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In 2007, the UK government proposed to create new laws making extreme/violent pornography illegal (currently being debated). I'm not sure exactly where I stand on the banning of such images, but I was recently stunned by the following piece of info (from Wikipedia): "Classified works are...

Not exactly sure when this is coming out, but it's mighty - further down the minimal techno route. And Shackleton's first ever track with a straight 4x4 kick, so I've been told...

Is there anyone making contemporary good 2 step? I have no idea where I should be looking, so any pointers would be good... But not dubstep!

Hummers have less end-to-end energy costs than hybrids Spinella spent two years on the most comprehensive study to date – dubbed "Dust to Dust" -- collecting data on the energy necessary to plan, build, sell, drive and dispose of a car from the initial conception to scrappage. He even included...

The Tech Lab: Charles Stross UK science fiction writer Charles Stross, author of novels Accelerando and Singularity Sky, posits a future in which all human experience is recorded on devices the size of a grain of sand. We've had agriculture for about 12,000 years, towns for eight to 10,000...

Is there a famous quote from Ballard along the lines of sci-fi being the only true or worthwhile literature of the 20th century? It's been bouncing round my head for ages so if any of you could tell me what the correct quote is and where it's from I'd be eternally grateful...

I seem to remember there was a thread or discussion in the 33 1/3 series of books at some point... but searching on "33 1/3" is fruitless. Who's read what from the series, and are any of them any good? Convenient list at wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/33_1/3

Any of you lot like them? Their new album "The Bird of Music" I think is fantastic, but I guess it might be too twee for many Dissensus heads.

I'm sure many of you will have seen this in the guardian today... http://music.guardian.co.uk/rock/story/0,,2066036,00.html Comments?

Can anyone recommend me either - an mp3 player with decent line in recording, with different quality and stereo/mono options, or a cheap portable hard disk audio recorder? I guess I'm looking for something like a minidisc recorder, but HD/flash ram based, something that can record mixes off a...

Where can I find good stuff on early UK post-rock, particularly Disco Inferno...? I assume Simon has written about it..?

Anyone else make this? I saw Kode 9 in the crowd. Pretty disappointed with the JBs - way too quiet overall, and badly mixed it seemed - all you could hear was the drums and guitar with the synths way in the background. Which is totally missing the point for tracks like "Teach me how to fight"...

Apparently there was a flash mob disco thing in Liverpool Street station the other day: http://www.thelondonpaper.com/cs/Satellite/london/lcsearch/article/1157140552745?packedargs=suffix%3DArticleController Interesting? Or not?

I didn't make this mix, but one of my friends did (he posts occasionally on here...), enjoyed it so much I thought some Dissensians might like it... More like space: the lost generation 92-94 Compiled and mixed by Dexxual, Aug 2006. Still from "London", Patrick Keiller, 1994 Tracklisting...

This came to my attention via the Guardian a week or so ago: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,1858134,00.html These guys claim to have invented a magnet based device which can generate apparently unlimited amounts of free, clean energy. Seems highly unlikey, and the way the whole...

Whats going on with the new load of free London papers and their ever spiralling crapness? First Metro (bad), then City AM (terrible), and then in the last couple of weeks London Lite and The London Paper have both been launched. I was around the City during rush hour the other day for the...

http://myspace.com/jarvspace Produced by Graham Sutton, so I hear (EDIT: he's doing all of Jarvis' solo album, apparently)... Wot do you lot think?

Went to see this last night - they totally rocked, much better than the last time I saw them. What really got me was the fact they can sell out a venue of that size (what is it 1500? 2000?), fill it full of young people (lots of girls too, not too many obvious beard stoking nerds - myself...

i feel like i ought to know this... i mean, ive had bits of vinyl get all bent out of shape after being left in hot cars in the sun before, and always been cautious about keeping curtains drawn in the room where my records are. but now ive moved into a new house (in London), and the room i want...

This is a bit old news, but I thought if you havn't seen it already, it's worth investigating... http://p2pnet.net/story/6223 and a longer piece from the Times a couple of months ago... http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2125635,00.html First against the wall or what, eh?