Tuesday, April 16, 2002
ha. that is funny. that would be quite the scam indeed. unfortunately,
it may be impossible to stay here much longer. there are plans to
start a gamma ray 'astronomy project' on the dark side of the moon you know.
blind to us what exactly is being built. call me crazy but....
a (no so interesting but funny)perspective as well:
this is my high school in cheltenham pennsylvania. check the famous graduate
now on tour in washington, dc. funny? i still don't know what this means if
anything but....
i would add that consumer illiteracy is the most dangerous thing i can
think of. the median is too low here on earth now. hopefully the median
level will grow before only the richest people are living on the moon and
the earth is looking more like venus.
can i ask a question? mac's. please don't complain that windoze is such
a monopoly when you own a mac. mac hardware; MAC software. come on
give me a break. i can do without that stupid platform. they are software
running machines, period. i'd rather build my own machines and install free
software than give anyone my money i'm saving for an island vacation!! if you
think you are using a mac and it's so so cool that you aren't using that "*evil*
bill gates' ms windoze" then you are a sucker who is getting duped and being
sold a different recipe for conformity. windoze is crap true that but please i hate
it when people think that mac isn't. fuckin mac's crash too and don't say they don't
cause they do and you know it.
and alun, i see your point but you should at least WANT to know, you know?
i would add further that any gui is the "right" gui when you use it long enough. it is
relative when you are talking about functionality. i could introduce you to many many
secretaries who, if you shuffled the icons on their desktop would have a hard time
breathing and many high end users who are looking for more than what they have
available. you know what i don't even care anymore about this stupid conversation.
how come there has been such a lack of discussion about how EVIL ISRAEL HAS
BEEN. there i said it and it's fucking true. israel is murdering innocent people and
have now established themselves among the 'part of the problem' crew. people seem
so scared to say it, huh? people are scared to say that ISRAEL could be forcing their
will on inncoent civilians as was done to them and has been for thousands of years.
you would think that they would know better. you may not like what i am saying but fuck
all, SOMEONE HAS TO!!! STOP THE OCCUPATION AND THE KILLING OF INNOCENT
PEOPLE EVERYWHERE!! how is anything going to ever change when people are scared
to speak in a confident voice. FUCK ALL!!! I AM SICK OF IT!!! ISRAEL IS WRONG IN
WHAT THEY ARE DOING. the ultimate in hypocracy. very bad karma considering
the past. people should take a lesson from the tibetians. truly a nobel society. how many
cultures would deal with what they have delt with so gracefully? no tanks. no
apaches. no hypocracy. no "terrorism©" claim. no media manipulation. no bandwagon
jumping. no money trail. no religious superiority stigma. just truth.
You dont need to know organic chemistry to be able to put gas in your car, but you should know the difference between leaded and unleaded. This is what I am talking about; there is a minimum level of understanding that eveyone has to have if the world is going to work, and the old style macs made people undershoot.
Consumer illiteracy is extremely dangerous, and its effects on the environment are devastating. In the same way computer illiteracy has a bad effect on the network and its security. I dont have to enumerate the examples...do I?
S T. L U C I E, Fla. � It took four years for imprisoned convict Robert Heike to devise the code for "Operation Chisel." It took four St. Lucie County Jail detention deputies an hour and a half to crack it and thwart the jailbreak Heike was allegedly planning.
Police say Heike tried to send a friend a coded letter from the St. Lucie County Jail, where he was being held on charges including high-speed fleeing in a car, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon and resisting an officer.
The one-page note had a series of squiggles and symbols that Heike had devised in the hopes of avoiding detection by authorities, who routinely screen outgoing mail from inmates.
In the July 6 letter, Heike told a friend to help him escape in case his court date didn't go well, authorities say. Under the name "Operation Chisel," he instructed the man to put street clothes, a blanket and a wire cutter in a bag and to throw it over a jail fence at midnight on a specified night.
He didn't count on having his note examined by detention deputies Debra Wesley, Thomas Carlile, Francisco Delrosario and Rochelle Parrish, who were on duty the night Heike sent his instructions. Wesley, a puzzle fanatic, made short work of Heike's code.
"Debra Wesley ever since she was a child has been puzzle freak," Sheriff Ken Mascara explained. "She led the brigade in deciphering it."
First she guessed correctly that the letter began with the recipient's name, and matched it to the name on the outside of the envelope. She also noticed the note contained a date, with the month written in code and the day left as an English numeral. That was enough to crack the whole thing.
In the morning they confronted Heike, who was shocked to see his letter complete with an English translation.
"He admitted that he'd spent four years on this code," Mascara said. "He couldn't believe they deciphered it an hour and a half."
Authorities say the plan was doomed from the start, because it would have been virtually impossible to throw the getaway material over two tall razor-wire fences, and to avoid detection by security cameras. The grounds are checked each morning before prisoners can go outside, Mascara said.
Heike was transferred to a highly restricted section of the jail, and then later to the Florida Department of Corrections.
