Wednesday 5 January 2011
Ennio Morricone Now Composing Ringtones for LG
So in an age where almost everyone’s life is run through their cell phone, it makes almost perfect sense that a great film composer is going to the digital medium. Ennio Morricone, the legendary Italian composer who has written scores for hundreds of films including Cinema Paradiso, The Good The Bad and The Ugly as well as The Untouchables, has signed a deal with LG to not only write brand new music for ringtones on their upcoming smart phones, but allow those phones to exclusively play some of his most famous themes...
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Germain Lussier @'/Film'
BrandDNA Mick Karn and Gerry Rafferty have died. The band up in heaven now has one a helluva bassist, plus the man who wrote my fave song Late Again. Tuesday 4 January 2011
WikiLeaks: It IS the Bank of America
"At the moment, for example, we are sitting on 5GB from Bank of America, one of the executive's hard drives," he said. "Now how do we present that? It's a difficult problem. We could just dump it all into one giant Zip file, but we know for a fact that has limited impact. To have impact, it needs to be easy for people to dive in and search it and get something out of it."
Julian Assange (October 2009) Via @jayrosen_nyu 's link
Carrier Wave Phase
Carrier Wave Phase by ph0n0n
From the last live Ph0n0n show of last year (at Seattle’s Pillow Full of Drone on December 12, 2010), our first publicly available track of the new year, for any who might be interested.
Monday 3 January 2011
Funnily enough not a fan of scientology myself (religion my arse!)
exilestreet @Dirk57 Hmmm! http://bit.ly/fTCwpp 
Dirk57 Narconon co-opts Martin Luther King. Quite disgusting. RT @exilestreet: @Dirk57 Hmmm! http://bit.ly/fTCwpp 
Nazi Watch: Like Father Like Daughter
For 40 years Jean-Marie Le Pen has ruled one of the most successful and feared ultra-nationalist movements in Europe.
In 2002 he shocked France by winning through to the second round of the presidential election.But now at 82 years of age, the father of the Front National is ready to step aside and he is backing his daughter Marine to succeed him.
"I didn't take to politics readily," Marine told me. "But then as the daughter of Le Pen, it is probably unavoidable that I entered the fray. Politics swallowed me up."
"Now it is my desire to carry on my father's fight," she says. "I want to strive for what he believed in, what the French people really want. And if I don't do it, I don't think anyone else is capable."
Softer image Marine is not lacking in self-confidence. But she is hardly Joan of Arc, the symbol of French sanctity that is the adopted emblem of the FN party.
Invariably she wears jeans and high-heeled shoes. She is a twice-divorced mother of three. She is pro-abortion. She is certainly not the choice of the hard-line Catholics within her party.
But those who meet her agree she is personable and difficult to dislike. Which makes her a formidable politician.
"She is of her generation," said Nonna Mayer, an expert on far-right politics at the Sciences Po University. "She has no nostalgia for World War II. That is the past. She is looking ahead."
"She has the same ideas about immigration as her father," said Ms Mayer. "She thinks there are two kinds of French people: the 'real French' and the others. But she packages this message in a different, softer way. She is very popular and very good with the media."The vote for the party leader will be taken among 75,000 party members. The result is to be announced at a conference in Tours on 16 January...
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Christian Fraser @'BBC'
Reporter behind WMD claims calls Assange ‘bad journalist’ (!!!)
Judith Miller took on the WikiLeaks founder during an appearance on Fox News Watch Saturday, arguing that Assange was a bad journalist "because he didn't care at all about attempting to verify the information that he was putting out, or determine whether or not it hurt anyone."
For many critics of the war in Iraq, that claim is likely to set off irony alarms. Miller has become famous for being the author of a 2002 New York Times article -- now debunked -- suggesting that Saddam Hussein had an active nuclear weapons program.
"Mr. Hussein's dogged insistence on pursuing his nuclear ambitions, along with what defectors described in interviews as Iraq's push to improve and expand Baghdad's chemical and biological arsenals, have brought Iraq and the United States to the brink of war," Miller wrote.
Senior Bush administration officials would soon use the article to argue for an invasion of Iraq.
In an article published last week, Salon.com's Alex Pareene argued that Miller simply parroted what Iraqi exile Ahmed Chalabi had told her.
Lying exile grifter Ahmad Chalabi fed her the worst of the nonsense designed to push America into toppling Saddam Hussein (and giving Iraq to him), and she pushed that nonsense into the newspaper of record. She got everything wrong, and for some insane reason, she remained employed at the Times until 2005, when she negotiated her separation from her longtime professional home.As the Crooks and Liars blog points out, Miller once defended her reporting with the argument that it is not a journalist's job to verify -- only to report inform readers of what they had been told.
"[M]y job isn't to assess the government's information and be an independent intelligence analyst myself. My job is to tell readers of the New York Times what the government thought about Iraq's arsenal," she said.
