February 2008
Have some 1976 punk to shake away the cobwebs. The...
Time for a Night At The Hip Hopera - ODB meets...
“Dictionary.com Word of the Day - dissolute: loose in morals and conduct.”
– Why has this appeared on the top of my Gmail inbox?
Heh, Heh, Heh
From here “doubleTwist, the firm founded by scourge of DRM manufacturers Jon Lech Johansen (AKA DVD Jon) last March, has released software designed to allow users to share digital media files - including copy protected content - across devices. doubleTwist desktop allows users to “share and sync digital media without worrying about codecs and bitrates”. The Windows utility will...
For a freezing foggy day in northern England. A...
“What I call middle-class society is any society that becomes rigidified in...”
– Frantz Fanon
“Wikileaks is developing an uncensorable system for untraceable mass document...”
– Get it here, Despite the best efforts of the California Legal system.
Half Man Half Biscuit, most requested band ever on...
Redundant Technology - the life cycle gets shorter
From here ”Toshiba put HD-DVD out of its misery today. Reuters confirmed this afternoon that it will cease manufacturing HD-DVD equipment, following earlier reports from Japan’s NHK public broadcasting network. This leaves Blu-Ray as the presumptive victor in the irrelevant optical disk format war. It now must face up to the real competition: the continuing success of DVD and the...
“In the world today all culture, all literature and art belong to definite...”
– Mao
“Several BitTorrent developers have joined forces to propose a new protocol...”
– The Kids one - The Man nil. Yet again… From here. When will the phrase “change your business model” enter some peoples corporate craniums? The genie is out of the bottle.
“Images contaminate us like viruses”
– Paul Virilio
“I think all writers write for an audience. There is no such thing as writing for...”
– Very true dear readers. William Burroughs tells it like it is
Buzzcocks. “Sixteen Again”. If only.
Ghislain Poirer remixes Lady Sovereign -...
“Belligerent Ghouls Run Manchester Schools”
– “It’s hard to miss the symmetry. More than 20 years after posing outside the Salford Lads’ Club for one of the most enduring rock images of the 1980s, the former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr is returning to the run-down Manchester suburb as visiting professor of music on the...
I like to be in America, OK by me in America
Maybe not any more. Looks like it’ll be less personally intrusive to visit Pyongyang. From here ”The US administration is pressing the 27 governments of the European Union to sign up for a range of new security measures for transatlantic travel, including allowing armed guards on all flights from Europe to America by US airlines. The demand to put armed air marshals on to the flights...
