everyonepoops.com: "Everyone Poops by Taro Gomi is part biology textbook, part sociological treatise and all celebration of a very natural process. Both my daughters begged me to read the book over and over again. They marveled at the enormity of the elephant's poop and searched with the skill of a scientist for the tiny specks which represent bug poop. The text is simple and straightforward but not without humor. 'An elephant makes a big poop,' the book begins. 'A mouse makes a tiny poop. A one-hump camel makes a one-hump poop, And a two-hump camel makes a two-hump poop. Only kidding!' The colorful illustrations are eye-catching and deceptively detailed. The poop of each animal species is very distinctive in size, shape and color…A book which doesn't have any preachy overtones but merely explains where and how each living creature poops seems to work for my two-year-old. In fact, it's number one on the bathroom reading list at our house." - The Expositor, January 28,
theregister.com: Researchers at Microsoft's computer science lab in Cambridge have developed a peer-to-peer filesharing system that they say overcomes the scheduling problems associated with existing distribution protocols such as Bit Torrent.
The researchers claim download times are between 20-30 per cent faster, using their network coding approach, than on systems that only code at the server, and between 200 and 300 per cent faster than distributing un-encoded information." Read moreRead more
Bram Cohen, creator of Bit Torret: "I'd like to clarify that Avalanche is vapourware," he wrote. "It isn't a product which you can use or test with, it's a bunch of proposed algorithms. There isn't even a fleshed-out network protocol. The 'experiments' they've done are simulations."
"It's a bad idea to give too much weight to simulations, especially of something so hairy as real-world Internet behaviour."
"I think that paper is complete garbage," Read more
Summer 2005, Neubaugasse, a Viennese shopping street – For a period of two weeks all advertising signs, slogans, pictograms, company names and logos will be covered in monochrome. Something you might have seen before in the form of two-dimensional representations or photomontage is going to be translated for the first time into three-dimensionality, into the here and now reality of Vienna’s Neubaugasse, by Christoph Steinbrener und Rainer Dempf.
“Delete” will entail a very likely unique cooperation of all resident shopkeepers with a spectacular art project, a cooperation that has been made possible by the shopping street management unit of the Vienna Economic Chamber. For a period of two weeks, the entrepreneurs will renounce their identities to become part of a large-scale installation.
www.thewire.co.uk:"Bombay 1 are Düsseldorf's Kurt Dahlke (aka Pyrolator, ex-DAF/Der Plan), and Stoya, who has previously worked with Gang Of Four's Andy Gill. Strobl is Bombay 1's second LP, following 2003's Me Like You. That debut was full of glacial electronics and distorted Techno, which the Düsseldorf residents have rejected in favour of soul-bearing, restrained, bitter sweet songwriting. The album is named after the Austrian town, by a lake in the mountains, where the pair retreated to record."
thewire.co.uk."When people ask Kevin Barker to describe the sound of his 'group' Currituck Co, his reply is usually 'psychedelic folk', which makes sense, as he is a parttime member of Devendra Banhart's Vetiver, and earlier this year he toured with Drag City artist Joanna Newsom. Most of Sleepwalks, which shows off Barker's dark Country fingerpicking on steel guitars and banjos, as well as longer improvised pieces, was recorded in the bedroom of his home, Marlborough Farms, in Brooklyn."
THE WIRE June 2004: “Ostensibly a vehicle for singer-songwriter Liz Hysen, Toronto based Picastro weave her songs into an abstract framework of extended, moody soundtracks. Here the singer’s identity is absorbed into the overall impression left by the music. Reported comparisons with Cat Power are therefore wide of the mark. Hysen’s role is oddly selfless, her voice subdued to a general murmur amid the music’s burgeoning drama. The songs are instead a vehicle for the group to expand their vocabulary, creating a gloomy variant of folk blues with a wide reach. Once the context within which Hysen as singer and author is established, the lack of lyrical clarity or a firm songwriting identity no longer matters.”
Portmanteau is another band from the Weilheim galaxy. The band consists of Christian Heiß (member of lali puna), Gerald Schrank (member of iso 68) and Christian Ziegler.
They describe their music as IDM, with influences from Boards of Canada, Aphex Twin and Tortoise.
bjork.com: Drawing Restraint 9, a film by Matthew Barney with a soundtrack composed by Björk, represents the first creative collaboration of two of the most protean, dynamic forces in music and fine art.
It is an apt pairing. Refusing to choose between pop pleasure and restless experimentation, Björk's musical vision weds technology and emotion, countering gut-level expression with an insistence upon formal modernity and innovation."
Fittingly, Björk's soundtrack primarily orients itself around the traditional musical forms of Japan. Effortlessly sidestepping any attempt at cheap pastiche or ethno-fusion clichés, Björk has instead written a suite of haunting new music for one of the culture's oldest instruments, the sho.
Geld verdienen mit Weblogs — mal realistisch gesehen schockwellenreiter.de: Da ja heute alle mit Weblogs Geld verdienen wollen, mal ein kurzer Bericht aus der Praxis für die Praxis. Der Schockwellenreiter hat zur Zeit zwischen 160.000 und 200.000 Pageviews und etwa 100.000 bis 120.000 Visits je Monat. Und er hat exakt 3 1/2 Einnahmequellen" Mehr hier
Wie Blogs neuerdings Geld verdienen focus.de: viele wollen schon. Johnny Haeusler und andere Erleuchtete zum Beispiel haben am Wochenende den Spreeblick Verlag gestartet, der deutsche Weblogs erstmals im großen Stil vermarkten soll. „Wir versuchen, brillante Autoren zu finden und sie mit der Werbeindustrie zusammenzubringen", sagt Haeusler. Die soll die Kleinstmedien mit passenden Anzeigen finanzieren. Zuerst an den Start gehen kommerzielle Spreeblick-Blogs zu Computerspielen, Medien, Musik und Politik. Mehr hier
"Verdient man mit Blogs Geld? m-e-x.de: ein OpenBC Thread, der diese Frage erörtert. Anbei meine Mutmassungen, aus welchen Quellen Einnahmen dürftig oder auch reichlich fließen können:" Mehr hier
epitonic.com: Piano Magic is a loose collective of sorts, with an ever-changing lineup originally inspired by bands like This Mortal Coil and The 6ths. Core member Glen Johnson formed the band in 1996 with Dick Rance. Over the years his quiet bedroom project has expanded and changed as Johnson enlisted the help of friends, acquaintances, and moonlighters from other bands. It's oddly appropriate that Piano Magic has a revolving membership, because its music has a graceful fluidity and malleability that defies rigid structure. Over the course of numerous albums and singles, Piano Magic's music has evolved from lo-fi instrumental noodling to pop-electronica trickery, and then again into a lush vocal and orchestral pastiche.
Amazon.com: The deluxe edition includes a 32-page insert featuring near scale reproductions of Mary GrandPré's interior art, as well as never-before-seen full-color frontispiece art on special paper. The custom-designed slipcase is foil-stamped and inside is a full cloth case book, blind-stamped on front and back cover, foil stamped on spine. The book includes full-color endpapers with jacket art from the Trade edition and a wraparound jacket featuring exclusive, suitable-for-framing art from Mary GrandPré. Make your order at Amazon.com
"This reduced web-version of our Krautrock encyclopedia "The Crack In The Cosmic Egg" only includes bands and artists from the era 1967-1980. Group line-ups are restricted to the first known line-up. Discographies are original vinyl and cassette releases only. Also omitted are: historical entries, jazz and avant-garde musicians, and any bands that never debuted with a release until the 1980's.
This web-page is intended only as a rough guide to Krautrock. The full book contained about 3 times as much as is detailed here, along with pictures and indexes, as well as a historical overview of the scene, other articles, etc" Read more
hypnotique.net: Switched On meet 70-year-old synthesizer guru Dr. Bob Moog - the inventor of the trademark Moog synthesizer now enjoying a cult revival.
In Part 1, we discuss his instruments which electrified the sound of popular music in the 60s and 70s, his philosophies of sound synthesis, and his musical life journey which included working with Raymond Scott and Wendy Carlos. Features interviews with Jean-Jacques Perrey, Gershon Kingsley, and Keith Emerson.
In Part 2 hear classic to trashy moog music."
Originally broadcast on Friday 29th October 7 - 8.30pm GMT on London's Resonance 104.4fm. Please forgiven the terrible 'booming' sounds in the studio - the people next door to the radio station seemed to have been having a party that night! This show is dedicated to Jhonn Balance, who sadly departed this mortal Coil just 2 weeks after the show was broadcast. You can hear one of his tracks in the show.
Early Electronic Oddities is an exploration of the strange and subliminal sounds of early electronic musical instruments from 1860 to 1970, and many now almost obselete daring and experimental creations like the Mixtur-Trautonium, the Ondes-Martenot, the Rhythmicon, the Ondioline, the RCA synthesizer, electro-theremin and the inventions of the Italian Futurists and Raymond Scott. Live discussions, field recordings and amazingly unearthed rare recordings presented by two theremin players, Miss Hypnotique and Bruce Woolley. Features recorded contributions by Bob Moog and Jean-Jacques Perrey."
jhorman.org: wikidPad is a Wiki-like notebook for storing your thoughts, ideas, todo lists, contacts, or anything else you can think of to write down.
What makes wikidPad different from other notepad applications is the ease with which you can cross-link your information. Links in a wiki are created by typing in WikiWords. A WikiWord is any mixed case word typed into the editor. TodoList or JohnDoe are example WikiWords. The term wiki means "quick" in Hawaiian, and wikis are all about quickly linking your information together. Wikis are not a new concept, in fact there are many web based wiki servers available."
wiredforbooks.org: Douglas Adams got the idea for The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy while hitchhiking through Europe as a teenager. Author of Life, the Universe and Everything, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, and Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, Adams calls himself a comedy writer who used the science fiction format. Douglas Adams talks with Don Swaim in 1983 about looking at the stars and deciding to write a galactic hitchhiker's guide and being influenced by the writing of P. G. Wodehouse.
In a second Douglas Adams interview, he talks with Don Swaim in 1989 about searching for the Yangtze River dolphin in China, promoting the conservation of wildlife, and his novel, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul.