Miller's career trajectory since leaving the Times in 2005 has had a distinctly rightward bent. She became a contributor for Fox News, before recently joining the conservative magazine Newsmax. Her first article appears in the January, 2011, issue.
Miller made her comment about Assange while arguing that organizations like WikiLeaks are part of the "new journalism" of the digital age.
"This is part of the new journalism," she said. "Everybody's just got to get used to it. If you have that much information, most of which is over-classified -- if the waste basket in the office is classified, someone's going to leak it," she said.
The following video, broadcast on Fox News Jan. 1, 2011, was uploaded to the web by Crooks and Liars.
Daniel Tencer @'Raw Story'
WTF??? At the end of the segment they ask if you have any evidence of media bias to get in touch!!!
RePost: Two songs by Lou Barlow
'Easy'
The Folk Implosion
Said I wouldn't do it, leave it alone
Tried to ditch it, followed me right back home
After a while I don't resist
I'm alive with a purpose
My way down looking for it
That's what I'm afraid of
When I finally hold it, arrive on the scene
The doors are open I can hardly breathe
And like every guilty feeling
I've forgotten before
Three hours later, I'm hungry for more
That's what I'm afraid of
I don't have the will to change
Not when it's so easy, to be easy
Resistance is low when I'm feeling bored
What I thought was fun isn't fun anymore
Gravity pulls neither wrong or right
The moon is full and we're out of our heads
Let's do it again and feel allright
The fight is over for now
The fight is over
'Too Pure'
Is something missing in my touch, a tension tugging at my smile?
If there's a right thing to say, I'm sure I missed it by a mile
Swallowed in some detail, heavy in my blood
I wanna hold you close, but I can't lift my arms up
Is there a reason for this distance?
More than the drug that floats my days
A nervous bug in my system, it keeps me edgy and ashamed
I've got a saint, never ever will forgive
That never understood me but still tells me how to live
It fits when I stretch and I stretch because I can
I stretch until I'm sore and then I open up for more
I do it out of habit, not addiction
And if I give it up, clean out my blood
Will I still feel bored and disconnected?
If I do it all for love, will I ever give enough?
'cause you can never be too pure or too connected
You can never be too pure or too connected
You can never be too pure
Anonymous and DDoS attacks: I predict a riot
Is this is the new revolution? Are online protests happening on a huge scale, involving tens of thousands of volunteers? I am talking about the actions taken by Anonymous, the loose online collective and its growing army of hangers-on and coattail-riders.
Something that began on message boards such as the infamous 4chan, for the purposes of attacking the Church of Scientology, has with generous media coverage evolved into a bigger deal. Tens of thousands of volunteers are downloading tools that enable them to participate in the global assault on businesses with which they feel personally aggrieved.
The latest version of this tool includes functionality that means the user can hand of control of their weaponised computer to a central authority to direct and control the attacks.
In addition to the Low Orbit Ion Cannon, or Loic, other variants are being developed and released, including JS-Loic, a JavaScript version ;a completely rewritten version called Loic-2, which supports alternative command-and-control methods such as RSS, Twitter and Facebook; and the Hoic and Goic versions that support more sophisticated attack methods, designed for simultaneous attacks on multiple victims and a plug-in architecture...
Something that began on message boards such as the infamous 4chan, for the purposes of attacking the Church of Scientology, has with generous media coverage evolved into a bigger deal. Tens of thousands of volunteers are downloading tools that enable them to participate in the global assault on businesses with which they feel personally aggrieved.
The latest version of this tool includes functionality that means the user can hand of control of their weaponised computer to a central authority to direct and control the attacks.
In addition to the Low Orbit Ion Cannon, or Loic, other variants are being developed and released, including JS-Loic, a JavaScript version ;a completely rewritten version called Loic-2, which supports alternative command-and-control methods such as RSS, Twitter and Facebook; and the Hoic and Goic versions that support more sophisticated attack methods, designed for simultaneous attacks on multiple victims and a plug-in architecture...
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Rik Ferguson @'ZDNet'
Detroit Lives
Once the fourth-largest metropolis in America—some have called it the Death of the American Dream. Today, the young people of the Motor City are making it their own DIY paradise where rules are second to passion and creativity. They are creating the new Detroit on their own terms, against real adversity. We put our boots on and went exploring.
