Sorry, what is "(post)cyberpunk" ?

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Any ideas of how to get a USB power socket on a 36v electric bicycle? How about gutting an iPod/iPhone charger and just connecting the 36v across the mains live and neutral pins? Over-driving a 12v car cigarette lighter adapter? Tapping into the throttle 5v +ve feed?
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Retrophilia is a dangerous disease that is highly contagious so please take all necessary precautions before reading these. Untreated and unchecked it can lead to Retromania and severe neck problems as the sufferer attempts to walk backwards into the future.

If you see a child or young adult suffering from nostalgia for a future that didn't happen, predicted in a past that didn't exist, from before they were born, then please report them to the relevant authorities immediately.

In recent weeks, London has seen an outbreak of Retromania after significant numbers of parents failed to inoculate their children against Right Wing Capitalism. The population had lost it's herd immunity to the dangers of unchecked greed and the longing for a golden past of certainties.

We can't be too careful or society may drown in an ocean of vintage whimsy and any possibility of creativity be lost forever.

1970s http://andwhatwillbeleftofthem.blogspot.com/
1980s http://facesonposters.blogspot.com/
1990s, 2000s http://upclosemaspersonal.blogspot.co.uk/

Not to mention,
http://moundsandcircles.blogspot.com/
http://found0bjects.blogspot.co.uk/
http://www.scoop.it/t/hauntology

This post inspired by http://scarfolk.blogspot.co.uk/ via http://boingboing.net/2013/04/23/wyndhamesque-missives-from-sca.html

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I don't normally do this, but I'm going to call it. Marquez for the win.
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An interesting summary of the RSS/Atom feed reader market
http://www.rumproarious.com/2013/04/18/how-large-will-the-payed-feed-reader-market-be/

Especially note this comment:-

I wanted to determine the number of people who use RSS on a monthly basis. Also, how they use feeds is important. I only want to estimate the people who are using something that works like Google Reader. There are a lot of people who use RSS when they use something like Flipboard, but don’t know they are using RSS.
Because of course there are numerous use cases for feeds that don't necessarily look like direct consumption by an end user as relatively raw untouched content. Flipboard, Pulse, Currents are all examples of this. So too are backend services like dlvr.it

The bottom line figures.
- ~ 65m regular users
- ~ 2.6m potential paid subscribers based on typical conversion rates for current freemium services.

Of course, subscriptions are not the only possible source of income for a feed reader service. There's also adverts, selling the user interest data, selling the reader software, selling the aggregated data and probably several others.

Meanwhile, Larry Page in his earnings call talked about Google continuing to work on speculative products. But of course he didn't really talk about closing speculative products such as Google Reader.

"all I can hope is that future historians note that one of the core empirical points providing the intellectual foundation for the global move to austerity in the early 2010s was based on someone accidentally not updating a row formula in Excel."

JFC!

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Thatch: She was a one-woman Luftwaffe, really.
http://phil-zone.blogspot.com/2013/04/a-one-woman-luftwaffe.html

Genius!

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A most excellent guide to understanding post-everything music reviews from the late lamented Stool Pigeon.

Found sounds -- Go out early onto the streets of Dalston one morning, and you'll find wandering herds of hipsters out recording 'found sounds' on their iPhones, which they will then use as the basis for an experimental EP in the mistaken belief that they are John Cage.

Bonus link. The achingly beautiful https://twitter.com/solovelyithurts is so lovely it hurts for surely "Pain is so close to pleasure".

And by the way. There are no Singles, Albums, EPs, LPs any more. There are just "Releases". So there's no need to put "EP" on the end of your release title. It's not "Breach - Jack EP", It's "Breach - Jack". m'kay? Calling yourself "Various Artists" or "Unknown" isn't funny, it's just irritatingly bad SEO. Same goes for over-use of triangle characters. Looking at you ∆dmin and ∆∆ That's almost as bad as calling yourself AAA Taxis (or should that be "∆∆∆ Taxis") to get to the front of Yellow Pages.

