[E.O.M.S.]

Hearts On Fire

2012-01-30T22:27:00.000+11:00

The Verdict of the Herd

2012-01-30T21:54:00.000+11:00

Have you ever come across a web site that you could not access and wondered, "Am I the only one?" Herdict Web aggregates reports of inaccessible sites, allowing users to compare data to see if inaccessibility is a shared problem.

History Lesson

2012-01-30T21:33:00.000+11:00

Secrets of the billionaire backing Gingrich's shot at the White House

2012-01-30T21:19:00.000+11:00

An interview with William Gibson

2012-01-30T21:16:00.002+11:00

autocorrects Autocorrects

That sad moment when someone attractive is grammatically deficient.

2012-01-30T21:12:00.002+11:00

Gillard: just a matter of when

Dutch ISPs Refuse To Block The Pirate Bay

2012-01-30T21:05:00.000+11:00

Two weeks ago, the Court of The Hague ruled that Ziggo, the largest ISP in the Netherlands, and competitor XS4ALL have to block access to The Pirate Bay.
The ruling was the first to bring broad censorship to the Netherlands and in a response XS4ALL said they were “bitterly disappointed”, noting that fundamental rights had been traded for “commercial interests.”
For BREIN, the Dutch anti-piracy group that started the court case, the verdict wasn’t quite enough. The Hollywood-backed group wasted no time issuing requests for other ISPs to block access to The Pirate Bay as well. Or else.
After internal discussions two large ISPs – KPN and T-Mobile – are now on record stating they will not honor BREIN’s request. This means that millions of Internet users in the Netherlands will still be able to access The Pirate Bay without having to go through proxies.
Speaking out against censorship, both Internet providers state they will only block The Pirate Bay following a court order and that innovation is a better way to deal with the problem of piracy.
“KPN sees the blocking of websites as a drastic measure for which a court order is required,” KPN said in a statement, adding that innovation is needed to curb piracy.
“KPN doesn’t believe a blockade is the right solution. What is needed are robust, attractive business models that are easy to use and offer a fair deal to both producers and consumers of content.”
T-Mobile also said that it will only respond to court orders, while it emphasized the value of an open Internet.
“T-Mobile strongly supports an open Internet and is fundamentally against shutting off access to websites. Dutch law is very clear when it comes to blocking access to the Internet. T-Mobile will only respond to a court ruling, not to demands from a private party such as BREIN.”
If BREIN follows up on threats that were made earlier, both ISPs can expect to be sued by the anti-piracy outfit in the near future. Ziggo and XS4ALL, meanwhile, are expected to enforce the blockade this coming Wednesday, February 1st.
Whether the blockade will have much of an effect is yet to be seen. Judging from what happened in other countries when the site was blocked, users will quickly find ways to route around the blockade to regain access to the world’s largest torrent site.
Ernesto @'TorrentFreak'

Brownwashing: Why Green Consumers Buy Brown Things

2012-01-30T21:01:00.001+11:00

Manufacturers have found a new way to appeal to eco-friendly consumers: Brown it. The Wall Street Journal lays out the trend: Dunkin' Donuts, Cinnabon, and Target are swapping their white napkins for brown ones. Seventh Generation dyes its translucent diapers brown. Cascade has introduced a new, fiber-heavy beige toilet paper it's dubbed "Moka."
When asked why they went brown, companies are transparent: The color "symbolizes" eco-friendliness. Brown paper products have been shown to make people "feel like they were doing something good for the environment." Consumers need "visual differentiation" to know which products are environmentally sound. It's not even so important that a product be brown, just "that it's not white."
The Journal points out the obvious: Brown doesn't necessarily mean green. Today, "white paper can be made from 100% recycled fibers and whitened without chemical chlorine, traditionally the primary complaint against it." Seventh Generation actually adds a step to the production process—brown pigmentation—to make its diapers appear eco. It's not clear whether Target, Dunkin', and Cinnabon's new napkins are any better for the environment than the old ones were, they're just browner.
And at this point, it doesn't really matter: Brown is firmly linked to green in the consumer's mind. Eco-minded consumers now reach for brown, flecked products because they assume less environmentally conscious paper companies would take pains to dye them white. In fact, they may be rushing to tint everything beige.
Amanda Hess @'GOOD'

2012-01-30T20:51:00.000+11:00

Scholars speak out in favor of 'electronic Jihad' against the enemy

♪♫ Keith LeBlanc - Major Malfunction

2012-01-30T20:38:00.000+11:00

2012-01-30T19:54:00.000+11:00

Mysteries of Data Pool 3 give Rupert Murdoch a whole new headache

Just like that...

