2002/2/12
Software patents are bad, mmmkay? An article on how restrictive licensing killed MPEG-4; pity, as technically it was quite a doovy scheme; still, that's greed for you. Fortunately, the W3C has ruled out endorsing royalty-bound technologies, a scheme it had been mulling earlier. (via bOING bOING, EFF)
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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
Just read Adrian Tomine's "Shortcomings". Now there's a book that's begging to be turned into an indie film. (7h ago)
At Southbank at dusk. Note to self: come back another evening with a DSLR. (6/7)
is at Southbank, seeing Josie Long's Splendid Evening. (6/7)
The music in this café sounds a lot like the original mix of Severed Heads' "Dead Eyes Opened". (6/7)
Hip-hop gangsta kids on the bus with massive dogs, talking about wanting to watch Hancock and Kung Fu Panda (6/7)
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2007/7/5
In East Sussex, pagans are pissed off at an ITV makeover programme , for desecrating an archaeological site, the Long Man of Wilmington, with pigtails and breasts: Arthur Pendragon, a Druid battle chieftain, said: "We are2006/7/6
You can do a lot of things with a Commodore 64. Some people make music with them . Meanwhile, in the mid-1980s, the Italians adapted this versatile workhorse of a computer to the task of making2003/7/6
Barry White dead at age 58 , and the universe becomes that much less sexy. (via Graham)