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Links for 2010-01-07

Plastic Logic aims QUE e-reader at business crowd
"Plastic Logic on Thursday unveiled a long-anticipated QUE electronic reader aimed at giving business travelers a "paperless briefcase.""
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French panel: Tax Google to fund the arts
"How to help prop up the ailing music industry? Tax Google, suggests a new report commissioned by the French government."
(tags:web pol )

Bart Hess

(via Suckerpunch)

Frozen Out

Matt Jones (who has a nice article in EDGE this month on games and design) just showed me this picture:

That's my country. See that swirly bit in the bottom right? That's where I live. This shit is deeply incorrect.

Been offline five hours, due to my ISP assuming my upgrade purchase was actually a request to completely bollocks up my broadband provision. Back online now, but no faster than before. But spending an hour on the phone to tech support has blown out my voice, so fuck it, I'll s...

WIRED UK: Column 10

In which I attempt to lay my own personal headstone on the unquiet grave of musical hauntology:

…it also falls within what the wonderful Moon Wiring Club are pleased to call "confusing English electronic music", whose most famous early proponent today might be the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and its most deified member, Delia Derbyshire. You've all heard her work. The original Doctor Who theme was written by Ron Grainer, but Derbyshire's interpretation was so radical that he tried to get her...

Station Down

Home internet is down, possibly for some hours. Posting this via Blackberry. Talk amongst yourselves.

Vessel

"Vessel," by the phenomenal Grouper, from a recent split EP (with Roy Montgomery). Grouper's DRAGGING A DEAD DEER UP A HILL was one of my favourite records of 2008, and this EP has basically made my night.

Scott Tuma

I discovered Scott Tuma's work a few years ago, with a record called THE RIVER. He's usually filed under "Americana," but I find this reductive.

This is a piece from a collaboration with Mike Weis called TARADIDDLE, just because it's what I've got to hand right now, but I find it preserves what's important about Scott Tuma. His work is powerfully strange and estranging: it smacks of mutated ground, poisoned water, rust and death. The first track off 2008's NOT FOR NOBODY is actually kind ...

Links for 2010-01-06

First Earth-like planet spotted outside solar system likely a volcanic wasteland
"The rocky planet CoRoT-7 b is, however, a forbidding place. If its orbit is not almost perfectly circular, then the planet might be undergoing continuous, fierce volcanic eruptions…"
(tags:space )Neuroengineers silence brain cells with multiple colors of light
"Neuroscientists at MIT have developed a powerful new class of tools to reversibly shut down brain activity using different colors of light. When targeted...

Me At Marvel Digital

Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited, which is where you can read a shitload of Marvel comics for between five and ten Yanqui dollars a month, is sorting their inventory by creator.

Which means there's a Warren Ellis page on Marvel Digital.

A lot of it is, of course, appalling shit that I was hoping might disappear forever. But, on the other hand, you can spend ten bucks on joining for one month and read all of NEXTWAVE and all of my THUNDERBOLTS run (which was quite funny in places, and...

It Looks So Warm

What's that? Cold? Snow? Ice? Not where Meredith Yayanos is living. She's down in New Zealand, and the weather is apparently fine.

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