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noreply@blogger.com (200ok) — Mon, 21 May 2012 04:55:38 PDT

Public discussion enters the age of the uninformed - The Drum (Australian Broadcasting Corporation): To be reminded of Keating's boldness and certainty is to recall that we have lost more than his trademark arrogant pugnaciousness in the intervening decade. We've also lost political leadership, surrendering it to belligerent ignorance at high volume.
Travelettes » New York City's Hidden Subway Station. Beautiful abandoned station AND it's become a street art gallery too... awesome :)
Letters of Note: John Cleese vs The Sun: In 1982, British tabloid The Sun reported that filming on Monty Python's The Meaning of Life had been marred by an incident involving John Cleese ... Cleese's reaction to the story can be seen below, in the form of a fruitless chain of correspondence between him and the newspaper's editor, Kenneth Donlan. He later reported the incident to the Press Council; they agreed and his complaint was upheld. Cleese also kept to his word and reprinted the letters in the book of the film.
Love this! "What song are you listening to?"

I often wonder what world people are walking in as they go down the street. Also interesting how many people smile when asked this question!
Rands In Repose: Please Learn to Write: Writing appears more forgiving because there is no compiler or interpreter catching your its/it's issues or reminding you of the rules regarding that or which. Here's the rub: there is a compiler and it's fucking brutal. It's your readers. Your readers are far more critical than the Python interpreter. Not only do they care about syntax, but they also want to learn something, and, perhaps, be entertained while all this learning is going down. Success means they keep coming back - failure is a lonely silence. Python is looking pretty sweet now, right?
Obvious Winner - So Easy To See The Awesomeness - ow - Prepare to Drool Over This Incredible Mega Video Gaming Room
Dark Roasted Blend: DRB Pic of the Day: Propeller-driven "The Bennie Railplane"

photo: wynnum low tide

noreply@blogger.com (200ok) — Mon, 14 May 2012 07:06:48 PDT

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noreply@blogger.com (200ok) — Mon, 07 May 2012 06:30:50 PDT

World's First Real Life Shark with Actual Frickin' Laser Beams. Practical application my arse, this was just some guys who realised they could get away with doing it!
Neal Stephenson Responds With Wit and Humor - Slashdot: In a fight between you and William Gibson, who would win? Neal: You don't have to settle for mere idle speculation. Let me tell you how it came out on the three occasions when we did fight... Hilarious :)
Lincoln High School in Walla Walla, WA, tries new approach to school discipline - suspensions drop 85% « ACEs Too High: THE FIRST TIME THAT principal Jim Sporleder tried the New Approach to Student Discipline at Lincoln High School in Walla Walla, WA, he was blown away. Because it worked. In fact, it worked so well that he never went back to the Old Approach to Student Discipline.
Wind Power Without the Blades: Big Pics : Discovery News: Noise from wind turbine blades, inadvertent bat and bird kills and even the way wind turbines look have made installing them anything but a breeze. New York design firm Atelier DNA has an alternative concept that ditches blades in favor of stalks.

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noreply@blogger.com (200ok) — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 08:07:50 PDT

