Tumblelink February 28, 2006
FoxiPod is a dinky little app combined with a Greasemonkey script that makes downloading an MP3 and adding it to iTunes a one-click process. Slight downsides: it’ll only work on pages with a direct link to MP3s, and it doesn’t tell you where it downloads files to – ~/Music/download.
# download, firefox, itunes, MP3
Tumblelink February 21, 2006
Pete Doherty and the KLF — The Samaritans have today recruited 600 extra staff to deal with an expected surge in calls as troubled fans come to terms with today’s revelations about rocker and teen icon Pete Doherty. In a surprise press conference today, the men behind Doherty’s career reveled themselves – and admitted that the Libertines, Babyshambles, the tales of drug use, the armed robberies and the affair with supermodel Kate Moss have all been part of one of the largest hoaxes in British history. The men behind the scandal – Bill Drummond and Jimmy Cauty…
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Choreographic rhythms have their model outside of the profane life of man; whether they reproduce the movements of the totemic or emblematic animal, or the motions of the stars; whether they themselves constitute rituals (labyrinthine steps, leaps, gestures performed with ceremonial instruments)–a dance always imitates an archetypal gesture or commemorates a mythical moment. — Mircea Eliade, Cosmos and History: The Myth of the Eternal Return.
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Eighteenth-Century E-Texts The catalogue includes most of the electronic editions of eighteenth-century works publicly available on the network.
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Tumblephoto February 17, 2006
Contact Sheet, by Mot.
These photographs by Janet are for the book we’re working on with art duo Anderson & Macgee.
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Tumblelink February 11, 2006
NEW YORK NIGHT TRAIN: KID CONGO POWERS PT 1 – audio reminiscences, Cramps-era scrapbooks, an exhaustive discography, and, um, a recipe for enchiladas from the legendary guitarist (and lovely bloke).
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Tumblephoto February 9, 2006
Maothowie by optovox. The only way to settle questions of an ideological nature or controversial issues among the people is by the democratic method, the method of discussion, of criticism, of persuasion and education, and not by the method of coercion or repression. — Chairman Mao, not talking about MetaTalk.
# funny, mao, metafilter
Tumblequote February 3, 2006
Fingere ex argilla similitudines Butades Sicyonius figulus primus invenit Corinthi filiae opera, quae capta amore iuventis, abeunte illo peregre, umbram ex facie eius ad lucernam in pariete lineis circumscripsit, quibus pater eius inpressa argilla typum fecit et cum ceteris fictilibus induratum igni proposuit, eumque servatum in Nymphaeo, donec Mummius Corinthum everterit, tradunt. — Pliny, via Lacus Curtius, telling the tale of the Maid of Corinth.
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