Written by Paul Love who lives and works in Edinburgh building useful things.
Battles - Sugarfoot ft. Jon Anderson & Prairie WWWW
December 18, 2020Battles - Sugarfoot ft. Jon Anderson & Prairie WWWW.
School of anti
December 12, 2019The Web, he saw, allowed everyone everywhere to develop the same otaku obsessions—with television, coffee, sneakers, guns. The mere…
Anna Meredith - Paramour
August 28, 2019Anna Meredith - Paramour.
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)
Lone - Dream Ache
January 01, 2014Lone – Dream Ache
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 Chime
Gonzales - Let's Groove Again
November 26, 2013Gonzales - Let’s Groove Again
Broadcast – Corporeal
November 08, 2013Broadcast – Corporeal
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 Huelgas
Racah - Microdot Double Drop | Acid
September 12, 2013Microdot Double Drop | Acid 12” single (lathe) by Racah
EVE Online - Soundtrack
September 07, 2013Music from EVE Online on SoundCloud.6.46.43 of coding-friendly aural wallpaper.
The security state isn’t a person, it’s people
August 25, 2013The security state isn’t a person, it’s people. There’s so many of them and they’ve been given leave to take so many liberties that they’ve…
Zero to Sixty in One Second
August 25, 2013Zero to Sixty in One Second — Acko.net
Darkside Teaser
August 25, 2013Darkside Teaser
Solid objects and scraps of useless information
August 11, 2013So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and to take a…
Accomplishment is unreliable
August 08, 2013Accomplishment is unreliable. “Succeeding,” whatever that might mean to you, is hard, and the need to do so constantly renews itself…
Slow Ideas
August 05, 2013In the era of the iPhone, Facebook, and Twitter, we’ve become enamored of ideas that spread as effortlessly as ether. We want frictionless…
100,000 Stars
July 29, 2013100,000 Stars
The House of Rumour
July 25, 2013Fleming saw the House of Rumour as the image of an intelligence service; we can know it now as an ancient vision of the internet. The haunt…
The slow flow of corporate will
July 25, 2013The slow flow of corporate will carried me through long weeks of no thought. Lacking a will of my own, I hosted the urges of the…
Cursor Miner – The Man With the Transparent Face
June 24, 2013Cursor Miner – The Man With the Transparent FaceStill goosebumpy.
Machinedrum – Eyesdontlie
June 23, 2013Machinedrum – Eyesdontlie
Bloc Party – I Still Remember (The Chap remix)
June 20, 2013Bloc Party – I Still Remember (The Chap remix)
Mala – Changes (James Blake Harmonimix)
June 18, 2013Mala – Changes (James Blake Harmonimix)
Iain Banks: the final interview
June 18, 2013I can understand that people want to feel special and important and so on, but that self-obsession seems a bit pathetic somehow. Not being…
Iain M Banks' Universe
June 15, 2013The Culture itself represents an elegant absorption of, and therefore displacement of, one whole department of religious yearning. It offers…
The Foursquare Time Machine
June 14, 2013Now you can relive the thrill of the time you went from your house to a coffee shop to your job to a sandwich place to the grocery store to…
Lone – Airglow Fires
June 08, 2013Lone – Airglow Fires
Efficiency in production processes is key
June 07, 2013I think efficiency in production processes is key to successful sonic exploration and expression. If one has to do extensive, non-essential…
Game of Thrones - Red Wedding (Storybook Edition)
June 06, 2013Game of Thrones – “Red Wedding” (Storybook Edition)
Michel Moulinié – Lente Course
May 31, 2013Michel Moulinié – Lente Course
Skúli Sverrisson - Sería
May 26, 2013Skúli Sverrisson – Sería
Slowly, agonizingly, humans learned how the universe worked
May 22, 2013Slowly, agonizingly, humans learned how the universe worked, abandoning most of the fanciful beliefs they carried through their long, dark…
Here comes the Royal Family now
May 18, 2013Here comes the Royal Family now. The automobile has now stopped….Oh, there’s the King – he’s stepping out, followed by her Majesty Queen…
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…
Carl Craig – Frustration
May 08, 2013Carl Craig – Frustration
Recondite – Tie In
May 06, 2013Recondite – Tie In
The freedom to learn from experience
April 29, 2013The measure of (mental) health is flexibility (not comparison to some ‘norm’), the freedom to learn from experience … to be influenced by…
Isolée – Démon
April 17, 2013Isolée – Démon.
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…
Cannibal Ox – Gases In Hell (Inhale)
April 11, 2013Cannibal Ox – Gases In Hell (Inhale).
The placeholder emotion
April 10, 2013‘Like’ is the placeholder emotion. Don’t give the world more shit people ‘like’.— Leonard Richardson, Constellation Games
Remembering Margaret Thatcher
April 10, 2013All of us that grew up under Thatcher were taught that it is good to be selfish, that other people’s pain is not your problem, that pain is…
Wisdom flowers and spreads
March 21, 2013Never before have human beings so benefited from membership in a sagacious, scientific, and increasingly virtuous civilization. Wisdom…
And then there are the indignation junkies
March 21, 2013In some people, a hedonic gratification pattern can be achieved simply by entering certain frames of mind. For example, the cyclical jolt…
The Future Sound of London – The Far-Out Son of Lung and the Ramblings of a Madman
March 21, 2013The Future Sound of London – The Far-Out Son of Lung and the Ramblings of a Madman
Japanese Telecom – Japanese Animation
March 16, 2013Japanese Telecom – Japanese Animation
You of the deservedly punished five-minute overstay
March 16, 2013There were times when she wanted to say: Get down on your knees! Be grateful! A billion people living on a dollar a day, as many who can’t…
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…
Hitler finds out Google Reader is shutting down
March 14, 2013Anyone who thinks social media is a valid replacement for an RSS-reader, leave the room now.Hitler finds out Google Reader is shutting down
What We Talk about When We Talk about the Tube
March 04, 2013Londoners treat the underground not as a stage set, a place where we’re on display, but as a neutral space, one in which we don’t overtly…
Black Chow – Air
February 07, 2013Black Chow – Air
Visonia & Dopplereffekt – Die Reisen
February 07, 2013Visonia & Dopplereffekt – Die Reisen
Vertical Video Syndrome – A PSA
December 25, 2012Vertical Video Syndrome – A PSA.
Fever Ray – If I Had A Heart
December 22, 2012Fever Ray – If I Had A Heart
My Dry Wet Mess - Austere Coincidences
December 03, 2012My Dry Wet Mess – Austere Coincidences
BEAK – Mono
December 03, 2012BEAK – Mono
Burial – Cold Planet
November 18, 2012Burial – Cold Planet
The Greg Foat Group – Have Spacesuit Will Travel (Part II)
November 11, 2012The Greg Foat Group – Have Spacesuit Will Travel (Part II)
Barack Obama And The Death Of Normal
November 08, 2012America is different now, more so with every election cycle. Ronald Reagan won his mandate in an America in which 89 percent of the voters…
What Work Is Really For
October 24, 2012From our infancy the market itself has worked to make us consumers, primed to buy whatever it is selling regardless of its relevance to…
Ways of Seeing
October 24, 2012Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their own interests as narrowly as possible. This was once achieved…
4x4s are killing my planet
October 18, 2012The separation of knowledge and place moves us slowly towards a society in which it is increasingly unnecessary for us to be aware of where…
Stephen Walter - The Island
October 15, 2012Stephen Walter, ‘The Island’, 2008The Island satirises the London-centric view of the English capital and its commuter towns as independent…
Werkha – Le Roitelet
October 15, 2012Werkha – Le Roitelet
Men clamour for what is popularly considered the best
October 15, 2012It is much to be regretted that so much of the apparent enthusiasm for art at the present day has no foundation in real feeling. In this…
Atoms For Peace - Default
October 15, 2012Atoms For Peace – Default
Only connect
October 12, 2012It is harder to dispose of anything, or to act selfishly towards it, once one has paid attention to its details. This is an environmentalist…
Let’s hope you’re wrong
October 12, 2012MSV Pressure Drop: Let’s hope you’re wrong. LOU Caconym: Yes, why don’t we? That ought to pass the time.— Iain M. Banks, The Hydrogen Sonata
Shunt tunnel
October 12, 2012Shunt tunnel
The Hydrogen Sonata
October 12, 2012Once one survives the trough that comes with the understanding that people are going to go on being stupid and cruel to each other no matter…
Mountains of the Mind
October 11, 2012One forgets that there are environments which do not respond to the flick of a switch or the twist of a dial, and which have their own…
Kilo Kish - Navy
October 11, 2012Kilo Kish – Navy
Gulls wheel through spokes of sunlight
October 01, 2012Gulls wheel through spokes of sunlight over gracious roofs and dowdy thatch, snatching entrails at the marketplace and escaping over…
When you get to your wild place, who will you meet there?
September 19, 2012There is an undertow to our yearning for wilderness that feels less comfortable. When you get to your wild place, who will you meet there…
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…
T.Power - Waveform
August 16, 2012T.Power - Waveform
Ukkonen – Disambedience Mix
August 16, 2012Ukkonen – Disambedience Mix
Spectator of your own Life
August 08, 2012The more you document your own life, the more you check in, you tweet, the more you post photos of what you did last night, the more you do…
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…
Milanese - Cowboy
August 03, 2012Milanese – Cowboy
View from the ISS at Night
July 26, 2012View from the ISS at Night
John Callaghan - Phylactery
July 14, 2012John Callaghan – Phylactery
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…
Dubstep Dispute
July 04, 2012Dubstep Dispute
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…
Top Cat – it's indefensible
June 01, 2012Top Cat! Do you remember it? Top Cat! Well, they’ve dismembered it. Cartoon cats who’re breaking the law — we loved it on TV, but the film…
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…
Meet The New Boss, Worse Than The Old Boss?
