July 31, 2003
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July 30, 2003
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Return To New York
Been to this twice, first time was excellent, second time was a bit poor. The DJ line up looks stronger this time though...
Arthur Baker, Sean McLusky & Culturecide Promotions in association with
The Great Eastern Hotel present RETURN TO NEW YORK SATURDAY 20th SEPTEMBER
2003 @ The Great Eastern Hotel, Liverpool Street, London EC2.
FASHION WEEK SPECIAL
The fourth in a series of exclusive events, bridging 20 years of electronic
music unifying the talents of the true originators with todays new
breed.
Doors 8pm - 2.30am
18 in advance 20 on the door
Click here to buy tickets NOW!
Live on stage exclusive live performances from:
COLDER (Output Recs)
T RAUMSCHMIERE (Novamute/Shitkatapult)
JOY IBIAYO (performing Bucci Bag)
PLUS VERY SPECIAL LEGENDARY GUEST
BIKINI FASHION SHOW - (featuring the JG4B collection for BIKINI by Louise=
Middleton & Jasper Goodall)
International DJs on the night:
DAVE CLARKE
ARTHUR BAKER (WHACKED RECS)
FC KAHUNA (SKINT RECS)
PRINCESS SUPERSTAR & ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE
(DJs ARE NOT ROCKSTARS)
THE LOOSE CANNONS (ISLAND RECS)
SEAN MCLUSKY (SONIC MOOK EXPERIMENT)
QUEENS OF NIOZE
NADIA KSABAI
FRANCOIS NORDMAN
Hip Hop Room -
KRUST & DIE (OLD SCHOOL HIP HOP SET)
CUT MASTER SWIFT
QUEST (UK DMC Champion 2003)
JACKIE 60 FURTHER Room:
The legendary New York club JACKIE 60
Presents CABARET MAGIQUE featuring:
JOHNNY DYNELL (DJ)
CHI CHI VALENTI (MC)
PAUL ALEXANDER (MC)
JESSICA RABBIT (showgirl)
DIRTY MARTINI (showgirl)
"Like Moulin Rouge on Crack" the L.A. Times.
Plus DJs
LADY MISS KIER (Dee-Lite)
PAM HOGG
Hotel Accommodation for Return To New York event
Rooms Available at 136 + VAT, including Two Tickets to the event.
To book call: 0207 6185010 Quoting Return To New York.
Bring one item of designer clothing (clearly labelled with your name and
e-mail) for charity sample sale. Prizes for items that sell for the most.
cat files into the unix clipboard
Cat files into the unix clipboard with xsel
July 29, 2003
IP to country
Map IP addresses to countries with IP-to-country - useful if you find certain countries are particularly fraudulent ;)
July 28, 2003
Tottenham win the European Cup!
Tottenham win the European Cup!
Ginger
Couldn't happen to a nicer bloke... "LONDON (Reuters) - The owner of Virgin Radio, SMG, says it will get seven million pounds in costs and damages from former DJ Chris Evans who last month lost his case against SMG which sacked him."
London Indie Clubs
a guide to (gulp) London indie clubs - I concur; the Loony Toons @ the dome is sh*te.
July 27, 2003
slaps
The good old schoolboy game of slaps made for the web. (link stolen from b3ta). Now how about a version of mercy?
Testing the Zempt weblogging, winamp-supporting
Testing the Zempt weblogging, winamp-supporting what am I listening to plugin. Get it from MS and minimal verbosity
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Mozilla pop-up protection
The best feature of the mozilla pop-up advert protection is the ability to play a sound everytime a window is blocked - may I recommend pop.wav from 3dcafe.com.
July 26, 2003
XUL Channels
XUL RSS Aggregator (mozilla only, of course). Nerd Rating: 10/10
Optical illusion
The most annoying Optical Illusion ever!
Hardest sportsperson of all time
The hardest sportsperson? [BBC News]
Some choice selections...
David Beckham. Being tripped up all the time. He looks like he is in agony, but he still manages to get up an play on.
Keith, Wales
Gary Childs, former Grimsby Town player, does it for me. I remember once seing him on the training field retrieving a ball from waste land behind the goal.
Not only was he stung eight times by nettles, but also received a violent gnatt bite. He just carried on as normal.
Ben Westoby, Grantham
Super Empty Ball
Super Monkey Ball for pcs: Super Empty Ball
July 25, 2003
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The little pictures that are appearing
these pictures are due to a combination of my cameraphone, my server, movable type and a script written by yoz.
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PerlMagick woes
Very important: when you are attempting to install PerlMagick (the perl extensions for ImageMagick) make sure the version of the perl module and the version of ImageMagick installed on your system (rpm -qi ImageMagick-devel and look at the README.txt in the PerlMagick tarball) are compatible... otherwise you will enter a world of compilation errors, xs problems & pain.
strip carriage returns in emacs
...by doing CTRL-Q-M to insert them into a find-and-replace buffer
Migraine Inducer
Make your eyeballs twirl in the sockets with this image (900K!)
July 24, 2003
Great Moments in Popular Music #3
The twangy bass in Band Of Gold... close to the perfect song...
