In response to Google’s blogpost concerning several attacks which were targeted at human rights activists GMail accounts during december, supposedly by the Chinese government, Chinese officials have this response (Jiang Yu, Chinese Foreight Ministry spokeswoman): China’s internet is open and the Chinese government encourages development of the internet. No it …
Best songs of 2009. For some reason, 35. Youtube links where available. Massive Attack – Splitting the Atom Dark, soulful hip-hop. Horace Andy at his best. Animal Collective – My Girls Trippy synths, but the melody just keeps on sticking. The Kleptones – Voodoo Sabotage A mashup of two epic …
By Emily Horne from asofterworld. “found posed at Ikea”
The new Massive Attack album titled Heligoland will be released on the 8th of february 2010. Lovely artwork, I hope the songs they played live on tour last month, like the epic Marakesh and the beautiful Red Light, are on there somewhere, renamed …
Artists earn more thanks to direct approach – middle men profits (record labels) in decline. Article over at The Times online.
This has been circulating for a while now: Hitler & Gmail (youtube vid, dutch subtitles). It’s a mashup I created to have a swing at one of the low hanging fruits of our ICT department: the inability for students to access their e-mail through the POP3 protocol. Since the services …
It’s that time of the year again. The 10th month means lots of things: start of spring, silly birthdays and a new and shiny Ubuntu release. And it wouldn’t be the same without me recklessly updating to the beta a couple of weeks before release. What’s fixed? What’s broken? And …
From the ever lovely A Softer World.
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