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01 Oct 2012 Ok, this is cool. Plus she's got yellow nail varnish on only one hand.
  Meet the hexaflexagon. It's about to blow your mind. >>Remember the first time you saw a Möbius strip (the ring-shaped surface with only one side) and it felt like your world had been turned upside down? [from: GPlus] [ 01-Oct-12 6:33pm ] Having trouble finding the following. Does that mean I have to buy them?!? Indigo - Wake EP DFRNT...
Having trouble finding the following. Does that mean I have to buy them?!?
Indigo - Wake EP DFRNT - Rising Tide / Sunflower / Triple Threat EP DFRNT - Monday Morning EP Bass Clef - Dawn Chorus Pedal Gatekeeper & Orphan101 - Deep Space Objects Hizatron & Bashley - Discharge Holy Other / Indigochild - Split Artifact - Worn EP Recondite - DRGN / Wist 365 To be fair, the last two were only dropped today. When you get out on the edge, even P2P and the russian file locker download sites no longer work. Quite a few of them aren't even on YouTube (yet). [from: GPlus] 30 Sep 2012 524 million units for internal use in PCs to ship this year. So what's the total disk drive shipm...
524 million units for internal use in PCs to ship this year. So what's the total disk drive shipment, what's that in TB of total storage space (or PB, EB, YB, ZB) and how does that compare with the increase in data needing to be stored?
  Hard drive shipments recover from floods in Thailand, expected to reach record high >>Last year's floods in Thailand caused hard drive shortages after wreaking havoc on a number of electronics manufacturers, but new stats from IHS [from: GPlus] [ 30-Sep-12 8:39am ] 29 Sep 2012 Punk was 35 years ago. What possible relevance could it have today? Do we really need another exh...
Punk was 35 years ago. What possible relevance could it have today? Do we really need another exhibition of Punk culture[1]? But then look at those CRASS slogans! "Who do they think they're fooling; you?", "This Poster Exploits You". Apparently, post-modernist situationism never gets old.
[1] A free exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in London, on until 4th November 2012.   Someday all the Adults will Die!: Punk Graphics 1971-84 >>'Some day all the adults will die!: punk graphics 1971-1984' is a free exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in London, on until 4th November 2012. I wonder sometimes whether anything else useful can be... [from: GPlus] [ 29-Sep-12 9:55am ] 28 Sep 2012 Wow! Extraordinary essay on GENRE vs. ISM and post-GENRE vs. post-ISM in music. And especially an...
Wow! Extraordinary essay on GENRE vs. ISM and post-GENRE vs. post-ISM in music. And especially another take on misogyny in the dance music scene.
Incidentally, she talks a lot about Kuedo-Severant and LV-Sebenza, two full length albums that I find quite hard work.   EPISODE 12: GENRE vs. ISM | Decks and the City | Decks and the City >>This is about two principles acting on dance music. Beginning b [from: GPlus] [ 28-Sep-12 5:06pm ] Thinking about retro-futurism, from Steampunk to the chrome-fins of the 50s rocket age, we look a...
Thinking about retro-futurism, from Steampunk to the chrome-fins of the 50s rocket age, we look at it now with a wry smile because the future didn't turn out like that and it really looks quite quaint.
Now keep moving forwards, 70s and 80s futurism also looks curiously old fashioned or is in the process of becoming so. But wait, what was futurism like in the 90s? What is it now? When will that appear quaint, if it doesn't already, and why? [from: GPlus] [ 28-Sep-12 4:51pm ] 27 Sep 2012 THE US military has designated Julian Assange and WikiLeaks as enemies of the United States. Bett...
THE US military has designated Julian Assange and WikiLeaks as enemies of the United States.
Better send in the drones then. /s  [from: GPlus] 26 Sep 2012 I was looking at this: 9mm thick, portable, 2.5", 500GB hard drive. And apparently it's that time...
