Testing Clock

Posted on June 27th, 2007 at 3:29 pm

Just seeing if this works:

From Uniqlock

Words of the Day

Posted on June 21st, 2007 at 10:17 pm

Trope (noun): A familiar and repeated symbol, meme, theme, motif, style, character or thing that permeates a particular type of literature. They are usually tied heavily to genre.

Trite (adj): Lacking power to evoke interest through overuse or repetition; hackneyed.

Tripe (noun): The rubbery lining of the stomach of cattle or other ruminants, used as food.

Trout (noun): Any of various freshwater or anadromous food and game fishes of the family Salmonidae, especially of the genera Salmo and Salvelinus, usually having a streamlined, speckled body with small scales.

More music and Stephen Fry

Posted on June 19th, 2007 at 11:00 pm

Here are some more great mix mp3s for you to download for summer listening:

The new Charles Webster radio show is up at Ibiza Sonica. Download the 1 hour mp3 here. It’s a bit less souly and more techy and beaty than usual but still superb. Tori Amos into Amp Fiddler? Well somebody had to do it.

Here’s the tracklisting found at Charles Webster’s own Miso Records label:
kid sublime - ?
kidd sublime - get up daddy
swell sesions - nasa;s theme
panama II - long train running (prins thomas edit)
boof - to make up for it
tori amos - devils and gods
patchworks - celebration (amp fiddler mix)
furry phreaks with Terra Deva - all over the world (ambi mix)
slope - gemini
? - red barn road
kadabasten - caracas soul
thief - sunchild (reprise)
scott grooves - it doesn’t have to be…

Also recommended on a deep and techy vibe is the Attic 4 mix by Miles from Demizen.com. Featuring tracks by Charles Webster, Isolee and Chez Damier.

Fancy something a little more chilled out? Ben Mynott from Fluid Nation has his latest chill out mp3 mix available for download here. Featuring tracks by Crazy P and Secret Stealth, it really is one to relax to.

More weird techy stuff is available at DJ Jogarde’s website. His Freilauf Sessions Vol.3 (mp3) has tracks by Furry Phreaks, Roy Ayres, Carl Craig and Quentin Harris and is a perfectly mixed CD-length classic.

For more of a soul weekender vibe download the Playing With My Emotions mix by Dr No available at Dangradio.com.

Oh, and I promised you some Stephen Fry. Here he is telling us why he loves the Internet.

See more Stephen Fry on Video Jug.

I hate ecommerce systems!

Posted on June 7th, 2007 at 10:58 am

After about 48 hours of trialling ecommerce systems I think I’ve finally found the one I can hack into enough to achieve what I want. I’m making the mother of all baby stores and it’ll look amazing. More on that soon.

Slideshow from The Guardian: “Peter Walker talks to North Korea expert Nick Bonner and photographer Charlie Crane, who have produced a book of photographs from the country’s capital, Pyongyang. The pair travelled to the city three times to photograph people, tourist sights and hotels. Laid out as a guidebook, the pictures in Welcome to Pyongyang are accompanied by commentaries from North Korean tourism guides.”

Follow Me Now: The Zigzagging Zungazung Meme: “Do read the following, then, as but a draft of a more measured, more textured cultural and social history β€” a zigzagging story about the migrations and manifestations of a well-traveled musical figure. I will continue to version these texts and sounds no doubt, on the blog and β€” before too long we hope β€” in a book.”

The Atlas of the Universe. There’s quite a lot of stuff less than 10 light years away.

Listen to: A brilliant heavy dub and roots mix CD called HEAVY SOUND SYSTEM STYLE mixed by MadMongos.

Watch: The first part of the first episode of Filthy, Rich & Catflap: