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I think probably his second album (the absense of blight) is his best. All his albums are good actually but they get a little same-y after a while. His consistency is definitely a strength and a weakness. Hmm let's see, I would also check out this and this in terms of 12"s. His earlier stuff is...

Yeah I'm pretty stoked about the resurgence of Dial, I always loved that label, especially Lawrence who is definitely the godfather of that sound (hmm, maybe it should just be "surgence"? This is probably the highest profile Dial has ever had). I guess it kind of makes sense given the recent neo...

Y'know, having just about completed 7 straight years of uni (in CS) right out of highschool, I've actually been thinking about all the other things I could have done with myself in 7 years and wondering if I haven't really wasted a good chunk of my youth. While I sorta agree with borderpolice...

So having just completed an excellent walk while listening to Michael Mayer's "Immer" I thought I'd ask what everyone's favorite walking music is. Me, I thoroughly enjoyed the moment when I got confused as to whether "that bird track" (aka the superpitcher remix of carsten jost) was playing or...

I'd just like to chip in here, cuz I'm avoiding thesis writing :) I really love that last sentence, quite the kicker. So you knew the US/UK had other things than the well being of the populace in mind when they invaded iraq, but you supported it anyway, and then were surprised when they didn't...

There's been tons of research on tabletop displays for a while now (I built a wine-tasting tabletop display for a course project :D ), so it's cool to see this stuff coming out in production. BUT, that said, the bitter truth of most of the research that's gone on with this stuff is that though...

muser: but how will this be different from every other age before us? Information is always lost over time. Is it jus that more of it will have been stored at one point in time? But also in regards to how to know that the information is there: this is why entities like google are so important...

Just to be contrarian a bit here, I'd say that the easy access to information is also actually a real interesting and powerful thing. I know for a fact that my passion for music as well as politics and philosophy really only started to take off after I had easy access to broadband internet (or...

Yeah I think the real issue is just how much data is flying straight at you and how easy it is to access it all, so that most of it just wizzes by you and even the stuff you do look at you don't spend time with because of the pressure of all the other stuff that your missing

People don't do this, but google does, email servers do, internet providers do. We actually leave a pretty large trail of automatically archived data on the web.

Is disposable really the right term to be applying to digital media though? I mean, has there ever been a media format more easy to archive? Storage space is only becoming cheaper and larger; it's not unreasonable to conceive of a time when NO media is ever discarded. I think the obsolecense of...

Yes! Vancouver is spoiled for beautiful places to run. The seawall along english bay & stanley park is great...but also running along kits beach->jerricho->spanish banks, or up in pacific spirit park by ubc, or along the fraser river... and that's just van city proper, not even getting into the...

Run slow. It took me ages to realize that you don't have to be completely panting and dead tired at the end of a run to get a good benefit out of it. It's much easier on the body, you're not tired and sore for the rest of the day, and your fitness still improves. I think it's some stupid macho...

I was just listening to 'can't be beat' and 'too high to move' the other day and thinking how damn great they both are. It's all about the slow tempo, me thinks. Hard to get a hold of though. Stupid needlessly obscurist music!

Since I don't go to any minimal club nights (again, if only I was in berlin!) i can't claim to really know what's big, but how about: claud vonstroke - who's afraid of detroit lazy fat people - shinjuku cobblestone jazz - dump truck all those cc remixes seconded. also his more recents ones of...

I just want to add that it seems like whenever someone brings up an argument about societal or structural forces, people tend to jump to the conclusion that what's being advocating is that all people are helpless zombies totally under control of "the system", and then often counter with an...

Alright so if we stop throwing the word "rape" around, which seems to have a very polarizing effect on people, surely we can agree that this: is not a particularly controversial statement? Everyone here seems to agree that there are plenty of inequalities between men and women in our society...

Thanks everyone for posting the things that I was too lazy to google and/or realize was already posted upthread :D That full metal jacket scene was definitely what I was thinking of. But yeah, as IdleRich demonstrated with that article (which is slightly...disturbing) that there are a lot of...

Yes, exactly. And I think more generally, the interesting question is what has happened recently (ie, since 1980) that has brought about these horrilbe, fucked-up men? Though I've actually been wondering about that stat...wasn't there some lone gunman in texas who went up a clocktower and...