The video for Rock and Roll is Dead (WMV, 3.5 meg) by Kings Have Long Arms and Phil Oakey, in which Phil has his head attached to a robot…
Lave Trader
November 13, 2003An edited extract from the Elite/Braben/Bell section in Backroom Boys: The Secret Return Of The British Boffin.Perhaps the reason they kept…
Stay Loose
November 13, 2003Earworm: The Divine Comedy’s Lost Property.
Urban Style Music
November 13, 2003Fällt Publishing’s Invisible Cities installation “offers the opportunity to experience an intimate series of portraits of the world’s cities…
We Float
November 04, 2003Kyoichi Tsuzuki’s Happy Victims is on at The Photographer’s Gallery until Nov 16th.Tsuzuki photographs some thirty individuals who have…
Rock and roll is dead
November 04, 2003Long live Rocktronica. New Uncharted Audio mix featuring Kings Have Long Arms, Mu Chan Clan, Fat Truckers, Phoenicia, Cylob, Kid 606, bit…
You Like This Machine
November 04, 2003You Like This Machine
Hello Sunshine
November 04, 2003Earworm: Super Furry Animals‘ Do Or Die.
Plug Myself In
August 01, 2003Have been busy with work one, work two, work three, setting up a company, moving flat, getting slightly older and sundry other bits. Thanks…
Have You Really Thought About Utopia?
June 07, 2003Side-by-side review of two recent Orwell biographies in The Times:He might have turned into a frustrated “literary man”, a medium-sized…
RU.ELECTRONIC
June 01, 2003The Birmingham-based Default Response network have a selection of mp3 recordings taken from their live events, including sets the excellent…
Self-annulation
June 01, 2003Consuming Bodies: Sex and Contemporary Japanese Art:Consuming Bodies explores the themes of sex and consumerism in contemporary Japanese art…
Eines Morgens im November
June 01, 2003Quint Buchholz postcards (including One Morning in November).Related: cards and books from Inkognito.
Lady In Red (Is Dancing With Meat)
June 01, 2003V/Vm Test Records are one of those nice record labels, the kind that publish the bulk of their nutty back catalogue as mp3s after they’ve…
Impossible Deadline
June 01, 2003Something to keep your bandwidth occupied when the slsk server goes down: a startlingly large collection of Douglas Adams mp3s including the…
Majestic Seven Fingers
June 01, 2003“My name is Julio, Julio Gottstein,” he said, his smoldering eyes aflame in the victory he would soon celebrate. “And soon, I shall have you…
Box Elder
May 24, 2003Pierced man told to wear box on his head:The accountant said he would only reconsider if Mr Lynch wore a cardboard box over his head, did…
Accidents Don’t Happen
May 04, 2003Thomas Pynchon on Orwell’s 1984:Orwell in 1948 understood that despite the Axis defeat, the will to fascism had not gone away, that far from…
Cybergen
May 03, 2003The Guardian profiles William Gibson:“Gibson’s fiction has always been concerned with the problem of how people make sense of a world that…
These Demented Lands
May 03, 2003The novelist Alan Warner dreams of the perfect novel:“This is the way to discover books: an undisciplined charge straight into them. That’s…
Their Manor
May 03, 2003Filming on the Tube, including Location, location, location, a gallery of the London Underground’s “more photogenic locations” such as…
Orseradish
May 03, 2003Herb vs. ‘erb:The letter H comes from the Roman alphabet. The (h) sound was eventually lost in Latin, and in the Romance languages, which…
Officially Summer
May 03, 2003Mmm, potentially sunny bank holiday weekend approaching; if there had been time to plan it would have been tempting to do something along…
Metroplex
May 03, 2003The Times on large-scale construction debacles:Life is too short to read every tome penned by Scandinavian and German social scientists. But…
Bahamut
April 21, 2003I’d still like to know why Cai Guo-Qiang’s ‘Ye Gong Hao Long’ (Mr Ye who loves dragons) firework explosion project at Tate Modern on 31st…
Motion
April 21, 2003Ever had that urge to turn your life into one big project?
Pasty-related Dementia
April 20, 2003Jonathan Meades’ A-Z of British gastronomy:Full English: Maugham’s dictum that if you want to eat well in England you have to eat breakfast…
Woooop-woop-woop-woop-woop!
April 20, 2003What’s the deal with New York and New Jersey?Much like the television families on “Dynasty” and “Dallas,” tension between the two…
She Swears An Awful Lot
April 20, 2003Quick Raymond Queneau link dump:ScriptoriumZazie in the Metro at Amazon UKqueneau.net (in French)Louis Malle’s Zazie dans le métro at IMDbAn…
Endlessnessism
March 31, 2003Enooze – the site for “experimental electronic music & experimental journalism on experimental electronic music” – is back with a new look…
Books vs. Cigarettes
March 31, 2003Extensive George Orwell archive, including complete novels, articles and essays. If only this type of resource had been around five years…
Dog Solitude
March 31, 2003From The History of Nipper and His Master’s Voice:In Liverpool Nipper discovered the Phonograph, a cylinder recording and playing machine…
You Are A Light
March 31, 2003Well, service would have resumed had I not been distracted by the edited highlights of Gallipoli, Karaoke Box Dai Chan, Heaven, The Goldhawk…
Meeja Hors D’Oeuvres
March 19, 2003Jam, Chris Morris’ TV follow-up to the Blue Jam Radio 1 show, is being released on DVD in April. The extra features (including ‘Undeleted…
Ultimate Mixtape
March 19, 2003Foundation have announced details of next year’s All Tomorrow’s Parties festival, The Directors Cut UK 2004. There’s no word on the line-up…
Work And Non Work
March 19, 2003Goodness, it all comes at once, doesn’t it? Apologies for this latest interruption in service – life has been rather busy recently. Regular…
Temporary Insanity
January 29, 2003Links culled from Death Writes:Forked Tongue: the story of Ambrose Bierce told in the language of his Devil’s Dictionary.Death to Dust: the…
There Are Strings
January 29, 2003From a review of Spring Heel Jack, J Spaceman, Matthew Shipp, Evan Parker, William Parker and the incredible Han Bennink at the Queen…
Naturland
January 29, 2003A review of Sue Barr’s gaikoku mura (‘foreign country villages’) photographs at the Architectural Association:The recent establishment in…
GhostBastards
January 29, 2003Ever since the nasty NTL people took away CNX and replaced it with The Biography Channel, I’ve had to satisfy my cravings by listening to…
Glossolalia
January 28, 2003Babel Guides: a new site for world literature in translation. As well as information about Babel’s guides to French, German, Dutch and…
Philobiblon
January 28, 2003The Independent on Foyles, London’s most eccentric large bookshop.For decades, Foyles has been a shopper’s nightmare, with miles and miles…
Pluck
January 26, 2003The Cursor Miner track pressedRetina features on Pre-set, a new compilation of electronic music taken from demos received by Mute Records…
His Dark Materials
January 26, 2003Wise robot Jorn Barger’s Philip Pullman resources on the Web.