The four deputies received commendations from the Sheriff's Department last week
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/us/CrimeBlotter/crimeblotter011107.html
I saw that documentary; the Germans are the masters of that sort of programme, they dont have any reservations about making sex documentaries; its just full on hardcore Pr0n with a documentary voiceover instead of a sleazy jazz-funk soundtrack. since my analogue sky box blew up, i dont get anymore german TV, which is a pity. The adverts are Insane® especially the beer ones....they MAKE you thirsty!
Monday, April 15, 2002
i write my CSS by hand
In '95 before dreamweaver was even a dream, I used to write HTML by hand. Now, I simply wait for someone to get thier act together so that it (css) can be done on the fly. Sadly I don't have time anymore to become completely fluent in everything that I would like; I'm concentrating on mastering Perl, CSS is on the list.
Ideally, the next iteration of Dreamweaver will have some switches in it that allow you to make everything out of css; your positioning, borders, font control...everything, on the fly. Quark 5 tries to do this, but fails miserably. You cannot even import your old *.qxd and turn it into HTML.s
Its possible to have a complex site that renders identically in both Mozilla and IE; it takes time to do it...is it worth the effort? certainly its satisfying on a personal level...its late Dragonball Z becons!
pr0n // On-Line Culture
n. Pornography. Originally this referred only to Internet porn but since then it has expanded to refer to just about anything. The term comes from the warez kiddies tendency to replace letters with numbers. At some point on IRC someone mistyped, swapped the middle two letters, and the name stuck, then propagated over into mainstream hacker usage.
http://www.homoexcelsior.com/omega.db/datum/on-line_culture/pr0n/3985
AFAIK this definition is wrong, and the term came about because IRC ops not wanting porn to be discussed in channel set up kick bots to remove any users that mentioned the banned subject, like "trade", "porn", "games", $banned_word.
If you had pr0n on your machine, (or MP3s for that matter) would you keep it (them) littered all over your disc, or keep it in one place?
>>SURELY you are going to go 100% WC3 with FC??
>just checked out a couple of pages. seems all i need to do is add "ALT" properties to images and "TYPE" properties to my script tags.
>oh and it didn't like my css very much either... just complaining about lack of background colors in some classes. very weird.
I just tried to validate the blogdial css file, and i got the same errors, missing background colors, and other shit. I wish dreamweaver had a mode that dissalowed non compliant css and html, anyways, all my css at the moment is hacked together from different files, and i have yet to find a css editor that is any good. I have CSS Editor, a java app that totally sucks, Topstyle, which suck less, but still sucks....
Dreamweaver has a "clean up word HTML" that goes through your source and takes out the garbage (great for when you are taking over someones work)...need to check the extensions page again...
>>If its good enough for D.O.MILLER it's good enough for you!
>looks really 1996 if you ask me!!
true!
>plus the text is allowed to size to the width of the page.
that is VERY pewer. thats one of the things i love most about css; you can set the font size in stone.
>this is a usability issue! text should be 5-7 words per line, too much and your eye loses track of which line you were on when
returning to the start of the line, too little and your eyes soon become tired darting back to the start of the line.
This is also true; thats the part about the difficulty of the brief, keep it standards compliant, beautiful usable, modern looking and maintainable..... ummm how much are they paying u???!!!!
>i think i'm going to buy neilson's book, just so i can see what he's talking about, then i'll be able to give you a proper agruement for or against his ideas.
bleh, *show* how its done, lead by example, test it, the FC site is going to be well traffic'd, more so if its done right. talking about it like this is more valuable than reading a dangerous book...take a look at http://www.useit.com/ not the prettiest thing, and ive seen better navigable sites....
akin, i love you.
biatch!
you rally know how to take someone's (usually mine) and make them seem stupid...
anyone thats seen your stuff (and you know we all have) KNOWS you are not stupid, and actually quite talented.
massive generalisation. Flamage: The hobby of the lower classes!
>>macos is actually bad for users, because it discourages >>thinking.
>how and why? ok, so it's not the best os ever, but like >windows is?
Actually, this is a more serious philosophical question; should we encourage people in education to think less about how things work?
Certainly, this would create a population of computer illiterates, and in a world that is pervasively infested with computers and thier interfaces, this cannot be a good thing.
AOL is a bad thing, and is similar in its aims as the early Macos was; take away the learning about the system so that you can just get stuff done. Well, thats fine if your tools are only ever used to make paintings, but now these tools are being used for *everything* including the most important aspects of our lives, like privacy, banking health security and....toasting!
We need a population of computer literate people, who know the difference between "saving it in adobe photoshop" and "saved the .tif file in my pr0n folder".
These computer illiterates are the people who propagate viruses because they cannot change between mail clients....schools should aim to REDUCE the numbers of these people, not add to them by de-educating them on macs.
This is why the idea of macs in schools was so strange. now of course, Macs in schools is a no brainer. Every shchoolboy and schoolgirl should be weaned on MACOS. Those that have the ability will become power users that can use any UNIX. Those that need simply to paint can do that to, all on one platform.
Its a miracle.
The results show that 98.3% of Web users can experience Macromedia Flash content without having to download and install a player.
and yet, no one doing anything related to money is doing anything with flash, despite the fact that you can do many backend/database related tasks with it. The ones that tried, died (boo). I'm not sure what that says...it will probably take one instance of a hit website running totally on flash to change everything.
i'm just saying it has a place,
yes: http://www.newgrounds.com :]
give me some content and we'll see...
