The five month-long project concentrated on the development of a hardware/software interface for controlling musical events on a computer using a set of disk-jockey turntables and paper records that can be printed or drawn.
Some Thoughts on the OBL Tape
William Gibson thinks OBL would prefer to see Bush re-elected and that his new tape was a clever attempt at helping that happen: I wouldn’t go so far as to suggest that OBL fears Kerry any more than Bush. But Kerry can only comprise an unknown, and why allow the other team to introduce an unknown when your familiar power-symbiote … Read More
Internet Vets for Truth
For the one or two people in the US that still need to be informed that Bush is pretty much a dangerous bozo, the Internet Vets for Truth give you tons of material as torrents and quicktime movies for consumption. This is a good central place with a bevy of clips from miscellaneous sources including some from "Going Upriver", Eminem’s … Read More
Ouch, Caught Lying Again
Barrels inside the Al-Qaqaa facility appear on videotape shot by ABC television affiliate KSTP of St. Paul, Minn., which had a crew embedded with the 101st Airborne Division when it passed through Al-Qaqaa on April 18, 2003 — nine days after Baghdad fell.
More Kerry Stuff
Here’s a bit of an interesting quote from today’s AP article about the campaigning. Kerry said: "About a year ago, when things weren’t going so well in my campaign, somebody called a radio talk show and they said, thinking they were just cutting me right to the quick, they said ‘John Kerry won’t be the president until the Red Sox … Read More
W’s Website Blocked Outside US
From the BBC: The international exclusion zone around georgewbush.com was spotted by net monitoring firm Netcraft which keeps an eye on traffic patterns across many different sites. Netcraft said that since the early hours of 25 October attempts to view the site through its monitoring stations in London, Amsterdam and Sydney failed. By contrast Netcraft’s four monitoring stations in the … Read More
W's Website Blocked Outside US
From the BBC: The international exclusion zone around georgewbush.com was spotted by net monitoring firm Netcraft which keeps an eye on traffic patterns across many different sites. Netcraft said that since the early hours of 25 October attempts to view the site through its monitoring stations in London, Amsterdam and Sydney failed. By contrast Netcraft’s four monitoring stations in the … Read More
A bit about podcasting
Rory at Neopoleon.com talks a little about his opinions on podcasting and crosses over a bit into a description of traditional record contracts: For those of you who haven’t ever seen a real record contract (I’m talking about something from big media), allow me to summarize exactly what you should expect to see as a Rising Star in the world … Read More
The Legendary John Peel Dies
Veteran BBC broadcaster John Peel has died at the age of 65, while on holiday in Peru.
Would Kerry Throw Us To The Wolves?
From factcheck.org’s new article about the already infamous ‘Wolves’ ad: A new Bush ad claims Kerry supported cuts in intelligence “so deep they would have weakened America ’s defenses” against terrorists, and shows a pack of hungry-looking wolves preparing to attack. Actually, the cut Kerry proposed in 1994 amounted to less than 4 percent, as part of a proposal to … Read More