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Bookmarks for 2012-05-13

How stone age man invented the art of raving | Science | The Observer
@MelissaSterry: [The Really] Old School Ravers: New scientific techniques reveal how large tribal gatherings swept neolithic Britain http://t.co/dkEZkibO http://twitter.com/MelissaSterry/stat...
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BBC iPlayer – The Two-Thousand-Year-Old Computer
@mothninja: Lovely BBC4 doco on the Antikythera mechanism http://t.co/mkhqZ8gV (FAO @woofbarkyap amongst others) http://twitter.com/mothninja/status/2...
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Location Selected For $1 Billion Ghost Town – Slashdot
@jackieearle: @warrenellis Big Brother test site??? http://t.co/Jlu71uCw http://twitter.com/jackieearle/status...
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Joi Ito’s Near-Perfect Explanation of the Next 100 Years – Technology Review
@Joi: Thanks @TechReview! Joi Ito's Near-Perfect Explanation of the Next 100 Years http://t.co/e9Pg05P0 (via @TechReview) http://twitter.com/Joi/status/2016875...
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Regular Broadcasting Resumes

Molly Crabapple sent me this out of the blue this evening.

Regular broadcasting resumes on Monday.

Bookmarks for 2012-05-12

Underwater Peoples Mixtape #5 – 26 Shores of Chorals – Lieven Martens aka Dolphins Into The Future by underwaterpeoples on SoundCloud – Create, record and share your sounds for free
Underwater Peoples Mixtape #5 – 26 Shores of Chorals – Lieven Martens aka Dolphins Into The Future Underwater Peoples Mixtape Series #5 – Shores of Chorals – compiled by Lieven Martens aka Dolphins Into The Future
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Mellow by Poor Spirits on SoundCloud – Create, record and share your sounds for free
Mellow Song of new ep/album MELLOW. poor, spirits, mellow
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Re-testing Audioboo Connection

listen to ‘Re-testing Audioboo Connection’ on Audioboo

REVERSE PARTHENOGENESIS

I leave you for the weekend with this: a short film written and directed by Javier Grillo-Marxuach (LOST, THE MIDDLEMAN) and featuring Amber Benson and Adam Busch (BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER). G’night.

MACHINE VISION 005

Something seems to have gone awry with the mailout of today’s newsletter.  If you didn’t get it yet, and don’t want to wait, it’s over here.

That Remote and Awful Twilight

I got sent this the other night.  If you like spooky ambient atmospherics and strange soundscapes, you’re going to want to give this a listen:

This, the second album by Abominations of Yondo, has among its influences the penultimate chapter of ‘The Time Machine’ by H.G. Wells. However, the listener is of course free to associate other scenarios, memories or febrile imaginings with the assembled sounds.

I’ve been fascinated by this for a day or so, now.  You can almost imagine it as the best possible soundtrack to the best possible adaptation of THE TIME MACHINE, but it does definitely go its own way, and it’s frequently just lovely.

 

That Remote and Awful Twilight by Abominations of Yondo

 

And you can click through the player for a free download, or to Archive for an even easier free download.

Bookmarks for 2012-05-10

warrenellis | This Is My Jam
“Good Technology” by Red Guitars is my new jam.
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Mark Dery’s I MUST NOT THINK BAD THOUGHTS

This is an absolute treasure trove of the disturbing and enlightening.  Mark Dery (remember the term “culture jamming”?  That was him), in this sequence of gorgeously written essays, surrounds something he conceives of as the “pathological sublime” in American culture.

A score-settling excoriation on how virulent, cackling old Mark Twain’s reputation has been given a sentimental cleanse actually stakes out Dery’s perimeters for a new American Gothic.  A deceptively amiable consideration of Lady Gaga puts her permanently outside Dery’s dark velvet ropes.

And then he’s off on foot through the trees, sending off great bursts of searing tracer fire in pursuit of, not just the strange, but also of the fake weird, removing the dressing and bullshit from the stark landscape of the deeply odd American experiment.  For Dery, that seems to be the real America, and he loves it dearly, in all its glorious horror.

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