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James is podcasting again. Grand.

Updates will be intermittent and will follow no format whatsoever. The first podcast is a short music mix I’m calling Eat Tokyo.

"By now, you know all about Nine Inch Nails and Radiohead selling their latest albums at various prices, depending on the format. London-based indie electronica label Highpoint Lowlife is experimenting with a similar model for its new quadruple EP compila

anglepoised.muxtape.com

Finally got round to making one. What fun!

Mine has The Teenagers, Deerhoof, Beck (against my better judgement, but remixed by The Chap which evens things out a little), Black Devil Disco Club, Bastards of Love (remixed by LJ Kruzer), Fisk Industries, ¡Forward, Russia!, Death From Above 1979 (remixed by Justice), GusGus, Buraka Som Sistema, Huoratron and Von Südenfed.

Much noisier than I was expecting it to be.

The Mystery of Black Devil – eMusic Spotlight

A few years ago, the Rephlex label released a record called Disco Club that had black-crack collectors all atwitter over its white-hot machine drumming, chunky percussion loops and garbled synthesizers, sounding like an impish (and possibly evil) cousin to Giorgio Moroder. The artist, one Black Devil, was so little known that many listeners assumed it must be the work of one of Rephlex’s own stable — possibly Luke Vibert, who had just recorded his own retro-sounding tribute to Italo disco under a new pseudonym, Kerrier District. But Disco Club was soon deemed exactly what it seemed to be: a lost classic from 1978, pieced together from tape loops, rickety gear and session drumming.

It's really simple. You tell Fire Eagle your location, and we tell you stuff that's near it.

Lets you generate an RSS or XML Feed to filter out Tweets around a certain area. Just enter a city, state, postal code, choose the range of miles you want to include

We will briefly introduce you to Git usage based on your current Subversion knowledge.

Please read this if you do front-end work. Then read t'others in series.

Makes it quick and easy to share your [mercurial] repositories.

Interesting2007 was a conference that happened on the 15th June at the Conway Hall, London. This site isn't so much an archive of the event as a collation of the traces and remains it's left scattered over the internet.

While artists and their handlers devote massive attention to the Web site and MySpace, the Wikipedia page is often overlooked. Recent data suggests they may want to reconsider their priorities.

Handy list.

Useful for the list of frameworks.

When you're working on a document, and don't want to be distracted, turn on Isolator. It will cover up your desktop and all the icons on it, as well as the windows of all your other applications, so you can concentrate on the task in hand.

We’ve just published 26,456,448 hListings on Kelkoo. [...] Alongside that gigantic number, we’ve also published 6500 hcards for the details of our merchants and stores; the companies listing the products on Kelkoo.

A jQuery plugin for controlling a list of items in horizontal or vertical order. The items, which can be static HTML content or loaded with (or without) AJAX, can be scrolled back and forth (with or without animation).

Like someone’s mashed together a Cursor Miner track with a Venetian Snares track then used the results to soundtrack a video starring an ultra-evil version of General Zod. With Game Boys.

Or something.

HUORATRON 2 RULE THEM ALL

jessandnick:

For some reason I know Paul will love this…

Hell yes.

The separation between advertisers and content creators is deteriorating incredibly quickly. It’s this situation that leads people to say things like “recorded music is nothing but marketing material to drive awareness of an artist”.

— Bobbie Johnson

IETester is a free WebBrowser that allows you to have the rendering and javascript engines of IE8 beta 1, IE7 IE 6 and IE5.5 on Vista and XP, as well as the installed IE in the same process.

This article is a proof of concept for visualizing HTML table data with the canvas element.

Make mixtapes that play anywhere.

The following is a summary of how I created a dual boot setup of OS X Leopard (10.5) and Tiger (10.4) on a MacBook Pro, keeping the original Tiger installation intact and available through alt/option booting during system startup.

I believe we can get people engaged with digital services in a way that tells them how such services work and why they should care enough to use them. I also believe we can do this without explicitly making them fill out a sign-up form as a first step.

Enter the URL of an image to get a color palette that matches the image. This is useful for coming up with a website color palette that matches a key image a client wants to work with.

It seems these days there are lots of conversations that have moved to Twitter. Quotably aims to make these conversations easier to follow.

Lightweight but rich data grid with resizable columns and a scrolling data to match the headers, plus an ability to connect to an xml based data source using Ajax to load the content.

wikinear.com shows Wikipedia pages near you, based on your location according to Yahoo! Fire Eagle. The site is optimised for use on a mobile phone.

This demo shows how compound microformats can be used to progressively enhance HTML with semantic meaning.

Git kicking it OS X style

A free open source tool for testing performance and scalability of web services. It runs HTTP load tests, which are useful for capacity planning, benchmarking, analysis, and system tuning.

The world's most comprehensive database of mobile device information. Everything you ever wanted to know about every handset on the planet.

"Functionality, utility [...] brings a different level of engagement from consumers [...] Because it helps [people] to get something done, they come to them with a different mindset than they do marketing communications that interrupts, whether a TV comme

Legible London

“A scheme to provide better information throughout the capital for people who want to walk.”

Chinwag's monthly snapshot of market conditions, career satisfaction, salary views, and more.

Sir Tim said his data and web history belonged to him. He said: "It's mine - you can't have it. If you want to use it for something, then you have to negotiate with me."

I’m particularly looking forward to “Sticking out your leg”.