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Anna Meredith - Paramour

Anna Meredith - Paramour.

Manhole covers

There are a lot of beautiful designed and colored manhole covers in Japan.

Apollo 11 in Real Time

This 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

This 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

After 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

health, social life, job, house, partners, finances; leisure use, leisure amount; working time, education, income, children; food, water…

Tabula rasa

All 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

The 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

Interface evolves toward transparency. The one you have to devote the least conscious effort to, survives, prospers.— William Gibson,…

Exploitation

A quote in an article by Oliver Burkeman caught my eye a while back:Eyal urges businesses to think ethically. (Creating addictive products…

Invisible machines

The 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

This 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

Mmm, 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

I’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

That’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

Last 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

A growing body of opinion thinks … that PowerPoint privileges the presenter in an unhealthy way and has the effect of discouraging critical…

HMTL Vagrant talk

Last 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

People commit to all kinds of activities, she said, “for the process, for the memories… The argument that there is nothing tangible at the…

Affiliates

An argument with myself about modern blogging culture.

Trying out Ghost

A 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

If 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

This 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

Only the unknown terrifies men. Once confronted, it is no longer the unknown.— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and StarsLet’s hope so.

Waste

There 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

Yosemite HD II

Dopplereffekt - Gene Silencing

Dopplereffekt - Gene Silencing

Thought and Design

It’s obvious, but perhaps worth repeating, that everything raised is raised deliberately, nothing falls upward by accident. Everything the…

Infrastructural investment

The 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)

Adam Magyar: Stainless (excerpt)

Lone - Dream Ache

Lone – Dream Ache

Metronomy - I'm Aquarius

Metronomy - I’m Aquarius

Tim Hecker - Chimeras

Tim Hecker - Chimeras

Orbital - Christmas Chime

Orbital - Christmas Chime

Gonzales - Let's Groove Again

Gonzales - Let’s Groove Again

Broadcast – Corporeal

Broadcast – Corporeal

Happy cities

As 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

Ukkonen - Viva Las Huelgas

Racah - Microdot Double Drop | Acid

Microdot Double Drop | Acid 12” single (lathe) by Racah

EVE Online - Soundtrack

Music from EVE Online on SoundCloud.6.46.43 of coding-friendly aural wallpaper.

The security state isn’t a person, it’s people

The 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

Zero to Sixty in One Second — Acko.net

Darkside Teaser

Darkside Teaser

Solid objects and scraps of useless information

So 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

Accomplishment is unreliable. “Succeeding,” whatever that might mean to you, is hard, and the need to do so constantly renews itself…

Slow Ideas

In 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

100,000 Stars

The House of Rumour

Fleming 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

The 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

Cursor Miner – The Man With the Transparent FaceStill goosebumpy.

Machinedrum – Eyesdontlie

Machinedrum – Eyesdontlie

Bloc Party – I Still Remember (The Chap remix)

Bloc Party – I Still Remember (The Chap remix)

Mala – Changes (James Blake Harmonimix)

Mala – Changes (James Blake Harmonimix)

Iain Banks: the final interview

I 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

The Culture itself represents an elegant absorption of, and therefore displacement of, one whole department of religious yearning. It offers…

The Foursquare Time Machine

Now 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

Lone – Airglow Fires

Efficiency in production processes is key

I 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)

Game of Thrones – “Red Wedding” (Storybook Edition)

Michel Moulinié – Lente Course

Michel Moulinié – Lente Course

Skúli Sverrisson - Sería

Skúli Sverrisson – Sería

Slowly, agonizingly, humans learned how the universe worked

Slowly, 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

Here 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

I’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

Carl Craig – Frustration

Recondite – Tie In

Recondite – Tie In

The freedom to learn from experience

The measure of (mental) health is flexibility (not comparison to some ‘norm’), the freedom to learn from experience … to be influenced by…

Isolée – Démon

Isolée – Démon.

A personal timeline of front-end web work

I’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)

Cannibal Ox – Gases In Hell (Inhale).

The placeholder emotion

‘Like’ is the placeholder emotion. Don’t give the world more shit people ‘like’.— Leonard Richardson, Constellation Games

Remembering Margaret Thatcher

All 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

Never before have human beings so benefited from membership in a sagacious, scientific, and increasingly virtuous civilization. Wisdom…

And then there are the indignation junkies

In 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

The Future Sound of London – The Far-Out Son of Lung and the Ramblings of a Madman

Japanese Telecom – Japanese Animation

Japanese Telecom – Japanese Animation

You of the deservedly punished five-minute overstay

There 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

I 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

Anyone 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

Londoners 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

Black Chow – Air

Visonia & Dopplereffekt – Die Reisen

Visonia & Dopplereffekt – Die Reisen

Vertical Video Syndrome – A PSA

Vertical Video Syndrome – A PSA.

Fever Ray – If I Had A Heart

Fever Ray – If I Had A Heart

My Dry Wet Mess - Austere Coincidences

My Dry Wet Mess – Austere Coincidences

BEAK – Mono

BEAK – Mono

Burial – Cold Planet

Burial – Cold Planet

The Greg Foat Group – Have Spacesuit Will Travel (Part II)

The Greg Foat Group – Have Spacesuit Will Travel (Part II)

Barack Obama And The Death Of Normal

America 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

From 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

Capitalism 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

The 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

Stephen Walter, ‘The Island’, 2008The Island satirises the London-centric view of the English capital and its commuter towns as independent…

Werkha – Le Roitelet

Werkha – Le Roitelet

Men clamour for what is popularly considered the best

It 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

Atoms For Peace – Default

Only connect

It 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

MSV 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

Shunt tunnel

The Hydrogen Sonata

Once 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

One 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

Kilo Kish – Navy

Gulls wheel through spokes of sunlight

Gulls 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?