SURELY you are going to go 100% WC3 with FC??
take a look at this:
100% WC3HTML4.0 If its good enough for D.O.MILLER it's good enough for you!
i ahte jacob neilson because he has demonised design, and made it seem as if it's this frivilous arcane superficial thing, which shows how little he knows about design history.
design is communication.
he hasnt demonized design, he is throwing a bright light on bad web design. design on the web, depending on the purpose of the site, needs to function differently than print for it to be usable. flash is frowned upon because it is not a web standard, and for the most part, it is used in a way that gets between the user and information. Some flash designers are using it to decorate pages as if they were print in motion.
i'm all for function over form, without it design becomes mere decoration, useless and superfluous, but at the same time,
in the case of the web, we have several factors or pressures that should dictate how you design your website. bandwidth, platform are the key constraints that control what you can do if you want to be sucessful. normally, flash designers dont care about any constraints, thinking that if it works on their machines (normally macs) that its OK. usabilitys first rule is to take other peoples experience into account, and in order to satisfy this, you have to constrain yourself, and restrict your use of stuff that excludes people. this does not mean that you have to give up beauty, art, innovation, design or anything else. if anything, it means that the talented will shine brighter. look at this 100% standards compiant page, which is rich, usable and not at all gray background and blue links http://www.opera.com there are many others of course.
who said the function has to be so easy, surely a challange is what we're all after,
How about this for a challenge, design a website that is visible by everyone, loads fast for slow modem users, is navigable and validates as correct W3C HTML, without any compromise in aesthetics. That brief is a REAL challenge.
The newest trend in flash sites is the "OS in OS". In fact, these sites have simply folded the now disparaged flash intro into the navigation. every time you go to these sites, you see the menu elements being built, boxes appearing from nowhere like an os booting...its a total waste of bandwidth, adding nothing to the information, and in fact, getting in the way of the information.
yes of course an easy, intuitive UI is one of the goals of any OS, which makes Mac OS so good to use, not only is it a joy to use, but it is beautiful as well.
What nielsen is talking about is the usability of websites, not OSes. some would argue that the macos is actually bad for users, because it discourages thinking. with OSX this argument is dead, because OSX can be whatever you want it to be, thanks to it sitting on UNIX. of course, you could argue that Mac saw the light of day, and dumped the original Macos because it was a piece of crap, opting for a complete re-write....but i digress.
To paraphrase William Morris, one should not own anything that is not beautiful and useful. usability on the web is awesome as well, to meet a website that is not only beautiful to look at but also a joy to navigate is something that is sadly rare, and something i strive for in my designs, when it is called for.
and that is all that jacob is asking people to do; make it usable, make it visible to even the 14k modem user on a 14" monitor. if you want to convey something, convey it, and dont let superfluous boxes, faux OS elements and other nonsense get in the way. of course, no one is saying that you shouldnt do any of these things; just dont say that your sites are useful.
so yes, i agree with neilson becuase 'usuability' or function as it's more commonly known (what a spin doctor, making new trendy catchphrases for things that have existed for centuries) is important.
these things need to be said. standards need to be written and spread. this is the only way that the web can continue to be useful. anyone using filesharing apps knows that having 4 different networks Gnutella, Fast, WinMX, OpenNap, does no one any good. if all of these were using one standard filesharing protocol the benefits to everyone are clear. its the same with web-browsing. anything that fragments the web is bad. flash fragments the web into people with flash and people without, so, it is bad. incompatible browsers fragment the web. thats why the W3C is so important, and why Mozilla and Opera are so important, and why IE, with its proprietary extensions is so evil.
before form takes place function must be accounted for. like making UML diagrams or planning out how the website will work on hundreds of scraps of paper first like i have been doing for the FatCat redesign. but it doesn't mean we have to resort to such draconian undesign totalitarianism that he calls for.
If one is trying to sell something on the web, we have some examples to see what happens when we try different approaches. If the site is based on Flash, it will fail. See Boo.com. See Now.com. If its is standards compliant, everyone will be able to use it, and it will have a better chance of suceeding. If its hosted on IIS, it will be hacked. If it is running on NetBSD, there is less of a chance that it will be hacked.
that doesn't mean all design has to be yucky flying colours and flashing bits everywhere... to paraphrase someone else who was quoted in "die neu typographie" by jan tschiold, design is complete when you've got rid of everything you don't need.
Yes indeed everything you dont need i.e. FLASH.
Ohhhhh Mama!!! that one is going into my holster!
as for praystation.com crippling barrie's mac. this is due to macromedia and the crappy implementation of the flash player under mac os. makes my life a misery, it really does. read eric natzke's rant about it... although that's a flash site and will probably cripple your mac as well.. :(
Macromedia, as great as they are, own flash. as long as it is owned by them, and they refuse to relinquish it so that it can become a true, open standard, we really shouldnt rely on it for anything other than fun.
and i was always for nintendo... nes, gameboy, snes. missed out on the n64, and then i got a dreamcast. what happened to me?
