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:: Saturday, March 20, 2004 ::

Went to see Mark Thomas at the Hen & Chicken in Bedminster last night. I love the comedy nights there, there's always such a great atmosphere. Great show from Thomas, despite it being an unfinished draft of the material (which he hopes will be on Broadway be the end of the year.) The second half flagged a little but was well worth it over all. He is planning to take on Coca-Cola this year, for various reasons, their friendly ness with the Nazis not least of them. Find out more on this mini-site.

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Still haven't got your mum something for Mother’s Day? [tomorrow] Why not get her a Birthstone Barbie? (I am joking. I bought my mum a plant pot. Exciting, eh?) I like the fact they're mostly brunets and kind of goth like, much better looking if you ask me.

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PJ Harvey confirmed for Glastonbury. Polly will be on the main stage on Fri June 25th.

MIDI-OX, "The world's greatest all-purpose MIDI Utility!"

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Is this the teaser poster for Star Wars: Episode III or some geek boy with too much time on his hands? You decide.

Dan you are going to be so chuffed, it's been officially annouced that your favourite movie is getting an Unrated Extended Cut. I'll get it for your birthday for you.

The new Batman movie website has posted the new Batman logo, which looks kind of interesting.

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Nice summary of the RSS/Atom argument

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The Warp PR machine has gone into overdrive with the sublime new Squarepusher release and the Ether gig. Tom Jenkinson is doing interviews almost everywhere you look as well as writing articles in several magazines.
Guardian interview
Telegraph interview and review of Ether festival gig with London Sinfonietta
i-D Interview
Collaborating with Machines (from Flux Magazine)
Ten Records (from Dazed & Confused)

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Link theft: Grom found this but I can't not blog a new Yeti game.
Seal Bounce

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Genuine Air Guitar on eBay (Thanks to $peedranch for link)

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New gadgets at Cebit. "The top of the line version of the famous Swiss army knife combines a 128MB USB memory key with an LED light, scissors, nail file, screwdriver and ballpoint pen."

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Little bit of advertising for some kit I'm flogging on Sound on Sound:
Behringer MDX 2100 Expander/Gate, Compressor/Limiter. Dual Mono or One Channel Master. Great for use on whole mix or on drum tracks. £40
Fender Perfomer 1000 1x12" 100W combo guitar amp with 3-way footswitch for channel select, gain and reverb. Very nice clean sound and great distortion. Boxed. £300.

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I passed a jeep on the M4 this morning with an ad on the spare tyre on the back for Dead Heat by Caroline Carver. Needless to say a quick look at her website confirms it was actually her driving it. But it was not the same jeep she has driven all over the world in according to her adventures page.
Hmm. Maybe I should advertise Gusset gigs on the roof of my Mini? Or paint a huge pair on pants on the roof and put the url on the doors?

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Some stuff about zoom lenses which will probably be boring to anyone but me:
Photography Tips: Lens Selection
Fundamental Optics of Television Camera Lenses (very dry technical paper by someone at Canon)
How Stuff Works didn't have the detailed information I was looking for but did have this fact for the day:
"Killer whales (orcas) will occasionally eat swimming moose or deer that are trying to get from one island to another." I want pictures!

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Oh yes! There is a comedy casting God! Have a look at Hollywood's latest dumb idea.

And here's an interesting one.

Here is some speculation about what might appear on The Return of The King - Extended Cut DVD.

And not one of my posts would be complete without reference to the approaching Star Wars DVD's, which lets face it are probably going to be as big a disappointment as The Phantom Menace.

Coming soon, the Spokesy review of Sh1tmat's Killababylonkutz, which let's face it, is fan-bloody-tastic.

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Fraunhofer introduces multi-channel MP3

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Auction of 150,000 pieces of Concorde Memorabilia
You could use parts for PC case mods, or convert a turbine fan to a radiator/wall decoration, or just put the seats in your living room. Or decide it's all too expensive. Up to you really.

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Do bubbles in Guinness go down?
Video evidence on this page

"...there are just good cars in all price brackets. This situation can't be allowed to continue: there simply have to be funny, crap cars or the world doesn't make sense."
Alexei Sayle: Is there a typically gay car?

Google Zeitgeist - Search patterns, trends, and surprises according to Google. Note 'Operating Systems Used to Access Google' section.

From the mailbag, once in a life time football post:
Manchester United have set up a Call Centre for fans who are troubled by their current poor form. The number is 0800 10 10 10. Calls charged at peak rate for overseas users. Once again, the number is... 0800 won nothing won nothing won nothing....

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It's not a GoogleWhack because it's not the correct spelling, but popcorn has got us a nice Google placement... for people who can't spell. And it has got us hits so you're not alone Mr P. Although I won't be able to track hits accurately anymore now that this is posted.

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Squarepusher live set and interview on Radio 1 breezeblock, tonight, 12 - 2.

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Via g3rm:
Excerpt from Guts, a short story by Chuck Palahniuk (who wrote Fight Club). Made me quite queasy.

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Pig ugly flyer:

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Astronomers have detected what could be the Solar System's 10th planet
As long as I can remember looking at maps of our solar system astronomers have believed there was another planet sized hunk of ice back there. Is this a new one? Well, at least it has a name now.

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Electronic Music Round-up:

Chemical Brothers added to Glasto line-up

Triptych Festival, Aberdeen, Edinburgh, and Glasgow, 28 April - 2may 2004
Will include Dr. Robert Moog and Jean Jacques Perry together on stage! Also featuring Kid606, DJ/Rupture, Rip Off Artist, Knifehandchop, COM.a mum, Frog Pocket, Arto Lindsay, Andre Williams, Explosions in the Sky, Liars, T Raumschmiere, Peanut Butter Wolf, Fennesz, and To Rococo Rot

Knifehandchop is also clawing his way across the UK following his dedbeat and Triptych appearances with gigs in Brighton (April 27), London (28), Newcastle (May 3), Leeds (4), Manchester (5), Bristol (6), Birmingham (8) and Nottingham (9).
Bristol gig is at the Cooler, where Gusset will be seen supporting Donna Summer this Wednesday, more info on both dates here.

New Bogdan Raczynski video
"I don't know what it is about bogdan's music that keeps attracting the absolute nutters to make the most spastic videos for absolutely no money, but cheers to them. this one is very special, an absolute classic not to be missed. download it and have a bucket nearby as you may not be able to withstand the breakneck fx shamanistic mastery. you may want to have your mommy on speed dial JUST IN CASE."

Plenty of MP3s available for download from the Somatic Responses guys:
The day IDM crawled up it's own arse
Bathrobe Brawl
RASTAS
Spooky Pen (hendre)
Wilt

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