WPTS Playlist 7-31-06
31-Jul-06
1. terry riley - A Rainbow in Curved Air (18:46)
2. Manuel Gottsching - Echo Waves (17:47)
3. Alan Licht - Bridget O’Riley (21:26)
4. Charlemagne Palestine - strumming music (11:06)
5. Phill Niblock - Guitar Too, For Four (30:22)
6. Rafael Toral - Wave Field 5 (31:37)
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House passes DOPA.
28-Jul-06
By a 410-15 vote on Thursday July 27, the House of Representatives has passed the DOPA (Delete Online Predators Act), an extension of the Communications Act. This bill seeks to cut the use of social networks in schools and libraries in order to stop online predators. However, the phrasing of the bill is such that any commercial website that provides blogs, user profiles, chat or other online discussion is included! This potentially means that not only MySpace but Blogger, LiveJournal, the Wikipedia, 1up.com and thousands of other commercial websites with bulletin boards or user accounts will be blocked by schools and libraries lest they risk the loss of Federal E-Rate Funding.
Great article by Declan McCCullagh here, discussing the politics that got this bill passed, as well as its ramifications.
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Battle Royale (with cheese)
26-Jul-06
Kevin is scared.
Jason is desperate.
I’m not sure which is worse. Ultimately I think Calacanis is right- there is plenty of room for both sites. They serve very disparate audiences and despite Digg’s attempts at branch out (Sports section anyone?), they will probably always been known as a tech news site frequented by tech news fans. With that said, paying contributors is a desperate act, and it remains to be seen whether social news will be suited to it. Personally I think its a great idea as long as it doesn’t slowly revert to a site where users can only vote on articles an elite group of writers contribute.
This may well end up in the destruction of social news. Especially if the other sites start taking the paid contributor bait.
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WPTS Playlist 7-24-06
24-Jul-06
- 1. Four Tet - Pockets (5:02)
2. Dub Trio - Illegal Dub (3:18)
3. Girl Talk - Friday Night (3:12)
4. Jackson (Of Grand Bufffet) - Only The Good Cy Young (2:20)
5. Gnarls Barkley - St Elsewhere (2:30)
6. Stereolab - Plastic Mile (5:11)
7. Matmos - Semen Song for James Bidgood (5:02)
8. Ms. John Soda - A Nod on Hold (2:44)
9. Belle and Sebastian - Song For Sunshine (4:06)
10. Mia Doi Todd - Norwegian Wood (2:56)
11. Phoenix - Courtesy Laughs (3:14)
12. THOM YORK - Black Swan (Clean) (4:49)
13. TV On The Radio - I Was A Lover (4:23)
14. Zombi - Digitalis (4:38)
15. Jesu - Silver (6:46)
16. Don Caballero - Mmmmm Acting, I Love Me Some Good Acting (5:54)
17. Natura Nasa - Bad Phone (6:01)
18. Mission Of Burma - Nancy Reagan’s Head (4:35)
19. Verlaine, Tom - Eighty Eights (3:35)
20. Vale And Year - Balcony (2:25)
21. beirut - the bunker (3:13)
22. Destroyer - Painter in Your Pocket (4:10)
23. Developer - Canada Day (2:36)
24. Phil Boyd - The Axeman of the Glass Forest (3:37)
25. Richard Bishop - Romany Trail (5:00)
26. Daniel Johnston - Man Obsessed (1:18)
27. Lisa Germano - Too Much Space (2:53)
28. Sonic Youth - Jams Run Free (3:52)
29. mark lanegan & isobel campbell - black mountain (3:10)
30. Neko Case - Margaret Vs. Pauline (2:52)
31. Robert Pollard - Island Of Lost Lucys (2:34)
Imix Here.
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Busy
24-Jul-06
Been very busy lately with the podcast. We now have three contributors and two new episodes nearing completion. Still lots to do, but we’re slowly making real progress.
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It is spreading.
19-Jul-06
Ignorance, that is. First Ted and now this: Rick Santorum was on NPR this morning talking about why he voted against the Stem Cell Bill. Apparently it’s because he’s a scientist and knows that stem cells won’t provide the answers researchers are looking for and as soon as they discern that they will start aborting human babies- because they’re older than stem cells. Adding to his reasoning: Since they already do this with animals it’s the next logical step, obviously.
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The great corrupting force of evil
18-Jul-06
Microsoft acquires Winternals and Sysinternals
What a complete and total bummer. I’ve been using sysinternals tools for all sorts of things. Pstools, rootkitrevealer, process explorer, newsid, bginfo- all these tools are well made, easy to use and best of all they’re free. Hopefully Microsoft won’t change them too much. I’d like to see them distributed as a new set of PowerToys, if nothing else.
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Residual cubes
18-Jul-06
WPTS Playlist Monday July 17, 2006
17-Jul-06
1. Stars of the Lid - The Atomium Part One (5:32)
2. 1 Mile North - The Sick (6:13)
3. Fahey, John - A Raga Called Pat, Part IV (4:28)
4. Ethiopiques - Teshome Meteku / Hasabe (3:58)
5. Nick Drake - From The Morning (2:30)
6. Numbers, The - Track 08 (3:53)
7. Postal Service, The - Such Great Heights (4:26)
8. Stereolab - Emperor Tomato Ketchup (4:37)
9. Aimee Mann - Save Me (4:35)
10. Animal Collective, The - Prospect Hummer (4:40)
11. Belle & Sebastian - Judy And The Dream Of Horses (3:40)
12. Broadcast - The World Backwards (4:00)
13. Charles Mingus - Fable Of Faubus (8:13)
14. Erykah Badu - I Want You (10:53)
15. DJ Shadow - Midnight In A Perfect Wo (9:50)
16. Gas - Klang (6:06)
17. De La Soul - A Roller Skating Jam Called Saturdays (4:01)
18. Dinosaur Jr. - The Lung (3:53)
19. Young Mens Department - Twenty-Sided Die Suite (5:45)
20. Daniel Johnston - The Sun Shines Down On Me (2:03)
21. Marvin Gaye - Mercy Mercy Me (The Ecology) (3:07)
22. Modern Lovers, The - Old World (4:03)
23. Pinback - Tripoli (4:30)
24. Shins, the - Know Your Onion! (2:29)
25. Talk Talk - Eden (7:40)
Here are some of the tracks as an iMix.
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