May 31, 2012I’ll make technologists a deal, I’ll give up my song copyrights if you give up your software patents. Software patents are even less unique…
Deux - Game & Performance
May 30, 2012Deux – Game & Performance
Thomas Heatherwick - the new Da Vinci of design
May 24, 2012As to how he finds design solutions, he says the process is almost the opposite of having a “Eureka” moment. “It is more like solving a…
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…
Underground Resistance – Transition
May 01, 2012Underground Resistance – Transition.
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…
Caine’s Arcade
April 13, 2012Caine’s Arcade
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…
O2 Skywalk Virtual Tour
March 21, 2012O2 Skywalk Virtual Tour
MAKE THE LOGO BIGGER
March 16, 2012MAKE THE LOGO BIGGER (by LucDaveFabien)
Underfull tablecloth
March 01, 2012Underfull – the tablecloth that turns spilling into poetry (by Kristine Bjaadal)
Baths - Seaside Town
February 16, 2012Baths - Seaside Town
Frank Ocean – Swim Good
January 27, 2012Frank Ocean – Swim Good
Leila – welcome to your life
January 24, 2012Leila – welcome to your life
Leila ft. Mt. Sims - (disappointed cloud) anyway
December 19, 2011Leila ft. Mt. Sims – (disappointed cloud) anyway
Max Richter – Last Days
December 13, 2011Max Richter – Last Days
Johnny Dangerous – King of Clubs
December 06, 2011Johnny Dangerous – King of Clubs
Patten – Blush Mosaic (Ukkonen remix)
December 06, 2011Patten – Blush Mosaic (Ukkonen remix)
The Jet Age Of Tomorrow - Want You Still (ft. Kilo Kish)
November 24, 2011The Jet Age Of Tomorrow – Want You Still (ft. Kilo Kish)
Der Zyklus - Formenverwandler (Shapeshifter)
November 23, 2011Der Zyklus – Formenverwandler (Shapeshifter)
Amon Tobin - Calculate
November 20, 2011Amon Tobin – Calculate (by JimJam Graphics)
The London River Park: place for the people or a private playground?
November 15, 2011If a space is private, it should not be called public, and planners should send back any application that makes this false claim. This…
No more Seattles and no more Haight-Ashburys
November 15, 2011There are no backwaters where things can breed—our connectivity is so high and so global that there are no more Seattles and no more Haight…
Barbara Morgenstern – Aus Heiterem Himmel
November 15, 2011Barbara Morgenstern – Aus Heiterem Himmel
Whatever made you think it was your data anyway?
November 03, 2011If your data exists only as hosted by “free” services on the internet, you should assume not only that it’s not your data, but that it doesn…
Roof Light – Two Cities (dub)
November 01, 2011Roof Light – Two Cities (dub)
Xenoblade Chronicles - Gaur Plain
November 01, 2011Xenoblade Chronicles – Gaur Plain.
Mount Kimbie - Mayor
October 21, 2011Mount Kimbie – Mayor
Erik XVI – When Particles Collide
October 20, 2011Erik XVI – When Particles Collide.Also taken from Highpoint Lowlife’s Physic or Surgery.
Fisk Industries – Death Is The Final Step
October 20, 2011Fisk Industries – Death Is The Final Step.From the excellent but rather too final Highpoint Lowlife release, Physic or Surgery.
South London Art Map
October 20, 2011South London Art Map“a user-friendly guide to galleries in South London.”
Cyan 341 – Disconnected (Orlando B’s Jackin House Remix)
October 20, 2011Cyan 341 – Disconnected (Orlando B’s Jackin House Remix)
SAMO© by Greg Enemy
October 20, 2011SAMO© by Greg EnemySAMO© from xtra small by Greg Enemy
From Scroll to Screen
October 14, 2011So far the great e-book debate has barely touched on the most important feature that the codex introduced: the nonlinear reading that so…
Symbion Project - Like One Returning from the Waves
October 07, 2011Symbion Project - Like One Returning from the Waves
Bassment Jaxx vs Metropole Orkest - Where's Your Head At
August 30, 2011Bassment Jaxx vs Metropole Orkest – Where’s Your Head At
The Christening
August 16, 2011I am a sperm whale. I carry up to 2.5 tonnes of an oil-like balm in my huge, coffin-shaped head. I have a brain the size of a basketball…
Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle - Social Stew
May 24, 2011Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle - Social Stew
Spectators of life
April 29, 2011A man sometimes devotes his life to a desire which he is not sure will ever be fulfilled. Those who laugh at this folly are, after all, no…
It’s Going to Take A While
April 28, 2011For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste…
The Unbearable Triviality Of Social Networking
April 18, 2011Space travel gave us the ability to see our own world from afar, revealing to us the fragility of our world and the insignificance of human…
Diseases of Affluence
March 30, 2011Limiting our competence to our profession, and perhaps a consuming hobby or two, renders a large part of the world bewildering—and few…
Facebook is looking for a mentor
February 17, 2011I think Facebook is looking for a mentor, they are looking for a role model. Right now it is choosing between Apple and Google in this great…
I Have Seen the Future and I Am Opposed
February 17, 2011Just as previous corporate warlords used the existence of real inefficiencies and deficiencies in other media to gain control, equipment…
SHA-1 collisions
February 16, 2011Here’s an example to give you an idea of what it would take to get a SHA-1 collision. If all 6.5 billion humans on Earth were programming…
Metronomy – She Wants
January 26, 2011Metronomy – She Wants
A Web of Air
January 20, 2011“Good luck,” she said obediently, although she did not believe in luck, only in engineering and the laws of physics.— Philip Reeve, A Web of…
Handheld twit machines
January 19, 2011The idiots are self-regarding consumer slaves, oblivious to the paradox of their uniform individuality. They sculpt their hair to casual…
Raw Spirit: In Search of the Perfect Dram
January 13, 2011I love this assimilative aspect of whisky. I love the fact that single malts, those apparent paradigms of purity, actually show far more…
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…
Rondò Veneziano - La Serenissima
December 07, 2010Rondò Veneziano - La SerenissimaWithout the rondo, no Daft Punk, no Justice.
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…
The most powerful single driver of change
November 30, 2010Emergent technology is the most powerful single driver of change in the world, and it has been forever. Technology trumps politics…
The Joy of Stats
November 29, 2010200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes – The Joy of Stats – BBC Four (via BBC)
Across America in 15 minutes
November 08, 2010Across America in 15 minutes
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…
Walls – Gaberdine
October 20, 2010Walls – Gaberdine (by JimJam Graphics)
History will see these cuts as one of the great acts of political folly
October 18, 2010The haste to cut so blindly and so crudely, unless we are very lucky, will be seen by future historians as one of the great acts of economic…
Being in a band
October 15, 2010There’s a perversion of normal ethical standards, indulged and encouraged by a music industry that feels more important the more it is…
Part Of You
October 14, 2010Part Of You
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…
Posthuman – The Ottawa Object (LJ Kruzer Remix)
October 02, 2010Posthuman – The Ottawa Object (LJ Kruzer Remix)
Romantic Modernism
October 01, 2010Whereas high modernism wanted to lay waste to the material past in order to re-fashion it upon rational lines, romantic modernists had a…
Gunpoint
September 23, 2010Coding is the Socratic method as an extreme sport.— Tom Francis, Gunpoint: AI
Fangoria 2010 - Machine
September 07, 2010Fangoria 2010 – Machine. Well done, gentlemen.
Scott Pilgrim Vs. FLCL
September 04, 2010https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVpjslCpbNEScott Pilgrim Vs. FLCL
Madison Avenue
September 04, 2010One could argue that it is precisely that continual search for difference that has led us into the static world of today. If consumerism…
Posthuman – Mobile Mast
August 26, 2010Posthuman – Mobile Mast
Leaves and small twigs in constant motion
August 23, 2010Leaves and small twigs in constant motion; wind extends light flag. Raises dust and loose paper; small branches are moved. Small trees in…
Cursor Miner - Luna
August 11, 2010Cursor Miner – Luna (by Uncharted Audio)
The Graphing Calculator Story
August 09, 2010It is a cliche in our business that the first 90 percent of the work is easy, the second 90 percent wears you down, and the last 90 percent…
Ratatat – Drugs
August 09, 2010Ratatat – Drugs
The Chap - We work in bars
August 05, 2010The Chap – We work in bars
The Oregon Trail - Official Trailer
August 03, 2010The Oregon Trail – Official Trailer.“Based on the classic educational computer game”.
Music Business 2000-9: The Medium, the Message
July 24, 2010Recorded music in the Noughties went from being a high-margin, luxury product to a cheap, low-margin commodity. No other industry has…
AT-AT Day Afternoon
July 21, 2010AT-AT DAY AFTERNOON
Lagoa Multiphysics 1.0 Teaser
July 21, 2010Lagoa Multiphysics 1.0 – Teaser. Hawt.
The rail to nowhere
July 14, 2010The question “what’s the point?” has been asked about Berney Arms station ever since its creation in the 1840s. One might assume the pub was…
The Chap - Even Your Friend
July 10, 2010The Chap – Even Your Friend
Once more unto the pitch
June 20, 2010Enter RooneyCROWD: Boooo!ROONEY: Who are they that boo so? Our England fans? No, my fair supporters. If we are mark’d to lose, we hurt…
Stuff: the mixed bag of the quotidian
June 20, 2010The Future, capital-F, be it crystalline city on the hill or radioactive post-nuclear wasteland, is gone. Ahead of us, there is merely… more…
How long does a Happy Meal stay fresh?
June 17, 2010How long does a Happy Meal stay fresh?
Lego Hello World
June 02, 2010Lego Hello World (via horseattack)
Narrative Ponzi scheme
May 31, 2010In a way Lost worked liked a narrative Ponzi scheme in which the viewer was encouraged by the producers to invest in a story on which they…
National Trust: The Album
May 22, 2010National Trust: The Album:The 33-minute recording titled National Trust: The Album takes the listener on an audio journey around Britain…
Dalston. Ala
May 14, 2010Dalston. Ala from The Village Orchestra’s ‘Amid The Blaze of Noon’, a DVD album of audio and visuals inspired by Dalston and Stoke Newington…
Google Chrome Speed Tests
May 13, 2010Google Chrome Speed Tests, via GU Planning.