In The Tartar Style
January 26, 2003Radio 4’s recent adaptation of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy is now available as an unabridged 26 CD (35 hour) box set.
Drifted Off For A Moment
January 26, 2003A new Haruki Murakami fansite, Murakami.ch. The short story and bibliography sections are already pretty impressive.
Music For Tunnels
January 21, 2003Mp3it features live and rare mp3s from artists such as Gastr Del Sol, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Lesser (including the Christina Ricci…
FCK JN GNT
January 21, 2003Londumb was established to campaign against the BBC’s gradual dumbing-down of their London station, GLR London Live BBC LDN. As part of the…
SuperFlat
January 20, 2003Takashi Murakami’s enjoyable Kaikai Kiki exhibition at the Serpentine Gallery in Hyde Park finishes on the 26th of January. I wouldn’t…
Deranged Nutty Crap
January 20, 2003David Shrigley’s new(ish) book, Human Achievement (with sample pages at The Redstone Press).Related: Tangents review; Tea for sale.
Low Place Like Home
January 20, 2003The LCD Rock and Roll Guide To London:King’s X, pronounced “King’s Cross”: I have no idea whether the American Christian band takes its name…
Come On Baby Light My Fag
January 20, 2003Zippo tricks are perfect for those that need another reason to ditch ill-considered New Year’s resolutions.
11 : 11
January 20, 2003Eleven O’Clock Rooibosch Tea is strangely addictive despite being caffeine-free. I’m not too bothered about the reputed health benefits; it…
Millionaire Dogs
January 17, 2003Warp Records look set for another successful year if the WARPWIFOF2003 promo mix (RealAudio) is anything to go by.Released on CD at Warp’s…
A Small Good Thing
January 17, 2003Guardian profile of Nicholson Baker:…Baker pulls out his laptop and props it up on his knee: “At first I’ll just sit here for a while and…
Close Up Over
January 15, 2003A Japan Times interview with Haruki Murakami, in which he discusses the conflict between closed systems and open systems in society:The…
Mental Hangover
January 15, 2003Amiga demos and intros, “captured from an Amiga and uploaded to the web as DivX encoded videos”.
Chiba
January 15, 2003William Gibson has an official web presence to complement the launch of his new novel, Pattern Recognition. There’s even a shiny new weblog…
Transient Pattern
January 15, 2003Elihu Vedder’s drawings for the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám:Vedder’s Rubáiyát set the standard for the artist-designed book in America and…
Nostalgic Oblong
January 15, 2003Aw, look: the first edition of O’Reilly’s 1996 Web Master in a Nutshell in handy searchable HTML! Comes as part of the complete Web…
Acroyear
January 15, 2003Otisfodder’s 365 Days Project:For the entire year of 2003 (January 1st to December 31st) this site will feature one mp3 file (every day) to…
Deadly Media
January 13, 2003E.C. Brown presents a rather impressive categorised list of links to free mp3s. The categories include your standard electronic, indie-rock…
Time Porn
January 13, 2003The Word Spy is devoted to “recently coined words, existing words that have enjoyed a recent renaissance, and older words that are being…
Excessively Nautical
January 11, 2003Edward Lear’s Nonsense Poetry and Art (with many and varied thanks to Robyn).
Million A Shot
December 17, 2002The Art of James Bond.
Coda
December 04, 2002One more before heading off again: Douglas Adams’ The Meaning of Liff online. Back with a new, giuegaue-laden anglepoised early next year…
Road Kill
December 04, 2002Occasional Nerve contributor JT Leroy is selling raccoon penis bone necklaces as worn by the truck stop whores in his novel, Sarah.“Raccoon…
A Slight Return
December 02, 2002Still away; just dropping a few bits in while recovering from the exceptional Seed Records birthday party at Aldwych last Friday.
Commodore Prog Rock
December 02, 2002Something to fuel any fanboy/fangirl’s healthy obsession with Ladytron: in a recent Guardian interview, they namecheck Syd Barret, Serge…
In The Beams
December 02, 2002Yahoo’s LAUNCHcast service is surprisingly well done (but unsurprisingly seems to choke when using Mozilla or Phoenix). There is, of course…
Industrialsamplecoregouchbeat
December 01, 2002The WIRE drinking game:“Are you fed up with the relentless self serving publicity of pop personalities and their innuendo laced tunes? Dane…
New Standard by Which to Measure Infamy
December 01, 2002William Burroughs’ Thanksgiving Prayer from 1990’s Dead City Radio. Imagine a link to a recording of the track right about here; it was…
Antivapor Waves
November 26, 2002Christopher Wanjek attempts to debunk popular medical myths including homeopathy, oxygen-fortified drinks and magnetic therapy. Related: Bad…
Jelly Tones
November 26, 2002Top Ten Digital Photography Tips by the author of O’Reilly’s Digital Photography Pocket Guide.
Mathematical Anti Telharsic Harfatum Septomin
November 23, 2002The BBC’s new(ish) comedy series Look Around You is very nice indeed. The narrator (Nigel Lambert) sounds very much like the voice of Club…
In The Shadow Of Leaves
November 23, 2002Extensive Samurai Archives.