Dark Roasted Blend: The Jewish Engineer Behind Hitler's Volkswagen: 'The Extraordinary Life of Josef Ganz' tells the astonishing story of Josef Ganz, a Jewish engineer from Frankfurt, who in May 1931 created a revolutionary small car: the Maikäfer (German for May Bug). Seven years later Hitler introduced the Volkswagen. The Nazis not only 'took' the concept of Ganz's family car - their production model even ended up bearing the same nickname. In this biography, which reads like a thriller, Schilperoord tells how Ganz was arrested by the Gestapo, then fled Germany, and was hunted by the Nazis beyond Germany's borders, narrowly escaping assassination.
Industrial Artifacts - furniture made of industrial objects.
Writing's on the wall for vandals: Under the agreement, the council and the state government would each commit $2 million to the Brisbane City Council's Taskforce Against Graffiti program over four years. $2m in four years eh? Guess he didn't axe the $244k/year literary awards to save money, he needed some tax dollars to pursue his personal-opinion-based war on street art. He must think he's a genius right now. Apparently Newman's utopia involves empty walls and less books.
Feynman's Nobel Ambition: So I got this new attitude. Now that I am burned out and I'll never accomplish anything, I've got this nice position at the university teaching classes which I rather enjoy, and just like I read the Arabian Nights for pleasure, I'm going to play with physics, whenever I want to, without worrying about any importance whatsoever. ...which is how at least one person won a Nobel Prize.
A Professional Recording Studio in an Unbelievably Tiny Room: He created a second set of walls made of two layers of drywall, bonded together with a polymeric gel called Green Glue, which blocks up to 90 percent of sound transmission. On top of the existing floor, Shah added foam, a sheet of rolled lead, carpet padding, and a carpet on top. Neil added a second door, which seals magnetically. The renovation cut precious inches into the limited space, but it worked. Even with a baritone saxophone wailing, Shah gets no complaints from downstairs.
Obvious Winner - Bathroom Overlooking a 15 Story Elevator Shaft Scares the Sh!t Out of Me
Google's Accessibility Message Comes Through Loud and Clear | Emerging Technologies Librarian: One quite common use of images by persons who are blind is in asking for help. They can grab a screenshot showing where they are stuck using an application, post it online or email it to a friend, and then ask a sighted person how to navigate the part they are having trouble finding. Without the ability to share images, they are largely dependent on waiting for someone to come visit them in person, which may take hours or days. Can you imagine how incredibly frustrating that is? And what a tremendous waste of productive time?
Addams Family screentests - MJSimpson.co.uk: Back in 1964, photographer Bill Ray took a series of photos on the set of what appears to be a number of screen tests for the cast of The Addams Family. John Astin can be seen as Gomez in some of the shots and he was evidently a given, but each of the other characters has at least three actors trying out for the part, in full costume and make-up.

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noreply@blogger.com (200ok) — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 07:45:46 PDT

It's Like A Cloud Of Furious Bees: Well, not actual bees, just the entomological wail of a race-prepped Mazda rotary, trapped inside a Mazda RX3 and racing through the 2010 Rally New York Autumn Rally Sprints. It is one of the loudest rally cars you'll ever hear. Wow that's loud.
This Diesel Rat Rod Might Twist Your Face Off. Very cool.
Dezeen » Blog Archive » Hydro-Fold by Christophe Guberan: This inkjet printer has been adapted by Ecole Cantonale d'art de Lausanne (ECAL) student Christophe Guberan to print patterns that contort pieces of paper into specific 3D forms. The machine prints a mixture of water and ink that causes the paper to fold automatically along wet lines and humid areas. Not sure if you can do anything especially practical with it, but it's cool.
Fury at PM's Games snub: Yesterday, a spokesman for the Prime Minister said Ms Gillard would be represented in London by the Minister for Sport, Kate Lundy, and that she would miss the fund-raiser because she would be representing Australia at the G20 and the UN Sustainable Development Conference. You know, little details. Mr Rudd was the first prime minister to travel to an Olympics since Malcolm Fraser in 1976. The PM prioritised attending the G20 over a sports dinner (noting the PM's office suggested alternative dates) and most PMs don't get to the Olympic Games... so John Coates has a dummy spit. Apparently the PM should snub the G20 in favour of his preferred fund raiser dates; and clear her schedule of such details as 'running the country' to ensure she's at the Olympic Games.
Obvious Winner - So Easy To See The Awesomeness - ow - R2-D2 Turntable for DJing Like an Astromech Droid
Intense rock climbing training:
Google BBS Terminal is retrotastic :) Although when I were a lad, any self-respecting BBS would have kicked off with a huge scrolling ANSI artwork...

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noreply@blogger.com (200ok) — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 07:43:10 PDT

