April 30, 2004
Asian Classical Music MP3 Home Page - some amazing stuff here, though sound quality isn't always fabulous. I'd recommend the Indonesian section as a good starting point - get your gamelan on!
Very disturbing: these photographs of US Army war criminals humiliating and torturing prisoners of war, and, if the caption is to be believed, beating one to death.
Documentary snippet showing how US soldiers deal with looters (WMV format) - no blood and guts, so do take a look. The US Army might want to consider, you know, training their troops. [via rc3.org]
Prince in Print - good little archive of Prince interviews, reviews, etc.
April 29, 2004
Kill The DJ (Pt. 2) - the long-awaited Optimo mix CD is coming. And on triple unmixed vinyl too. Blimey.
April 28, 2004
HistoryHound - great-looking app that lets you do a text search of the content of recently viewed web pages in Safari.
Zappa bootlegs - mid- to late-seventies gigs in Washington, Paris, LA and Munich. [via Totally Fuzzy]
April 27, 2004
BluePhoneMenu 1.0 - a little thing that lets you see who's calling you on the desktop/menu bar. Marginally handy. But why won't someone make something that lets me ring my phone from the desktop so I can find it in my room? Why?
A Step In The Right Direction - someone I know in the actual real life has a weblog! (Squarespace powered, which just begs for a joke, perhaps based on a certain Huey Lewis hit.)
April 23, 2004
Prototype costume for Marvin The Paranoid Android - little by little my fears that the H2G2 film will be a horrifying pile of mince are being assuaged! [via helium-3]
April 22, 2004
100 Most Important Art Works of the 20th Century - as gleaned from frequency analysis of art books. [via Rodcorp]
The Soul of the Koons Machine - a good piece by Charlie Finch.
What's coming in NetNewsWire - mmmmn, persistence. Although PulpFiction is looking like hot competition.
April 21, 2004
SubEthaTrack - a site that, very slickly, allows you to announce and keep track of shared SubEthaEdit documents. Interesting, but there aren't enough documents being shared yet to see quite what people will do with it.
A rather lovely modded iBook, with the white paint replaced with a map of France.
Spontaneous Pneumothorax - a little support group seems to be building on the comments thread of this old post.
April 20, 2004
Articles: Installing Linux on a Dead Badger: User's Notes, by Lucy A. Snyder [via Solitude]
Shout out to Dizzy Rascal from, um, that venerable homegirl The Duchess Of Kent. Rumours of the Queen releasing dubplates pioneering the new Corgski sub-genre yet to be confirmed.
BLACKSPOT SNEAKER - yawnsome self-congratulatory prats at Adbusters shoot selves in foot launching their 'anti-brand' trainer. 'Making a shoe - a good shoe - isn't exactly rocket science,' they write, next to a picture of... a poor copy of one of the most recognisable training shoe brands in the world, the Converse All-Star. Only with their 'anti-logo' in a slightly different place. So stupid, on so many levels, I'm now wondering if it's an April Fool I missed.
Twitch: Droning On - Optimo disc jockey in covert weblogging shocker. (Er, that's 'covert' as in I only just found it.)
April 19, 2004
Good Sun City Girls piece in Seattle Weekly [via Keith]
April 18, 2004
#TVTORRENTS RSS feed plus bttvtrss.py 0.1 equals pseudo-TiVo. Only I can't get it to work. As usual.
April 17, 2004
Design Observer: El Lissitzky for Pesach - It seems that Lissitzky, before he became a avant-garde Constructivist under the influence of Kazimir Malevich, was focused on graphically illustrating works of Jewish heritage...