Get Dad a drink with a cherry in it. Dad's like cherries.
http://cannabinomad.tumblr.com/post/57137275398

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Tom Faber's round up of June/July 2013
http://whitenoisereview.blogspot.co.uk/2013/08/june-july-roundup-2013.html

BTW. You're never to old to be into Deep House
http://www.xlr8r.com/features/2013/07/hi-doctor-nick-tips-tougher-drum
Shrug off those weird looks you get from the kids as you have as much right to be there as they do.

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Sample Eno, Mall Muzak and 70s-90s disco. Mix it up, and glitch it out using 2nd decade, 21st century music tools. Give it a faintly ridiculous genre tag of Vaporwave and before it's even barely a thing, spin out Broporwave, Post-Vaporwave, Proto-Vaporwave and of course triangle symbols and made up Japanese words. Rip unmercifully into any journalist who attempts to document all this, especially if they try to take a post-modern stance and viewpoint on it.

Then play it back loud on (fake) "Beats by Dr Dre" headphones while walking through Westfield in Stratford and looking over the wasteland that is the Olympic Park, Crossrail tunnel development and (artfully graffitti-ed) Hackney Wick light-industrial business parks; on your way to a canal side, craft brewery/pizzeria; while wearing silly trousers.

No change... Is sexy!

http://www.dummymag.com/features/essay-invest-in-vaporwave-futures
dʳᶤᵖ⁻₁₃₃ - and then so clear
INTERNET CLUB - REDEFINING THE WORKPLACE
http://www.last.fm/tag/vaporwave

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Take that Jeremy Hunt! (rhymes with). For #WeLoveTheNHS  .

It's not often a crowdsourced petition and fund raising campaign take the government to court and win. The court found that Jeremy acted illegally when trying to unilaterally close Lewisham's A&E and Maternity without going through the proper motions and against the wishes of the NHS Trust's GP commissioners. So much for the coalition promises not to apply top down management control to the NHS.

http://blog.38degrees.org.uk/2013/07/18/update-jeremy-hunt-and-the-lewisham-court-case/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-23518732

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This isn't the UK I voted for. TFL ticket inspectors passing coloured people to UK Border Agency staff, all watched over by UK Police at Stratford and Kensal Rise.

http://scriptonitedaily.wordpress.com/2013/07/30/newsflash-uk-border-agency-id-checking-people-of-colour-at-train-stations/
http://www.kilburntimes.co.uk/news/immigration_officers_accused_of_intimidating_train_passengers_at_kensal_green_station_1_2307162
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2013/07/who-ordered-that.html

But then I'm white, middle aged, and live in a market town in SE England and I tend to carry ID with me at all times, so it obviously doesn't apply to me.

Who said "Pre-emptive counter-revolution", yes, you at the back, you want to spend the night falling down stairs?

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Profile About Page Links in the API
I just went looking in the people section of the G+ API for access to and a JSON representation of the entries in the Links section of a person's profile and couldn't find anything. Am I looking in the wrong place or is it missing and this is a feature request?

I'd expect something like this.

"Links": [
  "Other Profiles": [
    {
      "Label" : {string},
      "URL" : {string}
    }
  ]
  "Contributor to": [
    {
      "Label" : {string},
      "URL" : {string}
    }  
  ]
  "Links": [
    {
      "Label" : {string},
      "URL" : {string}
    }  
  ]  
]

This was prompted by yet another proposal for encoding a list of people's profile pages on other social networks, this time from Dave Winer. His use case is information about the author in RSS feeds.
http://reboot.reallysimplesyndication.com/2013/07/28/implementingSomeNewRssIdeasInFargo

ISTM the Google way of doing this would be to include a line
<atom:link href="Google_Profile_URL" rel="[author,publisher]" /> in the feed but I couldn't then easily walk the list of associated profiles from code.

BTW. I can't count the number of times we've been round this loop in the last 10 years. FOAF, Microformats, Facebook graphs, etc, etc, etc. Shame we have to keep re-inventing the wheel because none of them can get traction, adoption and interop..

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I found a place today on a hill above Standon and Latchford where you can see the Shard, Gherkin, Nat West Tower and Canary Wharf on the horizon almost exactly 25 miles away. It's also almost exactly on the meridian at longitude zero.
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Feral Trade courier network. I think this might be really cool.

Found via this interview with a founder http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2013/07/whats-new-with-kate-rich-and-feral-trade/

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So farewell then, J.J. Cale. That's another one gone. I hope he's with Clyde.

Clyde plays electric bass
Plays it with finesse and grace
Sit on the porch without no shoes
A-picking the bass and singing the blues
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Nothings happened since 1981. Except that:- 

"If you’d gone to a publisher in 1981 with a proposal for a science-fiction novel that consisted of a really clear and simple description of the world today, they'd have read your proposal and said, Well, it's impossible. This is ridiculous. This doesn't even make any sense. Granted, you have half a dozen powerful and really excellent plot drivers for that many science-fiction novels, but you can’t have them all in one novel.
... and ...
You haven't even gotten to the Internet. By the time you were telling about the Internet, they'd be showing you the door. It's just too much science fiction."

Best interview I've seen with William Gibson. He always amazes me.
http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/6089/the-art-of-fiction-no-211-william-gibson

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Recommended for fans of downbeat, sultry, techno.
http://electronicexplorations.org/?show=synth-sense

Lots of ASC, Sam KDC, Indigo in the track list. 

