Tuesday 30 November 2010

#cablegate

@'Boing Boing'

Iran Calls Leaked Documents U.S. Plot

Sony Music Apparently Owns Bradford Cox’s Bedroom

Sony Music had Blogger delete Bradford Cox’s uploaded songs. Original songs. That he wrote and recorded himself. In his bedroom. They cited “piracy.”

Officials may be overstating the danger from WikiLeaks

♪♫ Gorillaz - Crystalised (The xx Cover) (BBC Radio 1 - Live Lounge)

Monday 29 November 2010

Gil Scott-Heron & Jamie xx– We’re New Here

While being a huge fan of Gil Scott-Heron, his latest album I’m New Here was one of my biggest disappointments this year. The “modern” approach ended up being a weak copy of Tricky’s output back in the nineties and the sad shape of Gil’s voice could not add anything good to that.

A year after the release, Jamie xx (of The xx) is coming up with his interpretations of 13 songs from the album. Judging from the track below, the outcome might actually be ahead of the original.

@'nutriot'

HA! (Thanx Michael!)

"oh dear, my leak was a little late... made a bit of a mess though"... a weak bladdered 51 year old man...

Australia - you can be embarrassing

wikileaks Australia starts "whole of government" investigation into Julian Assange http://is.gd/hWoPX 23 minutes ago via web

Coil Reconstruction Kit

Coil's 16 DVD box set Colour Sound Oblivion featured many live shows. The final two discs featured the projections used in the live shows, these were published under a Creative Commons license.

Included here are the final two discs in a variety of formats, for watching on computer, burning to DVD, prepared for editing and listening. Audio has been converted from 16-bit 48khz LPCM to flac via a lossless process. For high quality playback, i recommend the mkv option with flac audio (look in the "Other Files" section at the bottom of the file list). VLC Player (free) is the recommended player of choice, which supports many open formats.

Audio & Visuals

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Wikipedia VS WikiLeaks

HA!

jayrosen_nyu Apparently, the New York Times didn't get the latest Wikileaks docs. The Guardian did and they gave the Times a copy, @mlcalderone reports. less than a minute ago via web

Guardian editor says they gave cables to the NY Times

blakehounshell One thing that emerges from the WikiLeaks cables: U.S. ambassadors are generally sophisticated and knowledgable; other officials less so 8 minutes ago via web