Fuck Yeah Border Collies. Your brain may melt from the cute.
Facebook and Instagram: When Your Favorite App Sells Out -- Daily Intel: Unfortunately everything about Facebook defies logic. In terms of user experience (insider jargon: "UX"), Facebook is like an NYPD police van crashing into an IKEA, forever - a chaotic mess of products designed to burrow into every facet of your life. The company is also technologically weird.
Snagging the entire quote from rmbray - There was a time on this continent before every...: There was a time on this continent before every patch of unproductive land had been steamrolled into strip malls, before government satellites peeked into living rooms to ensure the crimes of its citizens weren't in conflict with its own; before fences overtook trees as the most prevalent form of inverted cylinder on the American landscape; before popular entertainment transformed rugged individualism into brand loyalty; before moral outrage was removed from the arena of human suffering and reapplied in doublecoats to behaviors falling outside of a profitable ideological norm; before legions of half-rate messiahs and their half-rate worshippers proclaimed themselves the conscious-free devourers of all that could possibly be cajoled, raped or torn out of the ground and stuffed into their thankless bodily openings; before a human could experience birth, a approximation of life, and a tidy, well-planned death all within the confines of an air-conditioned incubator hurling through space on a diet of nothing but tepid amusement and cheap ground beef. There was a time when that wilderness was king. (Mark Driver - Just Another Empire)
Lui banned from NRL for rest of 2012: In a strong statement by the ARL Commission, which met today, the 22-year-old Lui was suspended from the rest of the 2012 competition, putting his career in serious doubt. ... Lui pleaded guilty last month to assaulting his partner Taleah Rae Backo following Mad Monday celebrations in September while he was at the Wests Tigers.
Medical Daily: Drinking Alcohol May Significantly Enhance Problem Solving Skills: Wiley said that the key finding was that being too focused can blind a person to novel possibilities and a broader, more flexible state of attention may be helpful for creative solutions to emerge. ... Wiley noted that the findings only apply to people who had only a few drinks and not when people drink to extremes.
Important Scientific Experiment: Can Scotch Mature In Space? - Forbes: To get the experiment going, Ardbeg teamed with NanoRacks to load samples of unmatured malt whisky with particles of charred oak. An identical setup is being used on Earth in the Ardbeg distillery. This will allow scientists to see how the products interact with each other in zero gravity compared to how they interact on Earth, thus providing insight into how Scotch would mature in low-G environments. Ardbeg's samples will be on board the International Space Station for two years.
Pretty well done. I think everyone I know would mash that Big Red Button on sight, too ;)
How to discuss politics with friends, v2 « Scott Berkun. I don't have polarised political views with many friends, but boy could you substitute 'programming languages' into that sentence...
What Happens When A 35-Year-Old Man Retakes The SAT?: There's no way around it. The SAT is an ASSHOLE. Everything is an order. Every line of text you read in the instructions is a dire warning that if you do not do exactly as you are told, your life will be DESTROYED.
US Late Late Show host joins Canberra bashing and Canberrans proceed to lose their shit.

Ajay Rochester (who was also on the show) responds: Canberra get a life, get over yourselves, get a sense of humor and hey, at least people are talking about you - which they weren't last week.

Most Canberrans I know admit their city has a couple of issues. It's a tad short on night life, the roads are confusing as hell, it's absolutely fucking freezing and unsettlingly quiet even during the day (seriously where the fuck are the people?). Actually that's the nice things they say. You should hear Canberra locals when they really unload on the place...

It's not all bad, really. The galleries really are pretty good. Last time we were there we did actually find some restaurants that were open (on the one street in the CBD where people seem to congregate).

photos

noreply@blogger.com (200ok) — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 22:06:20 PDT

A World Without People - In Focus - The Atlantic (abandoned places photos)
London Lights [ EXPLORE 16.02.2012 ] | Flickr
Atmospheric Processor by ~c-bc-o on deviantART
Dark Roasted Blend: Jets & Clouds Effects: An Ephemeral Sky Show
Amazing picture of the southern lights as seen from the International Space Station. - Imgur: southern lights as seen from the International Space Station.
Crossing A No Trespassing Zone | English Russia
Abandoned 19th-Century Factory In Saint Petersburg | English Russia

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noreply@blogger.com (200ok) — Sun, 08 Apr 2012 07:34:06 PDT

Minami-Azabu Masterpiece | The most expensive one-bed apartment on earth | News.com.au
Orfield Laboratories' anechoic chamber is the world's quietest place | Space, Military and Medicine | News.com.au: The longest that anyone has survived in the anechoic chamber at Orfield Laboratories in South Minneapolis is just 45 minutes.
Tony Abbott praises sister for coming out but it won't change his policies | News.com.au: TONY Abbott has commended his sister for her bravery in coming out, but says it will not shift his stance on gay marriage. I guess his supporters will applaud his ability to remain a bastard even when he's opposing human rights for his own sister.
Climbing a Shard of Glass | Place Hacking

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noreply@blogger.com (200ok) — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 05:43:18 PDT