Cassetteboy vs Party Leaders
May 09, 2010Cassetteboy vs Party Leaders
Real World Web
April 24, 2010David Cameron, man of the people
April 24, 2010David Cameron, man of the people – talking about planting a hedge
SolarBeat
April 23, 2010SolarBeat
LCD Soundsystem – Drunk Girls
April 21, 2010LCD Soundsystem – Drunk Girls (via jessandnick)
Augmented (hyper)Reality - Domestic Robocop
April 21, 2010Augmented (hyper)Reality: Domestic Robocop.Cup. Of. Tea.
SEO copywriters
April 15, 2010what you loved when you were nine or ten
March 25, 2010I’ve found that your chances for happiness are increased if you wind up doing something that is a reflection of what you loved most when you…
Pink Terror
March 25, 2010Pink Terror
The most dangerous drug isn't meow meow. It isn't even alcohol ...
March 22, 2010In its purest form, a newspaper consists of a collection of facts which, in controlled circumstances, can actively improve knowledge…
Broadcast Yourself
March 19, 2010For years, Viacom continuously and secretly uploaded its content to YouTube, even while publicly complaining about its presence there. It…
The Future of Publishing
March 18, 2010The Future of Publishing | Penguin Blog (USA)
JR expo Paris de Women are Heroes
March 13, 2010JR expo Paris de Women are Heroes
Scott And Scurvy
March 13, 2010In the second half of the nineteenth century, the cure for scurvy was lost. The story of how this happened is a striking demonstration of…
Charlie Brooker's Newswipe - How to Report the News
March 12, 2010It starts here, with a lacklustre establishing shot of a significant location.Charlie Brooker’s Newswipe - How to Report the News
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot at Barbican Centre
March 05, 2010Céleste Boursier-Mougenot at Barbican Centre
NOBY NOBY BOY
February 27, 2010NOBY NOBY BOY. All meetings should be like this. More at the NBGIiPhone channel.
The Sandpit
February 27, 2010The Sandpit
Public limited companies are amoral
February 27, 2010Public limited companies are amoral. They’re driven purely by their constitutional requirement to turn as large a profit as possible for…
Dripsophone
February 26, 2010Dripsophone, “an unreliable water driven sequencing device”.
Akira Kiteshi - Ming The Merciless (Hexstatic video edit)
February 24, 2010Akira Kiteshi – Ming The Merciless (Hexstatic video edit)
Brixton Cops Ban Bashment & Funky House
February 23, 2010Patrolman 1: “Right, so if it goes ‘fump fump fump,’ we go in and bust some heads, yeah? Commander: “No, no, no! Remember, decent people…
Fabrice Lig - Cosmic Booty - RJDJ Scene
February 17, 2010Fabrice Lig – Cosmic Booty – RJDJ Scene
DJ D4V3PH3X - I’m A Producer
February 17, 2010DJ D4V3PH3X - I’m A Producer
Newsnight report about The Foundry
February 15, 2010Newsnight report about The Foundry
Connective information tissue
February 14, 2010Those frustrated with Twitter are frustrated because they have a belief that a story needs a beginning, middle, and end. And that it should…
The costs of publishing an ebook are not zero
February 05, 2010The costs of publishing an ebook are not zero. That is, if you have any interest at all in a quality product. No one goes around suggesting…
Massive Attack – Splitting the Atom
February 04, 2010Massive Attack – Splitting the Atom
Craftman’s spirit
January 31, 2010There is a similar craftman’s spirit (“shokunin kishitsu” or “shokunin katagi”) in Europe. Yet in Europe I can see it coming alive only from…
Maximum loudness
January 31, 2010By producing music that’s always aiming for maximum loudness you don’t give people good reasons anymore to properly listen to the music. And…
Live Performance in the Age of Supercomputing
January 24, 2010There is an interesting difference between the computer music presenter and a live act. While the centered tape operator has perfect…
The monetization paradox (or why Google is not my friend)
January 24, 2010Here’s a hint: if I wanted to spend my time marketing my books I’d have gone into marketing. I’m a writer. Every hour spent on marketing…
Recorded music equals whale blubber
January 24, 2010I think records were just a little bubble through time and those who made a living from them for a while were lucky. There is no reason why…
Fleshmap: Music
January 14, 2010Fleshmap: Music“What do we sing about, when we sing about the body? The chart below, based on a sample of thousands songs, tells the story…
Acid Washed - General Motors, Detroit, America
January 12, 2010Acid Washed – General Motors, Detroit, America
Posthuman - Europa Sky
December 26, 2009Posthuman – Europa Sky
Ghostly’s Favorite Albums of the Decade
December 24, 2009Ghostly’s Favorite Albums of the DecadeIncredible, incredible, incredible list from Ghostly.
Computers offer a faster way to cure humanity’s ills
December 24, 2009“Although these stories are reports about medical research, they are really about computing – in the sense that neither would have been…
DJ Food – Blech 20.1
December 23, 2009DJ Food – Blech 20.1“Part 1 of a new Blech collection – classic tracks from Warp’s 20 year history, mixed together by Strictly kev aka DJ…
Syn Emergence
December 07, 2009Syn Emergence.A beautiful taster of the forthcoming Posthuman DVD.Syn Emergence is a project which examines my own associative relationships…
Working for the Man
December 03, 2009Steven Poole: Working for the Man“What would videogaming look like if it rejected the machine as a model for play, if more games…
'The Posters Came from the Walls' excerpt 1
November 19, 2009‘The Posters Came from the Walls’ excerpt 1.Probably the best cover of Personal Jesus. Like, ever.
The Reverse Geocache Puzzle
November 07, 2009The Reverse Geocache Puzzle ™ | Arduiniana“Mounted into the lid, perhaps incongruously, are an illuminated button, a small display, and a…
John Callaghan - Loudhailer
October 26, 2009John Callaghan – Loudhailer.Recorded as part of One & Other. This was Anthony Gormley’s piece where a member of the British public would…
Posthuman – Lander
October 12, 2009Posthuman – Lander.
Voltage
October 08, 2009Just like modular synthesizers, people connect with each other in order to achieve diverse objectives. In Voltage, robots, half-human and…
Wheel of Stars
October 07, 2009Wheel of Stars“A musical clock made of stars. To make this, I downloaded public data from Hipparcos, a satellite launched by the European…
Pachube.com: augmented reality demo
October 06, 2009Pachube.com: augmented reality demo.This is a quick augmented reality demo showing live Pachube data displayed in realtime ‘on top’ of…
Regolith - 344s
October 02, 2009Regolith – 344s
Tortoise – Prepare Your Coffin
September 17, 2009Tortoise – Prepare Your Coffin
Telecom Center -Tokyo Miniature-
September 17, 2009Telecom Center -Tokyo Miniature-
GaBLé - Drunk fox in London
September 10, 2009GaBLé - Drunk fox in London.
Introducing Astrotags
September 10, 2009Introducing astrotags.Astrotags are a new way to label your astronomy photos with their celestial subject and its location. This short film…
Prickles & Goo
September 07, 2009Prickles & Goo: Alan Watts Trey Parker Matt Stone South Park.This is one of several animated short films set to the audio recordings of…
Neurosonics Audiomedical Labs Inc.
September 07, 2009Neurosonics Audiomedical Labs Inc.
BBC4 Synth Britannia Trailer
September 03, 2009BBC4 Synth Britannia Trailer.
Villalobos - A Film By Romuald Karmakar
August 27, 2009VILLALOBOS trailer.“Film by Romuald Karmakar on Chilean DJ and musician Ricardo Villalobos which will have it’s World Premiere at the 66th…
The deification of youth and stupidity
August 23, 2009“Craig Ferguson on the deification of youth and stupidity – and why it’s advertising’s fault” (via katy lindemann).
Kids on DSP meet Carl Craig
August 20, 2009Kids on DSP meet Carl Craig.“So you’re not just playing the last 5 minutes backwards, you are actually playing reality backwards in realtime…
Poolga
August 14, 2009Poolga“iPhone and iPod Touch wallpapers from a selection of designers and illustrators from around the world.”
Murmur Study
August 11, 2009Murmur Study.Messages containing hundreds of variations on words such as argh, meh, grrrr, oooo, ewww, and hmph, are printed as an endless…
Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale
August 04, 2009World Science Festival 2009: Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale.
Yellow Drum Machine
July 31, 2009Yellow Drum Machine.
Eyebrow Hat
July 30, 2009Eyebrow Hat.
Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain
July 28, 2009Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain
Cyan341 - Disconnected
July 28, 2009Cyan341 – Disconnected.This video was shot every Monday during March. All ‘news’, text and information was taken from internet news sites on…
Dear Royal Mail, here’s an idea for you
July 21, 2009notes: Dear Royal Mail, here’s an idea for you“How about you make something that would take away that hassle, but still let us send…
Kuroshio Sea
July 17, 2009Kuroshio Sea.
Rone – Spanish Breakfast
July 12, 2009Rone – Spanish Breakfast.
Photojojo’s Photo Time Capsule
July 02, 2009Photojojo’s Photo Time Capsule“Twice a month, enjoy an email with your Flickr photos from a year ago”.
Bandstand Busking
June 25, 2009Bandstand Busking“There are loads of bandstands in parks across London, and most of them are looking fairly tattered from lack of use. When…
Jasuto
June 24, 2009Jasuto“The first truly modular synthesizer for the iPhone”
Stephen Bayley’s opinion on the battle for Chelsea Barracks
June 24, 2009Stephen Bayley’s opinion on the battle for Chelsea Barracks“The fabulous absurdity of the media “debate” between Prince Charles and Richard…
Design Museum - Super Contemporary
June 22, 2009Design Museum – Super Contemporary.Interactive map that shows the births, marriages and deaths of the digital design industry of London…
ASCII-O-Matic : SUBPOP RECS
June 17, 2009ASCII-O-Matic : SUBPOP RECSNew Sub Pop sampler. Handsome Furs, Iron and Wine, Fleet Foxes, Flight of the Conchords and more, with an…
Steve Jobs’ farts on Twitter
June 16, 2009Steve Jobs’ farts (stevejobsfarts) on Twitter“The Twitter Apple fanatics everywhere have been waiting for. Updated in real time.”
