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so, so right. everything's just fragmenting, and i'd say that's not necessarily a bad thing :) Some random repeat plays that spring to mind: Nathan Fake The Knife One Two Hot Chip The Trousersnake (the first 2/3s, before the obligatory ballads kick in) Burial Matmos (largely impenetrable, but...

This is now officially one of my favourite mental images of all time :)

I love the fact that it's called Mel Gibson's Apocalypto. With no hint of irony. Is he the new Gerry Cottle?

This remix is fucking great! I can't find it to download anywhere tho :( Any leads?

Was anyone really into Gay Dad? Sure, she's a kook, but I don't think there can be any doubt she's the real deal. I certainly don't see her sitting down with a checklist of references. And even if she did, they're not the sort of references that anyone would expect to turn to gold. I...

Stop motion. On a whiteboard. Nice tune, too.

Dude, funeral's aren't for the dead, they're for the living; they're gonna have to do something with our bodies, so the least we can do is provide them with some light entertainment whilst they get on with it ;) Nice choice tho.

Just when I thought I might have been getting out of my depth, you step in to save me :)

Cos otherwise, it's not reason what gave birth to computing, it's magic ;) For sure, I'm not saying mankind will never produce an AI (for want of a better term) - just that we've got a whole world of shit to resolve before we do, and I don't see that happening for a very very long time...

Bit maudlin, maybe, but I thought it might be interesting to find out what Dissensians would like to have played as their corpse gets passed ceremonially from one plane to the next. Me, I'm opting for Ohio River Boat Song by The Palace Brothers. I've always had a massive soft spot for it, and I...

Generally, I think what holds truest is Kandinsky's idea that any attempt to give artistic expression to the ideas of the past can only ever result in a still birth (I paraphrase, but you get the idea). However, as Kandinsky's work itself proves, neither is formal experimentation necessarily a...

For sure, and this is where the 'magic' happens, eh? It's the point at which, for contemporary viewers, the illusion of intelligence is at its most seductive. And that's the clincher for me - it may be different kind of instruction set; but the machine is still following a set of instructions...

No, I just mean that machines do what we tell them to; and as such, if a machine did attain self-awareness, it's likely to be because we told it how to (which in itself has all sorts of interesting implications). The Turing Test is a case in point. It's the thing that's always referenced as...

Yeah, absolutely. Sorry, ambiguous (or maybe just poorly formed) sentence :) Great read, though. And I see on the Techgnosis website he writes... "TechGnosis peels away the utilitarian shell of technology to reveal the mystical and millennialist expectations that permeate the history of...

Awesome movie. Waaaaay freaky. That and The Medusa Touch totally blew my mind as a kid. (apols for the tangent)

Ah, yes. The Noosphere. But to be honest, this is exactly what I mean about logic not operating in a vacuum. The Noosphere/web compaisons just reinforce my suspicion that people are always willing to appropriate old ideas and remix them for a contemporary audience. There's no empirical...

Kurzweil is a really interesting guy, and clearly has a brain the size of at least 5 very large rooms. But processing power only gets you so far, and he's proof positive that logic doesn't operate in a political or philosophical vacuum. To be sure, his prognoses always operate on a ridiculously...

My brain just exploded

"Bill Drummond’s not alone in his grumpy musical fug. A little while ago Jarvis Cocker edited Observer Music Monthly. Part of the result was Drummond’s column, and another was this roundtable discussion about 'what music is.' The conversation is essentially a load of old farts moaning about why...

Little Britain is way more offensive than either The Office or Extras. It's almost certainly guilty of all the things K-Punk accuses SBC and Ricky Gervais of (which I don't agree with). Half of the sketches seem to be based around the conceit that "Hey, wouldn't it be funny if disabled people...