There 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

Some 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

T.Power - Waveform

Ukkonen – Disambedience Mix

Ukkonen – Disambedience Mix

Spectator of your own Life

The 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

Update 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

This 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

Milanese – Cowboy

View from the ISS at Night

View from the ISS at Night

John Callaghan - Phylactery

John Callaghan – Phylactery

Donationware June 2012

The 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

Dubstep Dispute

Security, passwords and whatnot

I’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

Top 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

Another 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?

I’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

Deux – Game & Performance

Thomas Heatherwick - the new Da Vinci of design

As 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

This month has been all about writing reports, attending meetings and avoiding paper as much as possible, so my obvious donationware choice…

Underground Resistance – Transition

Underground Resistance – Transition.

betterthan: Sublime Text

I’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

Caine’s Arcade

Comments

A timely article from Smashing, Publish What You Learn:The collaboration on apps like GitHub should be exactly what happens on blog posts…

Busywork

I 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

I’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

A 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?

I’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

Right, 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

O2 Skywalk Virtual Tour

MAKE THE LOGO BIGGER

MAKE THE LOGO BIGGER (by LucDaveFabien)

Underfull tablecloth

Underfull – the tablecloth that turns spilling into poetry (by Kristine Bjaadal)

Baths - Seaside Town

Baths - Seaside Town

Frank Ocean – Swim Good

Frank Ocean – Swim Good

Leila – welcome to your life

Leila – welcome to your life

Leila ft. Mt. Sims - (disappointed cloud) anyway

Leila ft. Mt. Sims – (disappointed cloud) anyway

Max Richter – Last Days

Max Richter – Last Days

Johnny Dangerous – King of Clubs

Johnny Dangerous – King of Clubs

Patten – Blush Mosaic (Ukkonen remix)

Patten – Blush Mosaic (Ukkonen remix)

The Jet Age Of Tomorrow - Want You Still (ft. Kilo Kish)

The Jet Age Of Tomorrow – Want You Still (ft. Kilo Kish)

Der Zyklus - Formenverwandler (Shapeshifter)

Der Zyklus – Formenverwandler (Shapeshifter)

Amon Tobin - Calculate

Amon Tobin – Calculate (by JimJam Graphics)

The London River Park: place for the people or a private playground?

If 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

There 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

Barbara Morgenstern – Aus Heiterem Himmel

Whatever made you think it was your data anyway?

If 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)

Roof Light – Two Cities (dub)

Xenoblade Chronicles - Gaur Plain

Xenoblade Chronicles – Gaur Plain.

Mount Kimbie - Mayor

Mount Kimbie – Mayor

Erik XVI – When Particles Collide

Erik XVI – When Particles Collide.Also taken from Highpoint Lowlife’s Physic or Surgery.

Fisk Industries – Death Is The Final Step

Fisk Industries – Death Is The Final Step.From the excellent but rather too final Highpoint Lowlife release, Physic or Surgery.

South London Art Map

South London Art Map“a user-friendly guide to galleries in South London.”

Cyan 341 – Disconnected (Orlando B’s Jackin House Remix)

Cyan 341 – Disconnected (Orlando B’s Jackin House Remix)

SAMO© by Greg Enemy

SAMO© by Greg EnemySAMO© from xtra small by Greg Enemy

From Scroll to Screen

So 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

Symbion Project - Like One Returning from the Waves

Bassment Jaxx vs Metropole Orkest - Where's Your Head At

Bassment Jaxx vs Metropole Orkest – Where’s Your Head At

The Christening

I 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

Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle - Social Stew

Spectators of life

A 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

For 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

Space 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

Limiting 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

I 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

Just as previous corporate warlords used the existence of real inefficiencies and deficiencies in other media to gain control, equipment…

SHA-1 collisions

Here’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

Metronomy – She Wants

A Web of Air

“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

The 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

I love this assimilative aspect of whisky. I love the fact that single malts, those apparent paradigms of purity, actually show far more…

2010 Music

Here’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

Rondò Veneziano - La SerenissimaWithout the rondo, no Daft Punk, no Justice.

Month 107

November 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

Emergent technology is the most powerful single driver of change in the world, and it has been forever. Technology trumps politics…

The Joy of Stats

200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes – The Joy of Stats – BBC Four (via BBC)

Across America in 15 minutes

Across America in 15 minutes

Month 106

One 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

Walls – Gaberdine (by JimJam Graphics)

History will see these cuts as one of the great acts of political folly

The 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

There’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

Part Of You

Month 105

I 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)

Posthuman – The Ottawa Object (LJ Kruzer Remix)

Romantic Modernism

Whereas high modernism wanted to lay waste to the material past in order to re-fashion it upon rational lines, romantic modernists had a…

Gunpoint

Coding is the Socratic method as an extreme sport.— Tom Francis, Gunpoint: AI

Fangoria 2010 - Machine

Fangoria 2010 – Machine. Well done, gentlemen.

Scott Pilgrim Vs. FLCL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVpjslCpbNEScott Pilgrim Vs. FLCL

Madison Avenue

One 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

Posthuman – Mobile Mast

Leaves and small twigs in constant motion

Leaves 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

Cursor Miner – Luna (by Uncharted Audio)

The Graphing Calculator Story

It 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

Ratatat – Drugs

The Chap - We work in bars

The Chap – We work in bars

The Oregon Trail - Official Trailer

The Oregon Trail – Official Trailer.“Based on the classic educational computer game”.

Music Business 2000-9: The Medium, the Message

Recorded 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

AT-AT DAY AFTERNOON

Lagoa Multiphysics 1.0 Teaser

Lagoa Multiphysics 1.0 – Teaser. Hawt.

The rail to nowhere

The 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

The Chap – Even Your Friend

Once more unto the pitch

Enter 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

The 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?

How long does a Happy Meal stay fresh?

Lego Hello World

Lego Hello World (via horseattack)

Narrative Ponzi scheme

In 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

National Trust: The Album:The 33-minute recording titled National Trust: The Album takes the listener on an audio journey around Britain…

Dalston. Ala

Dalston. 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

Google Chrome Speed Tests, via GU Planning.