The War on Drugs has failed – now what?
Queensland Premier Campbell Newman scraps 'waste of taxpayer money' literary awards | News.com.au: QUEENSLAND'S new Premier sets the tone early, scrapping 'waste of money' awards... in the National Year of Reading. Chuckles Newman really is making the big decisions there, after all $244k was crippling the entire state budget (Can-Do economy: $244k saved on arts awards in $4.6b deficit | Crikey... excuse the Crikey link). It certainly sets the tone though: the next few years will be a very bad time to be working in the Arts in Queensland. Culture is 'a waste of money' in the eyes of the monkey at the wheel, who is clearly going to play to the lowest common denominator. Hardly a surprise from someone who plans to waste taxpayer money attacking civil unions, because stable relationships kill society or something. What can I say, I'm embarrassed that my home state voted this guy and his minions^H^H^Hgovernment in.
CV Dazzle | AH Projects: CV Dazzle is camouflage from computer vision (CV). It is a form of expressive interference that combines makeup and hair styling (or other modifications) with face-detection thwarting designs.
A day in the life of a warehouse robot
Odds Blog :: How to stay alive while being black :: March :: 2012, a fairly scary thing to still be relevant in 2012.
300m up on the world's highest suspension bridge - who cares about safety? | News.com.au... OH&S not found...

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noreply@blogger.com (200ok) — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 04:08:11 PDT

Maximum PC | Pirate Bay Plans On Taking To The Sky To Avoid Server Seizure: With the development of GPS controlled drones, far-reaching cheap radio equipment and tiny new computers like the Raspberry Pi, we're going to experiment with sending out some small drones that will float some kilometers up in the air.
Nintendo Asks Atlassian for Some Innovation Help | PandoDaily, really just because it's hilarious to hear someone describing Jay pay up on his drag bet.
How Does News Corp. Make Its Money? | PBS. Problem with infographics like this is it's hard to read accurately. The dollar amount on publishing doesn't change so dramatically - it's the *proportion* that's significant.
This Is A Ship Carrying A Ship Carrying A Ship Carrying A... (MV Blue Marlin - Wikipedia)

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noreply@blogger.com (200ok) — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 04:44:02 PDT

Where's _why? What happened when one of the world’s most unusual, and beloved, computer programmers disappeared | Slate. Interesting not just for the story of _why's disappearance, but for the perspective from someone trying to learn programming.
Hang from the trees in 'spider web' tent
Photos of The Baxter Inn | Boudist. The Baxter, aka. The Sydney Web Industry's Happy Place. Their Old Fashioned is fantastic.

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noreply@blogger.com (200ok) — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 04:58:05 PDT

City Peaks - @digitlondon employees climb the Shard Mountain #arduino | CreativeApplications.Net
A mute button for people? Japanese invent 'speech jamming gun' that stops people talking by freezing the brain | Mail Online. It's actually an old trick with new hardware to deliver it - I remember the science centre had a demonstration of this back when I was a kid. It works, it's really hard to speak when you're hearing youself on delay.
Encyclopedia Britannica done with books: Everyone will want to call this the end of an era, and I understand that," (Britannica president Jorge) Cauz says. "But there's no sad moment for us. I think outsiders are more nostalgic about the books than I am.
Forget Your Past Buzludzha, Bulgaria | Timothy Allen photography

photo: pyrmont bridge commute

noreply@blogger.com (200ok) — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 03:44:12 PDT

This has been my morning commute for a couple of years, but this was the last one before we moved house:

New commute will be different, but this one was certainly nice :)

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noreply@blogger.com (200ok) — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 03:45:48 PST

Not really sure how I hadn't seen this before:

Bliss N Eso – Addicted [Film Clip & Behind The Scenes) � allaussie hip hop
NASCAR Driver Wins 100,000 Followers in Two Hours Tweeting From Car
Robot quadro copters play their rendition of the James Bond Theme. No, really:
Malamut fluffball howling. Because it's cute and funny :)

soundwave - aka The Sisters Gig

noreply@blogger.com (200ok) — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 04:47:02 PST

We haven't bothered with the heat and crowds of a festival in years, but Sisters of Mercy were only playing at Soundwave - we'd bought Soundwave Revolutions tickets on the same basis, before it got cancelled...

Annoyingly we were both feeling shithouse on the day, so decided to cut a few acts and just go later in the day. We did catch Marilyn Manson and, thanks to last-minute schedule changes, Wednesday 13 - who are heaps of fun.

Honestly though, it was all about Sisters of Mercy. Up against some big headlines on the main stages, it ended up being a pretty committed crowd that turned out for Sisters. Despite the too-short festival timeslot, they got in a good set list:

Temple of Love
Ribbons
Alice
Crash and Burn
Doctor Jeep / Detonation Boulevard
This Corrosion
Summer
Lucretia My Reflection
Vision Thing
More

Temple of Love was a great big anthem sing-along ;) While I'd have loved to see some tracks off First and Last and Always, you can't have everything. The big finish of Vision Thing and More was great - they went off!

As a massive bonus to the day, we ran into two different friends who were unexpectedly back in Sydney! Hurrah for chance meetings :)

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noreply@blogger.com (200ok) — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 05:31:39 PST

(1) Engineering Management: Why are software development task estimations regularly off by a factor of 2-3? - Quora
Sasha DiGiulian climbs Pure Imagination (9a):
http://isthispoisono.us/ - a handy guide.
"The Transparency Grenade": Equipped with a tiny computer, microphone and powerful wireless antenna, the Transparency Grenade captures network traffic and audio at the site and securely and anonymously streams it to a dedicated server where it is mined for information. Email fragments, HTML pages, images and voice extracted from this data are then presented on an online, public map, shown at the location of the detonation.
How Target Figured Out A Teen Girl Was Pregnant Before Her Father Did - Forbes
We Are Back (Amiga intros/cracktros recreated in HTML5)
20 Cats As Fonts

roger waters, the wall

noreply@blogger.com (200ok) — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 06:03:12 PST

You know you're in for a hell of a show: it opens with a plane flying over your head, crashing into the stage in a fireball... then the fireworks kick in...

...then the glorious opening chords of The Wall pulverise the room.

I'd wanted to see The Wall live for over 20 years - ever since I saw footage of The Wall - Live In Berlin. It wasn't a hard decision to pony up and be there when it came to town:

... even if I did wonder if 20 years of expectation could possibly be met.

It was amazing. Rock and roll theatre, spectacle, opera... the story of Pink brought to life.

The Schoolmaster was creepier than I expected - fluctuations in the balloon inflation make the face gurn into the grotesque.

Comfortably Numb was a knockout. But then so were Bring The Boys Back Home, Run Like Hell, The Show Must Go On and of course Another Brick In The Wall. And every other song...

If you get the chance to go - do it. My only regret is I didn't try for the $400 tickets right up front.

photos

noreply@blogger.com (200ok) — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 02:18:48 PST

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noreply@blogger.com (200ok) — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:20:23 PST

Interview and portrait tips in Digital Photography magazine | Boudist Photos. If you like Australian music, you've probably seen the Boudist's work. From memory I met Dan in 2005, at the time he was still working a day job and breaking into music photography in his spare time. I remember thinking 'hard one to break into, good luck..'. Fuck good luck, Dan's got there by hard work and he's an inspiration for all of us. You should look at his photos, they're awesome.
Violin + looping =
Miss Piggy Gives Fox News What It Had Coming - Esquire
Kitchen music...
Everything You Thought You Knew About Learning Is Wrong | GeekDad | Wired.com
Toronto News: Toronto teens send Lego man on a balloon odyssey 24 kilometres high - thestar.com
Line 6 ToneCore developer kit - for when guitar pedal tweaking isn't enough, program your own. I know this isn't actually new, I just don't remember seeing it before.

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noreply@blogger.com (200ok) — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 23:37:44 PST

cityofsound: Journal: Tetsuo Kondo’s suspended ramp, Tallinn
It doesn't seem all that mad, then they start diving down through the rock formations...
Scouting An Abandoned Cold War Missile Base Hidden In The Adirondacks | Scouting NY
Goths up trees... I love a site that does *exactly* what it says on the tin. Goths up trees, How could I ever top the Robert Smith up a tree...: Now I know what some purists are going to say: ‘HAVE YOU LOST YOUR MARBLES? RAMMSTEIN IS NOT A GOTH BAND!’ But I put it to you that you take yourself to a Goth club at about 3AM and ask the DJ to put on some Rammstein and watch what happens to the dancefloor and then tell me that they shouldn’t be included here. The truth of the matter is that drunk Goths love Rammstein. It's true.
Wow this would have taken a lot of work...
Meet the Guy Who Owns Only 15 Things (Not Counting Undies or Socks) | Ecouterre
Search by image recursively, starting with transparent image. Momentarily NSFW:

Search by Image, Recursively, Transparent PNG, #1 from kingcosmonaut3000 on Vimeo.

street art screen savers for kindle

noreply@blogger.com (200ok) — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:52:29 PST

We bought Kindles a while back; and while the default set of wallpapers probably appeals to someone, personally I'm not into the "slightly creepy images of dead authors" aesthetic. So, I created my own set using photos I've taken of street art in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne.

