Just thought I’d get in there first after reading this story:

“If you think about the spin of a particle, such as an electron, it can point up or down or at any superposition of the two; partially up or partially down,” said Professor Awschalom.

“You can store an almost infinite number of bits of information in one particle space,” he added.

Here’s all the online crap I’ve found interesting in July:

The Story of My Sands - A look at the codewords used over tannoy systems. I well remember a Mr Sands on Brighton Pier and Somerfield.

Heavens Above. Calculates where satellites and the ISS will appear in the sky. Apparently you can see Iridium Flares in daylight too if you know exactly where to look.

What The World Eats. Time Magazine photo study of the food consumed by different cultures around the world.

Charlotte Gainsbourg - The Songs That We sing - (listen by choosing ‘5:55 The Album’)

The 12 Master Formats of Advertism. Nice video explaining the 12 main advertising tropes.

Mike Read is backing Boris Johnson. Not the dead cockney one but the dire radio DJ. Not only is his article pure reactionist gold but the comments are hilarious too. I say Mike Read for Mayor!

Trailer for a crazy South Korean movie about dragons with rocket launchers, called D-War.

The iPhone v the Nokia E70. An interesting article (contains comedy and swearing).

UK viewers can now watch the spolier-free documentary Tapping The Wire at The Guardian.

Charlie Brooker’s Screen Burn column was always a good reason to buy The Guardian on a Saturday but with the advent of this internet thing you don’t even need to buy the thing. And it’s legal apparently. But never before have I realised that it is actually me who is Charlie Brooker. Yes, I’m not John King at all.

Anybody who’s knows me well probably remembers my dish of the day was always a Frey Bentos pie. There was always at least 5 of them stacked high in my kitchen cupboard. Now days I know how to cook real food. I’m also a big fan of The Wire and think it’s the best thing thats been on TV for over 10 years, well US TV anyway. Here’s part of Charlie Brooker’s latest Screen Burn column.

“You know what I miss? Fray Bentos steak and ale pies. I haven’t had one in years. But as a student, I ate them all the time. I thought they represented grown-up cooking. After all, this wasn’t your average takeaway slop. No. A Fray Bentos supper required preparation and patience. You had to shear the lid off with a tin opener, and chuck the pie in the oven for half an hour. The end result was sublime.

Except it wasn’t. Having wolfed down better, fresher meals since then, I now realise that what I was eating tasted like piping-hot dog food by comparison. At the time I just didn’t know any better. Now I couldn’t face one. I’ve been spoiled. You can’t go home again.

I’m starting to wonder if obsessively watching The Wire - a show I’ve recently revisited as a result of doing a short programme about it (Tapping The Wire, Mon, 9pm, FX) - has similarly spoiled me in terms of TV drama. By now, the sound of yet another person blasting on about how good The Wire is probably makes you want to yawn your soul apart, but really it’s so absorbing, so labyrinthine and bloody-minded, it makes almost everything else seem a bit… well, a bit Fray Bentos.”

Oh, and here’s your Stevie Wonder. Just check out this drum solo:

My new Uniqlock Casio watch arrived today and very lovely and red it is too. By the end of the Uniqlock campaign there will probably be over 20,000 people enter this competition and I’m the fifth winner (out of 60), woo!!

You can check all the worldwide competition stats at a special section of their website.

Two movies that I’m really looking forward to seeing.

First up is the temporary titled 1-18-08. You can see the trailer here. Created by J.J Abrams, the person behind Lost, this movies seems to have a sufficient amount of explosions to keep anybody happy.

Next we have Black Sheep which is a Kiwi movie with effects from the Weta workshop. And what looks like a little bit of Peter Jackson’s Bad Taste thrown in for good measure. Love the final sequence in the trailer.

Just seeing if this works:

From Uniqlock

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.

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.

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 — 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 — before too long we hope — 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: