Saturday, November 09, 2002

The whole thing about the big corporations killing filesharing has me very perplexed. I cannot understand how they can completely stop something like this.
We have something like PGP, which offers anonymous encryption (anonymity being one of the most important features of being "online"), can't we apply pgp/gnupg to something like file transfers? Couldn't mp3 transfers be anonymously encrypted? KDX does a similar thing, but it of course uses only one (unknown) type of encryption. Can "they" really stop "us" from freely transferring whatever the hell we want?
I don't understand how that could happen, but the proliferation of copyright control (something only business men care about) does worry me. I feel powerless in doing anything about it. Online petitions seem useless. Am I to be crushed by the big polished shoe of corporate america?

The first register article Akin posted seems childish and asinine to me. Do they think such immature behaviour is appropriate, and for that matter effective? It just shows how ridiculous the industry is.

All of this seems due to corporations owning art. That trend seems to be waning nowadays for any art that actually matters. Will, then, this still be a problem later down the road? Obviously yes for works of the past but still... something for me (and you?) to ponder.
posted by Barrie , 8:02 AM Þ 
Friday, November 08, 2002

posted by captain davros , 9:30 PM Þ 

In short, we all may lose our ability to share digital media unless we speak up.

While there are problems with the Directive and its UK implementation which may only be interesting to a copyright lawyer (and I am one), there is one provision in particular which should scare everyone (except a few global media conglomerates). A new section is proposed for the Copyrights, Designs & Patents Act 1988 entitled “XXX.” The XXX provision will virtually eliminate all vestiges of fair dealing, and eventually of file sharing.

Here's why. Music and film companies are doing everything they can to eliminate file sharing (just look at what happened to Napster). One of the weapons in their arsenal is technological measures to protect their files -- encryption, copy protection, etc -- ie, digital locks. Previously, however, it was not entirely clear that fashioning or distributing a key to that lock (ie, a decryption code like DeCSS) without the media company's authority would actually be illegal. The EU's new Copyright Directive mandates that member states make it illegal, but does leave some wiggle room (if you're really interested in some of the background to this and why the Directive might itself be illegal, see the article here).

The UK had at least two choices under the Directive -- put the burden of protecting consumer rights on the global media companies (where it belongs) or put the burden on consumers. The Patent Office has made its choice – and is putting the burden squarely on consumers. Under proposed provision XXX, if you buy a CD which is copy-protected, and it doesn't play in your computer disc drive, or won't download to your MP3 player, your only remedy will be to send a letter of complaint to the Secretary of State.

The Register
posted by Irdial , 7:53 PM Þ 

"If you plan to continue protesting about future audio media releases with copy protection, forget it; copy protection is a reality, and within a matter of months more or less all audio media worldwide are copy protected. And this is a good thing for the music industry. In order to make this happen we will do anything within our power - whether you like it or not."

The Register
posted by Irdial , 7:49 PM Þ 

"(U.S. President George W.) Bush: who are you, you little dwarf, to threaten (the prophet) Mohammad and the sons of Mohammad?"  "Who are you, perverts of the world? Who are you sons of monkeys and pigs, to threaten the nation of Mohammad?"
Sheikh Bakr Abdelrazzak Samaraei at the Mother of All Battles mosque.

http://abcnews.go.com
posted by Irdial , 4:44 PM Þ 



from the Dark Beloved Cloud records website:

DBC236 Fat Day's Fat Day IV CD



Boston's insane art-hardcore veterans Fat Day included an "Order Your Own Fat Day Song!" postcard with their album Burrega! This is the result of the postcards they got back: 21 songs written by 21 Fat Day fans. It's the accomplishment of their career, one of the most alien punk records ever made: they've taken a stylistic leap in all directions at once, and the result is pretty incredible. It took two years to make, culminating in a sewer-pipe rupture that covered their entire studio and all of their equipment in human feces. As they put it, "so Fat Day it hurts." You can see all the original postcards and other "scores" check out the cards here--we recommend it very highly. $10 postpaid.
posted by Josh Carr , 3:46 PM Þ 

According to observers of the intelligence community the shortwave network might be home to something more serious than Afghan folk music and reassurances of US goodwill. An unconfirmed, (and presently unconfirmable) report suggests that UK media have been asked to drop reports on the use of so-called 'Numbers Stations'.

These use otherwise incomprehensible strings of code numbers, broadcast by shortwave to agents and special forces in the field.