These are free to download and use if you share my "australian stickers and graffiti on your kindle" aesthetic - I'll admit this might be a niche market :) They're available separately on Flickr or you can download the whole lot (17mb zip).

To use these you need to jailbreak your Kindle and then install the screensaver hack. The trickiest bit is working out precisely which version Kindle you have so you know which files to use (go by the serial number). Note that once you copy new screen saver images onto your Kindle, you need to restart the Kindle before they'll start showing up (home, menu - settings, menu - restart).

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noreply@blogger.com (200ok) — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 05:39:39 PST

Water-powered rocket boots for super-powered aquatic frolicking | DVICE
Chevrolet chrome script lettering
Man Builds Fairy Tale Home for His Family – For Only �3,000 | Gaia Health
How Doctors Die | Zocalo Public Square (or to put it another way, how they choose to live their last days)
This is What Happens When You Give Thousands of Stickers to Thousands of Kids | Colossal

2011 mix tape

noreply@blogger.com (200ok) — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 02:56:27 PST

Once again I will stubbornly call it a mix tape, even though no actual tapes were harmed in the making of this entirely digital playlist.

The yearly play list is simply a set of songs which have been on high rotation or were just the song of the moment. I used to try to reorder it to make a coherent play list but frankly they're always a grab bag, so I just leave them in the order I add them. Enjoy!

2011 Mix Tape by h on Grooveshark

(you can play it on grooveshark if the embed's not working)

Mostly for my own record, this is how these tracks came to be part of the list...

Lightbringer - Covenant (inspired simply by the release of the album)
Derezzed - Daft Punk
TRON Legacy (End Titles) - Daft Punk (because TRON Legacy redefined what cyberspace looks like, in the general psyche - it was scrolling green text for years after The Matrix; now it's blue neon. Also I listened to the sountrack constantly during an Atlassian FedEx, during which I made a Tron theme for Confluence... yes, Tronfluence! ...it's unusable for any length of time but damn it looks cool.)
Welcome Home, Son - Radical Face (forever associated with Uli Steck climbing the north face of the Eiger)
The Loyal - Tiger Lou (a friend played this while were hanging out at her place and the music felt instantly familiar, ultimately becoming some of my most-played music of the year)
The Answer - U.N.K.L.E.
Reign - U.N.K.L.E. (because seeing them live with strings at the sydney opera house blew my socks off... and you'd better believe the pizzicato part of this song was a highlight)
Oh My Brother - Mr. Percival. Note - annoyingly not available to include in the playlist, guess you'll have to go check out the albums yourselves ;) (inspired by Mr Percival singing it during a secret gig I was lucky enough to attend)
Hell - Squirrel Nut Zippers (another track picked up along with Tiger Lou - yes, the playlist at our gatherings can vary a tad!)
Jumping Someone Else's Train - The Cure
All Cats Are Grey - The Cure (back to the Opera House! ...and while UNKLE was awesome, Reflections was a religious experience)
Somebody That I Used To Know - Gotye (this is probably on every other playlist for 2011, what a ripper of a track...)
Disappear Here - Hybrid (because it brings to mind the sense of flight from this video)
Jilly's on Smack - Primus (I never saw Primus back in the day and only properly got into their back catalogue in the past couple of years. Anyway we saw them live and they played this ahead of the album's release.)
Insect/Suspect - Pigface (Purely random - this came up in the car with the ipod on shuffle, and became my song of the moment. Something about the rhythm, I think.)

I've no idea if anyone else will like a single track off this. Well, apart from the Gotye, which echoed over the waters as we were going to sleep in the tent on Cockatoo Island on New Year's Eve. Pretty clearly that one's going around :)

happy new year

noreply@blogger.com (200ok) — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 03:22:42 PST

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noreply@blogger.com (200ok) — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 21:13:37 PST

House of the Rising Sun played on old bits of gear...
5MB Hard Disk Drive, 1956 | Retronaut
desire to inspire - If you go down to the woods today ...
Boy drops DS in gorilla cage, inadvertently creates the best photo op ever | GamesRadar
Incredible Indoor Climbing Wall Towers Atop a Tokyo Home | Designs & Ideas on Dornob
When Did Girls Start Wearing Pink? | Arts & Culture | Smithsonian Magazine
3 truths of info visualization (and some whiskey, too) - Good Experience
Chromeography (fantastic chrome logos and lettering)
Five Years After Banning Outdoor Ads, Brazil's Largest City Is More Vibrant Than Ever