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:: Saturday, February 17, 2007 ::

Tags

Hooray for the New Blogger. Tags at last! Sorry, I mean Labels.
Thanks to Spokesy for sorting the change out, as this blog was originally set up by him and I couldn't change it.

Labels: New Blogger, Tags

:: Dan 17.2.07 [Arc] [0 comments] [links to this post]    ::
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Grr... Flickr: Forums: FlickrHelp: [Official Topic] Phantom Photos
"Different photos are appearing on my site in place of others that I have posted. Is anyone else experiencing the same problems? When I click on them it shows the right ones, but it is weird to look at my pics and see a random man where I was expecting a shrub!"
This seems to be global. Sort it out Flickr!

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:: Dan 17.2.07 [Arc] [0 comments] [links to this post]    ::
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The Quickshots 3 collaboration is now finished and all mixed together. Download the mix here [70MB MP3] and find the line-up here. You'll notice I contributed a short (1 min) track somewhere in the middle of it.

The charmingly named Ladyscraper [wrong music / deathchant / as seen in Bizarre magazine] has released the equally attractively titled free 5-track Blood and Seman EP [16.5MB zipped MP3s]

Pimpin' our next gig:

Also playing at GoatLab 3 on 2nd March @ T2, Bristol you will find Mad EP, whose Rolling With Mad Deuce [webpage with 63MB MP3 & tracklisting] hip-hop mix is this months Hand Baked Hardcore download, and Patric Catani playing a Candie Hank set, whose Sexy Holiday video you can find here [13MB zipped mpg].

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:: Dan 16.2.07 [Arc] [0 comments] [links to this post]    ::
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"A geophysicist in the US has new evidence that the oceans are responsible for the Earth's strange low-frequency hum. Spahr Webb of Columbia University says that low frequency "infragravity" ocean waves interact with one another to make the ocean floor vibrate at a specific set of frequencies between 1-10 mHz. Webb says that his theory is supported by seismic and ocean data, which show correlations between hum and wave activity (Nature 445 754).

"Over the past decade geophysicists have become increasingly aware that the Earth is vibrating at a series of well-defined “infrasonic” frequencies between about 1-10 mHz. The origins of this hum have been the subject of heated debate. Earthquakes were an obvious candidate, but they were ruled out along with interactions between turbulence in the atmosphere and the Earth’s surface.

"Then in 2004, researchers found that the strongest hums appeared to be coming from the oceans. Now, Webb has shown that two or more infragravity waves interact to create pressure waves that set the Earth humming at its natural mHz vibrational modes. Webb believes that these interactions occur over the continental shelves – the shallow water surrounding land masses where infragravity waves are most common.

"Infragravity waves are not the familiar wind-driven waves that form on the surface of the ocean. Rather, they are produced when higher frequency wind-driven waves (above 40 Hz) interact with the shore. These infragravity waves have frequencies in the 1-40 mHz range and much smaller amplitudes than typical ocean waves."
[via PhysicsWeb]

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Jason Forrest (née Donna Summer) has just been added to line-up for GoatLab3!

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Buying flowers is the oldest trick in the book for a romantic gift, and being Valentines Day the consumerist world has gone crazy for grossly inflated cards, roses, and chocolates as usual. It was strongly hinted by Mrs P that roses would be appreciated and they were sourced at lunchtime yesterday. Annoyingly I couldn't find any fairly traded ones this time. After rejecting a couple of places who had doubled their normal prices I attempted haggling at a market stall before settling on having to pay twice the normal price anyway. Don't go calling me unromantic, at least I buy flowers often enough to know what the normal price is.

People in the office were surprised at my choice of very dark red roses (or "black" as they were inaccurately described), which I picked because I knew Amanda would like them, and because I know she is anal enough to insist that flowers should compliment the décor. Having looked it up later it would seem that this colour "symbolises constancy, continuity and immortality." I'm happy with that choice and it was the first thing Mrs P gushingly commented on.

Leaving the office and crammed onto the bus home with them last night I saw two couples where the woman nudged her partner, nodded an eyebrow in my direction, and said, "See; he buys flowers." Maybe some men are better than me at avoiding the need to socially conform as a good little consumer, and to them I apologise for creating a bad example. Who said romance was dead?

:: Dan 14.2.07 [Arc] [0 comments] [links to this post]    ::
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The Police Reform
I heard recently, on TV I think, someone tell an anecdote about a person who desperately wanted The Jam to reform so that his son could see them as he had done in their heyday, even though we all know that it would never be the same. It would be a bunch of middle-aged men with none of the passion that made it special the first time around. Likewise, inspired by my dad's stories about how wonderful The Who were all the times he had seen then, I gave (what’s left of) them a go a couple of years ago and was bored senseless by their seemingly endless self-indulgent widdling. (15 minutes of My Generation followed by 20 minutes of Magic Bus, yet you could find time to squeeze in I Can See For Miles?) Regardless, I’m quite excited by the prospect of a reformed Police touring and in classic English style am already beginning to crave the potential disappointment. I vote for The Police for Sunday headliners for Glastonbury that I will probably fail to get tickets for, I lose either way then!

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A re-enactment by Jo Mitchell, ICA, London 20.02.07
About the original perfromance in the BBC Essential Guide To Experimental Music
Interview With Blixa Bargeld
The pretentious part of me is interested, but I'll be in Manchester that day so wouldn't be able to make it anyway.

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