Cassetteboy vs Party Leaders

Cassetteboy vs Party Leaders

Real World Web

David Cameron, man of the people

David Cameron, man of the people – talking about planting a hedge

SolarBeat

SolarBeat

LCD Soundsystem – Drunk Girls

LCD Soundsystem – Drunk Girls (via jessandnick)

Augmented (hyper)Reality - Domestic Robocop

Augmented (hyper)Reality: Domestic Robocop.Cup. Of. Tea.

SEO copywriters

what you loved when you were nine or ten

I’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

Pink Terror

The most dangerous drug isn't meow meow. It isn't even alcohol ...

In its purest form, a newspaper consists of a collection of facts which, in controlled circumstances, can actively improve knowledge…

Broadcast Yourself

For years, Viacom continuously and secretly uploaded its content to YouTube, even while publicly complaining about its presence there. It…

The Future of Publishing

The Future of Publishing | Penguin Blog (USA)

JR expo Paris de Women are Heroes

JR expo Paris de Women are Heroes

Scott And Scurvy

In 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

It 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

Céleste Boursier-Mougenot at Barbican Centre

NOBY NOBY BOY

NOBY NOBY BOY. All meetings should be like this. More at the NBGIiPhone channel.

The Sandpit

The Sandpit

Public limited companies are amoral

Public limited companies are amoral. They’re driven purely by their constitutional requirement to turn as large a profit as possible for…

Dripsophone

Dripsophone, “an unreliable water driven sequencing device”.

Akira Kiteshi - Ming The Merciless (Hexstatic video edit)

Akira Kiteshi – Ming The Merciless (Hexstatic video edit)

Brixton Cops Ban Bashment & Funky House

Patrolman 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

Fabrice Lig – Cosmic Booty – RJDJ Scene

DJ D4V3PH3X - I’m A Producer

DJ D4V3PH3X - I’m A Producer

Newsnight report about The Foundry

Newsnight report about The Foundry

Connective information tissue

Those 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

The 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

Massive Attack – Splitting the Atom

Craftman’s spirit

There 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

By 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

There 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)

Here’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

I 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

Fleshmap: 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

Acid Washed – General Motors, Detroit, America

Posthuman - Europa Sky

Posthuman – Europa Sky

Ghostly’s Favorite Albums of the Decade

Ghostly’s Favorite Albums of the DecadeIncredible, incredible, incredible list from Ghostly.

Computers offer a faster way to cure humanity’s ills

“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

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The Reverse Geocache Puzzle

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Voltage

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Wheel of Stars

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Murmur Study

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Bobby McFerrin Demonstrates the Power of the Pentatonic Scale

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PTAM + AR on an iPhone 3G

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Ten Things I Have Learned

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Amnesia Razorfish - Staff Directory on Surface

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Making Lambs Anger

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Your business card is CRAP!

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Basking in Reflected Glory

If 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

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Teaser for upcoming Stars of the Lid feature film

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Just sit down. And write some music.

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Fluid Grids

Instead of exploring the benefits of flexible web design, we rely on a little white lie: “minimum screen resolution.” These three words…

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Sine Language

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Art bollocks

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One & Other

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Octavcat - Lcary Sullaby, Live AV Performance, Videocrash 2 @ Koko

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Inside the dark art of mastering

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Geek Pop

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HAL 9000 screensaver

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RFID Snowflake Installation

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What Is a Social-Media Agency?

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Meetings Are a Matter of Precious Time

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The Designers Republic Is Dead

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Where Can I Live

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Hexstatic - Street Fighter II HD remix

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The Colbert Report Remix feat Lawrence Lessig (Eclectic Method Mix)

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A Fistful Of Dollars - The Story of a Kiva.org Loan

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Franklyn trailer

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OSM 2008: A Year of Edits

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Teeth-grindingly annoying

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Cursor Miner – Library

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Avant Garde Project

The Avant Garde Project is a series of recordings of 20th-century classical, experimental, and electroacoustic music digitized from LPs…

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Stop 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…

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BUSH AT THE MVAs 2008

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SEO is using deodorant instead of washing. SEO is masking bad coffee with sugar. SEO is cramming instead of studying. SEO is using pain…

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Max Tundra – Will Get Fooled Again

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Cut Chemist – 1st Big Break

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On being a bit of an idiot

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How To Freelance

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Mobile Web Design

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Let go of the rest

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Minotaur Shock

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Neal Stephenson: Science Fiction as a Literary Genre

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Stereolab - Three Women

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Let's get this out of the way...

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David Shrigley – Obsessed

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Mix Tape

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Illegal filesharing - A suicide note from the music industry

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Endor by Night

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Adam Buxton - The Hours

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The BPA Toe Jam feat. David Byrne & Dizzee Rascal

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Eric’s Trip - ViewMaster

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The Gamer’s Confession

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Delighting with Data

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Musopen – Free Public Domain Classical Music

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New York Magazine’s Summer Muxtapes

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upl8tv

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ICANN Board Approves Wide Expansion of TLDs

So if McDonald’s wanted a TLD……then ICANN has .chzbrgr?— oodaloop , ICANN Board Approves Wide Expansion of TLDsA Slashdot user comments on…

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A Wild Sheep Chase: In Search of Haruki Murakami

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Five Dials

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Phonographantasmascope

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Wevie de Crepon (aka Wevie Stonder) – Ton Wah

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Billy Childish & Sexton Ming - Insects In Your Stars

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batshit.muxtape.com

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Developers accused of pursuing gadgetry instead of saving planet

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In the Air

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The Tommy Westphall universe hypothesis

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Ghostly Swim

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Building the Next Last.fm

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Playful Spaces

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INKY – Grave

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Captain Ahab – I Wanna Love You Like a Robot

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Pool Radio: An Aggregator of Mediators

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Robots vs. zombie

Could 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…

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Misdoing anything opens up a breach in ethics that can never be closed. It removes culpability from any distortion and makes anything, no…

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Orikaso folding tableware is dead handy this time of year.

brand tags

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Weird Fishes: Arpeggi by Flight404

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Gin, Television, and Social Surplus

It’s better to do something than to do nothing. Even lolcats, even cute pictures of kittens made even cuter with the addition of cute…

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Cheese Kit Diptych

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Brussels Meets Brighton : The MetaHub

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Simon Amstell lays into Noel Fielding

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GroupTweet

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in the land of cutting out people in photoshop, the bald man is king— Jess and Nick

Contains Violence

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posthuman.muxtape.com

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Tweet Clouds

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Twubble

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Rainforest Concern: Silent Night

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MIDI Animation Rètro Game Medley

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Facebook To Drop “is” From Status Updates

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Sigur Rós – Heima Trailer

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“In this piece, FSOL filter, process and montage all organic and synthetic sound they find resonant, to create what they call “brutal…

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Colleen – I’ll Read You A Story

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London Design Festival 2007

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Internet People!

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Kwari

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The Music Man

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Blonde Redhead – My Impure Hair

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Did You See the Words

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Reboot

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The Profile of Non-Format

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Meetings are an addictive, highly self-indulgent activity that corporations and other large organizations habitually engage in only because…

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KFC Hunger Strike!Must. Stop. Playing.

Desktop Orb Could Reform Energy Hogs

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Paper Critters

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Attention Scum!

Attention Scum!

LastGraph

LastGraph

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Last.fm-Mainstream-O-Meter

goodwithmoney

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Designer//Slash//Model

Designer//Slash//Model

Fuck Yuo I Am a Robot

Fuck Yuo I Am a Robot

The Electro Plankton Quartet - Planklantis

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Cursor Miner Live @ Sonar 2007

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Where are the Joneses?

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Last.fm Normaliser

Last.fm Normaliser

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Adventure Ecology Second Life Flood (via greenormal)

Uniqlock

Uniqlock

Bleep Sónar 2007

3 compilations themed around Sónar 2007, programmed and selected by the directors of the festival. Available exclusively at Bleep.com…

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Strange

I’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

Change Your World

Live Long and Prosper

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Tumblr Radar

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Effecting Change

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Correlate.us

correlate.us

Vogel The Young Modernist

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TwittyTunes

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PasswordMaker

PasswordMaker. One Password To Rule Them All.™

Squirrel eating a bourbon biscuit

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Last.fm Acquired By CBS

Last.fm – the Blog: Last.fm Acquired By CBS

Wire

Wire (via ohskylab)

Field Day 2007

Field Day - Saturday 11th August 2007, Victoria Park, London

The brainstorm - a trojan horse of mediocrity

A facilitators main task is to ensure that ‘everyone goes home with a balloon’ after a brainstorm - that they all feel that their pointless…

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Burst Culture

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Von Südenfed - Fledermaus Can't Get It

Mark E. Smith and Mouse on Mars, together at last!

Banana for your thoughts

banana for your thoughts (via hallywoods)

Tom and Paul

Tom and Paul (via Peter Costello)

Cursor Miner - Baby Universe

Baby - a vast parisitic cultural organism feeding off the love expounded in pop songs. — blog.myspace.com/cursorminer

Fujiya & Miyagi - Ankle Injuries

Like pixellated scraps of jazz mags…Fujiya & Miyagi Ankle Injuries (via groenlandrecords)

I pinch

“Yes… I pinch”.Honda Element Gil “The Crab” (via Gilthecrab)

Cassette - Voyager

Line Rider mayhem from The Flippers.Voyager (via CassetteMusic)

Battles - Atlas

Top-draw math-nerd rock.Battles - Atlas (taken from the album Mirrored) (via WarpRecords)

Celestial crabs

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If the library burns down, you get a first

The 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

Anyone want to be at Loggerheads with me? Staffordshire or Denbighshire; your choice. Actually, I’ll be near Staffordshire next week. You…

Doom Doom Doom

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Earworm

The 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

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No UFO’s

Who would have thought that the universe sounds like a game of Defender? Moon Cresta would’ve been better, mind.

Earworm

Two Lone Swordsmen: Sex Beat.

Keep It On Ze Rinky-dink

Time passes. Things happen. Beer is drunk. No functionality is added (to the weblog, at least). Re-design? Don’t even go there. Just get…

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Some Machines Have Big Knobs

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Lave Trader

An 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

Earworm: The Divine Comedy’s Lost Property.

Urban Style Music

Fällt Publishing’s Invisible Cities installation “offers the opportunity to experience an intimate series of portraits of the world’s cities…

We Float

Kyoichi 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

Long 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

You Like This Machine

Hello Sunshine

Earworm: Super Furry Animals‘ Do Or Die.

Plug Myself In

Have 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?

Side-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

The Birmingham-based Default Response network have a selection of mp3 recordings taken from their live events, including sets the excellent…

Self-annulation

Consuming Bodies: Sex and Contemporary Japanese Art:Consuming Bodies explores the themes of sex and consumerism in contemporary Japanese art…

Eines Morgens im November

Quint Buchholz postcards (including One Morning in November).Related: cards and books from Inkognito.

Lady In Red (Is Dancing With Meat)

V/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

Something to keep your bandwidth occupied when the slsk server goes down: a startlingly large collection of Douglas Adams mp3s including the…

Majestic Seven Fingers

“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

Pierced 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

Thomas 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

The 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

The 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

Filming on the Tube, including Location, location, location, a gallery of the London Underground’s “more photogenic locations” such as…

Orseradish

Herb 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

Mmm, potentially sunny bank holiday weekend approaching; if there had been time to plan it would have been tempting to do something along…

Metroplex

The Times on large-scale construction debacles:Life is too short to read every tome penned by Scandinavian and German social scientists. But…

Bahamut

I’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

Ever had that urge to turn your life into one big project?

