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slightly elderly news: cheatsheet creator 1.1 is a genuinely handy little thing - you fill in your favourite urls, and it generates a nice page for you to set as your browser’s home, saving, ooh, literally tens of milliseconds every day.

and how come we never post about music? i just bought:

joan of ass 10” (555 recordings of ???): this is exactly like the live show, so i can’t play it near leon, lest he become distressed on remembering the great parisian transport disaster that made him miss the ass playing at the nightclub. anyway, whoever the disatronaut is, s/he makes decent enough poppy electro for the deranged girls to shout over, but the shouting is the main thing here, particularly on “i’m no fake”:

one girl: ‘Do you know how much these clothes cost?’

the other girl: ‘I can tell they’re from H&M’

hee hee.

demolition man, mister p & dj illusion: carnival de fromage (white label): gnnk. seriously fast gabber/hardcore, embellished with auld lang syne played on a bagpipe. can’t say fairer than that.

and a barrage of greatest hits compilations from the psychedelic furs, frank zappa, the fall and fleetwood mac (peter green-era. they were great then. i promise.)

being greatest hits compilations, they’ve supplied me with a long list of proper albums to investigate… anyone care to furnish me with the complete works of the fall, or at least let me know which vintage i should start with? in the meantime, i’ll just download the mark e. smith handwriting font…

or play with this number thingy at turbulence.

The authors conducted an exhaustive empirical study, with the aid of custom software, public search engines and powerful statistical techniques, in order to determine the relative popularity of every integer between 0 and one million.

and then they made a java applet that provides a tasty visual interface to explore the interweb numerically. how cool is that? [via metafilter]

Posted at 4pm on 12/02/02 by Jack Mottram to the music category.
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