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in Wired today an update on Negroponte's educationial drive - http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,69615,00.html

funny what you can get if you got the dosh, Tokyo - A self-confessed Japanese cartoon geek said on Friday that he would become the world's fourth space tourist next year - and he wants to gaze down at the Earth dressed as an ace pilot from a hit animation series.

"Getting Things Done" and filing systems Have anyone seriously tried these new (or re-packaged) filing systems? Ie the book "Getting things done" (GTD, based on having a filing cabinet nearby) or the Noguchi Filing System (documents recently used goes in front, gradually putting stuff you...

a decent weekly/bi-weekly programme on "youth music" on BBC2. Outside of "Top of the Pops/Jools Hooland" land - ie a slight alternative view on music from dubstep to punkblues to modern jazz to grime to deathmetal and dance etc. they've done the Beethoven download MP3 series and are to embark on...

On the high street outside the Whitgift shopping centre today - kids spit-preaching God grime (and some hip-hop) for a "gospel concert" at the Fairfield Hotel tonight. The flyer reads "Gospel Concert" and "Soul - RNB - Hip Hop - Garage". Grime - the new gospel? Let's hope not.

Should you be prepared to listen to all this again (handy for myself as I don't have a cassette deck). http://mockingmusic.blogspot.com/2005/07/nme-c86-profile.html (via thingsmagazine.net). Can't remember any of the songs, will listen to it tomorrow after my download has finished - but there...

This sort of drowned in the media torrent, but The Times mentioned last week that the Gov want ID-cards with RFIDs. RFIDs are small electronic chips used to track things, normally goods in a shop. I haven't had the energy to write about this (I prefer reading to writing), but I wish I did...

anyone done this with success and can advise on kit to buy (UK)? basically I want to scan graphics from old records treat them on a computer and then on a T-shirt (Hanes or some other proper Tees). I want the end result to last and look good. I used to have a great red one ordered from the...

Anyone else enjoying Paxman's roasting of the mighty ones? No wonder politicians avoid him unless there's an election. Paxo's facial expressions are priceless and asking Tone if he would discuss condoms with the "ex-Jugend(did not inhale)"-Pope was classic. For someone not from these shores...

Viewed this wretched thing (well taped it and used FWD for what it is there for), not because there would be any great surprises, but because there is always a tiny bit of enjoyable trivia (disregarding the politeness of it all). I always assumed that the cover of Black Sabbath's "Paranoid"...

The Top 10 UK albums this week has Bloc Party, Franz Ferdinand, Green Day, U2, Killers, Athlete and Keane in the list. I know we all disagree on the abilities of these bands (and some of them have more guitars than others) but the list almost exactly a year ago contained Katie Melua, Norah...

from the register http://www.theregister.com/2005/02/17/dj_record_mp3_fine/ A "well known" Italian DJ has been ordered to cough up Europe's biggest fine ever for music downloading after being found in possession of and using thousands of illegally copied music files. The DJ must pay a record...

I am after one or two legally available grime tracks for a potential/future podcast (for I am the "Commitee": see "Underground Smash" thread). A podcast is a "direct-to-your-MP3-player-radioshow-for-later playback", or like taping from radio to cassette and playing it later (but all automated)...

A little new thread from Ness: A wasted voice: Seal - aka Sealhenry Samuel. I love the bloke's voice. But his current output sounds like something George Michael threw away (judging by his last album which is available as a feed online - Seal lives in the US, you can tell - his album is...

http://www.halvorsen.org/audio/mash/waitingforluckyclockworks.m3u (streaming audio: at least it works for me. clockworks and Lene's yelping from vinyl). If someone wants to do a better mash (I know I am crap, but it's fun anyway) I can make available the Lovich and Rats samples, or get the...

music you regret getting rid of The one I really regret getting rid off is "Neu 2". Bought it for £1.50 and sold it for £2 around 1979. --- It was the thing to do: small adverts were found in the music press at home, hand-written (or in some cases typewritten) lists sent to each other using...

I am going to tap into the pool here with a strange request: does anyone know of someone doing a deep/slow update of hawaii-guitar, possibly treated with electronics and some deep bass/synth thing going. Sort of a rolling waves thing. Eno has this one track (I think it's "deep blue day") which...

BBC Two 22:30 (previously shown on BBC Three) http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/tv/blood_turntable.shtml It is a bit angled. Johnny Boy is our hero. McLaren is the crook. Watch it if you think The Pistols were only media dolls. --- Question the daddies and grandmothers of music. Question it...

shameless cut and paste from their site at opsound.org : but the idea (at least to me) sounds neat. seem open for anything ("unfinished experiments" - sure there must be some around). If you have your own material - submit it. OPSOUNDOpsound is gathering material for an open sound pool...

Not as as clear and structured as I would have liked, but I am starting to believe in 80-90% solutions. The problems with the current digital music payment models and why Open Source DRM might be the solution. I am warming up to the idea of using Open Source Digital Rights Management (DRM) as...