Pasty-related Dementia

Jonathan 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!

What’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

Quick Raymond Queneau link dump:ScriptoriumZazie in the Metro at Amazon UKqueneau.net (in French)Louis Malle’s Zazie dans le métro at IMDbAn…

Endlessnessism

Enooze – the site for “experimental electronic music & experimental journalism on experimental electronic music” – is back with a new look…

Books vs. Cigarettes

Extensive George Orwell archive, including complete novels, articles and essays. If only this type of resource had been around five years…

Dog Solitude

From 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

Well, 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

Jam, 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

Foundation 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

Goodness, it all comes at once, doesn’t it? Apologies for this latest interruption in service – life has been rather busy recently. Regular…

Temporary Insanity

Links 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

From a review of Spring Heel Jack, J Spaceman, Matthew Shipp, Evan Parker, William Parker and the incredible Han Bennink at the Queen…

Naturland

A review of Sue Barr’s gaikoku mura (‘foreign country villages’) photographs at the Architectural Association:The recent establishment in…

GhostBastards

Ever 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

Babel Guides: a new site for world literature in translation. As well as information about Babel’s guides to French, German, Dutch and…

Philobiblon

The Independent on Foyles, London’s most eccentric large bookshop.For decades, Foyles has been a shopper’s nightmare, with miles and miles…

Pluck

The Cursor Miner track pressedRetina features on Pre-set, a new compilation of electronic music taken from demos received by Mute Records…

His Dark Materials

Wise robot Jorn Barger’s Philip Pullman resources on the Web.

In The Tartar Style

Radio 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

A new Haruki Murakami fansite, Murakami.ch. The short story and bibliography sections are already pretty impressive.

Music For Tunnels

Mp3it features live and rare mp3s from artists such as Gastr Del Sol, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Lesser (including the Christina Ricci…

FCK JN GNT

Londumb 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

Takashi 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

David Shrigley’s new(ish) book, Human Achievement (with sample pages at The Redstone Press).Related: Tangents review; Tea for sale.

Low Place Like Home

The 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

Zippo tricks are perfect for those that need another reason to ditch ill-considered New Year’s resolutions.

11 : 11

Eleven O’Clock Rooibosch Tea is strangely addictive despite being caffeine-free. I’m not too bothered about the reputed health benefits; it…

Millionaire Dogs

Warp 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

Guardian 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

A Japan Times interview with Haruki Murakami, in which he discusses the conflict between closed systems and open systems in society:The…

Mental Hangover

Amiga demos and intros, “captured from an Amiga and uploaded to the web as DivX encoded videos”.

Chiba

William 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

Elihu 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

Aw, 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

Otisfodder’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

E.C. Brown presents a rather impressive categorised list of links to free mp3s. The categories include your standard electronic, indie-rock…

Time Porn

The Word Spy is devoted to “recently coined words, existing words that have enjoyed a recent renaissance, and older words that are being…

Excessively Nautical

Edward Lear’s Nonsense Poetry and Art (with many and varied thanks to Robyn).

Million A Shot

The Art of James Bond.

Coda

One more before heading off again: Douglas Adams’ The Meaning of Liff online. Back with a new, giuegaue-laden anglepoised early next year…

Road Kill

Occasional 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

Still away; just dropping a few bits in while recovering from the exceptional Seed Records birthday party at Aldwych last Friday.

Commodore Prog Rock

Something to fuel any fanboy/fangirl’s healthy obsession with Ladytron: in a recent Guardian interview, they namecheck Syd Barret, Serge…

In The Beams

Yahoo’s LAUNCHcast service is surprisingly well done (but unsurprisingly seems to choke when using Mozilla or Phoenix). There is, of course…

Industrialsamplecoregouchbeat

The 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

William 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

Christopher Wanjek attempts to debunk popular medical myths including homeopathy, oxygen-fortified drinks and magnetic therapy. Related: Bad…

Jelly Tones

Top Ten Digital Photography Tips by the author of O’Reilly’s Digital Photography Pocket Guide.

Mathematical Anti Telharsic Harfatum Septomin

The 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

Extensive Samurai Archives.

Motor City

Have shiny dual-boot laptop, will roam. Back in a month or so.

Dance, Nurgling, Dance

Art 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

Ooh, a huge archive of hip hop mp3s, including The Pharcyde and Public Enemy!

Tributary

The Uncharted Audio people are playing the disused Aldwych tube station as part of Seed Record’s 2nd birthday celebrations.

Steal This Book

Abbie Hoffman’s counterculture text is appropriately available online.

Animus

Sato Kenji’s More Animated than Life discusses “the significance of animation to the Japanese and why it is not what Westerners expect”.

Nothing Lost

Last 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

Poorly publicised I Monster website, featuring a comprehensive discography and mp3s of unreleased tracks.Related: Evening Session interview…

The Art Of Driving

The Guardian interviews and profiles Mayer Hillman, the ‘radical green social scientist’.“Hillman is unfazed by polite ridicule: he has met…

Bzzt

Glitch Art: The aesthetics of digital corruption (and my dodgy crash from way back).

You Are Fallen

Accompanying minisite for Douglas Gordon’s What Have I Done exhibition (developed by Airside).

Newark Wilder

The 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.

The 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

Stereolab 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

LJ Kruzer is playing Not Clickable in Warrington at The Foundry tonight (Wed 23rd October), with Thorsten Sideb0ard and The Legendary Jesse…

Run Alone

Two new Ebbs and Flows mp3s, including a charming cover of tinfoillake by Cursor Miner. The LJ Kruzer cover is coming soon, apparently.

Kinoko Girl

Mildly 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

The 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?

Mark and Lard corner, including The Sanctuary for Abandoned Mark & Lard Catchphrases. That’s the bunny.