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It's not often you get an engine explosion as good as this one.
http://www.crash.net/world+superbikes/news/193824/1/pics_tom_sykesapos_race_comes_to_fiery_halt.html

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A Nationalist Manifesto for Little England
We reject foreign influences in England. That is our weltanschauung. Multiculturalism is our bête noire and we strongly believe that English culture is destined to become kaput if the current zeitgeist continues to be de rigeur. But it doesn't have to be a fait accompli and that's why we will continue to be the enfant terrible of modern politics. It's time to act: Carpe diem!
http://scarfolk.blogspot.com/2013/06/mr-nationalist.html
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Yorkshire Muffins
Here's a question for you. What were Yorkshire Muffins circa 1800? Are we talking pre-made Yorkshire Puddings for sale, or is this some variation of the English Muffin? (http://spitalfieldslife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/SL338.jpg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_muffin)? This question was prompted by a woodcut in a wonderful book "The Cries of London For The Instruction And Amusement Of Young Children" described here http://spitalfieldslife.com/2013/06/25/kendrews-cries-of-london/ It shows http://spitalfieldslife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/SL338.jpg a man selling what look like quite large breads in a tray balanced on his head with the cry "Nice Yorkshire Muffins!" (Get your nice yorkshire muffins here. Only 2 a penny!)

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Forward Racing sign up[1] for a pair of Yamaha M1s but run as non-MSMA entries so that's 12 engines, 24l of fuel, spec ECUs but full M1s not just the engine. Although Yamaha will supply 5 engines (with maybe 12 rebuilds). Rumours of Team-USA of Edwards + Hayden. People saying A Espargaro, Rabat, Redding also in the frame.

This is a game changer, no? Hayden on a 24L Yamaha M1 ought to be top 6, I think.

[1]As seen on Twitter.
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Deeply ambivalent about this. I do understand, but was also somewhat sickened by Assen, Sachsenring and Lorenzo's subsequent surgery. Eventually, these racees need protecting from themselves even though Dr Costa has a pretty strange take on what "protecting" means.

ISTR Lorenzo having a huge high side at Laguna, and also racing with legs so bad he had to be helped from crutches onto the bike.

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What decides if a shared post can have a location added to it or that you can "check in"?
- Desktop Web (in Chrome) probably not
- Mobile Web, some times. Sometimes works in a browser on a mobile device, usually doesn't work in the mobile web interface in a desktop/laptop browser.
- Chromebook. No idea.
- iOS. Probably except that the current app is iOS 6 only.
- Android. No idea.

What is it that updates your profile so it says "Currently in" rather than "Lives in" at the bottom of the cover photo?

Where do the entries in the "Places" section of your profile come from?

I ask because the detail in the announcements about the new Maps and closing Latitude/iGoogle say that the Latitude functionality is replaced by Checkins in G+. And yet, location seems curiously incomplete and hard to use both in G+ and in the new Maps interfaces. And even though geo-location services work pretty well in Chrome, Firefox and Safari, location is hidden, disabled or simply missing completely in the web interfaces.

So Google, Please bake location into the Web versions of G+. I want to be able update my location, geo-tag posts and view nearby posts.
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Akkord RA.372
http://www.residentadvisor.net/podcast-episode.aspx?id=372

For example, the golden ratio is found everywhere in nature, and one of the most used drum breaks in electronic music, the amen break (taken from The Winstons song "Amen Brother"), holds the exact mathematical proportions of the golden ratio.

Not many people know that! But then . http://nothings.org/music/amen_golden/

Haven't listened to this yet, but they were excellent live so I'd expect this to be good too.

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If you liked that, then you will love this. Nothing need ever change.
MASSIVE ATTACK v ADAM CURTIS

No Change Is Sexy. We fear change. Change is just a misnomer promoted by Californians with strange haircuts and symmetrical teeth. no change is sexy - Jah Wobble's Invaders Of The Heart

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"They are like 18th century squires who ride out on the estate and go on the hovels where their fans live and tell them everything must stay the same. The modern version of "you should know your place". They've gone back to an old cultural music - some of which was very radical and a way of challenging power in the world - stripped it of any meaning, and reworked it into this nostalgic thing and put it together with stadium amplification. I can't bear it, it makes me cry."

"It's extreme music which is kind of entertaining but it doesn't tell you a story. It's a mood, and to be rude it's a zombie mood. Things like this are the remnants of the old music carrying on in a kind of zombie-like exaggerated way. It's stuck, it's not going anywhere."

http://www.factmag.com/2013/07/11/filmmaker-and-massive-attack-collaborator-adam-curtis-on-why-music-may-be-dying-and-why-need-a-new-radicalism/4/

http://retromaniabysimonreynolds.blogspot.com/2013/07/a-couple-more-quotes-from-adam-curtis.html

Went to see Dauwd at Corsica Studios (London) last night. I was expecting some shoegazey UK Bass with his own tunes and remixes plus some other similar from other people, but what I got was 3.5 hours of deep house with just a couple of snatches of his own stuff. Which was nice and fun, and it turns out he's a pretty good DJ. But I don't really get how this works any more. Name producers often seem to turn into DJs when playing live, especially if they're bit downbeat. When what I was expecting was their stuff played the way it's meant to be heard on a proper sound system.

Meanwhile, Thur night Corsica is just the main room, (relatively) cheap booze, free entry for a Facebook Attend, and consequently students/freelancers/unemployed. A happy time was had by all! And while there were obvious shufflers, it was no big deal with just enough crowd and no crowding. The Funktion One was awesome. Obviously.

So what is it about Sarf' of the River that there are so many short people with tiny feet? Or were they all actually barely 16?
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