Motor City
November 16, 2002Have shiny dual-boot laptop, will roam. Back in a month or so.
Dance, Nurgling, Dance
November 16, 2002Art of Perception, a German record label, have been busy releasing a series of 12″s that attempt to provide soundtracks for the various…
Never Dug Disco
November 16, 2002Ooh, a huge archive of hip hop mp3s, including The Pharcyde and Public Enemy!
Tributary
November 16, 2002The Uncharted Audio people are playing the disused Aldwych tube station as part of Seed Record’s 2nd birthday celebrations.
Steal This Book
November 16, 2002Abbie Hoffman’s counterculture text is appropriately available online.
Animus
November 16, 2002Sato Kenji’s More Animated than Life discusses “the significance of animation to the Japanese and why it is not what Westerners expect”.
Nothing Lost
November 16, 2002Last weekend, in links:Tea, talk, a chaos-inducing toy and Sailor Moon figure (from TFAW) courtesy of the ever-spangly Robyn.A preview…
French Mods Can’t Drink
November 16, 2002Poorly publicised I Monster website, featuring a comprehensive discography and mp3s of unreleased tracks.Related: Evening Session interview…
The Art Of Driving
November 16, 2002The Guardian interviews and profiles Mayer Hillman, the ‘radical green social scientist’.“Hillman is unfazed by polite ridicule: he has met…
Bzzt
November 16, 2002Glitch Art: The aesthetics of digital corruption (and my dodgy crash from way back).
You Are Fallen
November 16, 2002Accompanying minisite for Douglas Gordon’s What Have I Done exhibition (developed by Airside).
Newark Wilder
November 16, 2002The Guardian profiles Paul Auster.“Poet Ann Lauterbach, who has known Auster since the late 1970s, takes a different view: ‘Part of the…
Ah. Mayed. That. Earp.
October 25, 2002The Guardian interviews Donna Tartt about The Little Friend, her latest novel, and attempts to clear up some of the myths and mysteries…
International Colouring Contest
October 25, 2002Stereolab have released ABC Music, a collection of Radio 1 sessions recorded between 1991 and 2001. Before you buy (but not in place of…
Parson’s Nose
October 23, 2002LJ Kruzer is playing Not Clickable in Warrington at The Foundry tonight (Wed 23rd October), with Thorsten Sideb0ard and The Legendary Jesse…
Run Alone
October 23, 2002Two new Ebbs and Flows mp3s, including a charming cover of tinfoillake by Cursor Miner. The LJ Kruzer cover is coming soon, apparently.
Kinoko Girl
October 18, 2002Mildly obsessed with Junko Mizuno’s art. The t-shirts featuring her work are particularly fine.Related: interview at Pulp, more info at We…
Sex Born Poison
October 18, 2002The Nerve Interview with Bret Easton Ellis covers Roger Avary’s adaptation of The Rules of Attraction:“One of my only complaints about the…
Fancy A Brew?
October 18, 2002Mark and Lard corner, including The Sanctuary for Abandoned Mark & Lard Catchphrases. That’s the bunny.
You Can Fall
October 17, 2002The Guardian interviews Lynne Ramsay and Samantha Morton about the forthcoming adaptation of Alan Warner’s Morvern Callar:“The casting of…
Slipper Sleaze
October 17, 2002The Cartoon Network’s new spin-off channel CNX launched in the UK earlier this week.“Daytime programming includes the likes of Jonny Quest…
Twists, Slugs and Roscoes
October 16, 2002A Glossary of Hardboiled Slang.
Pools In Eyes
October 12, 2002Beestung features a huge archive of Throwing Muses, Belly, Tanya Donelly and Kristin Hersh mp3s (including live sets, B-sides and rarities).
Clouds Up
October 12, 2002The Guardian review of Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides:“Where The Virgin Suicides reflected on connections between sex and death, its…
The Obscure Object
October 12, 2002Jeffrey Eugenides‘ Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Middlesex is out in paperback in September and it’s well worth reading:Emotions, in my…
Conduit For Sale!
October 12, 2002Domino are set to release a double-DVD Pavement retrospective entitled Slow Century, featuring every video, two complete concerts and a full…
Gritty Shaker
October 12, 2002The Village Voice interview Haruki Murakami about his recently published short story collection After the Quake and his 10th novel, Kafka on…
Further Back And Faster
October 12, 2002Sherry and Robbie Williams karaoke? Elsie Mo and the Mountain Goats, more like. Also witnessed more of the creeping gentrification of…
Norra Potter
September 28, 2002Off to Newcastle-under-Lyme for a few days. While you’re here and I’m not, how about feeding me weird things?
Look Out Weekend
September 28, 2002Gabba.net, the people behind Plug and Play, are keeping a temporary, online archive of selected mp3s from their Winamp playlists. Current…
Future Tiger
September 28, 2002Leaf’s new label compilation Lost for Words features tracks from Boom Bip & Doseone, Susumu Yokota, Murcof and The Sons Of Silence and is…
Hot Waters
September 28, 2002The Guardian interviews Sarah Waters about her new novel, Fingersmith, and the BBC adaptation of Tipping the Velvet:“She scotches the notion…
Librarians Are Often Sexy
September 27, 2002Robert Tubbs, ‘musician’. Not to be confused with Robert Tubb, musician.Confession: This is really just a cheap excuse to point out that…
Know Your Chicken
September 27, 2002Mount Fuji, a UK-based online shop carries an extensive range of Japanese food products (including confectionery!).
I Am Not Afraid
September 27, 2002Yabuno Kensei and 326 – Mi tsu ru, have an exhibition running at The Spitz from 29 September to 13 October, 2002.“Two of Japan’s best known…
Aye
September 27, 2002The Online Etymology Dictionary:“I began this project after I looked one day for a dictionary of word origins online and found that there…
Why We Fight
September 26, 2002Angry Bed Positions, an extract(?) from Mil Millington’s Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About (due on 3 October, 2002).
