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Friday 15 April 2011
The World of Holy Warcraft
"Seriously, i am tired," he wrote. "Looking at that number [of posts] just reminded me of how much time i am online my wife will love me for it, she says i spend too much time here."
He did not, however, stick to his resolution. Seven years later, this same user continues participating as a senior administrator on the same forum, where he has now posted an astonishing 63,000 posts. The forum measures "rep power," a way of rating users based on the quality of their posts, and his rep power is at 50, whereas most other users score in the teens. He's also started using the chat software Paltalk and Skype to reach out, hosting live forums.
The user's online handle is Abumubarak, and the forum where he spends hours at a time is not a gaming site or a forum about celebrity gossip, but one of the dozens of hard-line Islamist sites where commenters post news articles, terrorist propaganda, and their own opinions on the subject of jihad. And more than a few of the commenters have gone from online jihad to the real thing: The majority of Westerners following a radical interpretation of Islam who have been arrested on terrorism charges have either been active in the hard-line forums or in possession of extremist materials downloaded from the web...
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Yesterday's charts & graphs on How The Rich Got Richer too complex? Here's one that's Tea Party dumb: http://j.mp/dURel3
Jules Verne's Volcano
12 months after Iceland's ash cloud grounded global air transport, leading sound recordist Chris Watson reveals the secrets of one of Iceland's more literary but no less famous volcanoes.
A boyhood Jules Verne fan, Chris will retrace the steps of Professor and Axel Lidenbrock from Reykjavik to his favourite place in the world - Snaefellsjokull - the glacier that contains the passage to the Centre of the Earth in Verne's 1864 seminal work of Science Fiction. Along the way he'll encounter communities affected by the 2010 eruptions of Eyjafjallajokull, talking to people who live within this geologically charged environment and meeting artists and musicians who have been inspired by their volcanic landscape.
Tying in with Verne's theme of geographical exploration, to reach Snaefellsjokull - known to locals simply as Jules Verne's Volcano - Chris will travel through one of Iceland's most beautiful National Parks and will use his extraordinary recording techniques to reveal the natural sounds of this unique environment. The sounds of bubbling mud pools and sulphurous springs mirroring Jules Verne's deep connection to the physical world.
Revealing interviews with leading figures from Iceland's vibrant arts scene: including the keyboardist of Sigur Ros and best-selling Icelandic author Andri Snaer Magnason will combine with Chris's recordings as he creates his own sonic adventure in the shadow of Jules Verne's novel and Iceland's volcanoes.
Producer: Rose de Larrabeiti
A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4.
Via: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0106tjp
Broadcast on BBC Radio4 in the UK, 11.30am, Thursday 14 April 2011 - Listen on BBC iPlayer for the next 7 days
Tunisia's former President Ben Ali faces 18 charges
Tunisian authorities say they want to try former President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali on 18 different charges, including voluntary manslaughter and drug-trafficking.
Justice Minister Lazhar Karoui Chebbi said the charges were among 44 to be made against Mr Ben Ali, his family and some former ministers.An international warrant for Mr Ben Ali's arrest is in force.
He was ousted in January amid a popular uprising and fled to Saudi Arabia.
Authorities said at the time they had arrested 33 members of his family, reportedly on suspicion of plundering the country's resources.
In an interview on state TV late on Wednesday, Mr Chebbi said 18 legal cases had been prepared against Mr Ben Ali, including ''conspiring against the state, voluntary manslaughter and drug use and trafficking", reported Tap state news agency.
Mr Chebbi said authorities had issued a request to Interpol to freeze the assets of Mr Ben Ali and his family, and said a delegation was being sent to Interpol headquarters in Lyon, France, to try to speed up the enforcement of the request.
Mr Ben Ali is accused of ordering security forces to crack down on the revolt that began in mid-December.
The UN calculates 219 people died during the Tunisian uprising - including 72 in the country's jails - a far higher toll than that provided by Tunisian authorities.
Caretaker authorities have appointed a new government and the notorious and extensive secret police service has been dissolved.
Correspondents say the authorities are under pressure to establish their legitimacy in the eyes of protesters.
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Dear Labels, Go F**k Yourself. Love, Amazon...
In case you were wondering if Amazon is seeking licenses for its recent cloud-based launch... the answer is 'not really'. And, that was made blatantly obvious in this letter from Amazon to major label groups. What they are seeking is licenses for various enhancements upon their initial launch - for example, the ability to consolidate redundant song uploads with a single copy to save space. Here's the 'dear label' letter, shared with Digital Music News by various recipients...
Read HERE
Thursday 14 April 2011
Ideologic Organ: Stephen O’Malley Curates New Editions Mego Imprint
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Ai Weiwei confessing to crimes, says state-run newspaper
Chinese police say they have "firm evidence" that the detained artist and activist Ai Weiwei avoided tax, and he has begun confessing, a Hong Kong newspaper under Beijing control has said, drawing a denunciation from his sister.
