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Links for 2010-01-28

VDenari records on MySpace Music – Free Streaming MP3s, Pictures & Music Downloads
postpunk-y electropop, from the grimmer and more crepescular end of the spectrum
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Jamie McKelvie

Brings the science.

Sticky Zo

Zoetica Ebb is offering limited runs of stickers at this link (you'll need to scroll down a bit, past the bare arses and all):

Moonshot

From Mal Jones' "Print A Week" project:

This is warren ellis dot com, going for trans-pub injection.

Links for 2010-01-26

Obama's budget slashes moon mission, new rockets
"NASA's plans to return astronauts to the moon are dead. So are the rockets being designed to take them there."
(tags:space pol bleeding+obvious )Climate change experts argue for international geoengineering effort
"Internationally coordinated research and field-testing on 'geoengineering' the planet's atmosphere to limit risk of climate change should begin soon along with building international governance of the technology…"
(tags:geoengineering

received goods 27jan10

Arrived today from darkest Yeovil, ONEIRIC HARDWARE:

…a CD of manipulated field-recordings sourced entirely from server-arrays, hard-drives and PC peripherals from Belo Horizonte, Brasil and Yeovil, Somerset. The resulting pieces are a curious fusion of the mechanistic and the organic: a series of REM-sleep sirensongs built from whirring servos, damaged cpus and haunted read-write heads. Ghost-Industrial Music.

Three quid if you're in the UK, four quid if you're not. All through the good...

Haptic Coat For The Blind

Fascinating. Designed by Lynne Bruning, "Bats Have Feelings Too" is a fashionable haptic coat for the blind, or, in her term, "a wearable cane."

Materials | lilypad arduino, conductive thread, ultrasonic range finder, vibration boards…

And, also at that link, a clickthrough to instructions for making one yourself.

PechaKucha Global Day for Haiti

PechaKucha is:

…an event where young designers could meet, network and show their work in public. Over time, it has evolved into a massive celebration of creativity, with events regularly being held in over 270 cities. Last year, more than 6,000 presentations will given at +600 PechaKucha events. Drawing its name from the Japanese phrase for the sound of conversation ("chit chat"), the PechaKucha format is simple – 20 images x 20 seconds – and designed to keep presentations concise and...

Station Ident: Warren Ellis Dot Com Obeys

(Templesmith, of course)

Thought For The Night: I Wear No Pants

Hey Warren, Stu from the Poxy Boggards here. I just wanted to drop you a line to let you know that one of our songs, "I Wear No Pants," is going to be featured in the Dockers ad during the Super Bowl on Sunday, Feb 7th. We've released a music video of the original track on youtube…