Today’s Links (12/08/07)

• carrierdetect.com
  Andrew Back’s weblog.
• pure:dyne - Trac
  A GNU/Linux live distro aimed at artists/musicians, complete with Supercollider, Icecast, Csound etc.
• Best Seats
  Very silly piece on exclusivity and Prince.
• Where to buy checks online? | Ask MetaFilter
  You have to supply your own chequebook in America? Weird.
• MBW Picks — A summary of the featured books, hardware,
  With links you can click. And none of that annoying ‘talking’ that takes ages to listen to.
• YesButNoButYes: It’s hard being a Superhero
  Poor kid. I still pissed myself laughing.
• WernerHerzblog
  It’s like Fake Steve Jobs for cinema geeks. Unless it’s real.
• In search of lost time
  "What does the popularity of nostalgia lit tell us about ourselves?"
• Dark Power: Pigment seems to put radiation to good use: Science News Online, May 26, 2007
  I for one welcome our &c.
• News - Edinburgh International Film Festival
  The EIFF will be held in June from next year. Crikey!
• Nokia makes finding yourself faster with new A-GPS service
  The painfully slow GPS fixes have been my main disappointment with the N95. For some reason the Nokia Software Update app refuses to believe that my ‘phone needs updating, and Orange won’t do the update for me. Grr.
• BBC - Radio 4 - Music Feature - Balkan Beats
  Superb documentary on Turbo Folk and its socio-political impact on the former Yugoslavia. Speechification have kindly made an MP3 of the show.
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbo_folk
  Good solid Wikipedia entry on Turbo Folk.
• Making Sense of Marcel Duchamp
  A sort of beginner’s guide, nicely presented on a timeline.
• Apple - Keyboard
  As a MBP user, it’s a bit annoying that the big keyboard has to be plugged in. Why not wired/wireless versions of both? Beautiful things, in any case.

Posted at 6pm on 12/08/07 by Jack Mottram to the links category.
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