Great Moments in Popular Music #2
When Phil Oakey sings "however far it seems" in Together in Electric Dreams
July 23, 2003
Yahoo Messenger from behind a firewall
How to use Yahoo Messenger from behind a firewall (but with proxied access)
1. Download httptunnel, compile and install on a *nix machine you have handy on the net somewhere (this is the tricky bit).
2. Set httptunnel up to forward from an "allowed out" port (eg https 443 or snews 563) to yahoo's servers (scs.yahoo.com port 5050) like so:
hts --forward-port scs.yahoo.com:5050 563
3. Set up your messenger client with the address & port of your server. ie your.machine.com port 563.
4. (optional) Firewall off the port so only you can connect to it
Great Moments in Popular Music #1
...the "bongo drum" bit in Everlasting Love by Robert Knight
July 22, 2003
Hotels in NYC
Ameritania Hotel in New York is apparently a very good deal (from $125, thanks to haddock.org).
Michael Jackson makes sense shocker
Jackson attacks music piracy bill - Michael Jackson makes sense shocker
And now a test post from http://mozblog.mozdev.
And now a test post from http://mozblog.mozdev.org/
July 21, 2003
first post to movable type
bored with greymatter, trying movable type...
July 20, 2003
Normally I Enjoy Your Pornographic Web Site...
The Onion | Normally I Enjoy Your Pornographic Web Site, But This Time You've Gone Too Far
July 19, 2003
Umax Mpeg4 Divx Dvd Player Dvx5500
Umax Mpeg4 Divx Dvd Player Dvx5500
VFD display MPEG4 /DivX /XviD/DVD/SVCD/VCD/CD/MP3/DVD-R/DVD-RW/CD-R/CD-RW/Kodak CD readable MPEG-1, MPEG-2 MP ML, MPEG-4 Advanced Simple Profile Level 5
Video decoding Dolby Digital, MPEG-1 Layers 1, 2 and 3 (MP3) Audio decoding PAL/NTSC/MULTI TV system compatible fast and slow motion play memory and program mode remote control supports 32 subtitle languages.
OSD menu in English/German/French multi angle function, 8 bits full-screen OSD 4 zoom-in / zoom-out functions supports 4:3 & 16:9 TV format Progressive Scan Video output
July 18, 2003
July 17, 2003
July 16, 2003
Automatic music hating generator
Automatic music hating generator
userv
su / sudo alternative: userv; for giving users' other permissions
July 15, 2003
annoying LS_COLORS
fed up with ls using obscure colours. try this setting in your .bash_profile...
export LS_COLORS="no=00:fi=00:di=01;34:ln=01;36:pi=40;33:so=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=40;31;01:ex=01;32:*.tar=01;31:*.tgz=01;31:*.arj=01;31:*.taz=01;31:*.lzh=01;31:*.zip=01;31:*.z=01;31:*.Z=01;31:*.gz=01;31:*.bz2=01;31:*.deb=01;31:*.rpm=01;31:*.jpg=01;35:*.png=01;35:*.gif=01;35:*.bmp=01;35:*.ppm=01;35:*.tga=01;35:*.xbm=01;35:*.xpm=01;35:*.tif=01;35:*.png=01;35:*.mpg=01;35:*.avi=01;35:*.fli=01;35:*.gl=01;35:*.dl=01;35:"
http://www.smokingcures.com/
In the spirit of fakefags, get the same thing for free from smoking cures
July 14, 2003
Greatest Compilation in the world ever...
Greatest Compilation in the world ever...
01 - The Shangri-Las - Leader Of The Pack.mp3
02 - Electric Six Feat Jack White - Danger (High Voltage).mp3
03 - The Rapture - I Need Your Love.mp3
04 - Sir Mix Alot - Baby's Got Back.mp3
05 - Madness - Reel 2 Real - Madness Like To Move It.mp3
06 - Justin Timberlake - Rock Your Body.mp3
07 - The Clash - Rock The Casbah.mp3
08 - Crazy In Love - Beyonce Feat. Jay-Z.mp3
09 - Sean Paul - Get Busy.mp3
10 - The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army.mp3
11 - Lionel Richie - All Night Long.mp3
12 - Lcd Soundsystem - Losing My Edge.mp3
13 - Hot Hot Heat - Bandages.mp3
14 - Edwin Starr - War.mp3
15 - The Rapture - House Of Jealous Lovers.mp3
16 - Laura Greene - Moonlight, Music And You.mp3
17 - Prince - Erotic City.mp3
probably not, still kept me busy
July 12, 2003
July 11, 2003
July 10, 2003
Residents angry over naming of Naked Arse Centre
Residents of a German town are protesting at the name of their new community centre - which translates literally as the Naked Arse Centre.
Town councillors in Krov, in the Mosel region, voted to name it Nacktarschhalle after their most popular wine, the Krover Nacktarsch.
But many of the town's 2,500 citizens, including mayor Elmar Trossen, are furious at the name.
Mr Trossen, 64, said: "Can you imagine being invited to a wedding reception or holding a classical concert at the Naked Arse Centre?"
But the mayor, who was out-voted 11 to four on the name, will have to grin and bear it as the the official inauguration of the £2.7 million centre will go ahead as planned on Friday.
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_797929.html?menu=news.quirkies
July 08, 2003
MyRSS
Create RSS channels from any page with MyRSS. Then view them with aggreg8 for mozilla.
