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Monday, December 12, 2005
The Brick Testament
The Brick Testament
and there I was earlier today, on my bike, speculating like a liberal about how all those homophobic (etc) orders in the Bible were probably conditional ones obviously aimed at specific groups and needlessly being generalised along the lines of "St Paul said put your raincoat on! We must all wear raincoats all the time!!".
But here is the horse's mouth (if the horse is called Lego).
can't wait for the apocalypso.
and there I was earlier today, on my bike, speculating like a liberal about how all those homophobic (etc) orders in the Bible were probably conditional ones obviously aimed at specific groups and needlessly being generalised along the lines of "St Paul said put your raincoat on! We must all wear raincoats all the time!!".
But here is the horse's mouth (if the horse is called Lego).
can't wait for the apocalypso.
Audacity: About Audacity
sound and recording editor: edit MP3 and Wav, lots of effects and features.
etree.org | the leader in lossless digital audio distribution on the internet
etree.org | the leader in lossless digital audio distribution on the internet
These wonderful people have a plugin for playing SHN files (as in Archive.org live music archive) in WINAMP.
and also a utility to comnvfert SHN to WAV, WAV to MP3 and lots more.
Thanks guys!
These wonderful people have a plugin for playing SHN files (as in Archive.org live music archive) in WINAMP.
and also a utility to comnvfert SHN to WAV, WAV to MP3 and lots more.
Thanks guys!
Thursday, December 08, 2005
AdCritic Interactive
AdCritic Interactive Dramatisation of pizza ordering process in a surveillance society... for ACLU
Thursday, November 17, 2005
Google Image Result for http://www.yarnivore.com/francis/archives/images/why.jpg
nice cartoons discovered during
(a) a conference (sitting at the back)
(b) searching for images to accompany a lecture.
These are not suitable, but enjoyable.
(a) a conference (sitting at the back)
(b) searching for images to accompany a lecture.
These are not suitable, but enjoyable.
Wednesday, October 12, 2005
NationMaster.com - Where Stats Come Alive!
NationMaster.com - Where Stats Come Alive!: " 
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This generates nice maps for cross-country comparisons, on a reasonable range of data.
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This generates nice maps for cross-country comparisons, on a reasonable range of data.
Sunday, October 09, 2005
Online Encyclopedia - LoveToKnow
this is a 1911 edition of Britannica. Lack of illustrations and figures, some text garbled, but a treat.
Thursday, September 01, 2005
starship in concert
Jefferson Starship 21st century concerts:
Current incarnation of starship in concert again and again - some excellent material
Current incarnation of starship in concert again and again - some excellent material
Friday, August 19, 2005
Planet Earth Rock and Roll Orchestra
the website for this is http://www.planetearthrockandrollradio.com/
Planet Earth Rock and Roll Radio
Streaming video and audio of "Jefferson Quick Dead" in concert Feb 2005
Thursday, August 18, 2005
WOW
Real audio streaming the Orson Welles broadcast of "War of the Worlds". No Tom Cruise anyway!
Recently the late Warren Wagar's book on HG Wells has been published.
Recently the late Warren Wagar's book on HG Wells has been published.
Saturday, July 23, 2005
Jerry Radio - Grateful Dead Internet radio station streaming on-demand bootleg concerts in Real Audio
Jerry Radio - Grateful Dead Internet radio station streaming on-demand bootleg concerts in Real Audio I've just picked up and enjpyed the CD of David Crosby, IF ONLY I COULD REMEMBER MY NAME. Its long been rumoured that this is extracted from about 4 hours of material that has been circulating on CDRs and tapes since 1970. On this site is an hour long jamming session from this material, which features PERRO, the Planet Earth Rock and Roll Orchestra, featuring Kantner, Garcia and other luminaries. Unlike most of the tracks featured on the Jeruyy Radio front page, the PERRO session will not play. However, I've found how to get it. Click onto "listener comments". Then when the music player bar appears above the track listing and reviewer comments, right click your mouse button, select "play in realplayer", and you're away. Features "Mountain Song" (3 versions) and "Wooden Ships" and other nice stuff.
Sunday, July 17, 2005
Wednesday, July 13, 2005
BBC - Radio 4 - In Our Time
BBC - Radio 4 - In Our Time Britain's favourtie philosopher - Marx gets 28% of the vote. Hear about the competition and competitors, Hobsbawm reflections. etc.
Saturday, June 25, 2005
PC INSPECTOR File Recovery
PC INSPECTOR File Recoverythis german site has what looks to be great freeware for file recovery and management. Just rescued someone's lost files from their camera memory stick. If only I had the file recovery programe a month ago, when I did some foolish updating (=overwriting) of my laptop files.