I NEED a gamecube! Paper Mario just got finished in my house...its a very beautiful game indeed...I still havent played Majora's Mask...
i thought about why i like programming too. it's about solving problems. like design. solving problems. mix them together and i am very happy.
a deadly cocktail that gets you drunk with no hangover.
how cool is THAT??!!
Sunday, April 14, 2002
jacob neilson is a cunt
Yes yes, but does he smell?
He has ideas for the web that are analogous to why the mac was so popular; keep it simple, so that everyone can use it. How is that a bad thing for the web, but good for an OS??
One thing is for sure, he is brilliant at PR and whipping up hysteria; by doing these interviews, he has used a very old PR tactic, polarize an issue, let people take sides and then rake in the free column inches. Since governments and corporates have to have websites that are usable, he is the first port of call being the point man in the usability wars.
Its a no brainer.
The other fun polar warz:
Sega vs Nintendo
Mac vs Windoze (and now windoze vs linux)
$entranched_position vs $other_entrenched_position
also no yucky UI, just the files straight off his disk.
ummm, the simple Apache directory listing being most efficient??? :]
COME ONNNNNNN! im pulling your chain!!!!!!
Usability vs Praystation
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/in_depth/sci_tech/2000/dot_life/newsid_1779000/1779849.stm
http://www.xmlhack.com/
Is a very interesting site.
Personally, I would have loved to been weened into programming with C but got BASIC instead. Nevertheless, Perl is rocking my world. Whilst I cannot produce stand alone executibles with it, for web services, it rocks. The entire Ryan Air booking system is written in perl, as are many industrial grade, mission critical services.
I also love it because you can (I can) read the source when its written to be read (not obscured).
This weekend I started playing with perldb; very simple, understandable, quick to impliment....after that, I have to get to grips with XML-RPC. given the way that the rest of Perl is so easy to understand, it should be a breeze.
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Ah yes, the fire in the belly!
I ave wished, so many times, to say...
you are what we call a luser/lamer. we control every aspect of your life today. you cannot cook a piece of toast without a computer telling you when its done. you cant bake bread, drive a car, fly anywhere, use the phone....everything you do is managed by us with our tools. you know this, yet you persist in being deliberatly blind, like a supersititious peasant that wont cross the path of a black cat. people like you are the cattle today, and what makes you so revolting is that you *like it*. I would no more expect you to understand what i do than i would expect an apple to understand the concept of a knive."
but then, that wouldnt be friendly Mikkel!!!
hey i cant spell today!
Saturday, April 13, 2002
http://www.ibmpcug.co.uk/~irdial/ufo.htm
http://www.rense.com/general21/sant.htm
At a dinner party:
I just can't understand the pleasure of programming computers, could you enlighten me, because its the very opposite of somethign that i can understand or think that I would enjoy...do you know what i mean?
well...imagine that you work for a newspaper, and your editor asks you to write an article about solving the problem of litter in the city. You write your article, it gets column inches on the front page, and the next day the streets are still filthy.
With software, you can write your article, using almost natural language, and the streets would be clean as soon as you publish the text; thats what software is. It allows you to write essays that have an actual effect on the world around you, the effects and results of which are real action.
Also, there is no interpretation of your meaning with software. What you write is explicitly and precisely executed; there is no chance of misunderstanding of what you meant to happen. There is exactness, purity, cleanliness.
To anyone that can write english, this is exiting.
no eyes glazed over, which was odd
Someone onjoined me with this...
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Friday, April 12, 2002
Google is doing an INSANE thing. If you search for
dohdie.gif
It tells you that you have spelled your search wrong, and gives you results of what it thinkgs you meant, without the option of saying, actually, no, its spelt correctly.
Try it yourself:
http://www.google.com/search?q=doodie.gif&hl=en&safe=images&sa=n&oq=dohdie.gif
Thursday, April 11, 2002
via email:
"This shit is pretty funny. I don't what Wink's status is in the electronica
community but hey I remember when this kid was a bike messenger
watchin us skate.
Some of the most successful people are crooks. and he was."
what's with the porn undercurrnet around these parts as of late? are you
guys in heat?
Strange Art, Video and Sounds related to 1980s 
and the Wednesday, April 10, 2002
and what about that wink "conscienceness" track?
i am from philly and i can tell you that he is a p*ssy but then
again so is itchie hurtin and the int. dj gigolo who i hear used
to throw amazing parties but now is an inflated wind bad filled
with rotting crap, again just like wink. and for that matter that
whole ovum bunch of played house wimps following britt and
wink around like the brain dead ass kissing loosers they are.
and i quote: "they will never know"
Tuesday, April 09, 2002
Self Amplified Record
It is playable without any thing else except its own apparatus. This unit required the use of a pencil to provide the spin and a small cardboard horn with which an elastic band helped keep its shape. This provided the amplification through the needle that was attached to it and rode in the groove as the pencil (and hand) of the operator provided the spin.
WFMU does it again.
(2) George Cruikshank met James Gillray in about 1805.
His natural temperament was excitable. Sometimes he would at once etch a
subject on the prepared copper plate. Unable even to submit to the process
of drawing it upon paper. When etching he worked furiously, without stopping
to remove the burr thrown up by the etching needle; consequently his fingers
often bled from being cut by it.
