dave's not here man!
I guess I’ll chip into the collective sadness about the death of radio Legend and champion of new and awesome music John Peel. John passed away in Peru yesterday. If it wasn’t for John, the landscape of music might not be what it is today.
Obituary: John Peel
Imagine this, the lights in the universe are all on and at the flick of god’s switch all the lights in the world are all out.. you can run, but you cant hide. Cuz if we dont change quick, it is coming, a world eclipse… BLACKOUT.
Lil’ Louis – Blackout Phase 1
Just about everything just blacked out here at work. Luckily I’ve got a laptop and the network seems to be OK. 🙂
via the Sydney Food Diary
According to Babelfish:
This car the exhibition from Toyota!? With you can be surprised, チョイ badness it is the high ace sound satellite which engenders image, but use agrees upon is known with strangely. To tell the truth by the car which was made as the portable studio which mounds this car and the field event etc., the body side ガバッ and the opening, it has become the mechanism where acoustic equipment and the DJ booth appear from in. As for theme “the customization car which works pleasantly”. When so this car is running throughout the city truly, just a little we fear! ?
Should be great for spontaneus bush doofs or perhaps random suburban dj assaults 😉
Update: This post is a bit redundant now. Please read this post for more information.
I’ve been installing Ubuntu Linux on most of my computers (one to go). One thing that gives the shits about Debian-based distros is Java support (or the lack thereof). To get a java runtime installed, add this line to your /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au/pub/java-linux/debian unstable main non-free
Other mirrors can be found here.
And then apt-get install j2re1.4. Too easy! This gives you Blackdown Java for Linux.
An interview with Drexciya from the “Orbit” section of the Jan. 14, 1995 Melody Maker (reprinted without permission). All references to Drexcia corrected to Drexciya. Saved here in my blog for archival purposes.
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Gonna party likes it my birthday…
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I am a Breakout Bat.
I am an abstract sort of creature, who dislikes any sort of restraint. If you try to pigeonhole me, I’ll break the box, and come back for more. I don’t have any particular ambitions, I just drift, but I am adept at keeping life going along. |
Looks like everyone’s favourite capitalist and “The Apprentice” star, Donald Trump is now available as an action figure. You can recreate those great scenes such as when Omorosa was fired from the show. The Donald action figure can say great phrases such as “I should fire myself just for having you around”, “The one’s easy for me…you’re fired”, “That was a tough one”, “Think big and live large”, and “I have no choice but to tell you, you’re fired”.
This could possibly be the greatest gift idea this year in North America, if not the world.
I seem to constantly have “Who Could It Be Now?” by Men at Work stuck in my head… when I’m at work. I’d post the lyrics up here, but apparently this 80’s classic is too obscure.
Jeff Mills is hitting Australia next month and the dates have been confirmed. Now I just wish I had confirmed dates for Kenny Larkin and Claude Young.
From ITM:
Thursday 18th November – Adelaide
Jeff Mills @ Traffic – 58 North Terrace, AdelaideFriday 19th November – Melbourne
Hardware 313 @ The Metro – 1 Bourke St, MelbourneSaturday 20th November – Sydney
Hardware @ Space – Level 2, 127 Liverpool St, SydneyThursday 25th November – Brisbane
Jeff Mills @ Family – 339 Brunswick St, Fortitude ValleyFriday 26th November – Canberra
Fang w/ Jeff Mills @ ANU Refectory, ActonSaturday 27th November – Perth
Science Fiction @ Belmont Racecourse, Burswood
Watch out for the new wave, sextronica is cuming 😉
Update: Oh dear, it looks like Cherry Bikini have “practically wrote the final chapter on sextronica”. Oh well, time to move on…
Just testing out the Flickr service. According to Flickr:
Flickr is the best way to store, sort, search and share your photos online. There is a huge mass of photos in the world, and Flickr provides a way to organize yours, and for you and your friends and family to tell your stories about them.
It also allows you to post to your blog entries about your’s or other peoples’ photos.
I’m not too sure if I’ll end up using this since I’ve already got my own gallery, but its always fun to play around with this stuff.
I enjoyed this weekend greatly. I think it was the first time in about two months where I really had the weekend to do what I really wanted to do. No being sick, no worrying about work, no family engagement. Just me, me, me.
On Friday night Rozie and I headed into the City and met up with Thommy and the crew to celebrate/mourn him finishing up his current job. Ate too much at Chinese Noodle Resturant, then off to drinks at the Soho bar. There were some truly munted guys in there at around 11pm. Too early for that kind of thing. One of the guys kept falling asleep on Justine and Rozie and occasionally muttering “Youse guys are bloody legends”. After that we headed to Candy’s Apartment for Boogiedown. It was OK to start with, but by the time we left at around 2am, the music was a tad meh.
Saturday morning was spent celebrating Benn’s birthday for brunch at Campari in the City. Happy birthday for Sunday Benn! After that Rozie, Matt and I headed down to the Glebe Record Fair to pickup some bargains. Tony, Ed, Simon and Quest were there getting rid of some of their unwanted records. I managed to pickup a couple of old Chicago tracks, a Paul Hannah EP on Ferox, an Imagination EP and something else. Rozie dug through the crates a lot harder than me and only made it to about two stalls before her money ran out. She managed to find plenty of bargains.
After that we met up with BJ (in some very tight trackies), Cuts, Thommy and Teresa for our lunch (their breakfast) at Mint in Surry Hills. Its the first time I’ve eaten there, and it was great. I had a fantastic beef salad with pine nuts and eggplant. After that we went home and I watched Takedown, which is the movie of the story of Kevin Mitnick. It was super-corney with PC laptops making Macintosh noises, funky graphics popping up on screens that usually aren’t there, and nerdie hackers having sex while their boxes are getting 0wned. After that I watched Spike Lee’s 25th Hour which was fantastic. Not too sure of the last 10 minutes. BJ reasoned with me that with was a nice way to finish it since Edward Norton’s character looked like he had nothing to look forward to for the whole movie, and this was perhaps something to counterbalance that.
After I dropped Rozie at her relaxation seminar at Sydney Uni, I spent sometime shopping in Bondi Junction Westfield, which seems to have doubled in size since I went there earlier on in the year. And they still don’t seem to have finished the place. I ended up buying some goodies for Rozie and I bought myself a pair of black Adidas Superstar Dboss‘s with the Adidas logo embossed into the leather in a pattern like the Gucci print. Yay, what a weekend.
Apparently this is just a concept at the moment. Here’s hoping that it will be commercially produced at sometime. If I ever have my own place I’d love to have these!
Here is a great mockup for the potential applications of the Pervasive Tiles.
I’m currently trying to get epsxe running under linux (Fedora Core 2) at the moment with no luck. I’ve checked out somethings which are supposed to make it work, but to no avail. 🙁 Anyway, it starts loading the game and then segfaults. 🙁
* Running ePSXe emulator version 1.6.0.
* Memory handlers init.
* ePSXe: PSX BIOS loaded [/home/common/emu/psx/bios/scph5500.bin].
* Loading ISO Format [BIN/IMG2352] ok
* NTSC cdrom detected.
* Init gpu[0][libgpuPeopsSoftX.so.1.0.16]
* Open gpu[0]
* Init spu[0][libspuPeopsOSS.so.1.0.9]
* Open spu[0]
Segmentation fault
Update: Maybe I’ll have to check out this ePSXe on Linux howto when I get home. (ref)