@'Palladium Boots'
Dustin O'Halloran - Vorleben
Dustin O'Halloran - Vorleben by sonic pieces
Considering the number of people in the world who know how to play the piano, it is amazing that a solo piano work can still come across as so striking and original. This is because it is not only the notes that matter, but also the performance. O'Halloran's live set on the night in which he suffered a personal loss is amazing, not just in the very fact of its execution, but in the tenderness with which it is delivered as well. The spaces between the notes are just as important as the notes themselves. O'Halloran has a strong sense of spacing, knowing exactly when to hold back when other pianists might have plowed forward, afraid that the tones might drift too long in the empty air. As a document of place and time, Vorleben is a remarkable achievement, one that will long echo in the hearts of its listeners like the notes drenching the stained glass of the church in which it was recorded. (Nayt Keane)
Considering the number of people in the world who know how to play the piano, it is amazing that a solo piano work can still come across as so striking and original. This is because it is not only the notes that matter, but also the performance. O'Halloran's live set on the night in which he suffered a personal loss is amazing, not just in the very fact of its execution, but in the tenderness with which it is delivered as well. The spaces between the notes are just as important as the notes themselves. O'Halloran has a strong sense of spacing, knowing exactly when to hold back when other pianists might have plowed forward, afraid that the tones might drift too long in the empty air. As a document of place and time, Vorleben is a remarkable achievement, one that will long echo in the hearts of its listeners like the notes drenching the stained glass of the church in which it was recorded. (Nayt Keane)
Pantha Du Prince - Black Noise
Pantha Du Prince - Black Noise by GvsB
Minimal techno is almost something of an oxymoron. Since why would anyone in the ravey, entrancing, maximalist pill-popping world of techno music ever want any of that indulgence minimized? I pose that question rhetorically, but if one were to force an answer, then the closest thing lies with Hendrik Weber, a.k.a. Pantha du Prince. Album three on his CV, Black Noise is the culmination of Weber’s adherence to a simple artistic ethic that single-handedly restores relevance to the "minimal techno" label: to treat all excess in dance music as precisely that—excess, superfluity, luxuriance, waste. Instead, the German native opts for economy, trading in thumping beats for a rhythmic sea of pulsation, abrasive thumping variety for loop utilization to its fullest effect, and big catchy hooks for the subtlety of a woven palette of melodic coloring. Black Noise is as intoxicating as it is intellectual, and most remarkably, as pure dance music, the euphoric yield remains utterly undiminished. (Mac Nguyen)
Minimal techno is almost something of an oxymoron. Since why would anyone in the ravey, entrancing, maximalist pill-popping world of techno music ever want any of that indulgence minimized? I pose that question rhetorically, but if one were to force an answer, then the closest thing lies with Hendrik Weber, a.k.a. Pantha du Prince. Album three on his CV, Black Noise is the culmination of Weber’s adherence to a simple artistic ethic that single-handedly restores relevance to the "minimal techno" label: to treat all excess in dance music as precisely that—excess, superfluity, luxuriance, waste. Instead, the German native opts for economy, trading in thumping beats for a rhythmic sea of pulsation, abrasive thumping variety for loop utilization to its fullest effect, and big catchy hooks for the subtlety of a woven palette of melodic coloring. Black Noise is as intoxicating as it is intellectual, and most remarkably, as pure dance music, the euphoric yield remains utterly undiminished. (Mac Nguyen)
Robyn - Promotional Mix 2011/01
Robyn - Promotional mix 2011/01 by djrobyn
Scuba - Glance [Hotflush]
Pariah - Crossed Out [R&S]
Joy Orbison - So Derobe [Aus Music]
Pariah - The Slump [R&S]
Ramadanman - Work Them [Swamp 81]
Girl Unit - IRL [Night Slugs]
Girl Unit - Shade On [Night Slugs]
Pearson Sound - Blanked [Hessle Audio]
Delphic - Halcyon (Deadboy Remix) [Tres Cool]
Ramadanman - Glut [Hemlock]
Jam City - 2 Hot [Night Slugs]
Girl Unit - Wut [Night Slugs]
Pearson Sound - Blue Eyes [Hessle Audio]
Boddika - Syn Chron [Nakedlunch]
Addison Groove - Footcrab VIP [Swamp 81]
Bloodman - Remote Viewing [Deca Rhythm]
XI - The Ghost [Orca]
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Scuba - Glance [Hotflush]
Pariah - Crossed Out [R&S]
Joy Orbison - So Derobe [Aus Music]
Pariah - The Slump [R&S]
Ramadanman - Work Them [Swamp 81]
Girl Unit - IRL [Night Slugs]
Girl Unit - Shade On [Night Slugs]
Pearson Sound - Blanked [Hessle Audio]
Delphic - Halcyon (Deadboy Remix) [Tres Cool]
Ramadanman - Glut [Hemlock]
Jam City - 2 Hot [Night Slugs]
Girl Unit - Wut [Night Slugs]
Pearson Sound - Blue Eyes [Hessle Audio]
Boddika - Syn Chron [Nakedlunch]
Addison Groove - Footcrab VIP [Swamp 81]
Bloodman - Remote Viewing [Deca Rhythm]
XI - The Ghost [Orca]
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Rop Gonggrijp – My Keynote at 27c3
the opening speech of Dutch net activist Rop Gonggrijp held @ the 27th Chaos Communication Congress
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Edit:
I found a video of the speech:
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