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Friday, 11 June 2010
The Republic of Bulimia make us feel sick
From the Daily Mail the other day!
Dear friend, our star striker has died in dreadful accident. DM us your bank account number to inherit his $9.8m.
Experts double estimate of BP oil spill size
As many as 40,000 barrels (1.7m gallons) of oil a day may have been gushing out from a blown-out Gulf of Mexico well, doubling many estimates.
The US Geological Survey says that flow rate could have been reached before a cap was put on the well on 3 June.
BP's chairman has been asked to meet Barack Obama next week, amid assurances from the UK and US that bilateral ties will not be affected by the crisis.
UK PM David Cameron and President Obama will discuss the spill at the weekend.
Oil has been leaking into the Gulf since the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded on 20 April and sank off the coast of the US state of Louisiana, killing 11 workers.
BP said the device placed on the well collected 15,800 barrels of oil on Wednesday - slightly up on the 15,010 barrels collected in the previous 24-hour period.
Iran a year on...The Guardian investigates
Former elite officers in Revolutionary Guard reveal increasing tensions in Iran regime
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Revealed: tensions in Iran's regime
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Revealed: tensions in Iran's regime
"I don't know what people expected the president to do exactly, if they want him to go out there and wash pelicans. He's the president. He's not someone who cleans beaches. It's important for us Louisianans to know that we have his support and I think he's communicated that," - Keith Jones, who lost his son in the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion.
Israeli document: Gaza blockade isn't about security
As Israel ordered a slight easing of its blockade of the Gaza Strip Wednesday, McClatchy obtained an Israeli government document that describes the blockade not as a security measure but as "economic warfare" against the Islamist group Hamas, which rules the Palestinian territory.
Israel imposed severe restrictions on Gaza in June 2007, after Hamas won elections and took control of the coastal enclave after winning elections there the previous year, and the government has long said that the aim of the blockade is to stem the flow of weapons to militants in Gaza.
Last week, after Israeli commandos killed nine volunteers on a Turkish-organized Gaza aid flotilla, Israel again said its aim was to stop the flow of terrorist arms into Gaza.
However, in response to a lawsuit by Gisha, an Israeli human rights group, the Israeli government explained the blockade as an exercise of the right of economic warfare.
"A country has the right to decide that it chooses not to engage in economic relations or to give economic assistance to the other party to the conflict, or that it wishes to operate using 'economic warfare,'" the government said.
Is This the Craziest Bridge Ever Designed?
I don't know if the Pearl River Necklace bridge is the craziest bridge ever designed, but it sure looks like the most twisted one. It's a clever solution to a very real and obvious problem, however.
The bridge is part of a proposal by NL Architects to connect Hong Kong with mainland China. To do that, they had to solve a problem: In Hong Kong, people drive on the left side of the road. In mainland China, they drive on the right side. Here's the solution: A road flipper that physically twists the roads over each other.
Jesus Diaz @'Gizmodo'
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Essential listening for the next month!!
The Kop Choir - You’ll Never Walk Alone (Live) (Hallmark)
Depth Charge - Goal (First Half) (Vinyl Solution)
Primal Scream, Irvine Welsh And On-U Sound Present - The Big Man And The Scream Team Meet The Barmy Army Uptown (Full Strength Fortified Dub) (Creation)
Depth Charge - Goal (Sudden Death Penalty Shoot Out) (Vinyl Solution)
Barmy Army - Sharp As A Needle (On-U Sound)
Colourbox - The Official Colourbox World Cup Theme (4AD)
Tackhead - The Game (You’ll Never Walk Alone) feat. Brian Moore (On-U Sound)
The Real Sounds Of Africa - Soccer Fan (World Cup 12” Remix by Norman Cook) (Cherry Red)
Depth Charge - Romario (EFA Medien GmbH)
Moog - Moog Lose The World Cup (Dust2Dust)
Black Grape feat. Joe Strummer and Keith Allen - England’s Irie (Radioactive)
Depth Charge - Goal (Second Half + Extra Time) (Vinyl Solution)
England New Order - World In Motion (Carabinieri Mix/No Alla Violenza Mix/Original Version) (Swamp Megamix) (White Label)
Barmy Army - England 2 Yugoslavia 0 (On-U Sound)
121 MB; 76 minutes
(Thanx HerrB! - I had forgotten about this one...)
What happened in the Gulf of Mexico
" These wells have the potential of an uncontrolled
release of hydrocarbons to the environment."