2012-01-30T17:34:00.002+11:00

RupertMurdochPR Not Rupert Murdoch
Story about how 90% of Australians won't pay for online content....paywalled twitpic.com/8ddfsp #chronicallyironic

2012-01-30T17:29:00.000+11:00

Deathmatch on Mars: An Interview with Warren Ellis on Newt Gingrich, Space Realism and Future America

2012-01-30T12:35:00.004+11:00

JShahryar Josh Shahryar
Finding comparisons of Oakland with Bahrain a bit idiotic? Maybe you should check this out: blogs.alternet.org/speakeasy/2011… | #OO #OWS

2012-01-30T12:08:00.001+11:00

What really happened at Occupy Oakland on Saturday January 28

2012-01-30T12:00:00.000+11:00

Arrests in Oakland protests rise to more than 400

Remember...

2012-01-30T11:35:00.002+11:00

(Thanx GKB!)

The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore

2012-01-30T11:33:00.000+11:00

Inspired, in equal measures, by Hurricane Katrina, Buster Keaton, The Wizard of Oz, and a love for books, “Morris Lessmore” is a story of people who devote their lives to books and books who return the favor. Morris Lessmore is a poignant, humorous allegory about the curative powers of story. Using a variety of techniques (miniatures, computer animation, 2D animation) award winning author/ illustrator William Joyce and Co-director Brandon Oldenburg present a new narrative experience that harkens back to silent films and M-G-M Technicolor musicals. “Morris Lessmore” is old fashioned and cutting edge at the same time.
“The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore” is one of five animated short films that will be considered for outstanding film achievements of 2011 in the 84th Academy Awards ®.
Film Awards Won by “The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore”
To date, “The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore” film has drummed up fans all over the world taking home the following awards:
· Cinequest Film Fest: Best Animated Short
· Palm Springs International ShortFest: Audience Favorite Award
· SIGGRAPH: Best in Show
To enjoy “Morris Lessmore” and other Moonbot Apps please visit the following links:
tinyurl.com/lessmoreipad
tinyurl.com/numberlys
tinyurl.com/bullseyeapp
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2012-01-30T11:19:00.000+11:00

We Have Every Right to Be Furious About ACTA

Occupy Oakland January 28, 2012

2012-01-30T10:50:00.000+11:00

Police round up Occupy Oakland protesters outside a downtown YMCA.: Spencer Mills (@OakFoSho)

Journalists—Myself Included—Swept Up in Mass Arrest at Occupy Oakland

Downtown Spokane Street Musician

2012-01-30T10:40:00.000+11:00

2012-01-30T10:36:00.000+11:00

Climate Change and the Integrity of Science

2012-01-30T10:13:00.000+11:00

Leave Los Niños Alone! The Mental Costs of Linguistic Assimilation

HA!

2012-01-30T09:51:00.002+11:00

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2012-01-30T09:47:00.000+11:00

Rap music powers rhythmic action of medical sensor

Calligraphy Letterform Album

2012-01-30T09:06:00.001+11:00

Johann Hering (?1580-1647) compiled his album of elaborate calligraphic letterforms, innovative type arrangements and traditional alphabets over a ten year period in the 1620s and 1630s in the Kulmbach region of Bavaria. (Or it was produced sometime during this time frame: it's not clear...)
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Kalligraphische Schriftvorlagen von Johann Hering

Stream new Neil Young & Crazy Horse jam 'Horse Back'...

2012-01-30T07:58:00.005+11:00

‘Horse Back’ was recorded at Audio Casa Blanca on Jan. 6, 2012
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:)

2012-01-30T07:25:00.000+11:00

2012-01-29T22:14:00.000+11:00

Parents and staff in Australian schools have been caught taking kickbacks

♪♫ Christina Aguilera - At Last (Etta James Funeral)

2012-01-29T21:42:00.000+11:00

2012-01-29T21:38:00.001+11:00

therealdannyt Danny Thompson
driving up to Glasgow remembering my curly-haired mate.play a John Martyn song today...missing him and the phone calls..love ya! x

2012-01-29T21:25:00.002+11:00

ballardian Simon Sellars
'It's like a jingle sometimes' My adolescent memories ripped from my skull & shat on: Grandmaster Flash, The Message - theme for new Kia ad

2012-01-29T21:20:00.002+11:00

The Impact of Deleting Five Personality Disorders in the New DSM-5

Fuck Banks. Carry Cash!!!

2012-01-29T21:18:00.002+11:00

Michael Hudson: Banks Weren’t Meant to Be Like This

♪♫ Dan Bull - Megaupload

2012-01-29T13:45:00.001+11:00

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Liverpool 2 VS 1 Manchester Utd

2012-01-29T09:54:00.000+11:00

What would life be without the usual Ferguson whingeing?