I was looking at this: 9mm thick, portable, 2.5", 500GB hard drive. And apparently it's that time of year when I ask again why the iPod Classic is still limited to 160Gb. I think Apple should bite the bullet and produce the Pro Audio, iPod Classic Mk7. Actually make it bigger so it will take a completely standard 2.5" drive, put an iPod touch screen on the front, battery and iPod touch circuitry in the back and use a quality pro-audio output stage. Then offer the 500Gb version at $199.99 and the 1Tb version at $249.99. Those prices are probably unrealastically low for the margins and small volume so $100 more would still be ok.
If not Apple, then somebody else with an Android version of the same thing?  Toshiba outs Canvio Slim portable drive: 500GB, $115 and just 9mm thick >>It turns out that if you take an Ultrabook-style 7mm hard drive and put it in a sleek enclosure, you end up with [from: GPlus] [ 26-Sep-12 6:49pm ] Just trying to build a Semi-Permanent Autonomous Zone in my castle.
  Semi-Permanent Autonomous Zone | S.P.A.Z. >>Sound Dimensions Radio 1 week 15 hours ago; http://soundcloud.com/voidtacticalmedia 5 weeks 6 days ago; tuned in at 5lowershop 11 weeks 13 hours ago; p 11 weeks 1 day ago; I finally did it!!! 11 weeks... [from: GPlus] [ 26-Sep-12 6:10pm ] So farewell, then, Andy Williams. For a while there you made it ok to wear a white polo neck swea...
So farewell, then, Andy Williams. For a while there you made it ok to wear a white polo neck sweater with a christmas tree on it.
  The Quietus | News | Andy Williams Dies Aged 84 >>Singer dies following struggle with bladder cancer [from: GPlus] [ 26-Sep-12 4:53pm ] Cattle can also be vaccinated with the BCG vaccine. However, vaccination of cattle against TB is ...
Cattle can also be vaccinated with the BCG vaccine. However, vaccination of cattle against TB is currently prohibited by EU legislation, mainly because BCG vaccination of cattle can interfere with the tuberculin skin test, the main diagnostic test for TB.
So let me get this straight. We don't immunise cattle against TB preventing them getting it, because the vaccine prevents us from reliably telling if it worked or not and if they got TB despite the vaccine. So instead we'll kill Badgers despite knowing that incomplete removal of the badger population results in them spreading across the country carrying TB to places that don't currently have it. This is one of those political problems with entrenched vested interests where the truth was thrown out long ago, right?   Q&A: The badger cull >>The government has given the go ahead for badgers to be culled in England this autumn, as part of measures to protect cattle from tuberculosis. [from: GPlus] 24 Sep 2012 So as we throw the damp rizla packet of disappointment into the overflowing ashtray of sadness an...
So as we throw the damp rizla packet of disappointment into the overflowing ashtray of sadness and hope that the weekend's big fish doesn't eat the little fish in the cardboard box, we realize that it's not that bad, it's just another rainy monday.
[from: GPlus] [ 24-Sep-12 6:13pm ] 23 Sep 2012 In 2010, in the USA, datacentre electricity use was 2% of the national total electricity use. Wor...
In 2010, in the USA, datacentre electricity use was 2% of the national total electricity use. Worldwide, datacentres use about 30 billion watts of electricity, roughly equivalent to the output of 30 nuclear power plants. This is probably on a rapid exponential growth rate (anyone know?) so while it's astonishing to see so much energy being used to power the computronium, it's also a huge opportunity for energy savings.
  Data Centers Waste Vast Amounts of Energy, Belying Industry Image >>Helping to process the staggering amount of Internet activity that occurs, data centers waste vast amounts of energy, belying the information industry's image of environmental friendliness. [from: Google Plus Public Activity Feed for Julian Bond] 20 Sep 2012 Low power FM radio transmission of found and donated sounds within a 10 mile radius in the middle...
Low power FM radio transmission of found and donated sounds within a 10 mile radius in the middle of one of the darkest and really quite remote places on earth in Galloway Forest in Dumfriesshire. Including transmissions from a Russian woman cosmonaut who didn't come back. The found sounds are transmitted once and then deleted. The whole project is then linked with a book festival in one of the most out of the way towns nearby.
