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Rebetika - I guess that's why they call it the Greek blues - Times Online
SBaGen -- Binaural Beat Brain Wave Experimenter's Lab
Piece on Akin Fernandez, compiler of the Conet Project CDs
toneshared.com - free ringtones by electronica artists
Flash site on Australian Art Deco exhibition at the NGV
Six Trains, Two Boats - blog of a journey from Cardiff to Taiwan, overland
Is American Apparel's Dov Charney a sleazebag, or is it just clever anti-marketing?
Five luxury sleeper train journeys (The Independent)
Evenhanded piece about Buckminster Fuller, in the New Yorker
At the High Llamas gig at the Whitechapel Gallery. (5/7)
Bunking off early from Indie Tracks to go to the Momus/Germlin gig in Glasgow appears to be in the too-hard basket. (5/7)
Looking at Nottingham to Glasgow travel options, though they don't look good (5/7)
Mac Donald Duck Eclair FTW! (5/7)
Why does Whit Stillman's "Metropolitan" make me think of Vampire Weekend? (5/7)
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2007/7/4
This guy attached a digital camera (a specially modified keychain camera ) to his cat's collar and recorded the sequences of images as the cat (named Mr. Lee) went about his daily journeys. The images2006/7/4
London's mayor, Ken Livingstone, now claims that global warming may soon make the Tube unusable in summer , with temperatures in the uncoolable, Victorian-era system becoming threatening to life: Ken said "You reach a point where2003/7/5
I was wondering: is there a XML/RSS schema/namespace/&c for publishing lists of upcoming events (i.e., gigs, performances, film screenings and the like)? I think there should be something like that; that way, artists and/or venues could