What is a monome?
June 16, 2009Welcome to Monome.What is a monome? Monomes are fun to watch, but what is actually going on?
Sin Fang Bous - Catch the Light
June 16, 2009Sin Fang Bous plays Catch the Light in his studio
LJ Kruzer - Tam
June 10, 2009LJ Kruzer – TamBefore working on this piece, I spent a lot of time listening to the track and album as I really wanted to immerse myself in…
static : pulse
June 10, 2009static : pulse
UNIQLO CALENDAR
June 10, 2009UNIQLO CALENDAR.
The Book Seer
June 09, 2009The Book Seer“Excuse me, I’ve just finished reading _ by _. What should I read next?”
PTAM + AR on an iPhone 3G
June 03, 2009PTAM + AR on an iPhone 3G.
3D AR video
June 01, 20093D AR video (the AR that involves a webcam and a bit of custom paper).Background from Creative Review.
Mapumental
June 01, 2009Mapumental.Mmm, maps.
When I Grow Up I Wanna Work in Advertising
June 01, 2009When I Grow Up I Wanna Work in Advertising.
Play me I’m yours
May 30, 2009Play me I’m yours“This June, 30 pianos will be delivered to the streets of London as part of Sing London and the City of London Festival…
Real-world smeariness
May 21, 2009We won’t need to spend all our time pounding keys and clicking mice inside our web browsers. Instead, we’re going to end up with the…
Spinach, yeah
May 21, 2009Spinach, yeah. Good on its own, but even better with potatoes. Now add some onions to the mix, now don’t forget tomatoes. Spinach, yeah, it…
FUCK this website
May 19, 2009FUCK this website
Ten Things I Have Learned
May 19, 2009What is required in our field, more than anything else, is the continuous transgression. Professionalism does not allow for that because…
Everyone At Valve Has Been Fired
May 19, 2009The lesson to be learned here is that when something screws with your careful plans, you take control of that thing, warp it to your every…
Amnesia Razorfish - Staff Directory on Surface
May 17, 2009Amnesia Razorfish – Staff Directory on Surface.The Staff Directory application uses Surface tags printed on all Amnesia Razorfish business…
Harmonic 313 – Battlestar
May 17, 2009Harmonic 313 – Battlestar.Shot stereoscopically (i.e. on 2 identical cameras separated in space to mimic 2 eyes) the clip uses a flicking…
The Wire with a laugh track
May 16, 2009The Wire with a laugh track.
RUBBERDUCKZILLA!
May 16, 2009RUBBERDUCKZILLA!Oasis AR microsite with a retrogaming feel from Poke/The Flippers.
La Roux - Leaked Early Demo Version Skream Rmx - In For The Kill
May 16, 2009La Roux – Leaked Early Demo Version Skream Rmx – In For The Kill. Top trumps!
Tam Variations
May 15, 2009LJ Kruzer and Uncharted Audio present the Tam Variations, eight engaging experimental versions of Tam, a piece which features on Kruzer’s…
You get the work you do
May 14, 2009Here’s another. You get the work you do. If you want to do something else start doing it.— Jack Schulze, Six Questions from Kicker
No one cares about what you think
May 14, 2009No one cares about what you think, unless you do what you think. No one cares what you do, unless you think about what you do. No one ever…
The Brooklyn Superhero Supply Company
May 14, 2009The Brooklyn Superhero Supply Company“Online purveyors of high quality crimefighting merchandise.”
If you have ever carried 1200 vinyl records
May 13, 2009Line – Number One (Cyan341 remix)
May 04, 2009Line – Number One (Cyan341 remix)
MEAT CARDS
April 24, 2009MEAT CARDS“Screw die-cutting. Forget about foil, popups, or UV spot lamination. THESE business cards have two ingredients: MEAT AND LASERS.”
42BELOW London Adland
April 21, 200942BELOW: London Adland. Uncannily accurate.
Devo - Don’t Shoot (I’m A Man)
April 21, 2009New material from Devo: Don’t Shoot (I’m A Man) (via ireallylovemusic)
Making Lambs Anger
April 19, 2009Mr OIZO - Making Lambs Anger.
The Village Orchestra FACT magazine interview
April 17, 2009FACT magazine: Download/Interview: The Village Orchestra (Full Album)Really enjoying this album.“We’ve hooked up with the excellent…
The Black Dog - Further Vexations
April 16, 2009The Black Dog - Further Vexations
Victory of the ‘Shropshire thunderbolt’
April 13, 2009“Its staff are polite, serve afternoon tea and let you buy your ticket on the train – and now they’ve seen off competition from Virgin”.I…
When does a job feel meaningful?
April 09, 2009When does a job feel meaningful? Whenever it allows us to generate delight or reduce suffering in others.— Alain de Botton, The Pleasures…
Your business card is CRAP!
April 09, 2009Your business card is CRAP!
Basking in Reflected Glory
April 02, 2009If you are a sexy, cool charismatic brand, you will have a fairly easy life on social media – people would want to hear from you and be…
Building Services Porn
March 27, 2009Building Services Porn
Teaser for upcoming Stars of the Lid feature film
March 24, 2009Teaser for upcoming Stars of the Lid feature film.
Just sit down. And write some music.
March 20, 2009I’ve always said, and I’ll always stand by it no matter who says I’m wrong, that the best way to have a music career is to sit down and…
Bathtub IV
March 17, 2009Bathtub IV.
Introducing Boffin: Last.fm’s music knowledge meets your local mp3 collection
March 11, 2009Last.fm – the Blog · Introducing Boffin: Last.fm’s music knowledge meets your local mp3 collection“Wouldn’t it be great if you could tune…
Fluid Grids
March 11, 2009Instead of exploring the benefits of flexible web design, we rely on a little white lie: “minimum screen resolution.” These three words…
Warp20 (Vote)
March 11, 2009Warp20 (Vote)“Vote for your favourite ever Warp tracks here. Your top 10 (by different artists) will combine with our top 10 to make a…
Guardian Open Platform
March 10, 2009Guardian Open Platform is a chasmic leap into the future. It is a work of simplistic beauty that I’m sure will have a dramatic impact in the…
Stalin vs. Martians Trailer
March 08, 2009Stalin vs. Martians Trailer.
Sine Language
March 06, 2009Sine Language.Music by On Rails.Direcected by flippersFeatured at Geek Pop.
Art bollocks
March 06, 2009“Art bollocks has become institutionalised, normalised and is now practically the default way of writing about art and culture for seasoned…
One & Other
February 26, 2009One & Other“Antony Gormley, the man behind Britain’s best-loved sculpture The Angel of the North, is inviting the people of the UK to occupy…
Octavcat - Lcary Sullaby, Live AV Performance, Videocrash 2 @ Koko
February 23, 2009Octavcat – Lcary Sullaby, Live AV Performance, Videocrash 2 @ Koko
Accenture’s next champion of waffle words
February 20, 2009“Mr Foster says that what must be done is to teach organisations to “expand their talent management agenda from a narrow and tactical focus…
Aviator shades, beards and hats
February 18, 2009For the record, I Cursor Miner have predicted many of the trends in music and culture over the past decade. I predicted the rise of the…
Def Jux Free Tracks Playlist
February 17, 2009Def Jux Free Tracks Playlist, a playlist by Definitive Jux, on Fairtilizer
Lost in a moment – Tokyo
February 16, 2009Lost in a moment – Tokyo.An impromptu film made in Tokyo by Dennis Wheatley and Stefan McClean. They were sitting in this sushi bar…
Siftables
February 14, 2009TED: Siftables, the toy blocks that thinkCookie-sized, computerized tiles you can stack and shuffle in your hands. These future-toys can do…
Ten Tracks
February 12, 2009Quality music at a low price, and fair pay for artists - Ten TracksLove this idea. Deserves support, I think. “Ten Tracks is an innovative…
Inside the dark art of mastering
February 02, 2009RA: Inside the dark art of mastering – Feature / Interview“What a mastering engineer does – and why they’re vitally important to every note…
LJ Kruzer – Tam
February 02, 2009LJ Kruzer – Tam.
Geek Pop
February 02, 2009geekpop.co.uk“Geek Pop is the world’s only sci-pop festival – a free online music event featuring songs about science. In 2009, Geek Pop…
BLEEP – Special 5th Birthday feature
January 29, 2009BLEEP – Special 5th Birthday featureTo celebrate Bleep’s 5th birthday, we asked a select cast of people working in music to pick their…
HAL 9000 screensaver
January 26, 2009HAL 9000 screensaverI can see you’re really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think…
RFID Snowflake Installation
January 24, 2009cartographer:Snowflake is an installation by arduino supplier Tinker.it. Viewers can interact with the display by tapping their Oyster…
What Is a Social-Media Agency?
January 24, 2009Made By Many ” “What Is a Social-Media Agency?”“The old digital agency model is not helpful today. Instead, the industry can learn a lot…
Meetings Are a Matter of Precious Time
January 24, 2009“Time is the most perishable good in the world, and it is not replenishable. You can’t earn an extra hour to use on a busy day. Nonetheless…
The Designers Republic Is Dead
January 24, 2009Designers Republic goes under.“I’ve never liked that agency model – it’s not where creativity lies. DR accidentally ended up there in order…
Where Can I Live
January 24, 2009Transport and Property in London – Where Can I LiveWe think that people want to live where they can easily get to work, so we created a…
Hexstatic - Street Fighter II HD remix
January 20, 2009Hexstatic - Street Fighter II HD remix‘Ow-do, Ken?
The Colbert Report Remix feat Lawrence Lessig (Eclectic Method Mix)
January 20, 2009The Colbert Report Remix feat Lawrence Lessig (Eclectic Method Mix)
A Fistful Of Dollars - The Story of a Kiva.org Loan
January 12, 2009A Fistful Of Dollars: The Story of a Kiva.org Loan.