The Zombies' songs have excellent productions and arrangements. Glorious use of stereo (my engineer friend calls it one of the "widest" records he's heard) to perfect psychedelic ends.
Shellac gels in all manners: sound, song, packaging.
As for arrangments, this website demonstrates the Beatles as the most under-rated band in the world.
Congratulations! You are the most evil man of all time! Not only did you exterminate millions of Jews and involved the world in the biggest war the world has ever seen, you also convinced the Germans that the perfect human is a tall blue eyed blond when you're a short, dark Austrian yourself! Well done you spiteful little shit!
What tin-pot dictator are you? Take the "What Dictator am I?" test at PoisonedMinds.com
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Insane!
I had a long session of emails with someone who found us via a random link at Yahoo (wold you believe). I will summarise what went on. This person believes that:50 years ago, government contractors developed anti gravity devices. For 50 years, these contractors and the US govt. has kept this new technology a secret, and that they, in conjunction, have been flying thousands of sorties over populated areas, in very large numbers of differently configured craft, some of these craft being hundreds of feet in length. Some of these sorties being over (for example) New York City, where the craft hovered over the ground at 100 feet.
and that the US military:
Flies secret aircraft over heavily populated areas. Buzz people with secret aircraft. Interfere with and disable vehicles with secret craft. Flies secret aircraft in the paths of civilain aircraft. Flies secret aircraft over the airports of cities in foreign countries.
and that:
United States Scientists are more able to produce good science than other countries, hence, other countries have not yet discovered anti gravity, and are not using it to test anti gravity aircraft.
and that:
eyewitness testimony and the evidence of military and civilain pilots, police men, lawyers, doctors and people fit for jury duty are insufficnent for any purpose.
and that:
The NASA explanation of the Project Blue Book sightings is intellectually sound and satisfying, to a critical and logical person.
and that:
The best explanation for the UFO phenomenon (the excellent radar / visual sightings that are irrefutable and corroborated) is that they are all secret military aircraft, and that the Wallonia triangle was a propellor powered deridgible.
Now, is this not the most INSANE nonsense that you have ever heard???
Just doing a reality check :]
You REALLY need to read this to start the argument from the right place.
You should already know about this: http://www.primenet.com/~lippard/stupid-skeptic-tricks.txt
Project Blue Book Unknowns are at: http://www.ibmpcug.co.uk/~irdial/bluebook.htm
Wallonia Triangle is at: http://www.ibmpcug.co.uk/~irdial/triangle_1.htm
This is also interesting: http://www.rense.com/general18/newwave.htm
PS whle you are at it, on and off for a year now, I have been trying to get a hold of the authors of this site (Brian Zeiler and Jean van Gemert): http://www.primenet.com/~bdzeiler/index.html
if anyone here could find one of them, it would be *rather* useful. Thier website was excellent, and we would lke to mirror it here.
Monday, April 08, 2002
yes yes everybody loves the sunshine indeed!
http://www.ufomind.com/area51/desertrat/1996/dr34/flight/research.jpg
is everyone still 'folding@home' btw?
maximum gelation:
a must have. religious..
i hear you on nuturing every sound. loving them, stroking their
hair and petting them till they purr but the early UnitM stuff is just
killin' even with their naked claps et al. sometimes when your
friends are naughty little bears you have to have them
sleep out in the barn overnight, don't you think?
a must have. religious..
i hear you on nuturing every sound. loving them, stroking their
hair and petting them till they purr but the early UnitM stuff is just
killin' even with their naked claps et al. sometimes when your
friends are naughty little bears you have to have them
sleep out in the barn overnight, don't you think?
We make money from royalties generated by radio airplay, TV and film synchronization. Why do you even care: as long as you can get the music that you want, its irrelevant how its financed.
The children of Thatcher; you can always spot them because when they are talking about music, the first thing that comes into thier minds is "units", "levels of sales" and all those things that have NOTHING to do with music and what makes it stir your heart.
There is nothing wrong with being a Tory by the way; 
"Tell Me he Didn't Just Say That", but we have NEVER been concerned with selling records above making and relesing great music.
Anyone reading our website should have gleaned this. Bleh; im going to completely redesign it so that there can be NO DOUBT about this sort of (and other) things.
"Tell Me he Didn't Just Say That", but we have NEVER been concerned with selling records above making and relesing great music.
Anyone reading our website should have gleaned this. Bleh; im going to completely redesign it so that there can be NO DOUBT about this sort of (and other) things.
Masters At work. Pure Gel.
There was / is a bass player that did all of the excellent live bass playing, his name was / is Perez .
For me, it is the bass and the flawless mixing that makes their music priceless. That bass playing, which flows, that does not repeat itself, which is live, an improvised line of pure dance bass....
It is to DIE for!
There was / is a bass player that did all of the excellent live bass playing, his name was / is Perez .
For me, it is the bass and the flawless mixing that makes their music priceless. That bass playing, which flows, that does not repeat itself, which is live, an improvised line of pure dance bass....
It is to DIE for!
What about tracks that "gel" ( that i am not likely to have heard )
If a tree falls down in the woods and no one is there to hear it, does it make a noise?
Oops, sorry, being a DUMBASS!