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Bikes that really ought to have an electric assist kit added to them.

http://fuckyeahweirdbikes.tumblr.com/post/47876848296/trecool-blog-donky-bike-bicicleta-de-carga
also here http://donkybike.com/

UK Postie from Pashley. http://www.pashley.co.uk/products/mailstar.html
also http://www.pashley.co.uk/products/courier.html

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Whatever happens to musicians happens to everybody. Including you.

Every year around Jan 7 I get quite disparaging about Bruce Sterling. But then some time during the year he blows me away again with a post or lecture or an SXSW closing speech. This is one of those times where he does it again with too many ideas per sentence.

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I think we need more electric Velomobiles on the roads. It's just a shame that they really don't fit existing US and EU regulations. Perhaps they could be licensed as Quads, but I suspect there's still a whole load of awkwardness around insurance, let alone TUV and MOT testing. I think something that can do 50mph should require safety checking, be licensed and insured, but I also want this to be easy for one-off or low production quantities.

http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2012/10/electric-velomobiles.html

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Recipe suggestions requested for cocktails that can be pre-made and drunk at room temperature.

Couple of years ago at Glastonbury I bumped into someone walking the crowds and selling shot glass cocktails and cigars out of a backpack and bum bag. The trick is that even doing this in the evening you probably can't keep the drinks cold. And you want everything pre-mixed so you can just pour out measures. A lot of festivals have a ban on glassware, so I guess you could carry 6 to 8 Litre water bottles filled with your mixes.

So what would you make up? Warm Manhattans?
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I think we all need one of these in the garage.
http://www.skyteammotorcycles.com/motorcycle-range/e-max/

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It's an awesome bit of customisation but is the inspiration what I think it is? http://ridethemachine.tumblr.com/post/47519755453

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2013/apr/07/james-blake-interview-overgrown?
http://www.residentadvisor.net/forum-read.aspx?id=221290

The comments are almost as good as the article.
- James Flake
- please don't use that acronym "EDM". Each time I come across that, my stomach churns a little...James Blake has had NOTHING to do with EDM.
- I'll give the boy a listen but in my experience most current songwriters with the Christian name James have tended to be shit

And form the article:
- The ship" - he means the music business - "isn't just going down. There are people trapped inside, bashing on the windows trying to get out."

So which genre section does this go in? I had to use "other" because it doesn't feel to me like it fits into any of them.

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Whatever you think of the new James Blake album, this is worth reading if only for this comment.

The ship" - he means the music business - "isn't just going down. There are people trapped inside, bashing on the windows trying to get out."

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This.

"What needs addressing as a matter of absolute urgency right now, however, is that Thatcher 's legacy is one of gross, almost comically staggering inequality. We are not all in this together. We are heading down shit creek while a tiny few of "them" are up on the clifftop holding all the paddles. Inequality, inequality, inequality, stupid. If there's good to come from her death, beyond a few street parties, it's that we realise that Thatcherism never died, was never truly even un-elected. It's time to shake ourselves, and others, out of the daze into which we were collectively not so much handbagged as headbutted back in the early 80s. Thatcherism was the worst thing to happen to this country since the Second World War and it'll carry on happening to us unless we do something about it."

We need some better analysis beyond the uncritical hagiography or the rant of hatred. Perhaps this is it.

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30 years on and Alexie Sayle's comments about Stoke Newington are still as relevant as ever. Hard to believe this was 1982. It feels like yesterday. 

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I know we live in a TL;DR culture and you haven't got time to properly express what you think and feel or add much value to the link you shared. But if it's too long, either read it anyway and attempt to comprehend it, or don't pass comment at all.

Language is the ultimate technology In fact, I'll go so far as to say: It's not okay to fail at written language as a modern, technologically-empowered human being.

And no, recording yourself talking about the idea and then posting it on Youtube is not an acceptable alternative to writing it down. TL;DV is also a problem made worse because it's much harder to skim and speed-read video.

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