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There was a whole lot of cross pollination between England and Japan going on in the 80s - with Bill Nelson, Japan (the group members), Thomas Dolby, YMO solo albums, Masami Tsuchiya and pop acts like Sandii&the Sunsets and Susan also being in the mix. Some of the Japanese albums I bought at the...

And I think the opposite is the case - the previous Norwegian prime minister was a leader for the "Christian People's Party" (the party is not just Christian in name+Bondevik is a Lutheran priest), both Tony Blair and his successor Brown are deeply Christian and the Christian Democrats (CDU) is...

Isn't Western European secularism (as in a separate church and state, not as in religious freedom) a myth? France clearly is secular, the rest of Western Europe probably not. Denmark and Norway (the frontrunners of this riduculous fight and those whose embassies were first torched) are...

http://www.carpecarpio.com/exoticfishpictures.html specially like the 185 kg (400lbs) Pirarucu. there's also a story in The Times on a man eating freshwater fish in India

I know there are at least a couple of people on this list who don't have a TV. I always found this a curious position - I find television a great way to be entertained (sports like the World Cup in football coming up), educated (ie with recent series like the Beeb's series on Folk Britannia...

20060203: Hugely inflated ID-theft numbers from Government (Times and most other media). and on the passport crack Hang around for more spin from your Government.

I have one question for those who have a wide cultural and philosophical reach: Is "freedom of speech" strictly a Western concept? As for not having pictures of the prophet Muhammad there was a mention on p43 in The Times on Thursday. These are as stated not found in the Quaran, but in the...

The Back Seat of My Mother's Car by Julia Copus. Apparently her own invention, the specular poem, where the second verse is the mirror of the first. The poem that made the biggest impression on me from the "Staying Alive" collection. --- We left before I had time to comfort you, to tell...

20060130: dutch biometric passports cracked from 10 meters away (the register)

The subject (or its cousin army coats) got mentioned in Prof Gideon Carter's take on fashion in The Sunday Times today

Never really liked Gong, I prefer Steve Hillage's solo stuff ("L", "Fish Rising" and "Green". Waddya mean uncool to talk about Hillage, PeteUM? Surely nothing is sacred or uncool on here). Hawkwind - hehe - I am probably one of the few who likes their late "Quark, Strangeness and Charm" album...

I was thinking along these lines the last couple of days (not uncommon I reckon), more of a "what is the next unknown, what is the next sound to be heard?" This in light of broadsheet articles on the return of British folk (The Times today, The Guardian yesterday (I think)), prog (today), the...

Banksy and his mates in Clerkenwell innit?

I wouldn't be surprised if the ID-card scheme would be run from the India ("to save money for the public" - who funded the cards in the first place). So much for "data protection". As I asked myself in a blog post last year - what if the ID card database is hacked or stolen? How do you then...

Nice linkage. It's also some little proof of how meaningless digital copyright is becoming - a record label knowingly using other record labels' tracks and releasing the mix only. I guess "mix" is the getaway clause.

try the software listed on ilounge.com - there's plenty of alternatives. I haven't tried any of these - I am quite happy with iTunes; at least the very latest release (with no intrusion) and firmware (with smart playlists finally working again). I am by no means an Apple fan - but the iPod...

here we go - the first step towards everyone having to carry an ID-card (all fitted with RFIDs tracking you to the nearest 200m) all the time (24 hours a day). There will be more of these small drops of "have to be made compulsury" over the next few months and then Tony and his cronies (House...

"Ping Pong" as shown on BBC4 in Jonathan Ross's ongoing "Asian Invasion" series. Built on some manga series or novel, fresh, amazingly different and good. reviews here: http://www.j-fan.com/cinema/cinema.cgi?action=viewrev&selected=8 http://www.barbelith.com/topic/18650

Some of Biosphere's ouput would seem to fall into this category - especially his "Patashnik" album with samples from the Kray twins movie ("We had a dream last night; we had the same dream") and also "Scanners". The opening track described here Some of Jenssen's work for theatre and film...

My concern is not right here, right now. Right now all this is probably tinfoil-territory (and while we are at it: let's add supermarket surveillance with facial recognition software to track your shopping, a police chief that interfers with policy, body scanners on the tube). Are we more...