You may or may not have heard these, but they all GEL HARD. because of the esteemed membership of this place, its almost impossible to come up with a list of things that I think you might not have heard. Hows that for an excuse!!
all Deutche Gramophon recordings (pre digital)
all King Tubby Productions
all Lee Perry Black Ark recordings from the "Soul Fire" era
The Hafler Trio "Masterbatorium"
A Certain Ratio, "Sextet", "Kether Hot Knives" 12"
all Bootsy Collins Rubber Band solo work (pre digital)
most Parliament / Funkadelic, especially "The Motor Booty Affair"
almost all bollywood music productions
Kraftwerk: Computerworld (EXTREME GEL) [but you know this!]
Thelonius Sphere Monk (and ALL Teo Macero Productions)
All Creed Taylor Productions
all early Adrian Sherwood On-U Sound Productions
All Jeff Lynne Productions, including the digital ones. (!)
Nathan Van Cleef's electronic works
Wendy Carlos's TRON soundtrack
Lalo Shifrins 70's soundtracks
If a tree falls down in the woods and no one is there to hear it, does it make a noise?
Oops, sorry, being a DUMBASS!
You may or may not have heard these, but they all GEL HARD. because of the esteemed membership of this place, its almost impossible to come up with a list of things that I think you might not have heard. Hows that for an excuse!!
all Deutche Gramophon recordings (pre digital)
all King Tubby Productions
all Lee Perry Black Ark recordings from the "Soul Fire" era
The Hafler Trio "Masterbatorium"
A Certain Ratio, "Sextet", "Kether Hot Knives" 12"
all Bootsy Collins Rubber Band solo work (pre digital)
most Parliament / Funkadelic, especially "The Motor Booty Affair"
almost all bollywood music productions
Kraftwerk: Computerworld (EXTREME GEL) [but you know this!]
Thelonius Sphere Monk (and ALL Teo Macero Productions)
All Creed Taylor Productions
all early Adrian Sherwood On-U Sound Productions
All Jeff Lynne Productions, including the digital ones. (!)
Nathan Van Cleef's electronic works
Wendy Carlos's TRON soundtrack
Lalo Shifrins 70's soundtracks
Every individual sound is your friend, and you need to treat is as such. Each one has to be nurtured, and then these friends need to be nurtured in groups, and then the groups need to be nurtured. By nurture, depending on what you want, they need to be made to work together as a team, or fight with each other as deadly enemies. This is the difference between tension and coagulation, between oil and water sepatation, and sugar disolving in Kool Aid co-operation.
You would not let your friends sit out in the sub zero temperatures of the middle of winter would you? That is what you are doing when you leave a snare, or clap untouched in a recording. They freeze. They are hurt. Why arent you helping?
Dry is not Deep. The greatest recordings are deep and clear, the separate parts in them gel into a whole object that picks you up, engages you and moves you. This is the art of recording, of mixing, and friendship between snares, claps and yourself.
Examples of tracks that "gel" ( that you are likely to have heard )
Love Hangover Diana Ross, Motown. ( in fact, almost ALL Motown productions )
Heavy Weather Weather Report (its perfect)
Brown Sugar The Rolling Stones (unbelievable)
Any ABBA recording (very very scary)
Any Trevor Horn original AON/ZTT era recording. (read the stories of how they did different mixes on different monitors, including using a small transistor radio as a monitor, to make sure FGTH sounded superb even at that scale)
Yes indeed. Now, given that as your benchmark, what do you make of these recordings that are released now, where, clearly, the people who are doing the mixes are unskilled at the task? Listen to the dreadful, airless, clautrophobic, dead, lifeless mixing on the appaling "Cafe Del Mar No. 6" Which i had the misfortune of hearing up close this weekend. This is typical of current mixing, and it is not a deliberate change in style to one of claustrophobia; these people do not know what they are doing or, cannot hear what they are producing.
99% of the demos we get suffer in the same way; people simply are not skilled in listening and mixing. I only wish there was a way to initialze CDRs, because being able to format them would save us a fortune!
Dry is not Deep. The greatest recordings are deep and clear, the separate parts in them gel into a whole object that picks you up, engages you and moves you. This is the art of recording, of mixing, and friendship between snares, claps and yourself.
Examples of tracks that "gel" ( that you are likely to have heard )
nytimes:
"RAWFORD, Tex., April 7 � Nothing makes an American president bristle
more quickly than the prospect of open defiance � by allies, by enemies
or by nations that hover between the two.
So perhaps it should be no surprise that President Bush seemed testy this
weekend when asked, in many ways, why all three players in the Middle East
game plan he announced on Thursday � Israel, the Palestinian Authority and
the Arab states � had so far failed to execute a single play he called."
-aw-shucks. better get used to it.
http://216.12.218.25/domain/www.nauticradio.net/zero1/01-Awakenings_pt1.mp3
"Internet firewall against the world"-ah, a virtual 'Great Wall®.'
and...
Possible Side-Effects from eating food:
1. Discomfort / aches & pains / cramps
2. Stomach ache / back ache / headache
3. Gas / flatulence / burps / hiccups
4. Nausea / vomiting
5. Bad breath / BO (offensive body odor)
6. Cavities
7. Constipation / diarrhea
8. Tiredness / sluggishness
9. Runny nose / stuffed nose / mucus
10. Diminished mental clarity
11. Bad moods
12. Weight gain / obesity
13. Emotional problems from being overweight
12. Food Poisoning / death
wow huh! find out more here.
