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    Scrap the internet, start over?

    I just saw this article. Any thoughts? Is this the thin edge of the wedge? Quotes: Although it has already taken nearly four decades to get this far in building the internet, some university researchers with the US federal government's blessing want to scrap all that and start over. The idea...
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    Stingrays on the attack

    Crikey! First Steve Irwin now this: Elephants are on the rampage in Africa and India attacking humans and now sting-rays are on the counter-attack as well... It's times like this that make me feel misanthropic and think we really are the enemy...
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    the fictitious firewall

    I just saw this article on the media lens site which should interest a few of you: The Mythical Divide Between Journalism And Advertising Here's a it continues...
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    present state of the independent music economy

    That Carl Craig interview that I mentioned in the Roots of Techno thread also has this comment which chimes with my view of things presently: What do you guys think? Are any labels doing really well out there? Have any independents started making money out of downloads?
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    NMA tapes - early Australian electronic and computer music: `82 - 92

    I found this link from an email-list post. I'm adding these files to my download list. Some of you might want to check it out too: http://shamefilemusic.com/nma.html Blurb from the page: Ten issues of NMA Magazine were published from 1982-92. Each magazine was accompanied by a cassette...
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    Armed Forces Bill

    Holy crap! I'm reading this post about the recent sentencing of Flight Lieutenant Malcolm Kendall-Smith for refusing to serve in Iraq because of the invasion's illegality where I just noticed this quote from the Independent : New Labour are out of control... It sounds as though they're...
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    Harlan Mcraney, Presidential Speechalist 5000

    Some Friday silliness http://www.badmash.org/videos/videos_flv.php?v=george_bush_512K_Stream.flv&t=Harlan%20Mcraney,%20Presidential%20Speechalist%205000 (I guess we can put these in here?)
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    CSS html editor on the cheap

    I was wondering if anyone could point me to an .html editor which can handle cascading style sheets (CSS) preferably in an easy to use word-process style environment that an idiot like me could use. I use a mac so something that could work on OS X (or even 9) would be best and it would be even...
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    Petrol boycott

    I was thinking about trying to start something like this the other day - esp. seeing as in Sydney the government is now forcing people to pay a big toll to a private company to use the new cross city tunnel (I thought it would have been brighter to force people to pay to drive through the city...
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    VICE magazine's G. MacInnes in The American Conservative

    I just saw this article in todays paper which is worth sharing: http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/New-cool-rests-in-a-hotbed-of-old-prejudices/2005/04/28/1114635692379.html "Finally, the dumb community's days are numbered," wrote Canadian Gavin McInnes, in The American Conservative. "[Young...
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