According to communications from one authoratative source, the British government is using its famous D Notice system to 'persuade' British papers not to report on the numbers' stations use. Under the D Notice system newspaper editors are advised informally that publication of certain information is potentially hazardous to the country's defence (hence the 'D' in D Notice).

Afghanistan: On-air supremacy
posted by Irdial , 11:47 AM Þ  

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posted by captain davros , 10:02 AM Þ 

"TUNJA, Colombia Nov. 8 — The former head of the cartel that dominated the world's cocaine trade walked free from prison after serving only half his sentence, despite frantic efforts by U.S. and Colombian authorities to find new charges against him to block his release."

No doubt he is now on the [US][CI]A deathlist.

ABC News
posted by Irdial , 9:44 AM Þ 
Thursday, November 07, 2002
posted by Irdial , 6:30 PM Þ 
posted by Irdial , 4:18 PM Þ 

flash crowd

Larry Niven's 1973 SF short story "Flash Crowd" predicted that one consequence of cheap teleportation would be huge crowds materializing almost instantly at the sites of interesting news stories. Twenty years later the term passed into common use on the Internet to describe exponential spikes in website or server usage when one passes a certain threshold of popular interest (what this does to the server may also be called slashdot effect).
posted by Irdial , 2:06 PM Þ 

http://www.windows1984.com

November 1, 2002.

The aim of this website is to draw attention to issues, particularly those related to personal computer use, which threaten to bring us closer to the dystopian nightmare of George Orwell's novel, 1984.
posted by Irdial , 1:58 PM Þ 

The truth is not one
Nor is it five
But it is both of these things
And at least three more besides.
posted by Irdial , 11:06 AM Þ 
posted by Irdial , 10:52 AM Þ 


Kembrew McLeod
Conceptual, 1998

In 1998, Kembrew McLeod trademarked the phrase "Freedom of Expression" and created a zine with that title. He enlisted a friend, Brendan Love, to pose as the publisher of an imaginary punk rock magazine also called Freedom of Expression, whom he then pretended to sue. McLeod hired a lawyer and didn't let her in on the hoax. The lawyer sent a cease-and-desist letter to Love:

We represent Kembrew McLeod of Sunderland, Massachusetts, the owner of the federally registered trademark, FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION ... Your company has been using the mark Freedom of Expression ... Such use creates a likelihood of confusion in the market and also creates a substantial risk of harm to the reputation and goodwill of our client. This letter, therefore, constitutes formal notice of your infringement of our client’s trademark rights and a demand that you refrain from all further use of Freedom of Expression.

Shortly thereafter, the Daily Hampshire Gazette ran an interview with McLeod. He played it straight, telling the paper, "I didn't go to the trouble, the expense and the time of trademarking Freedom of Expression just to have someone else come along and think they can use it whenever they want." Two years later, when McLeod asked to reprint the Gazette article in his book Owning Culture, the paper denied him permission.

Illegal Art
posted by Irdial , 10:24 AM Þ 

HTTP Error 403

403.6 Forbidden: IP address rejected

This error is caused when the server has a list of IP addresses that are not allowed to access the site, and the IP address you are using is in this list.

Please contact the Web server's administrator if the problem persists.
posted by Irdial , 9:40 AM Þ 

Mmmm, "America Is Waiting." Such a good song, from such a damned good album. Everyone should own a copy.
NO WILL WHATSOEVER
That really explains the horribly majority wins the republicans got in the midterm elections... sigh. Apathetic voters = suck.
posted by Barrie , 7:30 AM Þ 
Wednesday, November 06, 2002
posted by Josh Carr , 4:39 PM Þ 

That film is made by Bruce Conner, an incredible filmmaker that works almost entirely in found footage. I strongly urge you to seek out his other films if you dug America Is Waiting.
posted by Josh Carr , 4:24 PM Þ 

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posted by Irdial , 1:54 PM Þ 

The FBI Has Bugged Our Public Libraries - that is not that big a suprise! Everybody should know that - have you ever seen the movie 'Seven'?
Bugging public computers does not exsist in Denmark - I can gurantee that as a danish Librarian (in the US they have a lot of 'ureal' librarians, with no librarians educations). But I do not understand why FBI want to bug in on public computers - how can they see who searches for what? In denmark everybody can walk in from the street and just use a computer for free - nobody can see who browsed some nazipages or what ever... Only that somebody did it...So it is far more complicated to bug a public computer than a private... Or am I getting something all wrong?