Sunday, April 07, 2002
Sonntag 7. April 2002, 11:06 Uhr
Mysteri�ses Licht k�nnte �Feuerball-Bolide� gewesen sein
M�nchen (dpa) - Mysteri�se Lichterscheinungen am Himmel �ber Bayern haben am sp�ten Abend f�r Aufregung gesorgt. Der Schwerpunkt der r�tselhaften Lichtblitze war S�dbayern. Allein bei den Beh�rden in Garmisch-Partenkirchen gingen rund 50 Anrufe ein. Experten sind sich aber noch uneins �ber die Deutung des mysteri�sen Ph�nomens. So vermutete der Deutsche Wetterdienst in Offenbach, es habe sich um einen Kometen gehandelt. Ein Mannheimer Ufo-Experte ging von einem �Feuerball-Boliden� aus.
If you place a file called mozilla.bmp in the same directory as mozilla.exe in windows, this file will be used. A splash screen is usually not a part of a theme, because you can't have more than one splash screen installed (Mozilla doesn't know installed themes at lauch, where it has to load the splash).
If you want to change the splash screen on linux you gotta build rpm source, go to mozillla/xpfe/bootstrap and change splash.xpm If it fails to compile open splash.xpm with an editor and check if the header is splash[ ] instead of splash_xpm[ ]. If not change and save it, recompile.
http://www.lotekk.net/index.php?page=moz‚=splash
BEIJING
It's not easy being the father of the Chinese Internet. Children are running by, boats are paddling, the smell of roast lamb fills the air, and Michael Robinson, a young American computer engineer, sits rigidly, facing an empty cafe on the shore of Qinghai Lake, speaking in a low voice of the crackdown. "What is better? Big brother Internet? Or no Internet at all?" Michael asks. Michael was hired in 1996 by the Chinese government and Global One (a Sprint-France Telecom-Deutsche Telekom joint venture) to build the first network in China providing public access to the Internet. One day sticks in his mind. The Chinese Engineers working with him suddenly convened a special meeting, demanding to know if it would be possible to do keyword searching inside e-mails and web addresses on the Chinese Internet. Not really, Michael replied; all information that travels the Net is broken up into little packets. It's hard to "sniff" packets of information, particularly coded packets. You would need to intercept packets as they travel, and then there's the problem of collating the information they contain, actually making sense of it. Yes, yes, they said, but can you do it? On the third go-round, it dawned on Michael that his fellow computer geeks wanted to end the meeting, too. But at a higher level, someone required assurance. Before Internet construction proceeded further, they would need to monitor what Chinese users did with it. For the engineers, this was just cover-your-ass stuff. As long as the foreigner assured them that down the road the Chinese would be able to build an Internet firewall against the world and conduct surveillance on its own citizens, the engineers could continue working with him. Yes, yes, it can be done, Michael told them, and they went back to work.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/000/922dgmtd.asp
Saturday, April 06, 2002
on the grassroots activism tip, we will be spending the
day downtown handing out our own home brew printed
copies this document stating that this referendum and
the ballots being sent out to the public should be shunned
and destroyed.
their ignorance will be fought at every turn. they are chumps; wimps
wuseys and facists pig dogs who can 'crawl over here and lick
my boots' fur shure like totally.
SAN DIEGO, California (AP) -- Scientists said Thursday they have
discovered at least a half-dozen new insect species in Southern California,
among them the largest bug ever found in the region.
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/04/05/new.bug.ap/index.html
http://www.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/04/05/new.bug.ap/index.html
test
http://mozblog.mozdev.org/ oh yes, now you can blog to blogdial from Mozilla without any pain; drag & drop urls from the slot in Mozilla, format your posts...Mozilla totally, and utterly rules the r00st!
Friday, April 05, 2002
RIP Frank Tovey aka Fad Gadget
The pioneering electronic artist has apparently passed away this Wednesday, April 3rd. More details to follow.
--
Here's an article released from Ananova about the news:
Tributes paid to Fad Gadget star
Tributes have been paid to underground music star Frank Tovey, who died earlier this week. The Fad Gadget star is believed to have died at his home on April 3.
He played at the Swedish Alternative Music Awards (SAMA) in Gothenburg on April 1, and was currently working on new material.
In a posting on his official website, www.fadgadget.co.uk, Tovey said he was planning to appear at music festivals this summer.
Daniel Miller, founder of Fad Gadget's record label Mute said: "Frank was the first artist I ever worked with on Mute, he made some very special and influential records and was an exceptional live performer.
"Frank played a big part in helping to lay the foundations of what the label was to become in the ensuing years, I will miss him greatly."
Fad Gadget was the opening act for the European leg of the recent Depeche Mode Exciter world tour.
Alongside Human League, Cabaret Voltaire and The Normal, Tovey was at the forefront of the Electronic Movement of the late '70s and early '80s.