Thursday, June 23, 2005
Bloglines | Most Popular Feeds
Bloglines | Most Popular Feeds:
Just after Jack Scofield's piece in today's Guardian Online about keeping up with the ever expanding world of blogs, here's a guide.
Just after Jack Scofield's piece in today's Guardian Online about keeping up with the ever expanding world of blogs, here's a guide.
Monday, June 13, 2005
Cartoonbank.com - Search Results
Cartoonbank.com - Search Results
Cartoons on technology - of course using these to liven up a presentation would create all sorts of copyright problems.
Cartoons on technology - of course using these to liven up a presentation would create all sorts of copyright problems.
Wednesday, May 25, 2005
Mozilla Update :: Extensions -- More Info:Down Them All - All Releases
Down Them All :
This is a brilliant extension for FIREFOX, which in turn is a brilliant browser. I've just used "down them all" to get all of the working papers from a series linked to a single web page - it took less than 2 seconds to get them all.
This is a brilliant extension for FIREFOX, which in turn is a brilliant browser. I've just used "down them all" to get all of the working papers from a series linked to a single web page - it took less than 2 seconds to get them all.
Friday, May 20, 2005
autistici : abstract ambience : broken space
autistici : abstract ambience : broken space: "
" Lots of sound to download or stream: including the notorious "HIPPOCAMP RUINS PET SOUNDS" plus its cover
" Lots of sound to download or stream: including the notorious "HIPPOCAMP RUINS PET SOUNDS" plus its cover
Friday, March 25, 2005
Welcome to Flickr!
Flickr Photos; tags; searchability; shareability... its a bit slow, but the hype seems justified
Friday, February 18, 2005
Jerry Radio - Grateful Dead radio station streaming on-demand bootleg concerts in Real Audio
Jerry Radio - Grateful Dead radio station streaming on-demand bootleg concerts in Real Audio also historic and studio out takes, other bands and performers.
Wednesday, February 09, 2005
Skeptical Inquirer: 'The Devil's footprints': solving a classic mystery
Skeptical Inquirer: 'The Devil's footprints': solving a classic mystery
Sceptical view of the affair mentioned in the previous blog, attributing it to multiple sources but especially "contagion" - a milder form of "mass hysteria", leading to people seeing the same unnatural phenomenon in a wide range of different events (cats' paw-prints, partly melted; hoaxers at work; many other causes). Certainly people are inclined to search out common patterns. But can this explain the speed of diffusion of the view that exceptional forces were at work?
Sceptical view of the affair mentioned in the previous blog, attributing it to multiple sources but especially "contagion" - a milder form of "mass hysteria", leading to people seeing the same unnatural phenomenon in a wide range of different events (cats' paw-prints, partly melted; hoaxers at work; many other causes). Certainly people are inclined to search out common patterns. But can this explain the speed of diffusion of the view that exceptional forces were at work?
BBC - Devon Features
BBC - Devon Features Mysterious and surprisingly overlooked anniversary this week.
Friday, February 04, 2005
Drug Trade
Drug Trade
Pharmacy, medicine and commerce in early modern Europe - much on early herbals etc - large gallery
Pharmacy, medicine and commerce in early modern Europe - much on early herbals etc - large gallery
BBC - Radio 4 - Tristram Shandy
BBC - Radio 4 - Tristram Shandy
Tristram Shandy is currently being draatised on BBC radio 4, in 15 minutes chunkc. Its a brilliant inroduction for anyone who has trocuble getting into the book, that makes IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT A TRAVELLER look old hat... This is the TS page with a compettion.
Tristram Shandy is currently being draatised on BBC radio 4, in 15 minutes chunkc. Its a brilliant inroduction for anyone who has trocuble getting into the book, that makes IF ON A WINTER'S NIGHT A TRAVELLER look old hat... This is the TS page with a compettion.
Thursday, January 27, 2005
Friday, January 21, 2005
PopupTest - test your popup blocker software and download software
PopupTest - test your popup blocker software and download software:
"PopupTest.com provides a simple and independent source for popup window testing. Whether you are developing a popup killer software or you are thinking about purchasing one, you can use our sample popups to test the effectiveness of the application. We are providing samples of the most common popup styles, as well as some not so common ones (as indicated)."
free downloads of blockers here.
"PopupTest.com provides a simple and independent source for popup window testing. Whether you are developing a popup killer software or you are thinking about purchasing one, you can use our sample popups to test the effectiveness of the application. We are providing samples of the most common popup styles, as well as some not so common ones (as indicated)."
free downloads of blockers here.