You Can Fall

The Guardian interviews Lynne Ramsay and Samantha Morton about the forthcoming adaptation of Alan Warner’s Morvern Callar:“The casting of…

Slipper Sleaze

The 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

A Glossary of Hardboiled Slang.

Pools In Eyes

Beestung features a huge archive of Throwing Muses, Belly, Tanya Donelly and Kristin Hersh mp3s (including live sets, B-sides and rarities).

Clouds Up

The Guardian review of Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides:“Where The Virgin Suicides reflected on connections between sex and death, its…

The Obscure Object

Jeffrey Eugenides‘ Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Middlesex is out in paperback in September and it’s well worth reading:Emotions, in my…

Conduit For Sale!

Domino are set to release a double-DVD Pavement retrospective entitled Slow Century, featuring every video, two complete concerts and a full…

Gritty Shaker

The 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

Sherry and Robbie Williams karaoke? Elsie Mo and the Mountain Goats, more like. Also witnessed more of the creeping gentrification of…

Norra Potter

Off 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

Gabba.net, the people behind Plug and Play, are keeping a temporary, online archive of selected mp3s from their Winamp playlists. Current…

Future Tiger

Leaf’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

The 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

Robert 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

Mount Fuji, a UK-based online shop carries an extensive range of Japanese food products (including confectionery!).

I Am Not Afraid

Yabuno 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

The 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

Angry 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

While discussing a New York Times article on L33T speak invading schools, one slashdotter ends up reworking The Lord’s Prayer with modern…

Photo Jenny

Exifer for Windows is a handy application for managing the metadata (EXIF/IPTC) of images taken from digital cameras.“Because many image…

Steel Factory Mayhem

Pulp, 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

The League of Gentlemen start their third season on Thursday 26th September on BBC TWO. Related: visiting Royston Vasey (aka Hadfield…

Suspicious Bear

Midnight Eye’s review of Katsuyuki Motohiro’s botched-heist film Space Travelers:“Space Travelers can be appreciated for its inventive…

Japanorama

Incredibly extensive Encyclopedia of Everything Japanese node on Everything2, including sections on history, people, culture, samurai…

Hillside

A virtual tour of Keele University.

Kusanagi

Trailer for Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex, the television series sequel to the film. Related: Bandai press release.

No Relation

Paul Love are “2 guys from D.C. expanding the horizons of HipHop”. Well hey, that’s news to me.

Exit The Sandman

How 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

Extract 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

Resonance104.4fm, 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

Torrez 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

The 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

New official site for Iain Banks. Should eventually feature information on his fiction and science fiction works, but currently light on…

Spoonbending

What is The Animatrix?Related: direct download links.

Acting President

The 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

Foyles have started maintaining a list of their forthcoming literary events. Authors appearing this autumn include Chuck Palahniuk, Jeremy…

Flicking Your Switch

Emperor Norton have some Realaudio versions of three tracks (Seventeen, CrackedLCD and Turn It On) from the forthcoming Ladytron album…

Porn Coconut Co

Extract from Once More, With Feeling, in which two twentysomethings from the Erotic Review decide to make the “greatest porn film ever seen…

Harebrained Scheme

Still strangely fascinated by the idea of Neurobics. Related: Turns of Phrase – Neurobics.

Bodyshock

How to keep your immune system sorted.

Rue The Whirl

Higuchinsky’s Uzumaki looks like it might be worth watching out for. The Midnight Eye review summarizes: “a particularly loony film…

Robots Will Take Over

Cursor 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

The Hustler is available in the UK on DVD on the 19th August.

Kafkaesque

The Times on the commercial hijacking of Prague.“Yet precisely because Prague has such a miraculously preserved centre – a time-capsule…

Charles Booth

The survey into life and labour in London (1886-1903).

Leftovers

At 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

The Jazz Messengers (another excellent Cowboy Bebop fansite). Related: CowboyBebop.org, a mirror of the deceased official CowboyBebop.com…

Papini

From 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

Dead 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

The Guardian’s Biff cartoons online – finally! You should see the portrait in my attic, lady.

Hecatomb

One last thing; Whelk (the best of Upsideclown).

Abandoned

Busy 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

Big 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

Matt 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

An 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

Taoism or Daoism?“The difference in spelling and pronunciation exists because “Taoism”/”Daoism” are formed from a Chinese word which can be…

Big Red Robot

While 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

Battle 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

Pitchfork on How to Survive Without Audiogalaxy.

Breaking Rocks

Plaid DJ mixes available for download, including the unreleased Futura Connect (Mouse on Mars, Autechre, Pierre Bastien, Squarepusher), the…

Game Theory

“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

iCandy reviews Six Feet Under at Screenburn. Related: official Six Feet Under website.

Hats Off

The Zebra Face cartoons, from Invisible Spies.“Armed with only the face of a Zebra, and a diabetic mouth organ wielding side-kick, Zebra…

Tipper

Spotted random art cows around London? CowParade has the answers.

Walking On Commerciality

Coasteering on the Pembrokeshire coast sounds like it might be fun.

Angry Dolphin

Warp/Creative Review animation microsite.

Sharp Shooting on Saturn

Black 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

Nobody mentioned that High Jinks had a website. Handy for t-shirts.

Demons Never Need To Read

Faith Erin Hicks’ comic, Demonology 101.

Slice Of Cheese

WaiWai is “a section of the Mainichi Daily News that brings articles from Japan’s weekly tabloids to foreign readers”. Cheeky, punning…

Sitting Up Straight

The 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

The (excellent) PowerPuff Girls Portrait Studio.

Speakeasy

Random Word Generator. Favourites so far include wagenegle, framelechable, scrudicturns, bylarlous, lubbses, sistral, bitwences, tection…

D-Zug

Gottfried Benn’s Morgue & Other Verse (1912-13), available in PDF and iSilo formats from Supervert.