It also said Ai was suspected of bigamy and "spreading pornography on the internet".
The Wen Wei Po newspaper reported on Thursday that it had the firmest details yet of the accusations that Chinese police are developing against Ai, whose secretive detention this month drew an outcry from human rights groups and western governments, alarmed by the ruling Communist party's campaign against dissent.
Ai was detained at Beijing airport on 3 April. He had a hand in designing the Bird's Nest stadium for the 2008 Beijing Olympics and has juggled an international art career with colourful campaigns against government censorship and political restrictions, often using the internet.
His family has said the government's assertion that Ai is suspected of "economic crimes" is a pretext for hitting back against his activism.
Citing unnamed sources, the Wen Wei Po said investigators had gathered "a large amount of evidence that Ai Weiwei is suspected of avoiding taxes, and the sums are quite large".
"A source revealed to this newspaper that firm evidence has been collected about Ai Weiwei's suspected economic crimes."
The Wen Wei Po is a Chinese-language paper published in Hong Kong by mainland authorities and is sometimes used to make Beijing's case on contentious issues.
"As the investigation has deepened, the public security authorities have accumulated quite solid witness, documentary and circumstantial evidence and Ai Weiwei has had quite a good attitude in co-operating with the investigation and has begun to confess about the issues," the report said.
Ai's sister, Gao Ge, told Reuters that police had given his family no information about his whereabouts or the accusations against him, and the Hong Kong newspaper was being used to vilify him without giving Ai a chance to respond.
"This is not evidence. It's using a small paper to push their own position without giving Ai Weiwei any fair redress," Gao said. "It's clearly against the law to hold him for so long without any notice to us."
She said the bigamy accusation was absurd, and airing other charges without allowing Ai to respond was grossly unfair.
Ai, 53, is the most internationally prominent of dozens of Chinese dissidents, rights lawyers, activists and grassroots agitators detained or put in secretive custody since February, when fear of contagion from Middle East uprisings triggered a crackdown by China's domestic security apparatus.
The government said this week it was unhappy with foreign support for Ai. "The Chinese people also feel baffled – why do some people in some countries treat a crime suspect as a hero?" a foreign ministry spokesman, Hong Lei, told reporters.
Chinese authorities have arrested a veteran dissident, Zhu Yufu, on subversion charges, his ex-wife and a friend said on Wednesday, making him the fourth activist known to have been arrested and likely to face trial in a crackdown on dissent.
@'The Guardian'
It also said Ai was suspected of bigamy and "spreading pornography on the internet".
The Wen Wei Po newspaper reported on Thursday that it had the firmest details yet of the accusations that Chinese police are developing against Ai, whose secretive detention this month drew an outcry from human rights groups and western governments, alarmed by the ruling Communist party's campaign against dissent.
Ai was detained at Beijing airport on 3 April. He had a hand in designing the Bird's Nest stadium for the 2008 Beijing Olympics and has juggled an international art career with colourful campaigns against government censorship and political restrictions, often using the internet.
His family has said the government's assertion that Ai is suspected of "economic crimes" is a pretext for hitting back against his activism.
Citing unnamed sources, the Wen Wei Po said investigators had gathered "a large amount of evidence that Ai Weiwei is suspected of avoiding taxes, and the sums are quite large".
"A source revealed to this newspaper that firm evidence has been collected about Ai Weiwei's suspected economic crimes."
The Wen Wei Po is a Chinese-language paper published in Hong Kong by mainland authorities and is sometimes used to make Beijing's case on contentious issues.
"As the investigation has deepened, the public security authorities have accumulated quite solid witness, documentary and circumstantial evidence and Ai Weiwei has had quite a good attitude in co-operating with the investigation and has begun to confess about the issues," the report said.
Ai's sister, Gao Ge, told Reuters that police had given his family no information about his whereabouts or the accusations against him, and the Hong Kong newspaper was being used to vilify him without giving Ai a chance to respond.
"This is not evidence. It's using a small paper to push their own position without giving Ai Weiwei any fair redress," Gao said. "It's clearly against the law to hold him for so long without any notice to us."
She said the bigamy accusation was absurd, and airing other charges without allowing Ai to respond was grossly unfair.
Ai, 53, is the most internationally prominent of dozens of Chinese dissidents, rights lawyers, activists and grassroots agitators detained or put in secretive custody since February, when fear of contagion from Middle East uprisings triggered a crackdown by China's domestic security apparatus.
The government said this week it was unhappy with foreign support for Ai. "The Chinese people also feel baffled – why do some people in some countries treat a crime suspect as a hero?" a foreign ministry spokesman, Hong Lei, told reporters.
Chinese authorities have arrested a veteran dissident, Zhu Yufu, on subversion charges, his ex-wife and a friend said on Wednesday, making him the fourth activist known to have been arrested and likely to face trial in a crackdown on dissent.
