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    A Cautionary tale...

    I tore my hair out trying to figure out how to do this with my new-ish Vista'd up laptop, then I found the Wireless button on the keyboard (:o), it found the network, I clicked "connect" and it worked! What's the problem with yours? No other Vista problems yet, though I haven't really done...
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    The Canoeist

    wow - grassed up by a colleague to the cops for whispering suspiciously?
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    Karlheinz Stockhausen RIP

    Stockhausen had a hatred of repetitive rhythm which he associated with military marches and fascism since childhood, having experienced his mother killed by Nazi euthanasia after a long spell in an insane asylum, and his father dying in combat as a Nazi soldier.
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    GRIME- breaking news, gossip, slander, lies etc

    hasn't he seen mpc's avatar?
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    Burial "Untrue"

    ha! ok, but it doesn't sound like b'more either really; it falls between two stools.
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    Burial "Untrue"

    There's ample scope for 4/4 mixes of some of Burial's tunes, but this seems to be clunky, stompy and unsympathetic, it kills the drama and beauty of the original.
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    The Death Penalty – What’s All the Fuzz About?

    - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7126529.stm
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    Japan / Sylvian

    Hmmm... Brilliant Trees can be considered as a development from Tin Drum, despite the acoustic-jazz organicism - Red Guitar's opaque (p)arch(ed) funk providing the bridge. I love almost everything Japan did, and also a fair bit of Sylvian's solo work, from BT through to Blemish, in spite of...
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    giant steps

    Jazz is so utterly non-straight-lined/linear this just feels wrong at first, but it grows on you. The live video from the artist's site uses similar digital grafx in a live setting to good effect.
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    Japan / Sylvian

    Brilliant Trees and Secrets Of The Beehive are the best of his post-Japan pre-Blemish I think, although most albums have some good stuff on them. What about Quiet Life? That title track alone, after the outrageous glam-funk-punk of Adolescent Sex, is a sideways step into the new - icy...
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    Pointless But It Does My Head In

    looks cool! (btw "rug to cut" in yr comments box - to cut a rug means to dance)
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    Teaching

    :DThat really is borderline genius.:D What level/age are these students?
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    Iraq: U.S. Troop and Mercenary Escalations

    heh, I knew it meant laughing a lot, but thought it stood for (laughing) Right Out F*cking Loud, or something :confused:
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    Liberal Creationism, or: Yippee, It’s Bell-Curve Time Again!

    yes, and: Is the main objection to "race" its historical use to justify prejudice/racism, rather than the mere fact that it's a socio-cultural construct? If we agreed to say "broad population trends based on common ancestry" or something more accurate instead, could "race" not be a shorthand...
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    Julian Cope the writer

    ^^ :) reminds me of this: - http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/141/
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    Learning to Play Guitar

    This might sound a little extreme, but if you're classically trained, as soon as even the basic chord shapes are mastered you'll hardly be able to stop yourself thinking about keys, progressions, modulations etc. and this is what you want to avoid! I'd recommend learning a basic bar chord shape...
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    flash/actionscript

    For simple design/animation you don't need it; it's used for user-event logic - (e.g. if user clicks x, do y, otherwise do z), calculation of mouse & movie-clip positions, numerical values etc., or interacting with databases etc. on the server side. So if you think you'll need this kind of stuff...
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    My Bloody Valentine thread

    nice interview, but Svenonius' patented non-sequitur curve-balls can be annoying: "Mystery Train, Yellow Submarine, rock is obsessed with modes of transport, and yours is the glider - why is that?" :slanted: (tho' it does lead to an interesting debate where Shields says being eco-conscious is...
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    Greatest opening lines in literature

    The first line says Ungeziefer (vermin), and it becomes clear that he's become an - unspecified - insect as the story progresses.
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    Devo

    do you have the flash browser plugin? there are many more great vids on youtube - whip it, mongoloid, satisfaction, that's good...
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