Wednesday, January 19, 2005
Dee, Manchester, Necronomicon
Following up the Manchester-Dee connection:
From Chapter 21 - Manchester
"The Collegiate Church, now the Cathedral of Manchester, was founded about 1420 in this already ancient town by Thomas de la Warre, baron and priest, rector or parson of St. Mary's, Manchester, and lord of the manor. The flourishing town of woollen industries, introduced by the Flemings a hundred or more years earlier, demanded a new and more capacious church; and De la Warre, the last of his noble house, determined to provide buildings in which a Warden, priests or Fellows, and choristers, should be continually resident, as well as to found a new church. He gained the consent of his parishioners to the appropriation of estates belonging to the existing rectory, as an income for the college, and supplemented it from his own lands in the district. He also obtained a charter of foundation from Henry V., dated May 9. The college was dissolved by Edward VI. and refounded by Henry VIII.; but by the time of Elizabeth its lands had been plundered, sold or leased, she herself becoming a sharer in the profits of spoliation until there was hardly any clear property left. At the instance of Dean Nowell, an inquiry was instituted, with the result that the college was granted a new charter in 1578, as Christ's College, to consist of a Warden, four Fellows, and two chaplains, with choristers. Nowell and Oliver Carter were two of the first Fellows. The second Warden was Dr. Chadderton, who had been Leicester's chaplain, and was Bishop of Chester. Under him the Catholics were relentlessly persecuted, Manchester prisons were filled, and the famous Marprelate printing press was discovered and seized. Chadderton's promotion to the see of Lincoln in 1595 made an opening for our persistent place-beggar to be disposed of at last.
"Dee arrived in Manchester on Monday afternoon, February 15, 1596, and took up his abode in the college. On the following Saturday he was installed inthe Wardenship, between nine and eleven o'clock, as he tells us...."
and so on with considerable detail and mentions of familiar places like Ardwick, Newton Heath and so on.
Handled much more briefly in Wilkipedia:
"Dee returned to Mortlake after six years to find his library ruined and many of his prized books and instruments stolen. He sought support from Elizabeth, who finally made him warden of Christ's College in Manchester in 1592. However, he was by now widely reviled as an evil magician and could not exert much control over the Fellows, who despised him. He left Manchester in 1605. By that time Elizabeth was dead, and James I, unsympathetic to anything related to the supernatural, provided no help. Dee spent his final years in poverty at Mortlake, where he died in late 1608 or early 1609. "
John Aubreyb (in BRIEF LIVES?) describes Dee in his later years thus: "a beaten old man with 'a long beard as white as milke, tall and slender, who wore a gowne with hanging sleves' . He earned a pittance telling fortunes and even sold his beloved books, one by one, in order to eat."
And believe it or not (I'm not saying), the Necronomicon makes an exntrance: Necronomicon FAQ: "The Necronomicon appears to have had a marked influence on Kelly; the character of his scrying changed, and he produced an extraordinary communication which struck horror into the Dee household; Crowley interpeted it as the abortive first attempt of an extra-human entity to communicate the Thelemic 'Book of the Law'. Kelly left Dee shortly afterwards. Dee translated the Necronomicon into English while warden of Christ's College, Manchester, but contrary to Lovecraft, this translation was never printed - the manuscript passed into the collection of the great collector Elias Ashmole, and hence to the Bodleian Library in Oxford."
From Chapter 21 - Manchester
"The Collegiate Church, now the Cathedral of Manchester, was founded about 1420 in this already ancient town by Thomas de la Warre, baron and priest, rector or parson of St. Mary's, Manchester, and lord of the manor. The flourishing town of woollen industries, introduced by the Flemings a hundred or more years earlier, demanded a new and more capacious church; and De la Warre, the last of his noble house, determined to provide buildings in which a Warden, priests or Fellows, and choristers, should be continually resident, as well as to found a new church. He gained the consent of his parishioners to the appropriation of estates belonging to the existing rectory, as an income for the college, and supplemented it from his own lands in the district. He also obtained a charter of foundation from Henry V., dated May 9. The college was dissolved by Edward VI. and refounded by Henry VIII.; but by the time of Elizabeth its lands had been plundered, sold or leased, she herself becoming a sharer in the profits of spoliation until there was hardly any clear property left. At the instance of Dean Nowell, an inquiry was instituted, with the result that the college was granted a new charter in 1578, as Christ's College, to consist of a Warden, four Fellows, and two chaplains, with choristers. Nowell and Oliver Carter were two of the first Fellows. The second Warden was Dr. Chadderton, who had been Leicester's chaplain, and was Bishop of Chester. Under him the Catholics were relentlessly persecuted, Manchester prisons were filled, and the famous Marprelate printing press was discovered and seized. Chadderton's promotion to the see of Lincoln in 1595 made an opening for our persistent place-beggar to be disposed of at last.