@'The Guardian'
Tack>>Head Sound Sytem - Edinburgh August 1988
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REpost: Talisker - Land of Stone (NEW FLAC link)
Ken Hyder: drums
Marcio Mattos and John Lawrence: basses
Davie Webster: alto saxophone
John Rangecroft: tenor saxophone, clarinet
Ricardo Mattos: soprano and tenor saxophones, flute
Maggie Nicols, Frankie Armstrong, Brian Eley, and Phil Minton: vocals
Ken Hyder has two web sites here and here.
There you will find tracks from the past and the present to download.
Here is an interview with Ken from 'The Wire'.
The vocalists, substituting Julie Tippetts (nee Driscoll) for Frankie Armstrong had worked together as
'Voice'.
Enjoy/
(See also: The Last Battle)
Davie Webster: alto saxophone
John Rangecroft: tenor saxophone, clarinet
Ricardo Mattos: soprano and tenor saxophones, flute
Maggie Nicols, Frankie Armstrong, Brian Eley, and Phil Minton: vocals
Ken Hyder has two web sites here and here.
There you will find tracks from the past and the present to download.
Here is an interview with Ken from 'The Wire'.
The vocalists, substituting Julie Tippetts (nee Driscoll) for Frankie Armstrong had worked together as
'Voice'.
(Coming Soon)
Phil Minton sang in my band, but that is only because I asked him to...
WHY...?
Because...
"...it sounds for all the world like an Albert Ayler album released post-New Grass when the tenor alchemist was experimenting with a woodwind contraption called the chanter—the blown portion of Scottish highland bagpipes. The twin sax / twin bass lineup of Hyder's quintet creates a droning, cantatorial spiritsound one can imagine as the sound of Ayler's dreams."
(From a review of the first Talisker album)This is my 'desert island disc' and it has never been reissued on CD!
Finally for those of you who were in the Feral Choir when Phil Minton came out here to Melbourne, you can watch (and hear) yourself here and you may recognise one of the vocal motifs from the above album.Enjoy/
(BIG thanx Kinabalu!)
PS: Can I also say that ECM's sterility often pissed me off BUT this is the greatest record in their catalogue and a real pity that Villalobos didn't touch this...er, maybe not!)(See also: The Last Battle)
Foo Fighters – Live On Letterman 4/12/11 (Complete Concert)
Bridge Burning
Rope
Dear Rosemary
White Limo
Arlandria
These Days
Back & Forth
A Matter of Time
Miss The Misery
I Should Have Known
Walk
All My Life
Times Like These
My Hero
Learn To Fly
Cold Day in the Sun
Big Me
Stacked Actors
Monkey Wrench
Everlong
Best of You
This is a Call
DREAMWEAPON: The Art and Life of Angus MacLise 1938-1979
'Angus was a dream percussionist. A dream person.' - Lou Reed
DREAMWEAPON
The Art and Life of Angus MacLise (1938 – 1979)
May 10 - May 29, 2011
curated by Johan Kugelberg and Will Swofford Cameron
DETAILS
Various - Love Letter To Japan
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- about
- Many of us Scottish musicians have received so much love and support over the years from friends and fans in Japan. Now we want to send some love and support back to the people of Japan. All funds from this release go to The Japanese Relief Effort.
- credits
- released 11 April 2011 Thank you to these fine people for all of their selfless support with this project: Barry McLuskie, John Williamson, Emma Ford, Stuart Murdoch, Frank & Stefan at Marina, Laurence Bell, Justin Barwick, Duncan Cameron at Riverside Studios, Johnny & Marshall at Blackbird Studios, Scott Blackwood, Jim Collinson, Tim Parry, Jonathan Tester, James Rushton, Jim Burns. Artwork and design by Donald Soutar Compilation mastering by Duncan Cameron at Riverside Studios.
Security Fears of Wi-Fi in London Underground
The London Underground is getting Wi-Fi. Of course there are security fears:
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But Will Geddes, founder of ICP Group which specialises in reducing terror or technology-related threats, said the plan was problematic. He said: "There are lots of implications in terms of terrorism and security.This is just silly. We could have a similar conversation regarding any piece of our infrastructure. Yes, the bad guys could use it, just as they use telephones and automobiles and all-night restaurants. If we didn't deploy technologies because of this fear, we'd still be living in the Middle Ages.
"This will enable people to use their laptop on the Tube as if it was a cell phone."
Mr Geddes said there had been numerous examples of bomb attacks detonated remotely by mobile phone in Afghanistan and Iraq.
He warned a wi-fi system would enable a terror cell to communicate underground.
And he said "Trojan" or eavesdropping software could be used to penetrate users' laptops and garner information such as bank details.
Mr Geddes added: "Eavesdropping software can be found and downloaded within minutes."
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