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www.fadgadget.co.uk | www.mute.com
Thursday, April 04, 2002
"Late this spring the version of Microsoft Office running on machines in
the school will be upgraded. It will go from the current, Office 97, running
over the network, to Office XP, installed locally on the machines. This will
be a good thing, once accomplished. There will be training sessions for the
new office products, run by Alistair Tait's team at some point."
--eeech! why bother. is the icon that pretty looking? and why was it running over
the network to begin with????
xp is truly pathetic with it's bells and whistles. that auto correct feature is mind
bogglingly annoying as it is with all of their software. funny as i just got a call
yesterday to go to 'very large xyz inc.' that is considering doing a back end
upgrade to .net. now mind you it pays mega $$$'s but .net?? they should have
kept the name blackcomb and inforever beta release as an experiment, zeeech!
people need to slow down and stop jumping to waste their money...and their time.
this client would be spending so much money for a untested product that it should
inturn lower their customers already inflated bills and keep their existing infrastructure.
hell there is no problem that throwing hardware at it can't fix or at least consider the
other options for a software solution. i don't even know any people who know .net yet.
2000 will for sure be my last microsoft os in the professional arena.
.net=.poowaste
and "a certain amount of free spce is required on the C: drive" --last i checked you
could install software any damn place you want. and if not possibly run:
convert c: /fs:ntfs; empty the temp folder; uninstall the 40 bonsai buddies and
relocate or archive any non essential data. roaming profiles save space and don't slow
things down too much. i am guessing that there is at least a 4gb drive in an pII
optiplex gx1 already. whatever it's not my business anyway but "Basically, if you
open an Access database created in 97, you will be able to add data. you will be
asked if you want to update the format when you save the database. If you say
yes to this, the database will no longer be accessible to anyone using versions
of Access prior to XP. If you say no, the format will remain the same, and Access
97 users will still be able to access it."
--this better be posted everywhere in dripping red letters!!!!!!!!
the whole project sounds under researched and like a disaster waiting to happen.
all my best thoughts are will you alun.
Yes indeed; it might be the case that its impossible for a company to make money out of selling a free OS, this does not mean that Linux will go away or not continue to be developed.
What these companies should do is think about saving money, and then donating a small part of it to keep Linux application development moving at a rapid pace.
I donate to software developers whenever I can, because if enough people do it, suddenly, they are able to make a living out of developing software and giving it away.
Ask K. Mardem Bey of MiRC fame; he makes a good living out of MiRC. There is no reason why a group of developers cannot be set up that works on office productivity applications for Linux and that is supported by, say, 1000 companies world wide...hmmmm lets do the math:
1000 companies donating $500 per year = $500,000
how many developers could we keep alive for that amount of cash?
Of course, each of these donating companies could request features and have them implimented. This, and government sponsorship of Free Software is probably the way to go. Universitys should really be getting behind the push of Free Software, and courses should be run world wide that teach programming and use Free Software as the bench that is taught on. The resulting software would get better and better each semester, more and more new applications and drivers will be written.
It could rock!
How about saving money by not having a machine that crashes 8 times a day, destroying your work and loosing yor company many man hours in downtime?
How about saving your company money by not having to pay for per seat licences?
How about saving money by not having to have your equipment made obsolete every three years because a new bloated OS and version of Office has been released?
and the rest!
Wednesday, April 03, 2002
Tuesday, April 02, 2002
http://www.spies.com/cgi-bin/kfjcdb-print?253336
KFJC new album review (December 6, 1995)
This isn't simply ambient, and it is not ambient dub. Anthony Manning puts together synth sounds with eccentric modifications for an ambient plink sound. Take two tabs, don your snorkel gear and swim with reef fish as they come into and out of focus, and the drugs move you back and forth with the ocean, and as the bubbles sparkle all around you as they head for the surface, you will understand the structure of the sounds. Bassy motions are the swells, and lighter synth sounds are the bubbles. Even the cover can convey the music. If you are hopelessly religious conservative, stare at the cover while listening to the music at loud volume.
What is a parasite?
Someone with no thoughts of thier own, feeding off the lives and works of others without giving anything back. Someone whose only aim is to destroy without any offer of a replacement way of life.
These people offer nothing, yet want you to pay them to continue to live, destroy insult, mock, and pray for death.
The contribute nothing, make no beauty, have no philosophy save what they have copied like slaves from real people.
They behave as if they are self created, have no mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, when in fact, they do. They cherish them like any other normal person, yet, encourage people to behave in inhuman ways, while they themselvs secretly lead sentimental and emotionally normal lives.
There is nothing wrong with strong words. There is nothing wrong with advocating anything at all, as long as it is real and not a time wasting, illusory fraud that would be better off not existing.
There is very little time in the life of people; personally, I dont like to have my time wasted by fake people and thier infantile posturing. Go away and make something real. Stop polluting the world with your tired, second hand and utterly dull blatherings.
You loosers.
You can use your old pgp keys in gpg,
http://enigmail.mozdev.org/download.html
is where the mozilla integration project can be found; it works very well indeed.
http://www.max.hi-ho.ne.jp/tomio-a/HowToMakePairKeys.html
is where you can bone up on gnupg and Japanese on the same page :]
this is more like it:
http://macgpg.sourceforge.net/
paydirt:
http://www.sente.ch/software/GPGMail/
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