Month: August 2012
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The view from the space station
This one you need to crank up large as possible and watch…it’s amazing NASA footage from the International Space Station showing the world at night, massive electrical storms, aurora borealis, and the lights of the world whizzing by set to music from Sunshine. The beauty of this small blue dot moved me to tears –…
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New order archives
I’ve been loving the recent New Order posts from Power of Independent Trucking, especially the recent ‘Stash’ live tapes which are mastered to amazing quality and cover a period I know only bits about bar the music and a hilariously strange pre-Technique Smash Hits interview in Ibiza which Kirk owns and I have a copy…
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Golden Clouds
Combining the themes of the last two posts there’s more clouds this time but happier and dubbier golden ones. The Orb have revisited the perennial fave ‘Little Fluffy Clouds’ (again?) but with a vocal from a different Lee, rather than Ricky Lee it’s Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry on the mic. Even more tripped out than the…
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Cloudy thinking, or as Wired shows you can never be too paranoid
Reading about Mat Honan and his hacking experience on Wired’s blog reminded me that you can never be too paranoid either in security or backups. It brings up a new set of issues, well not actually new to those who were already working in this sphere, but new to the public at large. Which is…
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Happy 50th Jamaica!
50 years ago today Jamaica became independent from Britain, although strangely in later years it seemed the two were closer than ever, in music and culture Jamaica lead the way. Here’s Jimmy Cliff’s ‘Many Rivers To Cross’ from the excellent film ‘The Harder They Come’ which to me sums up the struggle of Jamaica in…
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Do the Facegrind Polka
Not enough polkas on Radio Clash, and certainly not soundtracking people in giant penile related train accidents being ground to a pulp. Great polka by Todd Bryanton aka Lil Deuce Deuce. If you don’t know the World of Weebl or what I’m talking about or are squeamish about cartoon characters I’d not watch the video.…