1000 degrees below zero - Gwen Heliou

Wow ! The title says it all. Play it online, download it… That’s worth a link for sure !

Featuring: 01. Neorev - Crank this shit up // 02. SHAPER - Delta7 // 03. Joiker - FuckingToefl // 04. Charrlybomb - Bang-Strikes // 05. PoisonPro - Reason of my Life // 06. Devolved - Blanked // 07. Trans4mer - Thin Sleazy // 08. Benefit of the Boomerang - Lo Fi Paranoia // 09. Subwoofer - Dirty Bomb // 10. FB Force - Chatters // 11. Art of pleasure - Pwd 120333 // 12. Aquila - The streets // 13. Kolano- Shining

By the way (That’s becoming a tradition to mix topics and add lines at the bottom of my entries), here’s an excellent site dedicated to indie music (Various styles, downtempo, math rock, breakbeat, house, experimental, etc…). I’ve browsed it for years now, and it’s still up !! Epitonic.com
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Not bad, even if I prefered some older piecse of their (This one is from “Reise Reise”). But worth seeing. Here’s the video.
Here is another Rammstein’s video: “Ohne Dich” video.

Well, that’s obviously out of topic, but it you’ll find some more interesting clips on this german site (viva.tv). Try a clic on “Webclips” at the bottom of each pages for a listing): Placebo video clips, Chemical brothers videos, U2, Depeche mode… You’re old enough to find more. Have fun.

http://www.amanitadesign.com/samorost/ & http://questfortherest.com/ are 2 lovely, well done, puzzle games. Give them a try, I guess you won’t regret. I played them a while ago, and forgot about them.
But Garry, a friend, just sent me the links and I felt the pleasure to re-discover their graphism and simplicity. Hop, I’ve just sent these links to my girlfriend, to disturb her in her homework.

Have a look at that. It’s exploiting FLick galleries and geographical position to set a full USA map filled with pictures. I’m not on the floor but the idea is pretty good. Too bad there are people on the pictures, though.

Have a look at his speech. Try to stuff your 30 seconds attention span and read a part of it. It’s Douglas Adams, dammit! That’s worth the effort.
You can also dig the bottom links (Biota), there are quite interesting informations (But really awfull CG) about artificial life.

I need this clock very badly. You know, the kind of things you have to solve in order to stop it (A 4 pieces jiggsaw puzzle actually, for 3 years old babies. A bit ambitious and challenging for me in the morning, though). Funny idea. It reminds me a clock which was inserted into a plastic ball. You just had to throw it through the room to snooze it… After a while, it restarted to ring, under some furniture, out of reach. Brilliant !

Here’s a huge database of japanese objects manual and pictures. If you fell you need some sharp edge, 70-80′ inspiration, that’s here.

Wow… That’s seems to be again some kind of 80′ish thinguy, but look at that! It’s tinier, it’s almost like a real watch. It’s the latest Fossil wrist PDA, reviewed. Some of their watches were interesting, when I was looking for a new one, but at last, they were too big (And I’ve bought a sober Nike triaxC5 instead). Sob, I’ll wait for some inserted data processing technology into my mastoid bone, then. Not a problem, I’ve already been waiting for the last 20 years.
Source, Gizmodo

Nice video, from UVfactory at this location (Quicktime) : http://www.petemiser.com/mov/scent_of_a_robot.mov. It’s a cool mix of 3D and live action footage. Even if I’m not into rap music, that’s interesting. Source site here.
I can’t find much information about UVfactory actually…

It’s one of the things the author and his girlfriend argued about… Go to his site, buy his books, enjoy.
I was writing about that in the last entry and felt I should add a short example of it. Read this.

“The TV Remote. It is only by epic self-discipline on both our parts that we don’t argue about the TV Remote to the exclusion of all else. It does the TV Remote a disservice to suggest that it is only the cause of four types of argument, but space, you will understand, is limited so I must concentrate on the main ones.
1) Ownership of the TV Remote: this is signified by its being on the arm of the chair/sofa closest to you - it is more important than life itself.
2) On those blood-freezing occasions when you look up from your seat to discover that the TV Remote is still lying on top of the TV, then one of you must retrieve it; who shall it be? And how will this affect (1)?
3) Disappearance of the TV Remote. Precisely who had it last will be hotly disputed, witnesses may be called. Things can turn very nasty indeed when the person who isn’t looking for it is revealed to be unknowingly sitting on it.
4) The TV Remote is a natural nomad and sometimes, may the Lord protect us, it goes missing for whole days. During these dark times, someone must actually, in an entirely literal sense, get up to change the channel; International Law decrees that this, “will not be the person who did it last” - but can this be ascertained? Without the police becoming involved?” […]

Sorry for the hollow discussion with myself, below. Especially in english, which isn’t even my second language, as you have already noticed.

First, I need to explain. Nostalgia, nostalgia & SF ? what is this all about? I’m a Sci-Fi fan, for sure, like many other people. My mother gave me some SF books when I was 10, then I became quickly a huge reader. When I started anthropology courses in college, I was a big fan of John Brunner (And most of the cyberpunk wave too, even if most of the authors would deny being involved in any wave. Gibson, Sterling, and many others, many french authors too). John Brunner was one of my favorite of course. An old man, doing some prospective fiction, a mix of politics and ecology. He wrote about worms in the “net” before the internet (The shockwave rider), he wrote about strange aliens trying to escape their own planet for centuries (The crucible of time), he wrote about polititcs and human rights (Black is the color, Stand in Zanzibar, The squares oif the city), and/or ecology too (”The sheep look up” - Of course!). There’s plenty of room inside my brain filled with his stories, and I owe this man many passionate hours, and much more reflexions.

I’m reading “House Harkonnen” at this moment, and even if it’s pleasant, interesting because of the insight into Dune’s backstory, there’s nothing to compare with Brunner’s stories. In fact, I only felt the same pleasure once when I read Snowcrash for the first time (And then many other Neal Stephenson’s books such as “Diamond age” or “Cryptonomicon”…)… It’s late, and I miss Brunner. But I won’t cry. I can’t wait for the latests Stephenson’s book to be translated in french. Because I feel no pleasure in reading a book in english, even if I can. A movie is ok, but not a book and I can’t say why. I tried with Mil Millington’s book “Things my girlfriend and I have argued about”, and it was a disaster, even if the book is delightfull… Well, in brief (what a joke), where’s the “Baroque cycle” in french ? Please, somebody, if you’ve already read it, drop me a line. Thx.

I do not know why, but it’s working again, thanks to Lucas Janin. I probably messed in the php file without noticing and then assumed, after some slight modifications and flast rollbacks, that the file was still working. By the way, the Atom feed is also working well. Have a nice day.