Ex-ruler charged with genocide in Guatemala

2012-01-29T07:44:00.000+11:00

http://www.euronews.net/ Guatemala's former military dictator will face charges of genocide and crimes against humanity in connection with the deaths of indigenous people killed under his rule.
A judge in the south American country has decided Efrain Rios Montt should be held accountable for brutality that occured while he was dicatator.

Topiary

2012-01-29T07:37:00.000+11:00

Shetland teenager Jake Davis accused of hacking into websites under the pseudonym ‘Topiary’ has had his trial delayed until 11 May.
Davis was due to enter a plea at Southwark Crown Court in London along with fellow accused hacker 19 year old Ryan Cleary, but the trial was pushed back due to a continuing investigation into the “possible complicity of others”, with the case being described a “significant and complex international investigation”.
Mr Davis was arrested by police in July 2011 at his address in Hoofields, Lerwick, before being flown to London where he spent five days in the cells. He was eventually bailed to his mother Jenny Davis’ home in Spalding, Lincolnshire.
Police identified him as ‘hacktivist’ Topiary, who had been a spokesman for widespread hacking groups Anonymous and LulzSec.
He faces five charges, including conspiracy to carry out a distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack on the Serious and Organised Crime Agency (SOCA), in which their website would have been flooded with traffic to make it crash.
As part of his bail conditions, Mr Davis is not allowed access to the internet or a mobile phone. These same conditions have carried forward with the new plea date.
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2012-01-29T06:31:00.003+11:00

Just business: how Russian technology provides the eyes and ears for the world’s Big Brothers

2012-01-29T06:21:00.002+11:00

Richard Dawkins’s Jury Delusion

Bahrain deports Australian over Facebook posts

2012-01-29T06:19:00.001+11:00

An Australian English instructor went to Bahrain to teach at the state-run Polytechnic University. Unfortunately, he was forced to leave the country for posts he made on Facebook. Australian English instructor Tony Mitchell recently moved to Bahrain where he was offered a job at the state-run Polytechnic University. He described himself as a witness of the various horrifying events in the struggling country (see The Atlantic’s four-part series). Mitchell was eventually fired, evicted, and forced to flee because of posts he made on Facebook.
Bahrain’s government has been extremely thorough when trying to suppress any form of uprising. It has reached the point where the country is getting rid of anyone it can, just in case. At the university, investigations began in May 2011. Bahraini teachers were being identified from photographs taken at demonstrations showing they had attended the protests: Facebook was used to display them and pro-government supporters were asked to identify the circled faces so that they could be traced and detained.
One of the non-teaching staff was arrested and severely beaten, but was able to resume work. Students were also victimized: some were arrested while others were simply expelled. The rest tried attending class by passing through various check points as they commuted from their villages, which were being raided by police who regularly arrested suspects and damaged property.
A few were called to the administration building at the Polytechnic and taken to the nearby military building where they were all put in a room. They stayed in there all night and were interrogated the next morning. Some were handcuffed, hooded, and taken away on a bus, never to be seen again. Mitchell believed he was safe since the comments he had made on Facebook were not critical of the ruling family or the government. He said his posts simply tried to correct false or misleading information. On the other hand, he was unsure if he could continue working at the university if it was run by a government that resorted to unlawful arrests, torture, as well as identification from social networks.
Mitchell eventually received a text message asking him to visit John Scott, the Director of Human Resources, in the CEO’s office. The Ministry of Education knew all about Mitchell, and the comments he had made on Facebook. A number of his Facebook “friends” had kept copies of his posts, and they were presented to him, although he insists none of them could seriously be used to show that he was critical of the government.
Since classes finished in four weeks, Scott allowed Mitchell to continue teaching until June 30. He agreed to not making further comments on Facebook, as he did not want the university or anyone from management to get into trouble for his actions. Here’s how Mitchell felt about being fired: I had been sacked from my job, not because of my teaching ability or for any normal disciplinary reason, but because I had taken videos and made comments on Facebook. I now had to think of my future after June30, look for a new job somewhere and tell my wife that we had to leave our beautiful apartment and the life we enjoyed together in Bahrain.
On the other hand, I felt a huge sense of relief that I had been freed from having to work for the Bahraini government and that I would no longer have any association with them whatsoever.
Despite his promise, Mitchell couldn’t resist monitoring Facebook to keep track of the students that were being expelled. Some comments criticized Scott for the expulsions and for going back on his word that the Polytechnic would remain neutral. Mitchell knew Scott’s hands were tied by the Ministry so he posted the following comment: “I will tell you more about this after June 30th.”
Mitchell’s Facebook “friends” immediately informed the Minister of Education and the next morning, on June 14, he was called to the human resources director’s office and asked to leave immediately. The university had previously booked flights to Thailand for Mitchell and his wife. They were for July 1, but the university was willing to exchange the tickets. Mitchell asked if he could stay through the end of June as planned, but was quickly told he should seriously consider leaving the country as soon as possible. Mitchell and his wife flew out of Bahrain on June 23.
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Steve Barker's 'On The Wire' (BBC Radio Lancashire 21/01/12) Download/Listen