Put My Comp-Sci Skills To Work
September 26, 2002While discussing a New York Times article on L33T speak invading schools, one slashdotter ends up reworking The Lord’s Prayer with modern…
Photo Jenny
September 26, 2002Exifer for Windows is a handy application for managing the metadata (EXIF/IPTC) of images taken from digital cameras.“Because many image…
Steel Factory Mayhem
September 13, 2002Pulp, Warp and Eat Your Own Ears have got together to put on Auto, a huge party in Magna near Sheffield on 14th December:“Steve Mackey (Pulp…
Dole Scum
September 13, 2002The League of Gentlemen start their third season on Thursday 26th September on BBC TWO. Related: visiting Royston Vasey (aka Hadfield…
Suspicious Bear
September 11, 2002Midnight Eye’s review of Katsuyuki Motohiro’s botched-heist film Space Travelers:“Space Travelers can be appreciated for its inventive…
Japanorama
September 11, 2002Incredibly extensive Encyclopedia of Everything Japanese node on Everything2, including sections on history, people, culture, samurai…
Hillside
September 11, 2002A virtual tour of Keele University.
Kusanagi
September 09, 2002Trailer for Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, the television series sequel to the film. Related: Bandai press release.
No Relation
September 09, 2002Paul Love are “2 guys from D.C. expanding the horizons of HipHop”. Well hey, that’s news to me.
Exit The Sandman
September 09, 2002How did I miss this? Logan’s Sanctuary is the soundtrack to an imaginary Logan’s Run sequel.“Inspired by a Seventies post-apocalyptic sci-fi…
The Autograph Man
September 08, 2002Extract from Zadie Smith’s second novel, The Autograph Man. Reviews: This is London, The Observer, Salon.The television adaptation of her…
Someone Else’s Head
September 04, 2002Resonance104.4fm, a project from the London Musician’s Collective, is “London’s first radio art station”:“Imagine a radio station like no…
Anyone Can Play EditPlus
September 04, 2002Torrez reckons that even you can do it:“And that’s what’s got me so bothered about people musing in their weblogs about projects they’d like…
Always The Last
September 04, 2002The Right to Know from the Information Commissioner purports to “give information on how to access files and records held on you by people…
Charming But Irrational
September 04, 2002New official site for Iain Banks. Should eventually feature information on his fiction and science fiction works, but currently light on…
Spoonbending
September 01, 2002What is The Animatrix?Related: direct download links.
Acting President
September 01, 2002The Times interviews Martin Sheen about his role as President Josiah “Jed” Bartlett in The West Wing.“Sheen knows that, for most Americans…
The Book Lovers
September 01, 2002Foyles have started maintaining a list of their forthcoming literary events. Authors appearing this autumn include Chuck Palahniuk, Jeremy…
Flicking Your Switch
August 27, 2002Emperor Norton have some Realaudio versions of three tracks (Seventeen, CrackedLCD and Turn It On) from the forthcoming Ladytron album…
Porn Coconut Co
August 27, 2002Extract from Once More, With Feeling, in which two twentysomethings from the Erotic Review decide to make the “greatest porn film ever seen…
Harebrained Scheme
August 27, 2002Still strangely fascinated by the idea of Neurobics. Related: Turns of Phrase – Neurobics.
Bodyshock
August 27, 2002How to keep your immune system sorted.
Rue The Whirl
August 26, 2002Higuchinsky’s Uzumaki looks like it might be worth watching out for. The Midnight Eye review summarizes: “a particularly loony film…
Robots Will Take Over
August 26, 2002Cursor Miner has been thoughtful enough to provide a decent selection of mp3s from his recent album, Explosive Piece of Mind.The idea is…
Get Personal
August 10, 2002The Hustler is available in the UK on DVD on the 19th August.
Kafkaesque
August 10, 2002The Times on the commercial hijacking of Prague.“Yet precisely because Prague has such a miraculously preserved centre – a time-capsule…
Charles Booth
August 10, 2002The survey into life and labour in London (1886-1903).
Leftovers
August 07, 2002At last! A picture of Mousehole‘s very own fish-headed delicacy, Star Gazy Pie. Also: all you need for a Cornish Feast.
Yo Pumpkin Head
August 07, 2002The Jazz Messengers (another excellent Cowboy Bebop fansite). Related: CowboyBebop.org, a mirror of the deceased official CowboyBebop.com…
Papini
August 07, 2002From Henry Miller’s Tropic of Cancer.“Great God! What have I turned into? What right have you people to clutter up my life, steal my time…
Invisibles Pies
August 02, 2002Dead tree versions of the Zebraface cartoons spotted in the newly Borders-ified ground floor of Foyles just the other day. The copyright…
Victor Mature Lives
August 02, 2002The Guardian’s Biff cartoons online – finally! You should see the portrait in my attic, lady.
Hecatomb
July 11, 2002One last thing; Whelk (the best of Upsideclown).
Abandoned
July 11, 2002Busy for a while. In the meantime, a new low in lazy weblogging: all the links I’ve never slept with (or, um, weblogged).Or, “I hoped this…
Battery Powered Joy
July 10, 2002Big Uncharted Audio update follows. Cursor Miner’s new album Explosive Piece of Mind (Lo Recordings) is in shops now (Independent review…
Take California And Party
July 09, 2002Matt Groening is curating next year’s U.S. All Tomorrow’s Parties festival (June, UCLA).“Groening, a former rock critic who also pens the…
Everywhere And Allover
July 09, 2002An explanation and guide of the Peters World Map (or why the standard Mercator projection may be a tad inaccurate, as mentioned in last week…
Expounding
July 09, 2002Taoism or Daoism?“The difference in spelling and pronunciation exists because “Taoism”/”Daoism” are formed from a Chinese word which can be…
Big Red Robot
July 03, 2002While we’re on the subject of 70’s kiddie sci-fi, it should be noted that a full episode of the anime-style puppet show Star Fleet (aka X…
Spectacular Effect
July 02, 2002Battle of the Planets released (again – this time by Universal Playback) on DVD and VHS. Despite rumours, “there are no Gatchaman or G-Force…
Believe In Your Stealth
July 02, 2002Pitchfork on How to Survive Without Audiogalaxy.