Franklyn trailer
January 12, 2009Franklyn trailer.“This could be one of those incredible sci-fi films that unfortunately goes unnoticed and becomes a cult classic that every…
tiltshiftmaker
January 09, 2009tiltshiftmaker.com – Transform your photos into tilt-shift miniaturesThis looks like it might be brilliant.
OSM 2008: A Year of Edits
January 02, 2009OSM 2008: A Year of Edits.“An animation showing edits to the OpenStreetMap.org project during 2008. OpenStreetMap is a wiki-style map of the…
of music & metadata
December 14, 2008Music’s metadata could once be ignored. The way we valued music in the 1980s and the 1990s is part of a world that no longer exists: when…
4ad 2008
December 06, 20084ad 2008Free 4ad mp3 sampler. TV On the Radio, Deerhunter, Stereolab, Minotaur etc. Skip the email address harvesting by looking for the…
Teeth-grindingly annoying
November 27, 2008I don’t want to “explore the interface”. I want to get in, do my shit and get out again. If you think forcing users to explore the interface…
Cursor Miner – Library
November 26, 2008Cursor Miner – Library
Avant Garde Project
November 05, 2008The Avant Garde Project is a series of recordings of 20th-century classical, experimental, and electroacoustic music digitized from LPs…
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…
electric stimulus to face -test3
October 27, 2008electric stimulus to face -test3
Octavcat – Hard As Snails Promo Video
October 23, 2008Octavcat – Hard As Snails Promo Video
BUSH AT THE MVAs 2008
October 16, 2008BUSH AT THE MVAs 2008
SEO is using deodorant instead of washing
October 16, 2008SEO is using deodorant instead of washing. SEO is masking bad coffee with sugar. SEO is cramming instead of studying. SEO is using pain…
Reasons why outlawing P2P isn't good for everyone: a musician speaks
October 14, 2008I knew giving the album away for free would be a good idea, but still, I’m pretty much unknown, and here are 500 people willing to take a…
Bork Bork Bork Meep Meep Meep La la La LAH!!
October 08, 2008Bork Bork Bork Meep Meep Meep La la La LAH!!
Brilliant Noise
September 30, 2008Brilliant Noise (via Headlessness)Brilliant Noise takes us into the data vaults of solar astronomy. After sifting through hundreds of…
Wario Land: Shake It!
September 23, 2008Wario Land: Shake It!This is much better if you watch it in context, rather than using the embed.
Max Tundra – Will Get Fooled Again
September 23, 2008Max Tundra – Will Get Fooled Again
Please Buy My Record: The Futility Of Flogging Music
September 02, 2008Please Buy My Record: The Futility Of Flogging Music – Music Think Tank“Just because the songs are available to buy, doesn’t mean we can…
Future engineer
August 27, 2008Future engineer.
Cut Chemist – 1st Big Break
August 20, 2008“The first music video ever shot with a 360 degree panoramic lens”.Cut Chemist – 1st Big Break.
On being a bit of an idiot
August 20, 2008If you can identify what are the valid criticisms of your code or your ideas or your writing, and who are the trolls, and which are the…
How To Freelance
August 19, 2008Freelancers are unlike normal people and will automatically know where the printer is. Though, of course, your computer won’t be networked…
Mobile Web Design
August 19, 2008The importance of comprehending context – circumstances and conditions that surround a place, thing, or event – within the mobile…
Let go of the rest
August 14, 2008If you’ve got a list of 20 things you should be doing, pick the most important one or two and then just let go of the rest. You will never…
Minotaur Shock
August 11, 2008Minotaur ShockNew Minotaur Shock album on 4AD: “Instead of doing a Radiohead and asking you to pay what you think the music is worth, I have…
Neal Stephenson: Science Fiction as a Literary Genre
August 11, 2008FORA.tv – Neal Stephenson: Science Fiction as a Literary Genre“Neal Stephenson delivered a talk entitled The Fork: Science Fiction versus…
soundamus
August 11, 2008soundamus“Enter your last.fm username to create a feed of new and upcoming music releases from the artists you scrobble.”
Stereolab - Three Women
August 04, 2008Stereolab – Three Women
Let's get this out of the way...
August 02, 2008I didn’t RTFA, but I for one welcome our new, naked Natalie Portman and grits overlords, to which CmdrTaco replied, “you must be new here…
Orwell Diaries
July 31, 2008Orwell Diaries“To mark the 70th anniversary of the Orwell diaries, each diary entry will be published on this blog exactly seventy years…
David Shrigley – Obsessed
July 30, 2008David Shrigley – Obsessed
Mix Tape
July 30, 2008Mix tapes mark the moment of consumer culture in which listeners attained control over what they heard, in what order and at what cost. It…
Illegal filesharing - A suicide note from the music industry
July 30, 2008Kids are time-rich and cash-poor and have an infinite supply of ingenuity and impecuniousness to apply to the job of getting music for free…
CASH Music: Deerhoof
July 28, 2008CASH Music: Deerhoofshrinkwrapped:Download the sheet music for Deerhoof’s forthcoming single, Fresh Born, create your own interpretation and…
Wedding guest lies
July 25, 2008LJ: “I used to play in the school jazz band, don’t you know? Third trumpet, I was. Third trumpet. Never played a solo in me life. We were…
Tumblr MP3 Player
July 23, 2008Tumblr MP3 Player by Dan Kantorshrinkwrapped:david:This is cool! Dan Kantor made a tumblelog widget that plays through all of your Audio…
Radiohead – House Of Cards
July 15, 2008petercostello:Radiohead – House Of Cards Radiohead’s latest video, for the track “House of Cards” from the In Rainbows album, uses real time…
Endor by Night
July 13, 2008Endor by Night.
Adam Buxton - The Hours
July 12, 2008Adam Buxton - The Hours (Song Wars Exit Theme)Where electrohouse meets Virgina Woolf.
The BPA Toe Jam feat. David Byrne & Dizzee Rascal
July 12, 2008The BPA Toe Jam feat. David Byrne & Dizzee Rascal.SFW.
Eric’s Trip - ViewMaster
July 09, 2008woopwoop:Eric’s Trip “ViewMaster”As Eric’s Trip wind up their jaunt across North America, the days wind down to the release of Eric’s Trip…
Most Popular Muxtapes
July 08, 2008Most Popular MuxtapesIt’s all about the muxtapes at the mo (via headlessness)
muxtape Last.fm Scrobbling
July 07, 2008muxtape:Muxtape now supports Last.fm scrobbling. Go to the settings page and click the “link my Last.fm account” button. After you authorize…
Liz Phair 'Guyville Redux' Trailer
July 06, 2008Liz Phair ‘Guyville Redux’ Trailer.As if Exile in Guyville wasn’t personal enough, this piece – available with Liz Phair’s recently reissued…
How To Make Your Own Music Site in 10 Minutes
July 06, 2008joelaz:What you’ll be creating is an automated music tumblelog. The site will monitor the songs you’re listening to in iTunes or other…
The Gamer’s Confession
July 06, 2008I killed a man. No, too modest. On every continent and in all countries, across centuries, worlds and dimensions, in times of war and times…
Stars of the Lid live at St Giles-in-the-Fields Church
July 03, 2008MILES OF SMILES RECORDINGS on Virb.comStars of the Lid live at St Giles-in-the-Fields Church, May 2008.
Delighting with Data
July 01, 2008Don’t let thinking get in the way of building – build, then think.— Tom Taylor, Delighting with Data
Musopen – Free Public Domain Classical Music
July 01, 2008Musopen – Free Public Domain Classical Music
New Uncharted Audio muxtape
July 01, 2008New Uncharted Audio muxtapeUncharted Audio have put together a rather tasty new muxtape: http://unchartedaudio.muxtape.com/It features…
World of Warcraft geophysical survey
June 27, 2008Video: World of warcraft geophysical survey | Technology | guardian.co.uk“Game designer James Wallis explains the problem with geophysics…
New York Magazine’s Summer Muxtapes
June 27, 2008New York Magazine’s Summer Muxtapes:What jams are rocking RZA’s iTunes these days? And what beats are bumping in Albert Hammond Jr.’s ride…
upl8tv
June 27, 2008upl8.tv.
ICANN Board Approves Wide Expansion of TLDs
June 26, 2008So if McDonald’s wanted a TLD……then ICANN has .chzbrgr?— oodaloop , ICANN Board Approves Wide Expansion of TLDsA Slashdot user comments on…
code_swarm - Flickr SVN
June 26, 2008code_swarm – Flickr SVN, a visualization of flickr’s SVN repository created using code_swarm.Blue: PHP Green: HTML Red: Java Purple…
A Wild Sheep Chase: In Search of Haruki Murakami
June 25, 2008BBC iPlayer – Imagine – A Wild Sheep Chase: In Search of Haruki Murakami“Alan Yentob explores the mysterious, offbeat, sexually charged…
Small Giants
June 24, 2008It’s a widely accepted axiom of business that great companies grow their revenues and profits year after year. Yet quietly, under the radar…
Interesting 2008 – thirty more interesting things
June 24, 2008Interesting 2008 – thirty more interesting thingsheadlessness:Interesting! Roo Reynolds has posted link-fallout from Interesting 2008.
Five Dials
June 24, 2008Five Dials“…is the product of a few editors and writers who would like to push a small enterprise into the inboxes of anyone interested in…
Phonographantasmascope
June 22, 2008Phonographantasmascope.“It is all live action and works by using the shutter speed of the camera rather than the rather irritating…
Today On Xantiar
June 22, 2008shrinkwrapped:TODAY ON XANTIAR – Another clip from Adam Buxton’s MeeBox.
Posthuman Discography 1999-2007
June 20, 2008UK electronica/idm/post-rock group Posthuman have gathered together their entire back catalogue, put it into one big torrent and released it…
Barbara Carlotti - Les Lys Brisés
June 20, 2008Barbara Carlotti – Les Lys BrisésChanson française style pop from the 2006 album of the same name on 4AD.
