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September 26, 2003

A thorough guide to Electronic Music Genres, with Samples

Here's a fascinating guide to the ever-changing landscape of subgenres in the world of electronic music. Endless fun. There are over 600 representative loop samples accessable through this thing.

Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music v2.0

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September 25, 2003

What did YOU have for dinner?

I'm curious about what my readership, friends or strangers, is eating. Especially if you are from a country besides the USA. From the logs I can tell that I have a small number of international readers; I'm especially interested in you.

So if you please, I'd love it if you would write in the comments about what you ate.

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September 23, 2003

How to be Cheap

Drawn by Joe Matt, author of the interesting-looking Peepshow comic diary. Two-Handed Man has a nice interview.

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September 22, 2003

Language Removal Services

Language Removal Services offers their unique and secretive technology to those who wish to cast asunder the veil of language and get to the heart of speech. Very strange and hypnotic sounds. Check out their Sampler Gallery. There is some bizarre and fascinating pseudoscience and historical necromancy afoot here, and I intend to get to the bottom of it. They suggest a certain Power in the combination of sampled sounds from a variety of people into a synthesized "Ecstatic Language" These guys have taken recordings of the recent California gubenetorial candidates and processed them, with interesting results. Kindof like Wilhelm Reich's thought....

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September 06, 2003

Ted Koppel speaks out agains the Patriot Act

In an outstanding episode of Nightline, Koppel details the numerous ways that the very freedoms our nation was founded on are being eroded by those who are assigned to protect them.

The entire episode (52mb, mov) is available for streaming, as well as select clips.

Shrewd commentary, links, from Lisa Rein

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September 03, 2003

Burningman 2003 Pictures

Unfortunately I missed returning home to the playa this year, but I have been collecting early links to photo galleries from this year's Burning Man.

JoeJoe the Clown

SF Gate

Waste.org

Xeni Jardin

Burningman.com image server for 2003

Heather Champ's pinhole photos at Harrumph

A great archive at the Reno Gazette-Journal

Dongrays

Jin Woo Joo

Patrick Roddie

Margot Duane

Philip Chudy

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