Breaking Rocks
July 02, 2002Plaid DJ mixes available for download, including the unreleased Futura Connect (Mouse on Mars, Autechre, Pierre Bastien, Squarepusher), the…
Game Theory
July 02, 2002“Ludology is a new discipline that studies games in general and computer games in particular. Here you will get news, opinions, upcoming…
Dead Flag Blues
July 02, 2002iCandy reviews Six Feet Under at Screenburn. Related: official Six Feet Under website.
Hats Off
July 01, 2002The Zebra Face cartoons, from Invisible Spies.“Armed with only the face of a Zebra, and a diabetic mouth organ wielding side-kick, Zebra…
Tipper
July 01, 2002Spotted random art cows around London? CowParade has the answers.
Walking On Commerciality
June 28, 2002Coasteering on the Pembrokeshire coast sounds like it might be fun.
Angry Dolphin
June 28, 2002Warp/Creative Review animation microsite.
Sharp Shooting on Saturn
June 27, 2002Black Dog’s seminal 1993 album, Temple of Transparent Balls, gets a welcome re-release on 1 July. Parallel, the compilation featuring odd…
This Should be Played
June 27, 2002Nobody mentioned that High Jinks had a website. Handy for t-shirts.
Demons Never Need To Read
June 26, 2002Faith Erin Hicks’ comic, Demonology 101.
Slice Of Cheese
June 26, 2002WaiWai is “a section of the Mainichi Daily News that brings articles from Japan’s weekly tabloids to foreign readers”. Cheeky, punning…
Sitting Up Straight
June 26, 2002The Times on John Lanchester’s new novel, Fragrant Harbour.“Lanchester, 40, is something of a master ventriloquist. In his first book, The…
Pray For The Girls
June 26, 2002The (excellent) PowerPuff Girls Portrait Studio.
Speakeasy
June 25, 2002Random Word Generator. Favourites so far include wagenegle, framelechable, scrudicturns, bylarlous, lubbses, sistral, bitwences, tection…
D-Zug
June 25, 2002Gottfried Benn’s Morgue & Other Verse (1912-13), available in PDF and iSilo formats from Supervert.
Kind Of Disco Sound
June 24, 2002The new Ladytron album, Light and Magic, is currently set for a US release on September 17th. No word on the UK release date yet.
Dirty Trip
June 24, 2002UK Rail Journey Planner for Palm and PC (i.e. timetables and suchlike). Not free, alas.
Middle Of Nowhere
June 24, 2002Keele University’s h2g2 entry.“The last thing for which Keele is famous is its unofficial wood parties. About twice a year, word will be…
Things To Do
June 15, 2002Go to Sonomu Presents… Lo And Behold! on Friday 21st June, featuring Cursor Miner, Andy Drumboy (Stereolab), They Came From The Stars (I Saw…
Gamers in Exile
June 15, 2002Gamer.tv are looking for game-literate people to appear as contestants on their new television gaming quiz show.
Cut Faster
June 15, 2002Coldcut have updated the website for their excellent Solid Steel radio show. It now includes all the playlists since 1998 and archives of…
Lost + Found
June 14, 2002The Japanese Speaking Machine.
Djed
June 14, 2002Rephlex’s lektrogirl are holding dj workshops “for people who have never touched decks in their lives before and want to know how to make…
Urge
June 14, 2002nerve.com on Henry Miller’s Opus Pistorum.“In an affidavit filed with the U.S. Embassy in Paris, (Milton) Lubovski stated that, in 1957, he…
More Hot Lovage
June 13, 2002Terrible chat-up lines, dating dos and don’ts and hints & tips from Nathanial Merriweather’s Lovage, a Prince Paul/Automator project.
Machine Room Jam
June 13, 2002Fabulous Sound Machines at the Croydon Clocktower.“A collection of sound and colour pieces that become intriguing new instruments that…
The Midi Database
June 12, 2002More MIDI files than you could ever need (or want).
Ravished By The Sheer Implausibility Of That Last Statement
June 12, 2002A Few Notes on the Culture by Iain M Banks. Related: Culture Ship Names and Culture Inspired Ship Names.
A Number of Names
June 12, 2002Marcia’s crazy tunes for crazy webloggers.
Holiday Retort
June 12, 2002Back. Highlights: Tate St Ives (including the altogether more impressive Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden and David Shrigley…
The Holiday Girl
May 31, 2002Anglepoised, More Beer and Uncharted Audio are off to the delightful village of Mousehole in Cornwall, to escape from celebrate the Jubilee…
Be Clowns
May 31, 2002Odd, bootleg-style MP3s from Leila.Space Invaders Need a Resolution (Bootleg) (5.95 MB)Shimmy, Shimmy, Shimmy, Rock My World (4.4MB)One In A…
jCandy
May 30, 2002The history of Pocky (that’s Pocky, not pocky).“If this was the West, Pocky would have government health warnings on the boxes and Glico…
A Soft Quietude
May 30, 2002Wired on the Lowercase sound.“Created largely by scientists, techies and experimental musicians, lowercase recordings are frequently based…
Small Circular Motion
May 30, 2002Currently listening to a couple of albums from John Zorn’s Tzadik label; Memories Are My Only Witness by Yuka Honda (of Cibo Matto fame) and…
Pictures In An Exhibition
May 30, 2002Excellent collection of old album covers.
Ho Fun
May 30, 2002The Independent on noodles.“Just like surviving a Japanese pub crawl, eating noodles is a specialised skill. I had to be shown how to eat…
Blistered Ego
May 30, 2002Headlessness interview on Chuck D’s SlamJamz venture.
Going Somewhere Solo?
May 28, 2002The National Post on the problems with the Star Wars prequels. In short: where’s the Han Solo types?“Part of the magic of the first Star…
Beating Patiently
May 27, 2002The Rat King, where “young rats close to one another in the nest sometimes get their tails entangled and become a living Gordian knot…
Weight Of My Words
May 27, 2002Urban Dictionary, a slang dictionary with a cheeky appropriation of the Dictionary.com design.