Wevie de Crepon (aka Wevie Stonder) – Ton Wah
June 17, 2008Wevie de Crepon (aka Wevie Stonder) – Ton Wah.“Inspired by the endless joy of a talking GPS system on board a breakdown truck (& some high…
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…
smoke#12: a london peculiar
June 16, 2008smoke#12: a london peculiar“… a love-letter to London, to the wet neon flicker of late-night pavements, electric with endless possibility…
Hulk smash
June 16, 2008“Hulk. Smash!” Yes. Hulk. Smash. Yes. Smash. Big Hulk smash. Smash cars. Buildings. Army tanks. Hulk not just smash. Hulk also go rarrr…
Console – Buy 14, Zero, Zero
June 06, 2008Console – Buy 14, Zero, Zero.Handy guide to creating a pop masterpiece.
Big Ideas (don’t get any)
June 06, 2008Big Ideas (Don’t get any) on Vimeo.Sinclair ZX Spectrum – Guitars (rhythm & lead) Epson LX-81 Dot Matrix Printer – Drums HP Scanjet 3c…
Billy Childish & Sexton Ming - Insects In Your Stars
June 04, 2008Billy Childish & Sexton Ming – Insects In Your Stars.
batshit.muxtape.com
June 03, 2008batshit.muxtape.comA daft muxtape.I’m obsessed with that Wevie de Crepon song.
Developers accused of pursuing gadgetry instead of saving planet
June 01, 2008There are some architects and developers who really get climate change, but most don’t or choose not to. As a result we get a lot of…
In the Air
May 30, 2008The arguments of Bruce and Shulman suppose that great ideas are precious. It is too much for them to imagine that a discovery as remarkable…
The Tommy Westphall universe hypothesis
May 27, 2008The Tommy Westphall universe hypothesis, an idea discussed among some television fans, makes the claim that not only does St. Elsewhere take…
Ghostly Swim
May 22, 2008Ghostly Swim: a free adult swim/Ghostly International compilation featuring The Chap, Tycho, Matthew Dear and lots of people I’ve never…
Building the Next Last.fm
May 21, 2008Building the Next Last.fm“So, rough edges and all, we want all you subscribers — Last.fm’s ambassadors, if you will — to have first crack at…
Pay attention, that's all
May 19, 2008Pay attention, that’s all… Notice things. Connect what you’ve noticed. Connect it into a picture. Think of how the picture might be changed…
Playful Spaces
May 19, 2008“ This is a film about hijacking a bus stop.”Playful Spaces.
INKY – Grave
May 16, 2008INKY – Graveinky:Of all the noise I’ve inflicted upon people over the years, this is my favourite. Here’s an 18-minute track I made in…
Captain Ahab – I Wanna Love You Like a Robot
May 15, 2008Captain Ahab – I Wanna Love You Like a Robot.Let me hear you say 1! Let me hear you say 0!I’m not transcribing the rest.
Pool Radio: An Aggregator of Mediators
May 13, 2008Pool Radio: An Aggregator of Mediators – dekstop weblog“A tool that provides access to hopefully interesting Last.fm radio stations … People…
Robots vs. zombie
May 12, 2008Could you crib me some notes for my work-related robots vs. zombie debate later today? Why would robots defeat zombies in a knock-out, drag…
I’m guilty, but I’m not to blame
May 12, 2008Misdoing anything opens up a breach in ethics that can never be closed. It removes culpability from any distortion and makes anything, no…
The trees and landmarks of Springfield Park, Hackney, London
May 12, 2008The trees and landmarks of Springfield Park, Hackney, London.A work-in-progress Google Map from James.
Orikaso folding tableware
May 11, 2008Orikaso folding tableware is dead handy this time of year.
brand tags
May 11, 2008brand tags“The basic idea of this site is that a brand exists entirely in people’s heads. Therefore, whatever it is they say a brand is, is…
Weird Fishes: Arpeggi by Flight404
May 06, 2008Weird Fishes: Arpeggi by Flight404 (via crackunit).
Gin, Television, and Social Surplus
April 28, 2008It’s better to do something than to do nothing. Even lolcats, even cute pictures of kittens made even cuter with the addition of cute…
Kitbuilders - Dark Angels
April 28, 2008Kitbuilders – Dark Angels.From the Space Marines 12”, part of the Warhammer 40,000 series by Art of Perception. Yes, really.
And you don’t stop…
April 27, 2008headlessness:All those other muxtapes are suckas.I made you a hip-hop muxtape, And you don’t stop…. It has an A-side and B-side of sorts…
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…
Brussels Meets Brighton : The MetaHub
April 26, 2008Brussels Meets Brighton : The MetaHub“Between 30th April and the 3rd of May London’s exciting Shunt Lounge will host a massive exhibition…
McFilter: A Taste of TED on DVD
April 25, 2008McFilter: A Taste of TED on DVDThere are six talks on the DVD. I picked ones that I enjoyed watching and that seem to be well thought of on…
Gablé – Purée Hip Hop
April 24, 2008Gablé – Purée Hip Hop.Daft, brilliant. From the album 7 Guitars with a Cloud of Milk, out soon on LoAF.
Milliways: Infocom’s Unreleased Sequel to Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
April 18, 2008Milliways: Infocom’s Unreleased Sequel to Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Waxy.org“From an anonymous source close to the company, I’ve…
Free your mind
April 18, 2008If the breathless advocates of “the free distribution of ideas” are serious, they need either a) to come up with a realistic proposal as to…
Cassetteboy vs. Stan Ridgeway
April 13, 2008Dogtags! Dogtags! Dogtags!Cassetteboy vs. Stan Ridgeway.Old, messy but good.
Simon Amstell lays into Noel Fielding
April 13, 2008Simon Amstell lays into Noel Fielding
GroupTweet
April 13, 2008GroupTweet“GroupTweet is constantly listening for direct texts sent to your group’s Twitter account. When a direct text is received…
The bald man is king
April 12, 2008in the land of cutting out people in photoshop, the bald man is king— Jess and Nick
Contains Violence
April 11, 2008Contains Violence“Part mystery and part peepshow, Contains Violence is a surreal snapshot connecting the secret lives of others … using…
Surfing the Avalanche
April 11, 2008“Even though print continues to cash in significantly more ad revenue than digital media, printed news will – from a purely economical point…
posthuman.muxtape.com
April 09, 2008posthuman.muxtape.comThat’s the post-rock, post-electronica Posthuman, not the hypothetical future being Posthuman.
Tweet Clouds
April 08, 2008Tweet Clouds“Make a word cloud from a public Twitter stream”
Twubble
April 08, 2008Twubble“…can help expand your Twitter bubble – it searches your friend graph and picks out people who you may like to follow.”
Cursor Miner’s Orphan Tracks
April 07, 2008Good evening ladies and gentlemen. I’d like to take some time here to raise a serious issue, that of homeless and abandoned tunes. Many…
Vote Match
April 07, 2008Vote Match“Designed to help Londoners decide how to vote in the London elections on 1 May”.My results were exactly as expected.
Headlessness podcast 01: Eat Tokyo
April 06, 2008James is podcasting again. Grand.Updates will be intermittent and will follow no format whatsoever. The first podcast is a short music mix I…
anglepoised.muxtape.com
April 06, 2008anglepoised.muxtape.comFinally got round to making one. What fun!Mine has The Teenagers, Deerhoof, Beck (against my better judgement, but…
The Mystery of Black Devil
April 05, 2008The Mystery of Black Devil – eMusic SpotlightA few years ago, the Rephlex label released a record called Disco Club that had black-crack…
On Being Missed
April 05, 2008Would you miss your current project if you were doing something else instead? Would anyone miss it? It’s a valuable question and a simple…
We can't give you information. We haven't got a Tannoy
March 31, 2008I have arrived at that very fine line when I wonder if a two-week holiday in the sun or the snow is actually worth the ordeal of air travel…
Huoratron - $$ Troopers
March 27, 2008Huoratron – $$ Troopers.Like someone’s mashed together a Cursor Miner track with a Venetian Snares track then used the results to soundtrack…
HUORATRON 2 RULE THEM ALL
March 27, 2008HUORATRON 2 RULE THEM ALLjessandnick:For some reason I know Paul will love this…Hell yes.
The separation between advertisers and content creators is deteriorating incredibly quickly
March 26, 2008The separation between advertisers and content creators is deteriorating incredibly quickly. It’s this situation that leads people to say…
The Breeders – Mountain Battles Record Release Party
March 25, 2008The Breeders – Mountain Battles Record Release Party
There will be blood
March 23, 2008The credit crunch is deadly serious, but it will not change the fundamental dynamic of how international capital markets work. Markets go…
Legible London
March 18, 2008Legible London“A scheme to provide better information throughout the capital for people who want to walk.”
Wii Fit
March 17, 2008Wii Fit. I’m particularly looking forward to “Sticking out your leg”.
Be Kind Rewind Sweded Trailer
March 17, 2008Michel Gondry’s Sweded Trailer for Be Kind Rewind. Thanks, Nick!
Offensive, dull, abrasive, stupid advertising is bad for the entire industry
March 16, 2008I’m appalled by those who judge advertising exclusively on the basis of sales. That isn’t enough. Of course, advertising must sell. By any…
Customizing Myspace
March 13, 2008Paul: I reckon the only thing to do is get in there and give it a crack Paul: can’t guarantee it’ll take 2 hours but will try me best Mat…
Apple Time Capsule
March 12, 2008What’s an Apple Time Capsule? Does it send Granny Smiths into the future?
COZY SOLLIPSISM | HUMANITYs FRIEND IN AUDIO
March 12, 2008COZY SOLLIPSISM | HUMANITYs FRIEND IN AUDIOThe WRLC mix/podcast is back. Well worth a listen.
FriendFeedFeed
March 11, 2008FriendFeedFeedToo many social newtorking aggregators? Aggregate all your social networking aggregator feeds into one aggregated feed of…
The forces of mediocrity
March 05, 2008Remarkable visions and genuine insight are always met with resistance. And when you start to make progress, your efforts are met with even…
In Her Gentle Jaws
March 04, 2008In Her Gentle JawsFree album from The Depreciation Guild (two boys and a Famicom).