By the way: I hate it when people gives this argument on big-brother-issues 'Well, I dont have anything to hide - they can bug me all they want'
Weak-ass-slave... Get a personality, privacy, values - and then try to get a life....Fuckin' robots!
posted by Alison , 1:36 PM Þ 

Thomas Paine's admonition that time makes more converts than reason was surely pertinent for the 18th Century and perhaps even the 20th, but in the first decade of this new century time is a luxury we do not have with regard to nuclear power and nuclear weapons. The United States still maintains a first-strike policy against Russia and has a strategy for targeting non-nuclear nations with nuclear weapons. The continuing risk of accidental or planned nuclear war and the depredations to the public health and the environment that nuclear power poses are imminent and unforgiving. The mere passing of months and years will not solve this problem. Instead we must act definitively and with urgency to bring reason - eloquent, focused, well-disseminated - back into public discourse via the mass media.

http://www.nuclearpolicy.org/
posted by Irdial , 1:33 PM Þ 

Osama Bin Kenobi gives the facts on the Predator.
posted by Irdial , 1:07 PM Þ 

Terrorists, 'Repent'

Yemeni leader appeals to al-Qaida
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

November 6, 2002

San'a, Yemen - Yemen's president urged al-Qaida members yesterday to "repent" after the weekend attack in which a U.S. Hellfire missile fired from a CIA plane killed the terrorist movement's top operative in the country.

"We call on everyone from among our countrymen who have been entangled in membership of the al-Qaida organization to repent ... and renounce all means of violence," President Ali Abdullah Saleh said in a statement read by a cabinet minister on national television.

Yemeni analysts said the statement was a signal that al-Qaida members who surrender would be tried in Yemen and not be turned over to U.S. authorities.

The president made no attempt to explain the circumstances of Sunday's incident, which killed six al-Qaida members, including Qaed Salim Sinan al-Harethi. Yemen is keen to shake off its image as a haven for Muslim militants but also reluctant to be seen as cooperating with the United States.

Also known as Abu Ali, al-Harethi was a longtime figure in al-Qaida who had eluded capture for months by hiding in the Yemeni desert and remote villages. [...]


Predator Pilot flying a mission

My emphasis. Photo from: http://www.afsouth.nato.int/images/Eagleimages.htm

Lets get this straight; the CIA has killed a man with a missile in Yemen?!

The gloves are off; "Murder Inc." is back in business!

*****************************

"The Swedish foreign minister, Anna Lindh, told the Swedish news agency TT: "If the USA is behind this with Yemen's consent, it is nevertheless a summary execution that violates human rights. If the USA has conducted the attack without Yemen's permission it is even worse. Then it is a question of unauthorised use of force.""

The Guardian
posted by Irdial , 11:55 AM Þ 

The FBI Has Bugged Our Public Libraries

November 3, 2002

Some reports say the FBI is snooping in the libraries. Is that really happening?

Yes. I have uncovered information that persuades me that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has bugged the computers at the Hartford Public Library. And it's probable that other libraries around the state have also been bugged. It's an effort by the FBI to obtain leads that it believes may lead them to terrorists.

Many members of the public regularly use computers in libraries to access the Internet for research purposes or to locate information about particular interests. It's also not uncommon for students and others to communicate with friends and relatives through e-mail from there.

The FBI system apparently involves the installation of special software on the computers that lets the FBI copy a person's use of the Internet and their e-mail messages. (Don't ask me how I know about this because I can't reveal how I was able to collect the information.) Members of the public who use the library have not been informed that the government is watching their activities. It's not just the computers. Circulation lists that show which books someone borrowed are also accessible to the government.

What are the Hartford librarians saying?

"I can't disclose that we were presented with anything," said Louise Blalock, Hartford's head librarian.

I asked Mary W. Billings, the library's technical services manager, if the FBI had given her a subpoena or a court order for library information. Her response: "I cannot answer that question."

She did confirm that in recent months the FBI made two separate visits to the Hartford Library, and there were discussions about "computer-related information." On one visit, an agent asked to speak to the library staff - a request that was turned down.

Interestingly, Billings said, "The library is now working on a public notice that it can't guarantee that there isn't third-party monitoring" for people who use its computers. A library staffer also remarked, "You know there is software that can grab everybody's Internet use."