Folly Bridge
May 27, 2002Glossary of Oxford terms.Spoonerism: The accidental or deliberate transposition of the initial letters etc. of two or more words in a phrase…
The Apologist
May 26, 2002Post questions for Mil Millington’s live online talk this Friday (May 31 at 2pm). Related: Mil’s archived columns in the Guardian.
Scratch Yer Head
May 26, 2002Currently making extensive use of the Itchy London guide (brief, critical reviews of bars, pubs, restaurants and attractions in London…
Faakin jingall jangall
May 26, 2002Chatham Girls (Last All Summer Long?)English: “Sit quietly and eat or Santa will not come”.Chathamese: “Oi, Daphine-Celiste, sidaan an eet…
American Scream
May 26, 2002The Bill Hicks Story. Related: Bill Hicks MP3s.
New Skin
May 25, 2002Skin Deep tattoo exhibition, free at the National Maritime Museum (until 30 September 2002).
Bigger Wheels
May 25, 2002MoonPies in infinitely better than Wagon Wheels non-shocker. Related: Manufactured Chocolate and Marshmallow Biscuits of the World; The…
Gone 11
May 25, 2002Late bar info via SMS. May prevent further ill-considered Tatty Bogle outings.
MisoJoy
May 25, 2002Review of Sukiyaki, a Japanese restaurant in St Albans.“There was a time – perhaps there still is – when a bride’s way with pickles defined…
Geek Joke
May 24, 2002Stolen from the inestimable Mr Beach.“There are only 10 types of people in this world:those who understand binary, and those who don’t.”
UNCHAU
May 23, 2002Some quick Uncharted Audio updates. The sonomu launch party (featuring Cursor Miner, Rothko, Junkboy, Simon Fisher Turner and more) takes…
Key Words
May 16, 2002…and Tricky Phrases for Emergency Medical Personnel.“SBLEO — (pronounced S-B-Leo) Suicide By Law Enforcement Officer.TTR — Tattoo-to-Tooth…
Spins Them Webs
May 14, 2002The Times on the science of Spider-Man (requires registration).“Close analysis of the remarkable gifts given to Peter Parker by the bite of…
Turntable TV
May 13, 2002Commercial Breaks and Beats, a well-organised UK television advert music database.
Red Shadow
May 13, 2002Hiroyuki Nakano’s “comic spin on the classic samurai tale” is showing between Sat 18 May – Thu 23 May at the ICA. Related: Red Shadow IMDb…
Surf’s Up
May 13, 2002Fanboy MP3 reconstruction of the unreleased Beach Boys album, SMiLE.
Hand In Your Head
May 13, 2002Fresh looks and an excellent new exhibit – ‘The Art of Ken Meyer Jr‘ – over at headlessness.
Prince Shops at Bardwells
May 06, 2002Guardian journalist goes looking for UK underground music. Finds it. The end.“My tour begins in Sheffield. In the past, the south Yorkshire…
Amphibious Nostrils
May 05, 2002Excerpt from The Salmon of Doubt, the late Douglas Adams’ third and incomplete Dirk Gently novel. Also features about 50 short Adams pieces…
Break My Body
May 04, 2002Le Parkour – extreme roof-jumping urban sport, as featured in the current BBC 1 short, ‘Rush Hour’.
Mice Eat Cheese
May 04, 2002Large collection of Modest Mouse bootleg MP3s.
Camel Bobsled
May 04, 2002Scratch, a documentary from Palm Pictures, is a “feature length film about the hip-hop DJ and today’s turntablist movement”. Currently set…
Capitulation
May 02, 2002Which Powerpuff Girls Character Are You?
Moog Cook Book
May 02, 2002The Cook Book CD: Libro de Cocina y Musica.“An indie-pop Japan-o-phile compilation of songs accompanied by vegetarian recipes contributed by…
Brekfux
May 01, 2002Nautilus are holding a Break-Fux-A-Thon Competition, to be judged by Venetian Snares, Jay from Coredump and Schmee from Planet Mu.“Make the…
Lust
May 01, 2002Exceptionally tiny, customizable radio-controlled cars now available in the UK from Bit Char-G.“Introducing the world’s Playstation 2 Memory…
Romp
May 01, 2002Excerpt from Helen Cooper’s A Chaucerian Year.“Odd things happen to the hormones in May; and although people did not know about hormones…
Build High
April 30, 2002The Pixies’ original demo (The Purple Tape) will be released under the title “Pixies” by spinART records on July 9th.“The songs on this Cd…
Regular Return
April 29, 2002The Bristol Art Library is the smallest public lending library in the world, is “housed in a wooden cabinet the size of a small suitcase…
Earth People
April 28, 2002The Keo satellite launches at the end of 2003, carrying messages from everyone who has the urge to submit. It’s scheduled for return 50,00…
Time Zone
April 28, 2002The Guardian’s Charlie Porter on obsession-inducing 24.“Most of us never expected to get caught up in a series that covers essentially the…
Go Go Mobile
April 26, 2002The Guardian reports on new music recognition technology.“I dial a number on an ordinary mobile phone. There is a pause of 10 to 15 seconds…
Jazz Feathers
April 25, 2002Jay Rubin’s Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words looks worthwhile (if far from definitive or overly insightful).Related: critical Guardian…
Personals
April 25, 2002“Happily attached small anime girl seeks internet weirdo“. Apparently. Apply within.
Mutant Ibex
April 25, 2002Time to dig out Chris Morris’ excellent Pixies spoof Motherbanger (MP3, 1,139Kb).“My mother did something to meWhen I was 23She spilt a cup…
Break out the Mead
April 25, 2002After 72 years, the Dictionary of Middle English is finally finished.“Now, for the first time, what was being spoken in the streets and…
Standing By
April 23, 2002Create lego-style figures, like this rather poor rendition of Porkins, the aptly-named (and ill-fated) X-Wing pilot from Star Wars. If only…
Papercuts
April 23, 2002An excerpt from Nicholson Baker’s latest non-fiction work, Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper. Related: Nicholson Baker Fan…
No Nathaniel, No
April 23, 2002The complete lyrics from Jeff Wayne’s Musical Version of The War of the Worlds – the ultimate in-car entertainment for children of the late…
Joining Tiny Dots
April 23, 2002Pondering the original source of the phrase “and besides, the wench is dead” after noticing it in the author’s notes for Walter Tevis’ The…
Angels Versus Aliens
April 21, 2002Neon Genesis Evangelion – Perfect Collection released on DVD in the US.“Anno’s watershed series was not the first anime series to combine…
Visions of Sugar Pastry
April 21, 20023 Beads of Sweat are set to re-release ye olde Mountain Goats compilations on CD: Bitter Melon Farm, Ghana and Protein Source of the Future…
For Force
April 21, 2002New Fridge song – Surface Noise And Electric Piano (MP3, 6,251Kb). Related: Eph reissued (with Kinoshita Terasaka, Of EP and remixes).
Extreme Ironing
April 21, 2002“combining the dangers of ‘adrenaline’ sports with the satisfaction of pressed linen“.
Bring On The Clones
April 21, 2002Plagiarism.org appear to be crawling anglepoised with their sinister-sounding SlySearch. Cue paranoia.
Collared
April 21, 2002Two gory Battle Royale t-shirt designs from airside.
Working As A Cocktail In A Waitress Bar
April 19, 2002Whammstein – a covers band, concentrating on the very best in shouty grinding industrial and 80’s covers. Related: drinking whilst on…
Plug Me In
April 18, 2002Stuck for something to do this Thursday evening? Of course not. After all, you’re the busy, thrusting, socially well-endowed type! However…
Basscadet
April 18, 2002ATP have confirmed that Autechre will curate next year’s All Tomorrow’s Parties in the UK (as mentioned last month).No line-up announced yet…
Get Your Snack On
April 17, 2002Jim O’Rourke, Kim Gordon, Amon Tobin, Jeff Mills, Si Begg, Evolution Control Committee, Cornelius (and many, many more) feature in various…
Dining Out
April 17, 2002High impact Visa Asia commercial (WMV, 1,850k) featuring Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon star Zhang Ziyi. Also: short “making of…” movies and…
Spookyland
April 17, 2002Roman Dirge – a Tim Burton-esque animator (to do him a disservice). Related: Invader ZIM DivX.(Not strictly) related: Tim Burton’s Stainboy…
Rota Link
April 17, 2002The covers project (“building a database of cover songs… with the intention of creating cover ‘chains’”).
I’m The Operator
April 16, 2002Retrobeep – the obsolete and vintage computer museum at Bletchley Park.
Words Of Advice
April 16, 2002Feeding off the naked lunch – Irvine Welsh on Burroughs, Trocchi, the “relationship between drugs and the artistic muse” and new play…
Root Down
April 14, 2002The weblogging world is abuzz with speculation – what is BlogRoots? Oh silly, isn’t it obvious? It’s hair dye – for webloggers!
By The Stumps
April 14, 2002The origin of London’s place names (numerous but scanty details) and London Place names (fewer names with more detail). Books: A Dictionary…
Black Books
April 13, 2002Confessions of a slush pile reader:“I wish I could say that serving as a conduit between the publishing elite and the uncorrupted masses…
Hubert Selby Jr
April 13, 2002Reading from his latest novel Waiting Period (excerpt) at the SBC on Thursday 23 May.
Superfast Service
April 13, 2002The Fast Food Nation section on Penguin’s UK site (including interview with Eric Schlosser, extract and charming e-cards). Related: Fast…
Googling Free
April 13, 2002Google announces Web APIs (will hopefully lead to people making good use of the things that they find). Related: slightly obsessive (in a…
Ricket To Tide
April 08, 2002Anglepoised presents LJ Kruzer’s Since I Took A Taxi (MP3, 5,828k) – a stunning reworking of Bob James’ Angela (Theme from “Taxi”). Praise…
REG-baiting
April 08, 2002The Complete Tapehead Columns.
Not That It Matters
April 08, 2002Robyn reviews the final episode of the current Black Books series on Screenburn.
So You Wanna
April 08, 2002Fake being an indie rock expert?“It isn’t successful, it isn’t glamorous, it isn’t sexy, it isn’t insipid, and it isn’t likely to get you…
They’re Animals
April 08, 2002Like cows, or something! The official HR Giger website.
From the no-excuses dept.
April 08, 2002Strunk’s The Elements of Style available online at the excellent Bartleby.com. Other useful texts: Emily Post’s Etiquette in Society, in…
Le Soleil Est Pres De Moi
April 08, 2002London Air Quality Network’s live air pollution levels.
A Life in the Day
April 08, 2002Bill Birdwood, Dartmoor prison’s chaplain.
Mixmasters
April 03, 2002Addictive TV’s ITV1 music series of audio-visual DJ / VJ mixes repeated Friday nights from April 19th at 2.45am, featuring exclusive mixes…
Kidrobot
April 03, 2002Premium collectible Urban-style action figures for sale (from those nice people at Minidisco).“The figures we’ve got are designed by an…
Blip Blip Tennis
April 03, 2002Hefty collection of game mp3s, including Tony Hawks Pro Skater 2, Jet Set Radio Future, Parasite Eve Remixes, Tekken 3 Arcade OST and…
Pale And Ingratiating
April 03, 2002The I Dig Scrawny Pale Guys webring. Thankfully no “I Am A Scrawny Pale Guy” companion webring.
Skate Glug
April 03, 2002The UK’s first all-girl skateboarding event, April 5th at Sheffield’s The House skatepark.
Now get your ass to Mars
March 28, 2002Or rather, your name. Can’t help but think of Wowbagger and interstellar spam.
Turntable Hell
March 28, 2002UK-wide Extreme turntablist tour featuring Otomo Yoshihide, Marina Rosenfeld, Janek Schaefer, Lepke B and more.
