From the monthly archives:

March 2008

Muxing Around With Justin Ouellette’s Music Muxtape

by Dietrich on 26/03/2008 · 0 comments

in Music, News

MuxTape

Have been a fan of Justin’s photography for a while, and was delighted to mux around with his mixtape 2.0 idea he recently released, Muxtape. The site is a tad bit slow at the moment, but the app is simple with a clean interface. Here are five tracks to settle you into a nice evening of chinscratching.

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Medievally Painful Russian Interview of Richard D James ( Aphex Twin ) Circa 1994

by Dietrich on 26/03/2008 · 0 comments

in Music

Complete with gruesome pale green hue, fluctuating horrid volumes, interrogative questioning and shoddy translation, our noble Richard bears through it all. Unless you are fluent in Russian, one can only imagine what the interviewer and translator are laughing about much of the time. It would be interesting to hear from anyone who speaks Russian and can translate what the fellows are going on about.YouTube Preview Image[youtube]http://youtube.com/watch?v=zZ896COdVG8&feature=related[/youtube] 

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Ingesting Psychedelic Drugs Makes You A Fine Artist

March 26, 2008

Nine drawings created by an artist after being dosed LSD suggest psychedelic drugs have a powerful effect on ones creative abilities, sometimes transforming the user into a fine artist within hours. At 85 minutes the artist remarks: “I can see you clearly, so clearly. This… you… it’s all … I’m having a little trouble controlling this [...]

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Socks and Sandal Theory: As Applied To The E8 Group

March 25, 2008

A close-up of the E8 group’s extensive use of socks and sandals.
Earlier this year, we gave the Chinscratcher Award For The Sexiest Mathematic Theory Of 2007 to “The E8 Root System”. In that article, I examined the use of “Socks and Sandals” by the theoretical mathematicians involved. To be honest, I was not aware that [...]

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Heroic Failure Represented In A Visual Fashion, Often To Humourous Effect

March 24, 2008

Further visual representations of failure can be seen on the Fail Blog.

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Ninjas Can Ride Trains For Free In Japan

March 22, 2008

Ninjas will be given free travel along Japan’s Iga Tetsudo line from April 1 to May 6 to mark the city’s popular ninja festival. However, other passengers may not even be aware that there are ninjas aboard the train. 

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Eternal Golden Pop Culture Geometry Discovered In The Amen Break

March 19, 2008

A ubiquitous drum solo of 5.20 seconds, 4 bars, The Amen Break, has been found to posses characteristics nearly identical to the Golden Ratio. Michael S. Schneider expounds on the Golden Proportion and the Amen Break and points out concepts such as the peaks of the Amen Break corresponding directly with Golden Ratio intervals, fractal [...]

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Ceephax: Merry Prankster of Meta

March 18, 2008

Ceephax lives the life of meta to the fullest! Apparently he was saving his finest acid for the Rephlex label, because his latest albums, Volume 1 and Volume 2 are a treat. Standout tracks for me are “Vulcan Venture” and “Texaco Gang”. Ceephax might not be aware of this – but he has a mighty [...]

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Epically Evolved Human Machine Interfacing

March 18, 2008

Elite shivering joysticks, magnetic levitation devices, techno-basin shaped interfaces, complex algorithms, remote controlled machines and reflexive mechanical force feedback controllers are just the beginning of what comes as a result of the development of Haptic apparatuses. Haptics, the science and technology of tactile sensations is explored in this article by Daniel H. Wilson at Popular [...]

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Kentaro Tasogare’s Highway High

March 14, 2008
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