I know my librarian, and I believe she would tell me if the government were tracking my computer use at the library. Don't you agree?

No way. There's a gag order. When the FBI uses a court order or a subpoena to gain access to library computers or a list of the names of people who have borrowed certain books, librarians can't tell anyone - not even other librarians or you. They face a stiff federal penalty if they do. It's unfair that librarians should be placed in such a position. [...]

Hartford Courant
posted by Irdial , 11:06 AM Þ 

http://www.livejournal.com/users/blood_art

Now if only the paintings were actually good... the physical limitations of blood allow one to make sketches, but not much more. And the fact that it dries black kind of kills the idea for any other colour to be added. A decent idea... but why not use red paint? Using actual blood is dreadfully limiting (not to mention that you can't mix it with anything).

Barrie, it's more the symbolic use of menstruation blood than the pictures it self - so they cant use red paint... hi hi... But it seems so oldschool feministic... The 'paintings' looks like something made by girls in high school... I am amazed...
posted by Alison , 8:16 AM Þ 

a very interesting post, from an interesting thread. however, i like the issues this deals with.
Lots of articles appear on slashdot about ISPs monitoring communications for the government, shutting sites down without authorization or anything resembling due process (important if you are a US citizen!), operating system and software vendors restricting freedoms, abuses of media by government PsyOps (ack!) organizations, media conglomerates manipulating editorials, ad nauseum.

While all of that may or may not be true, there is now a technology that can greatly reduce the reliance of the technically inclined and general populace alike on these large, controlled networks. This is the first time in history that a viable, high bandwidth technology can be bought into for a hundred bucks and some clever thought. The signifigance of that is not immediately apparent now, but I suspect it will become VERY important in the years to come.

If you really care about getting shafted by your ISP and care about free speech this is a avenue to pursue in addition to your standard channels of protest. Set up local networks! Once upon a time, we did this with modems, call forwarding lines, and crummy XTs. A bunch of kids trading software provoked national secret service investigations. Not with the internet, but with long distance phone calls. 802.11 is making being a ham radio operator interesting again - I can play with antennas and build networks on the cheap! At 11mbits to boot! When I was in high school, I thought the kenwood handheld and a battery operated packet modem was pretty pimp - and it cost me a lot more than a d-link pcmcia card!

If you live in a high density area, look at getting together a co-op for bandwidth. Distribute it on WiFi. Get people together and pool some cash. The networks are there, and once they're built, they only have to be connected. There is no reason that in 5 years, there can't be an alternative to commercial ISPs for bandwidth. Just as nobody thought the internet would work (what! no circuits! no central provide!), there is no evidence a widely distributed decentralized wireless network won't, either.

Security is a non starter. Make the network all-encompassing and encrypt your traffic.

Combine the technologies with something like Freenet (freenetproject.org), and you have a real motivator for social change (like it or not). Run more static nodes!

My $0.02. 802.11 isn't hyped enough.
posted by alex_tea , 3:07 AM Þ 
Tuesday, November 05, 2002

posted by Irdial , 6:48 PM Þ 

"The only way to treat them is [for] what they are - international killers. And the United States of America is just that."

http://www.nowarblog.org
http://www.thismodernworld.com/
http://www.viwuk.freeserve.co.uk/
http://www.stopwar.org.uk/
http://www.southern.net/southern/band/CRASS/
posted by alex_tea , 6:35 PM Þ 

http://www.livejournal.com/users/blood_art

Now if only the paintings were actually good... the physical limitations of blood allow one to make sketches, but not much more. And the fact that it dries black kind of kills the idea for any other colour to be added. A decent idea... but why not use red paint? Using actual blood is dreadfully limiting (not to mention that you can't mix it with anything).
posted by Barrie , 5:45 PM Þ 


Dehumanized Lie Dispenser


Hard Headed Harbinger of Evil
posted by Alun , 3:40 PM Þ 



LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Jonathan Harris, the flamboyantly fussy actor who portrayed the dastardly, cowardly antagonist Dr. Zachary Smith on the 1960's sci-fi show "Lost in Space," has died. He was 87.

Harris died Sunday from a blood clot in his heart while receiving therapy at an Encino-area hospital for a chronic back problem, family spokesman Kevin J. Burns said Monday.

