collected linkage

Sunday, July 31, 2005

some news links

ZKARIA: Journalists Point And Soldiers Kill
Jul 30, 2005

Back to the future
Saturday July 30, 2005
Ian Jack on the chilling prescience of a 1960s art-house film

Canada, Denmark Clash in Google Ads
Fri Jul 29,12:15 AM ET
By Beth Duff-Brown, Associated Press Writer


Error in law saves parliament protester
Saturday July 30, 2005
Clare Dyer, legal editor

Monday, July 25, 2005

flash!

time crisis without the graphics!

Saturday, July 23, 2005

Reviews and MPfrees

i already have a link to fluxblog over on the sidebar as his was the first i discovered, but i visit a few others...
the #1 songs in heaven
soul, funk and dance. seems to be mostly dead people...
boom selection
mashups and bootlegs.
riff central
hip hop. i know, what a fuckin misnomer.
not bad, but neither is it consistently great.
20 jazz funk greats
some of the best stuff has come from here, but i dont always love it. that could be my tastes.
cocaine blunts and hip hop tapes
well, that should be obvious. not showtunes.
soul sides
"music for rhythm addicts"
scissorkick
it varies, but its almost always solid.
today there was progrock and ninjatune stuff.

some honorable mentions...
banana nutrament
the tofu hut
funk you
radio babylon

and it seems salam pax is into the audioblogging thing now too...
yeah, the same one who was blogging anonymously from iraq as the war started and throughout, and who then wrote for the guardian of the UK.

Wednesday, July 20, 2005

Armchair Analysts

i loves me a bit of home-psychiatry.
you too can play doctor!

Tuesday, July 19, 2005

Cyber sex

amber forever is a naught, naughty girl.

Sunday, July 17, 2005

Computer health

first step would appear to be to make sure you are not running a machine with microsoft.
it appears that most viruses and the like are written specifically for the more prevalent systems, and microsoft is just that.

so.

mozilla
makers of the firefox browser and thunderbird email client.
i use web-based email, so i havent checked out the thunderbird yet.
firefox is the shit.
they do other things too, so perhaps the best link would be to the mozilla suite.


ubuntu
freebie OS based on linux and constantly being updated.
get a 'live' disc to try it out, or the 'install' disc to ...well. yeah.
(download page; hoary hedgehog version)

AVG
grisoft's freebie antivirus software.
i've heard it s better than norton and mcaffee, but i have no idea how to check.
all i do know is that it works.

Zonelabs
firewall. again for free.


perhaps more to follow.

Saturday, July 16, 2005

Code search engine for geeks.

koders

you love it.

Thursday, July 14, 2005

Bush losing his mind

a compare and contrast video of bush now and ten years ago.

he seems to have lost the ability to speakclearly and confidently in the last decade.
i have no idea why he has cognitive deficicits but they suggest it may be 'dry drunk' syndrome.

Google fight!

not affilated with google.

compare virtual schlongs and see who really is who!
who can you outdo in the ultimate popularity contest?
hollow victories aplenty.

google fight!


(my condolences to mike...)

Tuesday, July 12, 2005

The internet as home of DIY

so you wanna do something?
anything at all?
they even have so you wanna? mini, for those of us to lazy read that much.

Ever since i bought my decks, i've been trying to figure it out.

how do you tell good music from bad music?

Terrorballs

the united states air force, not quite catching on to the whole spirit of the blitz vibe mayor guilliani seemed so proud to have copied(even if he didnt know his WW2 history) in new york, banned all travel to anywhere inside the M25.
it is a decision they obviously regretted, as they have since changed their minds.
in other news,
London has become a "feeding ground for hate" and a "crossroads for would-be terrorists" where Muslims exploit civil liberties to "openly preach jihad", according to newspapers in the United States.
(found via a couple of 'lithers)


as at least one of those sites require a log in, a trip to bugmenot.com might be useful.
if that doesnt work, have a go with mailinator.com

Nostalgia is easier when you werent even there.

having an unrelated google, i came across the way back machine.
i've been having some fun kicking around all those boards and sites i had heard were awesome in those days before i was even online and dude, you know what?
they lie.
a lot of that shit is being seen through rose tinted browsers, i reckon.
anyone out there reading, feel free to point me at ones that rule.

The always-classic, never-sensitive...

the Darwin Awards!
oh, how we laugh at the misfortune of others.
oh how we wish we all had the german's foresight to have a word for such a feeling of glee as human misery can cause.

SCHADENFREUDENAPPARRAT GO!

Dude! make yor own ragdoll!

sodaplay!
the site has a constructor tool for making wireframe models in almsot any configuration, and then a simple test environment.
awesome for pretending you could make computer games.

Monday, July 11, 2005

I have no idea what to think about this.

my tinfoil hat must be squint.
you tell me.



found via barbelith and from indymedia.

