Archive for September, 2006

doktorfuture has taken his odd collection of music-generating knobs, wires, and hoodaddies and connected them to the world wide intarwebz; The result? An aleatoric modular synth stream - Live, randomly generated noise for your aural pleasure. Perfect for that lazy Sunday morning vibe, and excellent white noise for the insomniacs amongst you.

By cole, 24. September 2006, 17:42 o'clock

This is the dance of the Ghosts sequence from ‘Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne’, Satyajit Ray’s rare 1968 film fable. The action occurs in an imaginary land. Goopy the singer and Bagha the drummer are untalented musicians whose playing provokes as much ridicule from the peasants as it does contempt from the king. The only […]

By cole, 23. September 2006, 14:25 o'clock

Today, I went to the record store.. And this is what I saw.

By cole, 10. September 2006, 20:45 o'clock

Families visiting Disneyland on their holiday this week saw a life-size Guantanamo bay inmate standing inside the Rocky Mountain Railroad ride at Disneyland in Anaheim California.
The sculpture, consisting of an inflatable doll dressed in an orange jumpsuit with its hands and feet manacled remained in place for one and a half hours before Disneyland’s security […]

By cole, 9. September 2006, 11:38 o'clock

We interrupt this program to bring you an important message from Max Headroom:

During a broadcast of the Dr. Who episode “Horror of Fang Rock” on WTTW Chicago Channel 11, on Sunday November 22nd, 1987, at around 11:15pm, a Video “Pirate” wearing a Max Headroom mask broke into the signal and transmitted one of the weirdest, […]

By cole, 8. September 2006, 22:34 o'clock

On September 10 and 11, ABC Television is planning to run an inaccurate film depicting the events leading up to the 9/11 attacks. The film was written by an avowed conservative and it largely places the blame for failing to prevent the attacks on the Clinton administration while whitewashing the failures of the Bush administration.
Our […]

By cole, 8. September 2006, 11:50 o'clock

I’ve had an aversion to podcasting and they hype that surrounds it in the past (in no shart part due to the *pod connotations, I’m sure). That being said, I’ve always been excited about the self-publishing potential that the medium holds for independent content producers - Couple that with my recent introduction to the syncing […]

By cole, 7. September 2006, 22:47 o'clock

Anarchist essayist and all-around rabble-rouser Hakim Bey (aka Peter Lamborn Wilson) makes a convincing argument against legalization (and subsequent commoditization) of the mind altering substances our politicos have deemed A Bad Thing™:
For example, consider what might result from the legalization of “medical marijuana”—clearly the will of the people in at least six states. The herb […]

By cole, 6. September 2006, 11:13 o'clock

A “reporter” showin’ the folks who brought you godhatesfags.com that a little man-love never hurt nobody….
See also: Michael Moore and a busload of gay men visit Fred Phelps.

By cole, 5. September 2006, 10:50 o'clock

This morning, I received this message in my Flickr inbox:
Hi holotone,
I am writing to let you know that one of your photos with a creative commons license has been short-listed for inclusion in our Schmap Boise Guide, to be published at the end of this month.
www.schmap.com/shortlist/p=***OBSFUCATED***
Clicking this link will take you to a page where […]

By cole, 5. September 2006, 08:21 o'clock