Kind Of Disco Sound

The 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

UK Rail Journey Planner for Palm and PC (i.e. timetables and suchlike). Not free, alas.

Middle Of Nowhere

Keele 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

Go 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

Gamer.tv are looking for game-literate people to appear as contestants on their new television gaming quiz show.

Cut Faster

Coldcut have updated the website for their excellent Solid Steel radio show. It now includes all the playlists since 1998 and archives of…

Lost + Found

The Japanese Speaking Machine.

Djed

Rephlex’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

nerve.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

Terrible chat-up lines, dating dos and don’ts and hints & tips from Nathanial Merriweather’s Lovage, a Prince Paul/Automator project.

Machine Room Jam

Fabulous Sound Machines at the Croydon Clocktower.“A collection of sound and colour pieces that become intriguing new instruments that…

The Midi Database

More MIDI files than you could ever need (or want).

Ravished By The Sheer Implausibility Of That Last Statement

A Few Notes on the Culture by Iain M Banks. Related: Culture Ship Names and Culture Inspired Ship Names.

A Number of Names

Marcia’s crazy tunes for crazy webloggers.

Holiday Retort

Back. Highlights: Tate St Ives (including the altogether more impressive Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden and David Shrigley…

The Holiday Girl

Anglepoised, More Beer and Uncharted Audio are off to the delightful village of Mousehole in Cornwall, to escape from celebrate the Jubilee…

Be Clowns

Odd, 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

The 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

Wired on the Lowercase sound.“Created largely by scientists, techies and experimental musicians, lowercase recordings are frequently based…

Small Circular Motion

Currently 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

Excellent collection of old album covers.

Ho Fun

The 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

Headlessness interview on Chuck D’s SlamJamz venture.

Going Somewhere Solo?

The 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

The 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

Urban Dictionary, a slang dictionary with a cheeky appropriation of the Dictionary.com design.

Folly Bridge

Glossary of Oxford terms.Spoonerism: The accidental or deliberate transposition of the initial letters etc. of two or more words in a phrase…

The Apologist

Post 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

Currently making extensive use of the Itchy London guide (brief, critical reviews of bars, pubs, restaurants and attractions in London…

Faakin jingall jangall

Chatham Girls (Last All Summer Long?)English: “Sit quietly and eat or Santa will not come”.Chathamese: “Oi, Daphine-Celiste, sidaan an eet…

American Scream

The Bill Hicks Story. Related: Bill Hicks MP3s.

New Skin

Skin Deep tattoo exhibition, free at the National Maritime Museum (until 30 September 2002).

Bigger Wheels

MoonPies in infinitely better than Wagon Wheels non-shocker. Related: Manufactured Chocolate and Marshmallow Biscuits of the World; The…

Gone 11

Late bar info via SMS. May prevent further ill-considered Tatty Bogle outings.

MisoJoy

Review 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

Stolen 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

Some quick Uncharted Audio updates. The sonomu launch party (featuring Cursor Miner, Rothko, Junkboy, Simon Fisher Turner and more) takes…

Key Words

…and Tricky Phrases for Emergency Medical Personnel.“SBLEO — (pronounced S-B-Leo) Suicide By Law Enforcement Officer.TTR — Tattoo-to-Tooth…

Spins Them Webs

The 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

Commercial Breaks and Beats, a well-organised UK television advert music database.

Red Shadow

Hiroyuki 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

Fanboy MP3 reconstruction of the unreleased Beach Boys album, SMiLE.

Hand In Your Head

Fresh looks and an excellent new exhibit – ‘The Art of Ken Meyer Jr‘ – over at headlessness.

Prince Shops at Bardwells

Guardian journalist goes looking for UK underground music. Finds it. The end.“My tour begins in Sheffield. In the past, the south Yorkshire…

Amphibious Nostrils

Excerpt 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

Le Parkour – extreme roof-jumping urban sport, as featured in the current BBC 1 short, ‘Rush Hour’.

Mice Eat Cheese

Large collection of Modest Mouse bootleg MP3s.

Camel Bobsled

Scratch, a documentary from Palm Pictures, is a “feature length film about the hip-hop DJ and today’s turntablist movement”. Currently set…

Capitulation

Which Powerpuff Girls Character Are You?

Moog Cook Book

The Cook Book CD: Libro de Cocina y Musica.“An indie-pop Japan-o-phile compilation of songs accompanied by vegetarian recipes contributed by…

Brekfux

Nautilus 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

Exceptionally tiny, customizable radio-controlled cars now available in the UK from Bit Char-G.“Introducing the world’s Playstation 2 Memory…

Romp

Excerpt 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

The 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

The 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

The 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

The 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

The 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

Jay Rubin’s Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words looks worthwhile (if far from definitive or overly insightful).Related: critical Guardian…

Personals

“Happily attached small anime girl seeks internet weirdo“. Apparently. Apply within.

Mutant Ibex

Time 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

After 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

Create 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

An excerpt from Nicholson Baker’s latest non-fiction work, Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper. Related: Nicholson Baker Fan…

No Nathaniel, No

The 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

Pondering 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

Neon 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

3 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

New Fridge song – Surface Noise And Electric Piano (MP3, 6,251Kb). Related: Eph reissued (with Kinoshita Terasaka, Of EP and remixes).

Extreme Ironing

“combining the dangers of ‘adrenaline’ sports with the satisfaction of pressed linen“.

Bring On The Clones

Plagiarism.org appear to be crawling anglepoised with their sinister-sounding SlySearch. Cue paranoia.

Collared

Two gory Battle Royale t-shirt designs from airside.

