Month: September 2013
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Planned Obsolescence
Planned obsolescence does exist and is an evil that is hid in jargon such as optimum lifespan and product cycle…but certainly some products are designed to break. John had one of those iPods with the dodgy battery, and yes it failed just over year of constant use when I borrowed it – eventually started leaking…
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I’m BatDad. Brush your teeth.
Genius compilation of Vine videos, although I do detect some BatFatigue in the partner…(via Andy Churchill)
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Hubble 3D Deep Space Field
Amazing and humbling stuff…Hubble has over the last few decades pointed into what seems dark and uninhabited space and picked up 10,0000 new points of light. Each of these isn’t a star, but a galaxy like our own made up of many stars – all from areas in the sky previously thought to be empty.…
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RC 247: Jungle Revival
Lion image originally by Nick Johnson (CC Attribution 2) Sad lion is sad…but happily for him but maybe not his direction finding skillset, jungle is back, at least on this podcast. Alla dem junglist massif, as they used to say. No idea what it meant, but it sounded tres cool at the time, soundbwoy. Or…
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What would Pussy Riot Do?
To change the world the biggest hint is Art is the one that convinces That’s why they always try to buy it But they couldn’t buy off Pussy Riot… You want bands who want sell you things Or bands who want to tell you things?… Heart inspires Art inspires Pussy Riot shows me why Cos…
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Reality Engine – TX 2 Bits and Bloops
I’ve collected a whole load more original musical digital cruft that was clogging up my hard drives and put it on Bandcamp and called it Transmission 2: Bits and Bloops…8-bit chiptunes, 16 bit Amiga (Octa)MED tracker songs, sound collages and live processing, funny songs, tape edits, video game music, rave, breakbeat/post-dubstep & acid house experiments,…