My kind of art project. http://www.thedarkoutside.com/index.php/radio-transmissions/ http://www.wigtownbookfestival.com/ http://thewire.co.uk/index.php?page=articles&article=9822  The Dark Outside :: Radio Transmissions >>Captive Star. Night 1971. Drive deep into the interior of the Dark Skies Park. Turn the radio on. Listen to the last radio transmissions of cosmonaut Irina Veselovsky, as she orbits above you, lost an... [from: Google Plus Public Activity Feed for Julian Bond] [ 20-Sep-12 6:38pm ] 18 Sep 2012 Thoroughly enjoying the book, so here's the online discussion. http://bit.ly/raptureofthenerds Th...
Thoroughly enjoying the book, so here's the online discussion.
http://bit.ly/raptureofthenerds The first time I met Cory IRL, was shortly after the first couple of episodes of "Jury Duty" had appeared that later became the early chapters. I think it might have been an NTK meet in London or perhaps one of the not a conferences in London for people who hadn't made it to the O-Reilly Emerging Tech conference. That must date it to 2001 or so, so this book has had quite a long gestation period.  The WELL: Cory Doctorow and Charlie Stross - The Rapture of the Nerds >>The WELL: Cory Doctorow and Charlie Stross - The Rapture of the Nerds [from: Google Plus Public Activity Feed for Julian Bond] [ 18-Sep-12 6:18pm ] [ 18-Sep-12 5:48pm ] Perhaps the problem here is that "Reality has a dystopian bias"
[from: Google Plus Public Activity Feed for Julian Bond] 12 Sep 2012 I find this story too weird to leave alone. Now I don't have a lot of time for Obama, but you kin...
I find this story too weird to leave alone. Now I don't have a lot of time for Obama, but you kind of know that back in the day he was a blunted basketball player who liked big black butt and listened to Outkast. And secretly, he still is, You just have try and bury the image of him and Michelle dancing round the white house bed to Bees in the Trap. He doesn't have time any more to follow it himself but he's got a posse of homies who keep him up to date with what's going down in the hood so he can keep up appearances with a snappy tweet and stay on top of the urban vote.
Meanwhile in Russia, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/09/putin-weak-cranes-russia-opposition_n_1868193.html   Nicki Minaj denies Mitt Romney endorsement >>Rapper pledges support for Obama, saying her lyric about voting Republican in the forthcoming US election was sarcasm [from: Google Plus Public Activity Feed for Julian Bond] [ 12-Sep-12 8:51am ] 10 Sep 2012 http://youtu.be/ZuQMaUGmEn0 The full album of Mala in Cuba, dropped today, 10th Sept. 320kb avail...
http://youtu.be/ZuQMaUGmEn0 The full album of Mala in Cuba, dropped today, 10th Sept. 320kb available for free from the usual sources in 3.. 2.. 1..
I really don't understand how anyone can make any money from selling packaged music any more. If it's not streamable for free, it's downloadable for free. [from: Google Plus Public Activity Feed for Julian Bond] [ 10-Sep-12 8:46am ] 09 Sep 2012 So when, as a Westerner, I watch the destruction of the Tie Xi district, it's impossible not to t...
So when, as a Westerner, I watch the destruction of the Tie Xi district, it's impossible not to think of what was done in the 1980s to South Wales, to Sheffield, to the East End, Detroit, Ohio...we've heard the angry plaint of one worker, sent home with no pension after 30 years of service, who tells one of the film's many shabby offices that 'they said we had a job for life. Pensions, health care, a safety net. Doesn't seem likely now. They don't care if you get sick, much less if you die - and forget about a pension...Next thing you know, the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) will be renaming itself the Republican Party'. In China, too, the neoliberal restructuring has destroyed similar lives, thrown similar people on a similar scrapheap, with a similar total lack of support.
  The Measures Taken: Future Ruins >>Slavoj ?i?ek remarks somewhere that the most common cinematic representation of industrial production is in the Bond film. In those moments where the secret lair of the villain can be seen churning ou... [from: Google Plus Public Activity Feed for Julian Bond] 
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