2012-01-29T06:08:00.003+11:00

SaveOnTheWire Save On The Wire
If you missed last weeks show, you can download here and play at your leisure!: archive.org/download/onthe…

2012-01-29T04:04:00.004+11:00

NYT_JenPreston Jennifer Preston
Who is a "real" journalist? Why does @nypd decide who gets credentials? @megrobertson suggests nymedia "stop using them" #smwknd #ows

2012-01-29T03:56:00.005+11:00

Retaliation Fears Spur Anonymity in Internet Case

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2012-01-29T03:10:00.000+11:00

How Do You Start a Fire With Ice?

♪♫ ScHoolboy Q - NigHtmare On Figg St.

2012-01-29T03:07:00.000+11:00

(Thanx Dray!)

For Son#2 :)

2012-01-29T02:56:00.000+11:00

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2012-01-29T01:30:00.000+11:00

Google and Bing accused of directing users to illegal copies of music

2012-01-29T00:50:00.000+11:00

NYPD Commissioner Ray Kelly Urged to Resign After Police Conceal Role in Anti-Muslim Documentary

♪♫ Nick Cave, Charlie Haden and Toots Thielemans - Hey Joe

2012-01-29T00:45:00.000+11:00

2012-01-29T00:39:00.000+11:00

Mega Aftermath: Upheaval In Pirate Warez Land

Under Obama, the Freedom of Information Act is Still in Shackles

2012-01-29T00:01:00.000+11:00

Three years ago this past weekend, on his first full day in office, President Barack Obama issued his now infamous memo on transparency and open government, which was supposed to fulfill his campaign promise to lead the “most transparent administration in history.” Instead, his administration has been just as secretive—if not more so—than his predecessors, and the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) has become the prime example of his administration’s lack of progress.
In 2009, Obama made FOIA reform the centerpiece of his open government agenda. “My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government,” he said, while laying out principles he wished to see his agencies adopt in the proceeding months. In March of 2009, Attorney General Eric Holder issued what the Justice Department called “comprehensive new Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) guidelines.” Holder ordered that all executive branch departments and agencies were to apply “a presumption of openness” in response to FOIA requests.
In 2010, EFF’s senior counsel David Sobel testified to Congress, calling on the Obama to lead by example if they wish to change the FOIA process.
Unfortunately, secrecy won out in the Obama administration almost immediately. In the early months of his presidency, a court ruled that the administration would have to turn over photos related to the Abu Ghraib torture scandal in response to a FOIA request. Knowing they’d likely lose the appeal, Obama supported a new law that could keep information secret even when FOIA would otherwise require disclosure. The bill’s only intention was to create a way to shield photographs of detainee abuse from public disclosure.
President Obama also refused at first to release White House visitor records, a practice for which his predecessor, George W. Bush, was pilloried. The Obama Administration appealed a court’s ruling that the visitor logs were subject to FOIA. In September 2009, Obama reversed course and agreed to release voluntarily White House visitor records going forward. But in 2011, the Administration was still fighting in court to keep the logs before Obama’s reversal a secret.
The Associated Press looked at the administration’s commitment to transparency in 2010 and concluded Obama was using FOIA exemptions to withhold information from requesters more than Bush did in his final year, despite receiving fewer overall requests. And one of the most frequently used exemptions was one Obama explicitly told the agencies not to use: the “deliberative process” exemption, which allows the government to withhold documents dealing with its decision making process. In Obama’s first year in office, the use of the exemption skyrocketed from 47,395 times in 2008 to 70,779 times in 2009.
Worse, more than a year after Obama and Holder’s memos, a National Security Archive study found “less than one-third of the 90 federal agencies that process such FOIA requests have made significant changes in their procedures.” Even FOIA requests on transparency were held up:

The AP is still waiting–after nearly three months–for records it requested about the White House's "Open Government Directive," rules it issued in December directing every agency to take immediate, specific steps to open their operations up to the public.