Flavourless worms for android hatchlings
March 04, 2008There’s a word for this sort of thing. It’s not “art”, it’s “content”. And it’s everywhere, measured out by unseen hands, mechanically…
Star Wars vs. Saul Bass
March 03, 2008Star Wars vs. Saul Bass.
Crayon Physics Deluxe
February 29, 2008Crayon Physics Deluxe
That’s when innovation happens
February 28, 2008Find a problem that’s not solved and try to solve it in a way that’s profitable. Don’t be influenced by what people have been doing so far…
Build Last.fm
February 28, 2008Build Last.fm“Free extras built by the community to extend your Last.fm experience.”
The Big Word Project
February 28, 2008The Big Word Project – Your websites define our words“You pick a word and link it to your website. Your website is then the new definition…
iband - Electroplankton plus iPhones
February 25, 2008http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/x4fig0shrinkwrapped:iband – Electroplankton plus iPhones! (via Mark Iddon)
Items Tagged With ‘whatcouldpossiblygowrong’
February 24, 2008Items Tagged With ‘whatcouldpossiblygowrong’My favourite Slashdot tag.
BOOK CLUBHOUSE
February 23, 2008BOOK CLUBHOUSEA tumblr book club.
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…
Tumview
February 20, 2008Tumview – anglepoised’s tumblr / anglepoised via roamin.
Idea for a new typography term
February 20, 2008Ironic Sans: Idea for a new typography terminky:keming: noun. The result of improper kerning.
The Orb & Alan Parker – Grey Clouds
February 18, 2008The Orb & Alan Parker – Grey Clouds
Too much free time
February 18, 2008Via inky
Atheist sees image of Big Bang in piece of toast
February 14, 2008I was just about to spread the butter when I noticed a fairly typical small hole in the bread surrounded by a burnt black ring. however the…
Half-Life: Full Life Consequences
February 08, 2008Half life: Full Life Consequences.Very wrong. Via Robotperson.
Oculart
February 07, 2008Oculart
The probing craftsman does more than encounter problems
February 07, 2008In technology, as in art, the probing craftsman does more than encounter problems; he or she creates them in order to know them. Improving…
Kid Twist – I Can’t Dance
February 07, 2008Kid Twist – I Can’t Dance.Good track; sub-Barley video.
Datarock - Computer Camp Love
February 07, 2008Datarock – Computer Camp Love.
Possibility isn't limited by technology
February 07, 2008Possibility isn’t limited by technology. And it’s certainly not limited by human imagination. What makes something impossible is the lack of…
Venetian Snares Spaz Out
February 06, 2008inky:Venetian Snares Spaz OutDance Dance Revolution with Winnipeg Is A Frozen Shithole by Venetian Snares. Insane!
What Specifically Do Generalists Do?
February 06, 2008Nothing can substitute for depth of analysis, and there’s proven value in specialization – it’s what education, career paths, scientific…
tumblrist
February 04, 2008tumblristRival Ning network for tumblr users.
The Tumblers!
February 03, 2008The Tumblers!Ning network for tumblr users.
Anonymous anti-Scientology demo Call to Action
February 03, 2008Anonymous anti-Scientology demo Call to Action.shrinkwrapped:The question is, will anyone actually turn up? (A code of conduct has also been…
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…
Frozen Grand Central
February 01, 2008Frozen Grand Central
How Facebook Exposed Us All as Freaks
February 01, 2008The damage is done. Beacon and tracking regimes like it violate the unwritten soc-site covenant: They don’t care who you think you are or…
Dicing with disaster
January 27, 2008Under communism, children at primary school began to study how the system was supposed to work. Under capitalism, most people have no idea…
No repeats; very widescreen
January 23, 2008The sky is better than Sky©TM; no repeats; very widescreen; endlessly fascinating; no discernable plot: perfect telly. And however long you…
As above, so below (the fold)
January 17, 2008Paul: can you get them to drop the whole tabbed thing? it’s remarkably dumb Helen: i know.. Paul: tabs for, OMG, two whole items! Paul: what…
DataPortability - Connect, Control, Share, Remix
January 15, 2008DataPortability – Connect, Control, Share, Remix on Vimeo.
Be Kind Rewind
January 14, 2008Be Kind RewindMicrosite for the new Michel Gondry film, via No Man’s Blog.
London Word Festival 2008.
January 10, 2008London Word Festival | 20 February – 14 March 2008.Saul Williams, dan le sac Vs Scroobius Pip, Richard Herring, Simon Munnery, Toby Litt…
Clarkson stung after bank prank
January 07, 2008TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson has lost money after publishing his bank details in his newspaper column.— BBC News, Clarkson stung after bank…
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
January 06, 2008Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. That’s it. That is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question…
Vitalic – Birds, by Pleix
January 05, 2008Vitalic – Birds, by Pleix.(reblogged from rach)
Arcade Ambience Project
January 04, 2008Arcade Ambience Project“an attempt … to simulate the audio ambience of a crowded arcade room during the golden age of arcades in the 1980s.”
If we were a rich world
January 03, 2008If we were a rich world, we’d innovate our way out of this environmental crisis. We’d breed algae that piss petrol, and albatross that…
Haiku Tennis Anthology
January 03, 2008A teacup of teeth Of different hues and sizes Grandma’s house is weird.Haiku Tennis Anthology
Bafta 60 Seconds of Fame Competition
January 01, 2008Bafta 60 Seconds of Fame CompetitionTake a look at Unto Others by The Flippers and friends.
Jack of all trades, master of none
December 30, 2007Jack of all trades, master of none,…though ofttimes better than master of one.
Dan le sac vs Pip: Letter from X-factor
December 21, 2007Dan le sac vs Pip: Letter from X-factor
Homer Simpson takes a photo of himself everyday for 39 years
December 17, 2007Homer Simpson takes a photo of himself everyday for 39 years.A parody of Noah takes a photo of himself every day for 6 years.
Porn For Girls By Girls
December 14, 2007Porn For Girls By GirlsPromo for The Internet Now In Handy Book Form! by David McCandless
Super Furry Animals – The Gift That Keeps Giving
December 13, 2007Super Furry Animals – The Gift That Keeps Giving
New BBC iPlayer
December 13, 2007New BBC iPlayerStreaming Flash. Much better.
Rainforest Concern: Silent Night
December 12, 2007Rainforest Concern: Silent Night
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…
The Future of Reading (A Play in Six Acts) [dive into mark]
December 05, 2007The Future of Reading (A Play in Six Acts) [dive into mark]
The Experience Stack (Schulze & Webb)
December 04, 2007The Experience Stack (Schulze & Webb)Another excellent presentation from this year’s dConstruct. Audio and follow-up versions are also…
UNIQLO JUMP
December 02, 2007UNIQLO JUMPI’m a sucker for these UNIQLO campaigns. This time they’ve also put the parts on flickr and youtube.
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…
Google can’t code
November 29, 2007Google may have hired Hixie, but their code is atrocious and always has been. They may force you to run a gauntlet of calculus questions…
CASH Music
November 29, 2007We specialize – we offer an organic product. It is lumpy and expensive and made with love and it can save you. It’s the right thing to do…
Biometric blues
November 24, 2007Every time you touch something, if your security systems rely on biometric ID, then you’re essentially leaving your pin number on a post-it…
So Book-like, You'd Think It Was a Book (but it's not)
November 23, 2007You know what else feels like real paper and doesn’t require cables or monthly bills? Fucking books.— Cracked, So Book-like, You’d Think It…
MIDI Animation Rètro Game Medley
November 22, 2007“i dont understand it. but it rocks”
Steven Poole: Trigger Happier
November 22, 2007Steven Poole: Trigger HappierSteven Poole is giving away his book Trigger Happy as a DRM-free PDF.Trigger Happy is a book about the…
New TV spots for World of Warcraft
November 21, 2007New TV spots for World of Warcraft“I’m William Shatner and I’m a shaman”
Don’t try to reinvent the web
November 21, 2007All attempts to inhibit the flow of information and make it work exclusively for the benefit of an organisation, whether it’s the government…
Facebook To Drop “is” From Status Updates
November 20, 2007Facebook announced to developers last night that it will soon be dropping the word “is” from status message updates.Facebook To Drop ‘Is…
So this consultant walks into a bar...
November 19, 2007A shepherd was herding his flock in a remote pasture when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of the dust cloud towards him…— Ask…
Everybody is happy now
November 19, 2007‘Everybody is happy now’ | Guardian Unlimited BooksMargaret Atwood on Huxley’s Brave New World.
Global Pop Conspiracy Manifesto
November 18, 2007In the travelling Jamaican sound systems of the ‘60s and ’70s, musical duties were split between the selector, who chose the records, and…
Not The Daily Show, With Some Writer
November 15, 2007Not The Daily Show, With Some Writer.Sums up the writer’s strike nicely; Winter of our dissed content.
RCRD LBL
November 15, 2007RCRD LBL“A network of ad-supported online record labels and blogs offering completely free music streams and downloads from emerging and…
They Came From The Stars (I Saw Them) – (It’s Always) Boomtime (Pt.1)
November 15, 2007They Came From The Stars (I Saw Them) – (It’s Always) Boomtime (Pt.1).A few years back I used to have a strong dislike of TCFTS(IST). This…
Radiohead - Jigsaw Falling Into Place
November 13, 2007RADIOHEAD - JIGSAW FALLING INTO PLACE (HELMET CAM) ORIGINAL VERSION.Two Radiohead/Adam Buxton videos in a row? I know, but this works so…
In Rainbows: Executive Edition
November 13, 2007IN RAINBOWS: EXECUTIVE EDITION.Radiohead and Adam Buxton together at last.
The Dawning of the Age Of Experience
November 13, 2007One of the best presentations I’ve seen; Jared Spool’s The Dawning of the Age Of Experience at dConstruct 2007.