The collected insults of Dr. Smith:

Addle Plated Armour Bearer
Animated Hunk of Machinery
Animated Weather Station
Arrogant Automation
As Protective as a Leaky Umbrella
Assassin
Astigmatic Automaton
Automated Oaf
Babbling Birdbrain
Babbling Bumpkin
Bellicose Bumpkin
Benedict Arnold
Big Mouth
Blithering Blatherskite
Blithering Booby
Blithering Bumpkin
Blundering Bag of Bolts
Booby
Book Making Booby
Broken down Has Been
Brutish Product of the Mineral World
Bubble Brain
Bubble Headed Booby
Bubble Head
Bulbous Bumpkin
Bumbling Bag of Bolts
Bumbling Birdbrain
Bumbling Booby
Bumbling Bucket of Bolts
Bumbling Cracker Barrel
Bumptious Booby
Bumptious Braggart
Bungler
Bungling Incompetent
Cackling Cacophony
Cackling Canister
Cackling Clod
Cackling Cuckoo
Cackling Coward
Cantankerous Clod
Cantankerous Cold Hearted Clod
Caterwauling Clod
Cautious Clump
Chattering Magpie
Clanking Clod
Clod
Clod Like Collection of Condensers
Clumsy Clod
Clumsy Clump
Clumsy Clout
Clunker
Complete Moron
Computerized Clod
Computerized Clump
Confused Compass
Coward
Cowardly Clump
Cumbersome Clump
Cybernetic Simpleton
Cybernetic Skeptic
Defective Detective
Dehumanized Lie Dispenser
Demented Diode
Deplorable Dummy
Deplorable Dunderhead
Despoty Dunce
Digitized Dunce
Dippity Dunce
Disreputable Dunce
Disreputable Dunderhead
Doddering Dunderhead
Doctor Dunderhead
Dunce
Dunderhead
Dundering Dolt
Elephantine Adam
Evasive Coward
Ferrous Frankenstein
Fiend in Tin clothing
Floundering Flunky
Fool
Foolish Fop
Frightful Fractious Frump
Frozen Eskimo
Fugitive from a Junk Heap
Fugitive from a Scrap Metal Yard
Fugitive from a Scrap Heap
Galumphing Gargoyle
Gargantuan Goose
Garrulous Gargoyle
Ghoul
Gigantic Gargoyle
Goose
Gregarious Gremlin
Hard Headed Harbinger of Death
Hard Headed Harbinger of Evil
Hardware Hyena
Hopeless Heap of Tainted Tin
Hulking Mass of Mechanical Ignorance
Hypertensive Hypochondriac
Idiot
Ignominious Ignoramus
Ill Informed Ignoramus
Impersonal Collection of Inanimate Hardware
Incompetent Idiot
Incompetent Walking Ingrate
Ineffective Ineptitude
Inept Goldbricker
Infamous Informer
Ingrate
Inguitive Ingratitude
Insensitive Brute
Insensitive Clump
Insensitive Idiot
Insensitive Machine
Insipient Aptitude
Iron Born Ingrate
Irresponsible Wine Bevier
Jabbering Jackanapes
Jabbering Jeremiah
Jabbering Judas
Judas
Juvenile Junk Pile
Know Nothing Numbskull
Lead Lined Lump
Lead Lined Lothario
Lily Livered Lump
Lily Livered Lead Lined Lump
Little Mother
Lugubrious Lump
Lugubrious Laggard
Ludicrous Lump
Mass of Fear
Mealy Mouthed Rogue
Mechanical Meddler
Mechanical Misery
Mechanical Misfit
Mechanical Murderer
Meddler
Medical School Dropout
Mediocre Misfit
Mental Midget
Mess of Metal
Metallic Murderer
Myna Bird
Miserable Mass of Metal
Miserable Mechanism
Misguided Mechanical Misery
Misshapen Mummy
Monster
Monstrous
Mechanized Misguided Moron
Monstrous Metallurgical Meddler
Monstrous Mountebank
Mister Wrongway Computer
Mumbling Mass of Metal
My Brave Hero
My Insensitive Friend
Nattering Ninny
Neanderthal Ninny
Negligent Ninny
Nervous Ninny
Nickel Plated Nincompoop
Nickeling Ninny
Nincompoop
Ninny
Noxious Ninny
Obsolete Piece of Scrap Metal
Obsolete Oaf
Old Booby
Overcautious Concoction
Overgrown Ninny
Oversized Oaf
Parsimonious Puppet
Pathetic Pomposity
Pedagogical Pipsqueak
Pitiable Pipsqueak
Palatalized Parrot
Pompous Pipsqueak
Pot Bellied Prankster
Powered Prankster
Preening Popinjay
Presumptuous Popinjay
Presumptuous Pipsqueak
Primitive Pile of Pistons
Proverbial Neanderthal Ninny
Puny Pipsqueak
Pusillanimous Pinhead
Pusillanimous Pipsqueak
Pusillanimous Puncher
Pusillanimous Puppet
Puselous Tyrant
Quivering Quintessence of Fear
Ramshackle Romeo
Real Great Goose
Ridiculous Robot
Ridiculous Roustabout
Ridiculous Ruin
Robust Rockhound
Roly Poly Rowdy
Rusty Rasputin
Sanctimonious Scatterbrain
Scurrilous Scatterbrain
Sententious Sloth
Sickening Cybernetic
Silent Sentinel
Silly Goose
Silly Old Ninny
Silly Sausage
Silly Sloth
Silly Looking Bucket of Bolts
Silver Plated Sellout
Simple Simon
Snickering Cinder Box
Sorry Specimen of Computerhood
Steely Eyed Sorcerer
Stupid Friend
Stubborn Clatterbrain
Tarnished Trumpet
Tattletale
Terrified Mechanical Dunderhead
Tin Monster
Tin Plated Fool
Tin Plated Fraud
Tin Plated Tattletale
Tin Plated Tintinnabulation
Tin Plated Traitor
Tin Plated Tyrant
Tintinnabulating Tin Can
Tiresome Thesaurus
Traitor
Traitorous Tintinnabulation
Traitorous Tin Plated Fugitive from a Junkyard
Traitorous Transistor Toad
Treasonous Tyrant
Uncultured Clump
Ungrateful Underling
Ungrateful Wretch
Unspeakable Insult
Unxious Underling
Weakling
Worrywart
Worthless Electronic Scrapheap
Wretch
posted by Irdial , 1:23 PM Þ 
posted by Claus Eggers , 10:30 AM Þ 