Yet around the same time, when President Obama was asked a question at a townhall about why his administration wasn’t more transparent, he responded by saying it was the most transparent in the modern era. What was his first reason? The administration's release of White House visitor records—the same records they went to court to fight to keep secret. The President also bragged: “We’ve revamped the classification system so it’s not used to hide things that might be embarrassing to us.” Which, of course, is not true either. As EFF has pointed out, government secrecy and overclassification has reach absurd levels under Obama.
More damage was done to FOIA in the Dodd-Frank bill. A little-noticed provision of the recently passed financial-reform legislation stated that the SEC “no longer has to comply with virtually all requests for information releases from the public, including those filed under the Freedom of Information Act.” Other media organizations have lodged public complaints about FOIA procedure at the State Department, the Department of Homeland Security and even agencies dealing with health and scientific issues like the EPA and NASA.
EFF has experienced many of these problems first hand. When we sued the FBI after it was revealed they were systematically abusing their National Security Letter authority, the bureau redacted the vast majority of the thousands of pages requested. In another case, it was clear the FBI was redacting arbitrarily information when it wasn’t appropriate. The DHS singled out EFF, along with other activist groups and media representatives such as the ACLU, EPIC, Human Rights Watch, and AP, for an extra layer of review on its FOIA requests. EFF sued just to find out the names of the members of Obama’s Intelligence Oversight Board.
But by March 2011, only 49 of the 90 federal agencies had followed any “specific tasks mandated by the White House to improve their FOIA performance.” The National Security Archive found in July that federal backlogs of FOIA requests are growing. A Study released in December of this year by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) and OpenTheGovernment.org found the administration was withholding information using nine of the most common exemptions 33% more than George Bush’s last full year in office.
But perhaps the worst violation of Obama’s open government principles was the deplorable attempt by the Justice Department to change the DOJ’s own FOIA regulations. Under the proposed rule, instead of refusing to confirm or deny a document is in the Department’s possession, the agency could "respond to the request as if the excluded records did not exist." The Los Angeles Times called it an “outrageous proposal” that “provides a license for the government to lie to its own people and makes a mockery of FOIA.” After near universal outcry, including pressure from Congress, the Justice Department scaled back its rules. But as the Sunlight Foundation said, the Justice Department’s revised FOIA rules were still “worse than reported” and allow reviewers to dismiss requests for a host of trivial reasons. Obama’s Justice Department seemed intent on killing the very law it championed at the start of his administration.
The Freedom of Information Act has been hailed by open government advocates as “one of the most significant laws ever passed by the U.S. Congress,” yet its passage and survival has been fought by Presidents for more than forty years. The bill, as a significant check on executive power and secrecy, was originally opposed by Lyndon Johnson, yet was signed into law in 1966. When Congress strengthened the act after the Watergate scandal, President Ford vetoed it on the advice of his then-chief of staff Dick Cheney. Thankfully, Congress overrode his veto. Reagan’s Attorney General Edwin Meese was so opposed to FOIA, despite its being law for more than 20 years, he wrote a memo telling the Justice Department to disregard essentially requests it disliked.
President Obama promised to change all that. Unfortunately, it’s clear many of his pledges have been broken or ignored, turning his declaration that he would lead the “most transparent administration ever” into a punch line rather than a re-election slogan.
Trevor Timm @'EFF'

2012-01-28T23:50:00.000+11:00

Wanting to see less copyright infringement doesn't necessarily mean being irrationally opposed to downloading - the music business has come a long way since Metallica sued Napster

2012-01-28T23:44:00.002+11:00

Map of 10,000 Tweets Shows New York City at Work

Liberté, égalité, fraternité

2012-01-28T23:29:00.000+11:00

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2012-01-28T22:59:00.002+11:00

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ASIO tight-lipped on refugees in limbo

2012-01-28T22:43:00.000+11:00

ASIO is refusing to explain why it ruled four male refugees, who could be detained in Darwin for the rest of their lives, are a threat to security.
The Darwin Asylum Seeker Support Network says three Tamil Sri Lankans and a Burmese Rohingyan cannot understand why ASIO says the men are a threat to Australia's security.
They have been recognised as refugees by the Immigration Department but could spend the rest of their lives in detention because of the negative assessments.
Darwin Asylum Seeker volunteers who visit the men say they are traumatised because they do not know why they failed the tests, and cannot challenge the ASIO assessments.
ASIO will not comment on the individuals for security reasons.
The spy agency says it is the competent authority to make assessments in relation to Australia's security, and says any questions regarding the detention of asylum seekers are a matter for the Immigration Department.
A spokesman says less than one per cent of the more than 7,000 security assessments of irregular maritime arrivals undertaken by ASIO in the past two years have been given an adverse security assessment.
@'ABC'

2012-01-28T21:48:00.001+11:00

Bullshit!!!

WTF???

2012-01-28T21:47:00.002+11:00

Hüsker Dü: Where Were They Then? (1999)

2012-01-28T21:29:00.006+11:00

BONUS:

Live At Camden Palace 1985

Sad to say that until fairly recently I would have said that one of the bands that I wished that I had caught live was this mob and then I found a live tape that I made of them in Amsterdam around this time!!! *ahem*

Brion Gysin shoots Bill Burroughs (Paris, October 1959)

2012-01-28T20:59:00.005+11:00

William S. Burroughs standing in front of the Beat Hotel, 9 rue Git le Coeur

Portrait of William S. Burroughs on rue de Seine

William s. Burroughs walking with Maurice Girodias on rue Git-Le-Coeur

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BONUS: REpost

(Thanx SJX/Dave!)
For Frank Rynne!