Sound in Technicolor
Now that digital technology allows rapid creation of new interfaces for music and sound, the question of how to represent those elements visually has new life. But whether digital or not, practitioners of music have long been interested in applying further descriptions to music, from the Baroque Doctrine of Affectations to the involuntary association of color in Synesthesia.
Applying colors to the notes of a musical scale is one particularly common idea, but the late master composer/orchestrator Arthur Lange had a different idea: why not give colors to range? Building on ideas from orchestrators Francois Auguste Geveart and Rimsky-Korsakov, he applied colors to registers of tone across each instrument. This way, it’s possible to see, in livid color, how ranges are applied in orchestrations, even down to unisons and harmonic density.
Lange wasn’t just any composer/orchestrator: he was a four-time Academy Award nominee, head of MGM’s Music Department, a Tin Pan Alley mainstay, a bandstand and studio regular from the 1920s, and an orchestrator on everything from 20s dance band numbers to MGM’s “The Maltese Falcon.” Seeing his creative and more-than-a-bit idiosyncratic approach says a lot about the ingenuity of America’s musical Renaissance at the time.
Contnue reading
Peter Kirn @'Create Digital Music'
Thursday, 10 June 2010
Jive Records blocks Outkast collaboration
Sony division Jive Records is blocking Universal's Def Jam from releasing three tracks on the new solo album from Big Boi because they feature guest vocals from his Outkast partner Andre 3000. Although Def Jam are handling the release of 'Sir Luscious Left Foot: The Son Of Chico Dusty', Outkast remain under contract to Jive, who claim that the three tracks in question - because they feature both halves of the Outkast enterprise - fall under their deal.
It's extra frustrating for Big Boi because Jive were given first refusal on the whole album (they have first dibs on any solo work by the Outkast boys under their contract with the duo) but knocked the project back. Big Boi explained to GQ: "It's plain stupidity. It's stupid business and it's stupid politics. Jive Records told me my album [was] a piece of art, and they didn't know what to do with it. So, I moved it over to Def Jam. And now Jive is trying to block Dre from being on my record. We can't be on songs together now".
The three tracks featuring Andre 3000's vocals have now been removed from the final version of the album, due for release next month, though a track produced by him, 'You Ain't No DJ', does remain. Explained Big Boi: "We tried to get everything solidified but Jive said, 'Naw'. Then I was going to take Dre off and make my own version, but then I thought, 'No. Fuck that. If he can't be on it, then I'm not using it'".
Of course, none of this means the world at large will miss out on the new Big Boi/Andre 3000 collaborations, it just means Outkast fans will justifiably access the new tracks via illegal routes, meaning Jive won't have stopped the new songs from going public, they just won't earn any money from them (presumably there could have been some sort of licensing deal between the Sony and Universal divisions had the will been there).
One of the collaborations, 'Royal Flush', actually leaked back in 2008, while another, 'Looking For Ya', found its way online this week. Big Boi certainly won't be keeping the missing tracks from his solo album locked up in a vault. He added in his interview with GQ: "They can't stop us, man. For these people that we don't even know [to block these songs - people] that haven't even had a hand in our career at all - that's fucking blasphemy. Either they're going to do it the right way, or they're going to do it my way. I'm no stranger to that internet, baby".
Record companies - don't you just love 'em?
Taliban allegedly executes 7 year old boy for spying
Suspected Taliban militants have executed a 7-year-old boy, accusing him of spying for the government, officials in southern Afghanistan said Thursday.
The execution took place Tuesday in the Sangin district of Helmand province, said Dawoud Ahmadi -- the provincial governor's spokesman.
In the past, militants have carried out similar killings of those accused of spying, Ahmadi said.
Three years ago, a 70-year-old woman and a child in the Musa Qala district of the province were executed following the same allegations, he said.
During a news conference Thursday, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said officials were looking into reports of the execution and said he condemned the act if it is confirmed to be true.
"I don't think there's a crime bigger than that that even the most inhuman forces on earth can commit," Karzai said. "A 7-year-old boy cannot be a spy. A 7-year-old boy cannot be anything but a 7-year-old boy, and therefore hanging or shooting to kill a 7-year-old boy ... is a crime against humanity."
"If this is true, it is an absolutely hiorrific crime," British Prime Minister David Cameron said during the news conference on an unannounced stop in Kabul. "If true, I think it says more about the Taliban than any book, than any article, than any speech could ever say."
♪♫ Sage Francis - The Best Of Times
Sage Francis will be touring Australia towards the end of the year
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