Hey, I still like the "package" of a CD. Album art, little books, etc. It's just neat to have. Godspeed's first LP is a great example - comes with many silkscreened prints, and a bag of goodies. Some bands like REM have great editions with picture books. It's really nice to see a band doing such a service the packaging for the album - it's a treat for the consumer.

I had something specifically "Blogdial" to post today but I've completely forgotten... go figure...
posted by Barrie , 6:40 AM Þ 
Monday, November 04, 2002

“The primary message of the CD burner is, the consumer doesn’t want to be straitjacketed into buying a prepackaged CD,” Leigh said. “I think what we’re seeing is not only the death of the physical-form factor, but the death of the prepackaged concept.”

MSNBC
posted by Irdial , 6:43 PM Þ 

Dave's Record Collection


http://www.cbs.com/latenight/lateshow/exclusives/record_collection/
posted by Claus Eggers , 5:09 PM Þ 

Ooohyeah I read about that exhibit in the paper. Looks really cool, I liked the piece (though it is an installation) that's thousands of little red foam-cutouts of men glued to the floor, raising their fists. Like a huge crowd, when you step on them, they rise again. See that has meaning.
posted by Mikkel , 3:52 PM Þ 

Finnaly an art exibtion worth spending time on in Copenhagen: Fundamentalism of the New Order
Fundamentalisms of the New Order

By the way -Love the pics of Kissing Girls.....

Would they kiss - without E's in their body? I wish they would...
posted by Alison , 12:01 PM Þ 
Sunday, November 03, 2002
posted by Irdial , 4:18 PM Þ 

please tune in tomorrow...

FIRST IN AN ONGOING SERIES FOR RESONANCE FM, LONDON

"one hour as ...."

broadcast times:
15.30 - 16.30 h (UK TIME)
14.30 - 15.30 h (CET)
others chk: http://www.worldtimeserver.com/

further info and both real media and mp3 streams :

http://www.resonancefm.com/

........

04.11.02
Achim Wollscheid/Minoru Sato/Brandon LaBelle/Giuseppe Ielasi/Michel Henritzi
"one hour as social music"

http://kunstradio.at/PROJECTS/CURATED_BY/SOCIAL_MUSIC/index.html/
http://www.errantbodies.org/

........
posted by Ben , 4:09 PM Þ 

Circle around this clockwise and anti-clockwise with your mouse.
posted by Irdial , 4:03 PM Þ 
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