Sound familiar, go to 'New Scientist' here in 2002
Monday 10 August 2009
Old news as new news!
Sound familiar, go to 'New Scientist' here in 2002
Sunday 9 August 2009
PLEASE read this link
So you wanna talk about Hitler…
Michael Jackson's brain reunited with body
(@ 'TMZ')
'Hyperdub' turns 5
Kode9 & The Spaceape ft. ChaCha - ‘Time Patrol’
Black Chow – ‘Purple Smoke’
Flying Lotus – ‘Disco Balls’
Hyperdub 5.2 EP - 12"Vinyl (HDB024) Released: 07/09/09
Joker & Ginz – ‘Stash’
Zomby – ‘Tarantula’
Samiyam – ‘Roller Skates’
Hyperdub 5.3 EP - 12"Vinyl (HDB025) Released: 14/09/09
Quarta330 – ‘Bleeps From Outer Space’
LV – ‘Turn Away’
Hyperdub 5.4 EP - 12"Vinyl (HDB026) Released: 21/09/09
Martyn – ‘Mega Drive Generation’
LD – ‘Shake It’
Hyperdub 5.5 EP - 12"Vinyl (HDB027) Released: 28/09/09
Mala – ‘Level Nine’
Cooly G – ‘Weekend Fly’
October:
Listen @ BLEEP
Saturday 8 August 2009
Willy DeVille RIP
"Willy DeVille this night joined Edith Piaf, Jack Nitzsche and Johnny Thunders", said Caramba Spectacles, referring respectively to the French star who inspired him, to his producer, and to a fellow-70s punk guitarist.
His wife had announced in June that DeVille had pancreatic cancer.
Friday 7 August 2009
DDoS attacks cause Twitter to collapse
Other sites such as blogging platform Live Journal were also reportedly targeted in the attack on Thursday. Twitter was taken offline for more than two hours whilst Facebook's service was "degraded", according to the firms.
@ 'BBC' @'Computerworld'
Gog? Magog? Agog!
Honest. This isn’t a joke. The president of the United States, in a top-secret phone call to a major European ally, asked for French troops to join American soldiers in attacking Iraq as a mission from God.
Full story here.
(Collage by Jonathan Yeo.)
Thursday 6 August 2009
Green baloons in BBC Persian TV live broadcast
You Are My Symphonic - Afternoon Birds of Arima
The Northeast trade winds that we felt pass through the curtains recaptured those childhood images that became faded and helped paint the lines of the pages that you'll write together."
For Richard And Keisha.
2. Almost Time (Flower Girls)
3. Painted Lines (The Bride)
4. Walk Out With Me (Leaving Santa Rosa)
5. Rainfall In Arima (Closing Credits) - Vocals By Anna Farago
Wednesday 5 August 2009
Zomby - Godzilla
Superb writing!
Great to see the notion of applying Paul Klee's 'Pedagogical Sketchbook' to music...
Blackwater founder Implicated in murder
"A former Blackwater employee and an ex-US Marine who has worked as a security operative for the company have made a series of explosive allegations in sworn statements filed on August 3 in federal court in Virginia. The two men claim that the company's owner, Erik Prince, may have murdered or facilitated the murder of individuals who were cooperating with federal authorities investigating the company. The former employee also alleges that Prince "views himself as a Christian crusader tasked with eliminating Muslims and the Islamic faith from the globe," and that Prince's companies "encouraged and rewarded the destruction of Iraqi life." "
Full story @ 'The Nation'
(Thanx 'The Hangover-Helper'!)
Orly Taitz responds to forgery charges
Orly Taitz, the birther lawyer who released the document that was supposedly a copy of President Obama's Kenyan birth certificate, has now taken to her blog with an angry screed in response to the evidence that her find is in fact a poorly done forgery. Referring to the discovery that the purportedly Kenyan document was almost certainly based on a copy of a birth certificate issued for an Australian man, David Jeffrey Bomford, Taitz writes, "Recently Obama’s thugs in main stream (sic) media came up with this Bomford report in order to stop my efforts in exposing and prosecuting Obama. Though typically I don’t have time to waste on each and every dumb obot, since it got to National TV and my children's friends called my children, I’ll spend a few minutes to debunk the obots." She continues:
1. Kenya became an independant (sic) country in 1963, not 1964. The seal of Kenya was correct ...
5. Bomford report was created to try to discredit my efforts
6.lastly, I am not supposed to waste my time and money on this issue, Obama us the one who is supposed to provide evidence of legitimacy
7. Kenyan BC provides more info than the piece of garbage Obama posted on the net, which doesn’t have the name of the hospital, name of the doctor or signatures.
8. Chioumi Fukino (sic) and Obama and all their Nazi Brown Shirts in the main stream media need to give it a rest and provide an original hospital BC and the corresponding big thick hospital Birthing file from the Kapiolani hospital. If they don’t have such a file, all of them need to resign immediately or they will be prosecuted for massive fraud and treason to this Nation. (in case you didn’t know, treason carries punishment of life in prison or death penalty).
(The full post can be read here; be aware, however, that both Google and Firefox identify Taitz's site as an attack site that contains malware.) A couple of points: It's true that Kenya became an independent country in 1963, not 1964. No one's denying that. The real issue, which Taitz avoids, is that the document she released is marked as having come from the Republic of Kenya in February of 1964, when the country was actually known as the Dominion of Kenya -- it wasn't a republic until 10 months later. And the idea that the Bomfort document on which the forgery was based "was created to try to discredit my efforts" is pretty ridiculous -- Archive.org shows it linked to on the site from which it was taken as far back as 2007. Finally, the "Chioumi Fukino" Taitz refers to is in fact Dr. Chiyome Fukino, the director of the Hawaii Department of Health, who has repeatedly verified that the state has Obama's birth certificate on file and that he was in fact born there. She's become a birther target for doing so. In another post to her blog, Taitz asked only, "If Kenyan BC that I provided would not be genuine, Hillary would not be rushing to Kenya, would she?" Of course, Clinton's trip to Kenya was actually announced and briefed by the State Department before Taitz released the forgery.
@ 'Salon'
And what is the penalty for being a lawyer/real estate agent/dentist/tae kwon do master/imbecile?
Jay Z - No Sleep 'Til Brooklyn (All Points West Festival)
Yesterday in North Korea
(C) Reuters Pictures
Update:
North Korean media say Kim Jong Il has pardoned two American journalists and ordered their release during former President Bill Clinton’s visit.
@ 'NY Times'
HA!
Full story @ 'NY Times'