Sunday, July 10, 2005

There may be a new king in town...

his name is hume, his court FOXnews.

i would also suggest that the links on that page are of interest.
brit's email link
brian kilmeade's crass commentary - how the deaths in london are to the western worlds advantage.
and that same halfwit's own page - from the horse's ass.

i'd like to make mention here that i don't feel that terrorism is a threat to our way of life.
if the united kingdom can be bombed for four years and survive(see WW2) and can tholl the threat of seperatist and loyalist groups detonating bombs in our country for twenty years(see UVF/IRA), i think we will survive this latest batch of attackers.
i would remind our american friends that the united kingdom has been under attack from various groups in our history.
and you know what? in every case i can think of, they were here because we were there.
as an imperialist nation we had to suffer the slings and arrows of those disgruntled subjects who believed we had no right to govern their nation.
there are very few terrorists who attack you because they are jealous.
who would commit suicide out of jealousy?
it would seem couterproductive.

as for the freedom-hatred that terrorists supposedly feel, that is an obvious and crass attempt to rob anyone of the right to call themselves freedom fighters.
(who fight for freedom, not against it)
the very notion that any human being except the most submissive BDSM aficionado would actually hate freedom is ridiculous, and it only makes those who trot out this rhetoric seem to be unthinking reaction-monkeys.

Friday, July 08, 2005

Light a candle for Omarion, the king of inappropriate response.

"Omarion was in London during the tragic bombings that struck this morning," a statement by the singer's publicist AR PR Marketing, released hours after the bombings, said.

And there are some who support the protest, even if they are only the majority.

the courier, local paper of auchterarder, had some nice things to say about the protestors and their actions.

Residents happy with G8 marchers

and then some reportage on the softer approach to policing after wednesday.

Ah, the idiots. what would we be without them?

i have been involved in conversation over on the g8alternatives website's forum over the last few days, engaging with many of the reactionary folks who, understandably upset by the violence as we all are, have decide to spit their fury at the only group with a high enough profile to be easily googled.

the lack of intelligence is staggering, as is the seeming inability to read anyone else's posts.
the introductory topics that explain g8alternatives constitution are all but ignored, as are the reassurances that they are a peaceful organisation.
i have been met with various attacks, the most common being that i should leave 'their' country. quite apart from the jingoism inherent in that statement, and the ignorance of the global political stage that is the backdrop to the g8, they miss one vital point:

i am scottish.

fucking halfwit reaction-monkeys.

Thursday, July 07, 2005

Metropolitan Police hiding their identity in scotland

badges? we dont need no stinkin' etc
i have been hearing more and more stories of this happening throughout the protest.
in case anyone is wondering, it is illegal for a policeman to hide his number or to refuse to tell it to you when asked.

it must also be displayed clearly.
note the shoulder with missing number.

Wednesday, July 06, 2005

I heard some talk of local neds getting involved...

...and it appears they did.
not, as some are suggesting, because they are drunken little fucking oiks, but because the imported english police were telling them what to do in their own city.
sure, they may have been more violent more early than i would have, but their actions are understandable.
the clashes were video'd.
thank fuck for indymedia.

Derth of Justice

found via the f-word, from Ms. magazine;


"While many of us like to assume that our rights will always be secure, the stark reality is that many hard-won protections hang by a thread — and that thread, metaphorically, is attached to the robe of a Supreme Court justice. Here are five rights that, with an ultraconservative Supreme Court, we would stand to lose."


this at the news of u.s. supreme court justice sandra day o'connor's retirement, announced on the first of july.

the fear is of course that bush will choose a patsy, or at least someone sympathetic to the neocon cunts.
it seems to be a given that he is unlikely to choose anyone supportive of women's reproductive rights. as they hang by a fine balance anyway this could be disastrous for american women, and, unless we see a sea-change in american politics, women across the world.

it is going to get a lot worse before it gets any better.

Saxgonnangorrabook, innit!

sax, of barbelith fame, has a new book out.
hinterland, he calls it.
as featured in the sun, of all places.
i want to say it's an answer to the da vinci code but if it is, it's prolly something along the lines of "nah, mate. fuck off."

the sun?
they said

"Intriguing psychological thriller by a first-time novelist. Why does a mass-produced painting leave its owners horribly dead? Why does no-one speak of the lost girls living on a small island in the middle of the duck pond? And who sits inthe sinister black cars that watch the streets?"These mysteries set a young journalist lurching away from the normal, everyday life he leads and into a nightmarish world he never knew existed."


so yeah.
support awesomeness and buy the fucker.

Monday, July 04, 2005

some css linkage

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rick 'santorum' santorum

ah, rick.
you really are a fucking twat, arent you?

i first spotted rick on a list of the american taliban, itself pointed out to me over at barbelith switchboard.
alas, one of the denizens of that political forum, has since then pointed me in the direction of this article.
ctrl+f then "sodomy" to get to the bit of the article sticking most in my mind.
googling for him on my own was illuminating.

genius.
now if only someone could do one for rumsfeld...

make protest history

so i'm just back from edinburgh today.
i went to the alternative summit and the rally to eradicate poverty, and i have to say i was alittle disappointed.
as far as alternatives go, we heard close to none.
i missed a few interesting speakers, most notably the guys from neteuri karta international, but i still feel like there was a little someting lacking.
everyone seemed to have a problem posing solutuions, perhaps for obvious reasons.
it is so much easier to talk shit about something so demonstrably undemocratic as the g8 that it is to propose workable solutions that a ragtag bunch of protestors can agree on.
no one putting forward ideas at a debate leads to an extremely boring debate, and it seemed to me like there was a lot of that going on.
of the people i saw, only monbiot actually made any suggestions as to first steps and even then only when pushed.

limiting yourself to condemnation does grant you a larger audience share, but it seems kinda useless.


still, at least we have the clowns.

ah, the clowns.

 

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