2012-01-28T19:29:00.003+11:00

Wankers!!!

SOPA, PIPA, ACTA...

2012-01-28T14:40:00.001+11:00

(Thanx Ivan!)

22 EU Countries Ratify ACTA, Key Parliament Member Calls it a ‘Charade’

2012-01-28T09:26:00.000+11:00

Read Twitter's 'Confidential' Memo To Advertisers On New Enhanced Profile Pages For Brands

Upside Down, Left To Right: A Letterpress Film

2012-01-28T08:28:00.002+11:00

A short film about letterpress and one of the few remaining movable-type printing workshops in the UK, situated at Plymouth University, featuring Paul Collier. plymouth.ac.uk
A film by Danny Cooke dannycooke.co.uk
Soundtrack by Tony Higgins tonyhiggins.org
(Available to download here: goo.gl/exGL1)
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2012-01-28T07:45:00.002+11:00

ACTA ‘Is More Dangerous Than SOPA’

2012-01-28T07:30:00.002+11:00

Is there anything we need on the moon?

♪♫ Mark Stewart VS Primal Scream - Autonomia

2012-01-28T06:55:00.002+11:00

Mark Stewart vs Primal Scream
'Autonomia' will be released through Future Noise Music on February 20th, a dense agit-protest superfunk monster with sirens and Bobby Gillespie's frenetic 'keeping the dream alive' call-and-response chant with Mark Stewart who explains the story behind the song - "I'd written this song about Carlo Giuliani, who was killed at the G8 demonstrations in Genoa. At that point, it was a protest ... afterwards I started getting on with Bobby and I asked Adrian [Sherwood] about doing it. It's important that people hear about the story, it's the message and the atmosphere as much as anything.'
Directed by Douglas Hart (founding member and bassist of The Jesus and Mary Chain) with Dominic Lee & Chiara Meattelli, the video exhibits a raw, riotous & feverish vivacity infused with the artists' trademark punk rock ethos to convey the song's deep political message.
"Starting out as a teenager in the late 70s with the Pop Group and thru the 80's with the Maffia up to his new solo record, Mark Stewart has led the attack on conformist reality. Mark is a constant inspiration and a true Thief of Fire. A poet of paranoia and a great laugh. What a guy." - Primal Scream

2012-01-28T06:38:00.000+11:00

How Iran Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Being Bombed?

♪♫ Errors - Pleasure Palaces

2012-01-28T06:36:00.000+11:00

2012-01-28T06:09:00.000+11:00

The future of books, today

HA!

2012-01-28T06:06:00.001+11:00

2012-01-27T23:49:00.001+11:00

HACKERS

OUT OF

CONTROL

It wasn’t meant to end like this...

2012-01-27T23:17:00.001+11:00

HERE
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ph0n0n - Transorbital

2012-01-27T23:02:00.003+11:00

(Thanx trnsnd!)

2012-01-27T22:58:00.000+11:00

Who is benefitting from the Mega shutdown? And were Mega's D2F plans behind the major label's attack?

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This Mortal Coil - The Inspirations

2012-01-27T22:48:00.001+11:00

Info
(Thanx Stan!)

Lego man in space: one (very) small step

2012-01-27T22:28:00.000+11:00

Canadian teenagers send Lego man into space

Newt - this one's for you XXX

2012-01-27T21:36:00.000+11:00

Twitter Commits Social Suicide

2012-01-27T20:00:00.001+11:00

NMEmagazine NME Magazine
Barack Obama causes sales of Al Green's 'Let's Stay Together' to go up by 490% bit.ly/xHPFOJ

2012-01-27T18:28:00.001+11:00

What the Adelsons will want for their money

Scary movie: Commander in chief Gingrich

Newtopia?

2012-01-27T18:04:00.001+11:00

Newt 'Lightyear' Gingrich promises moon base by 2020

(Thanx Robin!)

♪♫ Ari Up & the New Crew - True Warrior (2001)

2012-01-27T17:54:00.001+11:00

Ari Up & the New Crew, featuring Dunia Best of Brave New Girl, performing live at the Wetlands Preserve NYC on Sep 9 2001

(Thanx Joly!)

Black & White & Through To Black Again - A Joy Division Mixtape: Permutated by Mattress Grave

2012-01-27T17:09:00.002+11:00

1) Novelty – Joy Division.
2) Digital – Joy Division.
3) Komakino – Joy Division.
4) Ice Age – Joy Division.
5) Failures – Joy Division.
6) Shadowplay (RCA Demo) – Joy Division.
7) Atrocity Exhibition – Joy Division.
8) Transmission (Genetic Records Session) – Joy Division.
9) The Kill – Joy Division.
10) Day Of The Lords – Jy Division.
11) Interzone (Live at The Factory) – Joy Division.
12) Exercise One – Joy Division.
13) Colony – Joy Division.
14) Something Must Break – Joy Division.
15) From Safety To Where? – Joy Division.
16) The Sound Of Music – Joy Division.
17) Glass – Joy Division.
18) She’s Lost Control (Live at Lyceum Ballroom, London) – Joy Division.
19) Auto-Suggestion – Joy Division
20) I Remember Nothing (Live At Winter Gardens, Bournemouth) – Joy Division.
21) Candidate – Joy Division.
22) Incubation – Joy Division.
23) The Drawback (RCA Demo) – Joy Division.
24) Means To An End – Joy Division.
25) No Love Lost – Joy Division.
(Thanx SJX!)

2012-01-27T14:18:00.000+11:00

Drugs, murder and books in Soho

(Thanx Stewart!)

Lee 'Scratch' Perry: 'When I was a man, I was a cannibal'

2012-01-27T13:21:00.000+11:00

'I respect myself like God' … Lee 'Scratch' Perry. Photograph: Philip Ryalls/Redferns

See footnotes at bottom of story
Hello Lee, where are you now?
I'm in my bedroom.
What can you see from your window?
[Wife repeats the question, slowly] I can see ice and snow (1). What goes on. What can you see?
I'm stuck in the Guardian office. I wish I was looking at snow.
Maybe you are, who knows. Maybe you have double vision.
What is an average day like for you?
An average day is like the sun shining and it's nice and you can see clouds flying and things like that. On a rainy day, on a winter's day, you stay indoor depending on what your mood is like.
How do you describe your personality?
I describe my personality as like an animal among cannibals. I don't like to say that I'm a man, because I don't want to be a man. I think I'm an angel.
What's wrong with being a man?
They do things that the devil do. Understand? Understand when I was a man I was a cannibal. I decide not to be a man, I want to be an angel, so I don't eat what the man eat. I don't smoke what the man smoke. So I stop smoke. I stop eating what man eat. I stop eat fish, I stop eat meat. I stop eat like an animal. I don't smoke any more because I wish to be healthy. So what man do I don't do any more. I do different.
What do you like to eat now? What is your favourite vegetable?
I like broccoli, I like cabbage, calalou (2), choko and others.
So mainly green vegetables, no orange ones?
I drink orange juice, I eat banana. Brown banana, green banana, whatever banana it is, I like it.
You're in your 70s. What keeps you performing (3)?
My wife needs money, and she has a lot of bills to get paid, and I will have to help her pay the bills. Lot of people believe in God but they are not aware of God. God is alive and God is coming like a thief in the night [chuckles again]. You know God don't tell no one when he is coming. It could be a couple years, it could be three years, five, it could be 10. That's the idea. My wife love luxury, she loves money. She loves good food, she always wants to eat in good restaurants, and the shoes, the best clothes, the best everything. See, I believe in less, but my wife believe in best. She believe in vanity [huge laugh].
Do you have any opinions on taxation?
I look upon it from a balance point of view because if it wasn't for tax so many people die because some people don't have job. It a little bit rough and tough without the tax. Half the world would be eating and drinking, and the other half would die beause they wouldn't have anything. It's ok for me, it's a little bit tough but somebody have to help somebody.
The western world is in turmoil what role can music play to make it better?
My music is for people who believe in god. So if people believe in God this is what my music can do for them. The people believe in Jesus Christ, it can help them. But if they believe in the AntiChrist it cannot help them. People who believe in God make music will hear positive words, perfect love and it will heal their soul. If they believe in the devil it can't help them.
You made an album called Super Ape (4). Do you ever think of him?
Well, the Super Ape to me is an image. And the image, we all in the belly of the Super Ape. The interpretation of the Super Ape is in the Super Space. The army, the sky, the firmament are in the image of the Super Ape. So we are living in the Super Ape.
We are living in him? He is like the universe?
The Super Ape is all the galaxy. All the comets of the universe.
Do you ever listen to dubstep?
Dubstep is all right because that's when me start to walk like the Super Ape. Man start fear and the people just start to move towards it, because of the declaration of monster. Monster walk, monster dance, monster shake, monster rock and that's what goes on. Dubstep Super Ape dubstep this dubstep that, it's all like machine, robot affair. Monster robots, yeah? (5)
Oh definitely, monster robots. What is the most important issue in the world right now?
That you have a father inside of you. The church try not to tell you, but you yourself are the church and our Father who art in heaven is in you. Heaven is in the Father, and heaven is in you because the Father creates you. So when you pray and you say "our Father who art in heaven" instead of saying Our Father say Our Farter.
Instead of saying "Our Father", you say "Our Farter"?
Yes. Because God give you the breath of life and it goes into you. Later what goes into you wants to go outside. So when it wants to go outside it means a fart.
Like fart from your bottom!
Our father give you the breath of life and when it want to go outside it go "pooooo"! That a farting noise. And poo is really good to make music for the bass line. And the bassline is like "poo, poo, pooopooo poo" or something like that. The breath of life is fresh air.
That makes sense to me. Can I ask you one last question? What is the message you would like our readers to follow?
The message is that you can see yourself as a Son of God, see yourself as a King of God see yourself as a Prince of God. Do your prior, do your exercise and buy the food and eat it and the drink. Don't smoke too much, you destroy your lungs. You disrespect yourself and you become sick: all the bacteria and the virus and all them tings. All that cause virus and bacteria – I stop doing them. I respect myself like God.
So no marijuana, just broccoli?
When the time come when you have to stop smoke, you can drink it. You can make soup with it, you can make tea with it and make other things. Like soup. Treat it like a present or a treasure. A lot of people take herbs, but if a lot of people take this herb, then there wouldn't be the riots.
Don't smoke it, drink it!
Drink it. Or you could eat it like a vegetable. Or something like that. One love.

Footnotes

1 Lee lives in Switzerland and has done for the past 32 years.
2 Calalou is another name for collared greens; choko is an alternative name for cheyote, a green vegetable of the gourd family. 3 Lee plays the Forum in Hatfield on 3 February, and the O2 Academy Bristol on 4 February.
4 A 1976 album by Perry's band the Upsetters, which is held as a classic in the dub reggae genre.
5 It may be Lee is confusing the music of dubstep with dancing to dub, or a dub "step". It may be, however, that he's not.
Paul MacInnes @'The Guardian'

Kimble Goes Monaco 1 & 2

2012-01-27T13:02:00.000+11:00

Kimble, our internethero goes to Monaco with his friends, spending a good $10.000.000 during one Formula 1 weekend!

One year later Kimble wants to go and visit the Monaco Grand Prix once more! So guess what, he invited his friends again, now even a bigger group and they drive off in the most expensive cars you can imagine for a $10.000.000+ weekend in Monaco!
Kimble, also known as Kim Dotcom is currently being indicted for copyright fraud as owner of Megaupload.
The man really is an idiot w/ absolutely NO taste at all...

Keep banging on the walls...

2012-01-27T12:55:00.001+11:00

Concepto MIX #68 FaltyDL

2012-01-27T12:29:00.001+11:00

Download

Tracklist:
1. I Like You! - Arthur Russell
2. Tell Me Anything - Andy Stott
3. Roberta Jean Machine - Moodymann
4. Canticle Drawl - AFX
5. Nefarious Stranger - Theo Parrish
6. Love Is The Message (Danny Krivit Re-Edit) - MFSB
7. Corrosion Control - Bintus
8. Don't Fuck With Him/She Sleeps - FaltyDL
9. Narry - Gerry Read
10. Moonlight - Theo parrish
11. For Them Eye - Seun Kuti & Egypt 80
12. LFO (Leeds warehouse mix) - LFO
13. Shave Mister - Theo Parrish
14. Feels Like feat. Kevin JZ Prodigy - MikeQ
Via

2012-01-27T12:13:00.002+11:00

Judge Rules Computer Files, Even Those Self-Incriminating, Must Be Decrypted

2012-01-27T12:11:00.004+11:00

EFF EFF
What's the Internet without Downfall remix videos? Help us protect video artists: ripmixmake.org #DMCA

Clash of the Titans - The System Shakedown Remixes

2012-01-27T11:42:00.014+11:00

An epic Double Vinyl journey of remixes from some of the world’s most talented producers: Zion Train, G.Corp, Marcus Visionary, Liondub, Vibronics, Victor Rice, Duibvisionist, Mungo’s Hi-Fi, Aldubb, Nate Wize, TVS,Subatomic Sound System, and Webcam Hi-Fi.

♪♫ Flaming Lips featuring Nels Cline - I Want You (She's So Heavy) - Live NYE 2012

2012-01-27T10:49:00.002+11:00

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David Byrne: Interactive Guitar Pedal Art Installation

2012-01-27T10:34:00.000+11:00

An interactive art piece consisting of a grid of 96 guitar effects pedals that are wired together, as well as a guitar and an amplifier. As people step on the different pedals they activate various effects, which multiply over one another, creating a dynamic sonic experience.
davidbyrne.com/art/guitar_pedals

2012-01-27T09:56:00.002+11:00