My Fond Ambition
March 26, 2002Lyrics from Sushi K’s rap.I’m Sushi K and I’m here to say I like to rap in a different wayLook out Number One in every city Sushi K rap has…
Just Pool
March 26, 2002The Hustler, available on DVD from June.“You’ve the best excuse in the world for losing; no trouble losing when you got a good excuse…
On my bus
March 26, 2002The Warp Magic Bus Tour travels through Europe during May and June. Artists going on a summer holiday include Plaid, Prefuse 73, Ovuca, Luke…
The Real Thing
March 26, 2002Foil-wrapped Coca-Cola fortune cookies spotted a couple of weeks ago at Ed’s Easy Diner, Brent Cross. Unnerving.Still trampling on the pearl…
Judge Love (no relation)
March 25, 2002Electronic tagging of offenders inspired by Spiderman cartoon strip.“Jack Love was a newly appointed district judge in Albuquerque, New…
Leo Vroman
March 25, 2002“Holland’s most famous living artist-poet-scientist“. Related: Irrelativity (illustrations by Leo Vroman), Bi(bli)ografie (in Dutch).
A.N.G.L.E.P.O.I.S.E.D.
March 22, 2002Artificial Neohuman Generated for Logical Exploration/Positronic Organism Intended for Sabotage and Efficient Destruction.
Bad sex and bad TV
March 22, 2002The Breeders are back with two(!) new singles (Off You – limited, 10″ vinyl, mirror board sleeve – and Huffer) and a new album, Title TK…
Songs for children
March 22, 2002The new Belle and Sebastian album, Storytelling, is set for a June 3rd release.“The album is compiled of songs that were written throughout…
Sound Noise Music
March 22, 2002sonomu – a new project from the state51 conspiracy – “will become a unique personalised place for new music discovery and discussion…
Here’s your shirt
March 22, 2002Slightly obsessive (but attractive nonetheless) Magnum P.I. fansite, featuring a cut-out-and-fold-and-ticky-tape-and-keep paper model kit of…
An ignorant race
March 22, 2002Japan’s psychedelic earth worshippers Acid Mothers Temple perform a live score to the cult Japanese Manga classic “Urotsukidoji” – Legend Of…
Screenburn
March 21, 2002“A new TV review site for people who have had enough“, from the veritable Bobzilla.
Filthy electro-rap
March 19, 2002Download Gold Chains’ new I Come From San Francisco video. I want that deck. Gold Chains, DMX Crew, Uncharted Audio’s honcho extraordinaire…
Miffy
March 18, 2002The official Dick Bruna site featuring screensavers, colouring pictures, games and the Dick Bruna Song. Related: Miffy versus Hello Kitty.
Manga @ Magma
March 17, 2002Za Manga! “A close look at the fantastic history & the eccentric world of the Manga phenomena in Japan.” (11 March – 12 April at Magma…
Computers
March 17, 2002An Illustrated History.“Discover the fascinating history of computers, interfaces, and computer design in this illustrated guide that…
Music is math
March 17, 2002CNN article on music hardware vs. music software and related Slashdot discussion (ye olde “real” instruments vs. electronic instruments…
Still more fighting
March 17, 2002History of the Final Fantasy series.
Count the bubbles in your hand
March 14, 2002The Invisible Web Directory, for when Google just ain’t enough.
It has an international appeal
March 14, 2002The Lovebytes 2002 festival of digital art takes place this weekend in Sheffield, featuring Dave Green (of NTK fame), Apple Creative…
Beggars
March 14, 2002AV Deck “features pre-release and live independent music presented by DJ’s and artists from the Beggars Group of labels” (i.e. 4AD, Too Pure…
Embrace and extend
March 14, 2002iPod Hacks. Now all I need is an iPod. And a Mac.
The Shield
March 14, 2002“Look closely — well, you don’t even have to look that closely — and you’ll swear you’re watching an updated version of Homicide: Life on…
Sister magpie
March 14, 2002Jess is back with a new design and the beginnings of an anime sketchpad. It’s a full-on Love family weblogging offensive. Next week on the…
As olde stories tellen us
March 14, 2002Wonderland Society’s Canterbury Tales. I’m looking forward to the inevitable “Which Pilgrim Are You?” online personality test.
Flatland
March 14, 2002A romance of many dimensions.
The Centurions
March 14, 2002Power Xtreme! File under “dimly-remembered childrens cartoon that seemed wonderful at the time (perhaps brain only half-grown?)”.
Ellie Harrison
March 14, 2002Eat 22 and Kinetic Cake Vs Kinetic Carrot.
All Hail West Texas
March 12, 2002Companion site for the recent album by the Mountain Goats.
Powerpuff Girls Movie
March 09, 2002Why didn’t anyone tell me about this before? Due for release on the 3rd July 2002 in the US and 18th October in the UK. More details…
Cheap as Fopp
March 09, 2002Reduced prices on City Slang, Warp, Chemikal Undergound and Ninja Tune albums from Fopp shops.
Lo and Behold
March 09, 2002Lo Recordings get their act together with their new site, with information on Rothko, They Came From The Stars (I Saw Them), Barry 7, Luke…
The devil is in the details
March 09, 2002A list of references and oddities from the recent Boards of Canada album, Geogaddi.
From the Portishead mailing list
March 09, 2002On the 29th April 2002 we are releasing Portishead’s acclaimed PNYC live show remastered on DVD “PNYC“. Including the full length…
Pop-art windows
March 09, 2002Amusing client quotes. Salvaged from a dreamless.org thread.
Gateway to the Future
March 09, 2002The Science Museum’s Japanese exhibit finishes next weekend. It also marks the end of the year-long Japan 2001 festival.
Ho ho ho
March 09, 2002It’s not Christmas (or the anniversary of last year’s All Tomorrow’s Parties), but I can never find the lyrics to Atmosphere’s “If I was…
Classic Shooting Stars
March 09, 2002Vic and Bob perform a cover of the Dr Who theme tune (requires RealPlayer). My memory may be playing tricks; I’m sure the broadcast sketch…
Celebrity Chef antics
March 09, 2002Anthony Bourdain eats the beating heart of a freshly killed cobra (MPEG, 1472k).
Keep it simple
March 09, 2002Another weblog. Just what the world needs.