"Dee arrived in Manchester on Monday afternoon, February 15, 1596, and took up his abode in the college. On the following Saturday he was installed inthe Wardenship, between nine and eleven o'clock, as he tells us...."
and so on with considerable detail and mentions of familiar places like Ardwick, Newton Heath and so on.
Handled much more briefly in Wilkipedia:
"Dee returned to Mortlake after six years to find his library ruined and many of his prized books and instruments stolen. He sought support from Elizabeth, who finally made him warden of Christ's College in Manchester in 1592. However, he was by now widely reviled as an evil magician and could not exert much control over the Fellows, who despised him. He left Manchester in 1605. By that time Elizabeth was dead, and James I, unsympathetic to anything related to the supernatural, provided no help. Dee spent his final years in poverty at Mortlake, where he died in late 1608 or early 1609. "
John Aubreyb (in BRIEF LIVES?) describes Dee in his later years thus: "a beaten old man with 'a long beard as white as milke, tall and slender, who wore a gowne with hanging sleves' . He earned a pittance telling fortunes and even sold his beloved books, one by one, in order to eat."
And believe it or not (I'm not saying), the Necronomicon makes an exntrance: Necronomicon FAQ: "The Necronomicon appears to have had a marked influence on Kelly; the character of his scrying changed, and he produced an extraordinary communication which struck horror into the Dee household; Crowley interpeted it as the abortive first attempt of an extra-human entity to communicate the Thelemic 'Book of the Law'. Kelly left Dee shortly afterwards. Dee translated the Necronomicon into English while warden of Christ's College, Manchester, but contrary to Lovecraft, this translation was never printed - the manuscript passed into the collection of the great collector Elias Ashmole, and hence to the Bodleian Library in Oxford."
Search Results
British Museum - Joh Dee
Found this almost by chance - a spirit led me to be honest - I recalled looking at Dee's mirror years ago, amazed that such a thing should be on display! Anyway, the info here lets on the interesting fact that Dee was a Warden of Christ's College, Manchester in the 16th century. Est 1824 indeed: I will have to investigate further.
Found this almost by chance - a spirit led me to be honest - I recalled looking at Dee's mirror years ago, amazed that such a thing should be on display! Anyway, the info here lets on the interesting fact that Dee was a Warden of Christ's College, Manchester in the 16th century. Est 1824 indeed: I will have to investigate further.
Tuesday, January 18, 2005
Terra Galleria photography: travel, landscape, and nature pictures
Terra Galleria photography: travel, landscape, and nature pictures one thing I enjoyed is the opportunity to look through pictures of places I (may have) visited in the past. Plenty gorgeous pix here.
Sunday, January 16, 2005
BBC - Radio 3 London Jazz Festival - Jan Garbarek
BBC - Radio 3 London Jazz Festival - Jan Garbarek two hour concert of gorgeous music - very little noodling!
Tuesday, January 11, 2005
Telegraph | Connected | Bootcamp 353: Cloning for beginners, part two
| Connected | Bootcamp
Telegraph's equivalent of Guardian Online - since I often use the latter, political balance heh heh says I should point to this. Bootcamp is an archive of computer tips and projects.
Telegraph's equivalent of Guardian Online - since I often use the latter, political balance heh heh says I should point to this. Bootcamp is an archive of computer tips and projects.
Monday, January 10, 2005
Sunday, January 09, 2005
Friday, January 07, 2005
April Winchell: Multimedia
April Winchell: Multimedia This offers a wonderful collection of bizarre music. Highly recommended covers of "Stairways to Heaven", awful coporate music, peple who should have been better advised trying to sing...
The homepages are pretty cool too.
The homepages are pretty cool too.
Tuesday, January 04, 2005
Brian E Hodges' Health Career Model Course Notes: (c) 2000 All rights reserved world wide
Brian E Hodges' Health Career Model Course Notes: (c) 2000 All rights reserved world wide & ISS Despite the title, there are excellent links here to resources on visualisation.
Saturday, January 01, 2005
Welcome to The Internet Archive Wayback Machine
Welcome to The Internet Archive Wayback Machine
This is not just fun - it can be a reesarch tool. For instance, you can look at historic versions of government websites, to get older policy formulations, etc. Try looking back at UK Foresight.
This is not just fun - it can be a reesarch tool. For instance, you can look at historic versions of government websites, to get older policy formulations, etc. Try looking back at UK Foresight.
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