Rapidgator.net is down. Allegedly disconnected by their upstream provider. Meanwhile uploaded.to is working but with a lot of broken links. Something going on?
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history does not repeat itself but it rhymes

The future is not just unevenly distributed but also nauseous.
http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2012/05/09/welcome-to-the-future-nauseous/
Well worth reading, this. It meets and exceeds considerably my "interestingness criteria" in terms of ideas per paragraph.

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When did Schweppes Indian Tonic get so sweet? Was it when I started drinking Fevertree, Fentiman's or the best of the lot (so far), http://www.1724tonic.com/

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Lone - Galaxy Garden
Somehow or other my music feeds dragged me towards Lone's (aka Matt Cutler) latest full length album "Galaxy Garden" that's just been released. RA gave it a 4/5 and xl8r and factmag reviews were appreciative. Check last.fm and Pitchfork (8.2) and it looks good enough for a listen and not obviously out of my taste range.

http://www.xlr8r.com/reviews/lone/galaxy-garden
http://www.residentadvisor.net/review-view.aspx?id=10913
http://www.factmag.com/2012/05/09/lone-galaxy-garden-2/
http://www.last.fm/music/Lone
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/16578-galaxy-garden/
Lone - Crystal Caverns 1991

A quick rar download later (do your own google search!) and I find my self listening to something that is full of Arp synth stabs, neo-Bukem drum breaks and it has that MID-RANGE CLARITY and cleanliness that is like stabbing your eardrums with icicles. Then I noticed the reference in one of the reviews to Rustie and Glass Swords that made it into a lot of people's top 10 albums of 2011.
http://thequietus.com/articles/07196-rustie-glass-swords-review
Rustie - After Light
I think I'm missing something here because I found that genuinely painful to listen to. Then I remembered that Reynolds (as usual) had nailed this at the end of last year in an article he did on Electronic Maximalism.
http://pitchfork.com/features/articles/8721-maximal-nation/

This isn't the stripped down sub-bass and snare/handclap of dance, this is producers showing off with just how much of the kitchen sink they can throw into the mix and still keep control of it. With no vinyl hiss, muddy reverb, sample distortion or noise floor. This isn't about feeling the emotion, it's about thinking your way to IDM enlightenment. Now I generally love IDM but this is too cold for me.

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Chris Walker wins a BSB race after 12 years
Brings a tear to the eye!

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Brewdog's Hardcore IPA, Punk IPA and 5am Saint available in selected Sainsburys. That'll do nicely.

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TheFuture.fm Not sure if this is clever or not. It seems to be stuck with the usual out of date genres labels, and no mention of London as the music mix capital of the world? Worth a look though.

Also, it's got a silly name.

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Arrr! Me Hearties! Anyone up for a game of wack-a-mole?

http://labaia.ws/
http://www.fucktimkuik.org/
http://getmagnetlink.comuf.com/index_eng.php

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MotoGP begins in Jerez. This is where the story really starts. Wet practice, wet race?

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Loving this album. It reminds me strongly of Can, Tangerine Dream, Manuel Göttsching and even 70s UK prog rockers like Clearlight Sympathy. It's got that ambient techno feel of somebody endlessly tweaking knobs and faders but with a 2012 bass and clarity.

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The pros and cons of using crowd sourcing to help musicians eat and survive.

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Searching Blogger Comments
How can I find all the posts in Blogger that I've commented on and then find all the comments posted since mine?
The Disqus dashboard makes this fairly easy but I can't find anything similar on Blogger. Am I just not looking hard enough?

Then there's Facebook comments. This process is pretty much impossible there. Old comments seem to just fade away. Same goes for G+
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"We're not seeing the clock turned back to 1912, before the graduated income tax was enacted; we're seeing it turned back to Imperial Rome, where I think it was Seneca who said, "There's no use giving food to the starving. It'll just prolong their miserable lives." Rabbi Hertz quotes him. The Roman attitude was that being hungry, poor, and sick, you deserved to die anyway. Aristotle, Plato, Virgil, Seneca and all of these people, don't even include it as a virtue -- they actually include it as a vice, that you would help the needy. We're now seeing a return to the old imperial system of, "Let the disadvantaged sink to the bottom, let 'em die." This is so tragic and so inhumane.
http://facesonposters.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/last-words.html
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So farewell then, Ceefax
38 years is a pretty good run for a blocky text only technology. 40 years ago, my electronics teacher was the first person outside the BBC to build a receiver. Although Keith's mum could never quite work out the green and red buttons as she was colour blind.

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USA thinks it has the power to take down any .com or .org domain

Anyone else (especially outside the USA) a bit bothered by this?

the seizure of popular cyberlocker Megaupload demonstrates that, even without controversial new legislation, our [USA, sic] government already has extraordinarily broad powers to take down U.S.-registered websites (including any site in the .com and .org domains) before anyone has been tried for illegal conduct, let alone convicted.

The Megaupload indictment suggests that the U.S. government considers a wide array of cyberlocker business practices to be ipso facto evidence of criminal intentions, even though there are arguably legitimate reasons for many of them. Yet the government doesn’t think it has to wait for a trial, or give the folks who run a site an opportunity to explain their practices, before seizing an entire domain—which would be an effective death sentence for many startups.

seeAlso
http://www.cato-at-liberty.org/fbi-reminds-us-government-already-has-megapower-to-take-down-websites/

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A letter from the 2011 edge.

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What's the point to "Nearby" in G+ Mobile, if all the posts are from me, or they're reshares of my posts by people on the other side of the world?

And why don't people geo-tag their posts, in general?
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What's the best platform for building a public personal profile page?

It should collect all my posts and all my comments from all the networks and forums I'm on. It should show my status on the stats systems like Peerindex, Klout, Backtype, EmpireAvenue.

It should have basic personal detail and links to my profiles all over the web (the YASN-Roll).
generic cialis
It should show my location and presence from things like Latitude, Foursquare, Skype and so on.

And finally it should have some basic skinning and customisation so I can make it my own.

This is all aimed at being a page that represents me on the web for other people to find, read and add comments to.

Now clearly, Ecademy is an option as we've already got a lot of this, but what about elsewhere? Friendfeed? About.me? Flavours.me? Google Profile? And what about the walled gardens like Facebook that don't allow their content to be exported. Even building a custom site using wordpress or such like with loads of plugins is a major undertaking and can't do a lot of this. Things like Friendfeed are pretty good at aggregating the content but haven't caught up with new services like Peerindex. And location is still a complete mess with precious little export of information.

I've asked this question on Quora, Buzz, Twitter, Friendfeed and Facebook. We'll see if it gets any answers anywhere. Feel free to answer there as well! [from: JB Ecademy]