Working As A Cocktail In A Waitress Bar

Whammstein – a covers band, concentrating on the very best in shouty grinding industrial and 80’s covers. Related: drinking whilst on…

Plug Me In

Stuck for something to do this Thursday evening? Of course not. After all, you’re the busy, thrusting, socially well-endowed type! However…

Basscadet

ATP 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

Jim O’Rourke, Kim Gordon, Amon Tobin, Jeff Mills, Si Begg, Evolution Control Committee, Cornelius (and many, many more) feature in various…

Dining Out

High impact Visa Asia commercial (WMV, 1,850k) featuring Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon star Zhang Ziyi. Also: short “making of…” movies and…

Spookyland

Roman Dirge – a Tim Burton-esque animator (to do him a disservice). Related: Invader ZIM DivX.(Not strictly) related: Tim Burton’s Stainboy…

Rota Link

The covers project (“building a database of cover songs… with the intention of creating cover ‘chains’”).

I’m The Operator

Retrobeep – the obsolete and vintage computer museum at Bletchley Park.

Words Of Advice

Feeding off the naked lunch – Irvine Welsh on Burroughs, Trocchi, the “relationship between drugs and the artistic muse” and new play…

Root Down

The weblogging world is abuzz with speculation – what is BlogRoots? Oh silly, isn’t it obvious? It’s hair dye – for webloggers!

By The Stumps

The origin of London’s place names (numerous but scanty details) and London Place names (fewer names with more detail). Books: A Dictionary…

Black Books

Confessions 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

Reading from his latest novel Waiting Period (excerpt) at the SBC on Thursday 23 May.

Superfast Service

The Fast Food Nation section on Penguin’s UK site (including interview with Eric Schlosser, extract and charming e-cards). Related: Fast…

Googling Free

Google 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

Anglepoised 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

The Complete Tapehead Columns.

Not That It Matters

Robyn reviews the final episode of the current Black Books series on Screenburn.

So You Wanna

Fake 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

Like cows, or something! The official HR Giger website.

From the no-excuses dept.

Strunk’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

London Air Quality Network’s live air pollution levels.

A Life in the Day

Bill Birdwood, Dartmoor prison’s chaplain.

Mixmasters

Addictive TV’s ITV1 music series of audio-visual DJ / VJ mixes repeated Friday nights from April 19th at 2.45am, featuring exclusive mixes…

Kidrobot

Premium 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

Hefty 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

The I Dig Scrawny Pale Guys webring. Thankfully no “I Am A Scrawny Pale Guy” companion webring.

Skate Glug

The UK’s first all-girl skateboarding event, April 5th at Sheffield’s The House skatepark.

Now get your ass to Mars

Or rather, your name. Can’t help but think of Wowbagger and interstellar spam.

Turntable Hell

UK-wide Extreme turntablist tour featuring Otomo Yoshihide, Marina Rosenfeld, Janek Schaefer, Lepke B and more.

My Fond Ambition

Lyrics 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

The 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

The 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

Foil-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)

Electronic tagging of offenders inspired by Spiderman cartoon strip.“Jack Love was a newly appointed district judge in Albuquerque, New…

Leo Vroman

“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.

Artificial Neohuman Generated for Logical Exploration/Positronic Organism Intended for Sabotage and Efficient Destruction.

Bad sex and bad TV

The 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

The 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

sonomu – a new project from the state51 conspiracy – “will become a unique personalised place for new music discovery and discussion…

Here’s your shirt

Slightly 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

Japan’s psychedelic earth worshippers Acid Mothers Temple perform a live score to the cult Japanese Manga classic “Urotsukidoji” – Legend Of…

Screenburn

“A new TV review site for people who have had enough“, from the veritable Bobzilla.

Filthy electro-rap

Download Gold Chains’ new I Come From San Francisco video. I want that deck. Gold Chains, DMX Crew, Uncharted Audio’s honcho extraordinaire…

Miffy

The official Dick Bruna site featuring screensavers, colouring pictures, games and the Dick Bruna Song. Related: Miffy versus Hello Kitty.

Manga @ Magma

Za Manga! “A close look at the fantastic history & the eccentric world of the Manga phenomena in Japan.” (11 March – 12 April at Magma…

Computers

An Illustrated History.“Discover the fascinating history of computers, interfaces, and computer design in this illustrated guide that…

Music is math

CNN article on music hardware vs. music software and related Slashdot discussion (ye olde “real” instruments vs. electronic instruments…

Still more fighting

History of the Final Fantasy series.

Count the bubbles in your hand

The Invisible Web Directory, for when Google just ain’t enough.

It has an international appeal

The Lovebytes 2002 festival of digital art takes place this weekend in Sheffield, featuring Dave Green (of NTK fame), Apple Creative…

Beggars

AV 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

iPod Hacks. Now all I need is an iPod. And a Mac.

The Shield

“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

Jess 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

Wonderland Society’s Canterbury Tales. I’m looking forward to the inevitable “Which Pilgrim Are You?” online personality test.

Flatland

A romance of many dimensions.

The Centurions

Power Xtreme! File under “dimly-remembered childrens cartoon that seemed wonderful at the time (perhaps brain only half-grown?)”.

Ellie Harrison

Eat 22 and Kinetic Cake Vs Kinetic Carrot.

All Hail West Texas

Companion site for the recent album by the Mountain Goats.

Powerpuff Girls Movie

Why 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

Reduced prices on City Slang, Warp, Chemikal Undergound and Ninja Tune albums from Fopp shops.

Lo and Behold

Lo 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

A list of references and oddities from the recent Boards of Canada album, Geogaddi.

From the Portishead mailing list

On the 29th April 2002 we are releasing Portishead’s acclaimed PNYC live show remastered on DVD “PNYC“. Including the full length…

Pop-art windows

Amusing client quotes. Salvaged from a dreamless.org thread.

Gateway to the Future

The Science Museum’s Japanese exhibit finishes next weekend. It also marks the end of the year-long Japan 2001 festival.

Ho ho ho

It’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

Vic 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

Anthony Bourdain eats the beating heart of a freshly killed cobra (MPEG, 1472k).

Keep it simple

Another weblog. Just what the world needs.