On a discussion of the Wicksteed Park ride descriptions
November 09, 2007Son: Daddy, Daddy! Look at the diagonal bracing on the torsion rods! Father: Aye, son. But not just that – I think you’ll find on descending…
Stars of the Lid - Apreludes (In C Sharp Major)
November 08, 2007Stars of the Lid – Apreludes (In C Sharp Major)
From Glitch To Blog House
November 05, 2007“Scenes and sounds that were once strictly local affairs now have no problem connecting with niche publics anywhere on earth.”— Philip…
Torrent Raiders
November 05, 2007“Torrent Raiders is a dynamic network visualization realized through the idioms and aesthetics of arcade-style video games. Driven in real…
Nagi Noda – Yuki & Acid punch
November 03, 2007Nagi Noda – Yuki & Acid punch
Internet Archive Wayback Machine – Web Pioneers
November 02, 2007Internet Archive Wayback Machine – Web PioneersA special Wayback collection of websites that began the Internet revolution.
Commoncraft - Zombies in Plain English
November 01, 2007Commoncraft: Zombies in Plain English.Wish I’d seen this yesterday.
TwitterPoster
November 01, 2007TwitterPoster“A visual application based on Twitter API. It provides a visual representation of the degree of influence of the Twitter users…
Scoopex - Mental Hangover
November 01, 2007Scoopex - Mental Hangover.There are prettier demos but Mental Hangover sums up the era for me.I miss my Amiga.
Trent Reznor and Saul Williams Discuss Their New Collaboration, Mourn OiNK
October 31, 2007I remember a time when it felt like, being on a major label, our interests were aligned. At times, it’s a pretty well-oiled machine and the…
Vinyl May Be Final Nail in CD’s Coffin
October 30, 2007“As counterintuitive as it may seem in this age of iPods and digital downloads, vinyl – the favorite physical format of indie music…
The wind of nothingness blasts
October 29, 2007Unlike Cage’s piece 4’ 33”, the Moleskine doesn’t suffer from performance issues – the clicks, taps, pops and coughs of the audience, a…
Efterklang – Mirador
October 29, 2007Efterklang – Mirador
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo
October 28, 2007Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia via Simon Willison.
3D Mailbox Trailer
October 25, 20073D Mailbox Trailer.I’m convinced this must be some sort of elaborate practical joke.Not sure why Level 1 is a “Free download” but Level 2 is…
Bob Truby’s Brand Name Pencils
October 23, 2007Bob Truby’s Brand Name Pencils“Let me share with you my vision. As both an art teacher and a pencil collector, I desire this site to be a…
Radiohead MP3 release a tactic to lift CD sales
October 22, 2007Radiohead’s much-debated decision to let fans choose what they pay for its new album online is a promotional tactic to boost sales of…
Radiohead: 01 and 10
October 21, 2007» Radiohead: 01 and 10 :: Puddlegum ::Consider that In Rainbows was meant to complement OK Computer, musically, lyrically, and in structure…
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
WWF-UK: Get on Board
October 19, 2007WWF-UK: Get on Board“We’re going to construct a giant paper boat and giant paper plane and deliver them to parliament. They will be covered…
Is it Christmas?
October 19, 2007Is it Christmas?
visual complexity
October 17, 2007“intends to be a unified resource space for anyone interested in the visualization of complex networks.”visualcomplexity.com
xmaschartattack
October 17, 2007xmaschartattack – Groups at Last.fm“We searched the site and found three up-and-coming bands we know are a million times better than…
OXJAM – Oxfam’s biggest ever music festival
October 17, 2007OXJAM – Oxfam’s biggest ever music festival“A music festival with a difference. Across the UK, from now until the end of October, people…
Tekkonkinkreet
October 17, 2007TekkonkinkreetAnime with a Plaid soundtrack.
About the Octothorp
October 14, 2007You probably know this glyph by one of its other names: the number, numeral, or pound sign — or (if you’re a developer) the hash.— Octothorp…
A Few Good Creative Men
October 11, 2007A Few Good Creative Men.
BBC Radio 4 – Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency
October 07, 2007BBC Radio 4 – Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective AgencyDouglas Adams’s Dirk Gently comes to Radio 4 Wednesdays at 6.30pm, from 3rd October…
The Arcade Fire presents…
October 07, 2007The Arcade Fire presents…
Michael Pollan – The Omnivore’s Dilemma
October 03, 2007Michael Pollan – The Omnivore’s Dilemma“The omnivore’s dilemma has returned with a vengeance, as the cornucopia of the modern American…
Cursor Miner – Skunk Works
September 29, 2007Cursor Miner – Skunk Works.My favourite track from Danceflaw but the video wasn’t working for me until now. Put your headphones on, turn up…
Sigur Rós – Heima Trailer
September 29, 2007Sigur Rós – Heima Trailer.
Anti-Piracy Ad from The IT Crowd
September 20, 2007Anti-Piracy Ad from The IT Crowd.Rather unfortunate frame youtube’s algorithms have picked there.
What single book is the best introduction to your field?
September 17, 2007What single book is the best introduction to your field (or specialization within your field) for laypeople? | Ask MetaFilter
A Gigantic Globular Burst Of Antistatic
September 15, 2007“In this piece, FSOL filter, process and montage all organic and synthetic sound they find resonant, to create what they call “brutal…
Final Fantasy VII: Voices of the Lifestream
September 14, 2007Final Fantasy VII: Voices of the Lifestream, An OverClocked ReMix Album“An OverClocked ReMix Album featuring free fan arrangements from the…
its amazing how out of sync teh web actually is
September 13, 2007Fazal: its amazing how out of sync teh web actually is Fazal: browsers are pretty much the reason for all our woes Fazal: and we constantly…
The Last.fm Supports The Spitz Fundraiser
September 13, 2007The Last.fm Supports The Spitz FundraiserLive recordings from the Last.fm gig.
Battles – Tonto
September 12, 2007Battles – Tonto
Colleen – I’ll Read You A Story
September 12, 2007Colleen – I’ll Read You A Story
London Design Festival 2007
September 11, 2007London Design Festival 2007“There is an amazing amount to see and do at this year’s London Design Festival.” Perhaps too much…! Takes place…
John Callaghan - You Get Me Down
September 10, 2007You Get Me Down, first track and video from the new John Callaghan album due soon on Uncharted Audio.
Internet People!
September 07, 2007Internet People!
Kwari
September 06, 2007Kwari ™ – first person shooter skill-based cash for kills online gaming“Every time you hit another player in Kwari you make money. Every…
All Highpoint Lowlife’s Albums For Free Download
September 05, 2007All Highpoint Lowlife’s Albums For Free Download – Groups at Last.fmHighpoint Lowlife have put (almost) all their albums up for free on last…
The Skywalkers: An Animated Parody
September 05, 2007The Skywalkers: An Animated Parody
The Music Man
September 04, 2007Rick Rubin – Recording Industry – Rock Music – New York Times“Panic has set in, and now it’s no longer about making music, it’s all about…
Glass And A Half Full Productions - Gorilla
September 03, 2007Still can’t decide whether I like this ad or not.Full version at Glass and a Half Full Productions.
Blonde Redhead – My Impure Hair
September 02, 2007Blonde Redhead – My Impure Hair, directed by Mike Mills.Larger, Quicktime version at 4AD
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.
node tumblelog
August 29, 2007node tumblelog“Countdown to the August 7, 2007 release of William Gibson’s Spook Country with news, thoughts, serious spoilers and chapter…
Reboot
August 27, 2007Starting from scratch; there may be some slight turbulence.
IEEE Spectrum - The Future of Music
August 27, 2007IEEE Spectrum: The Future of Music
The Profile of Non-Format
August 23, 2007YouWorkForThem | The Profile of Non-Format
Halo 3 - How Microsoft Labs Invented a New Science of Play
August 22, 2007Creating a game, in contrast, is like a combination of architecture — constructing environments that influence the behavior of people inside…
Flight of the Conchords - Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros
August 21, 2007Flight of the Conchords - Hiphopopotamus vs. Rhymenoceros
Highly self-indulgent
August 21, 2007Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because…
KFC Hunger Strike!
August 21, 2007KFC Hunger Strike!Must. Stop. Playing.
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
Man punched for singing Coldplay song
August 14, 2007Man punched for singing Coldplay songJustice is done.
Employ Gæoudjiparl Van Den Dobbelsteen
August 09, 2007Employ Gæoudjiparl Van Den Dobbelsteen : June 2007Nuts. I like it.
Hip Hop Violin
August 08, 2007Hip Hop Violin – Paul Dateh and inka one)
The Tiger Lillies - YMCA
August 07, 2007The Tiger Lillies - YMCA
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
zZz is playing - Grip
August 02, 2007zZz is playing: Grip
Are there any 'famous' last.fm users?
July 26, 2007Are there any ‘famous’ last.fm users? | Ask MetaFilter
isolatr beta
July 25, 2007isolatr beta“Helping you find where other people aren’t.”
Mastodon - Cut you up with a Linoleum Knife
July 24, 2007Mastodon - Cut you up with a Linoleum Knife (Aqua Teen Hunger Force Movie Intro)
OMG! All Online Data Lost After Internet Crash!!!
July 23, 2007OMG! All Online Data Lost After Internet Crash!!! (via bazookagum024)
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, 2007LastGraph
Last.fm-Mainstream-O-Meter
July 09, 2007Last.fm-Mainstream-O-Meter
goodwithmoney
July 08, 2007www.myspace.com/goodwithmoneyThe Co-operative bank’s myspace page. Every time someone adds them as a friend, they’ll donate 20p to a…
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.
Cursor Miner Live @ Sonar 2007
June 27, 2007Cursor Miner Live @ Sonar 2007Pretty bad quality but captures the mayhem. Keep an eye open for Señor Frog.
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 World
Live Long and Prosper
June 05, 2007Live Long and ProsperSomeone at Islington Council has a sense of humour.
Tumblr Radar
June 04, 2007Tumblr Radar (alpha)
Effecting Change
June 04, 2007You do not have to spend a lot of time and effort on those who strongly resist change. You only have to help and protect those who want to…
Correlate.us
June 03, 2007correlate.us
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.
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.