ffwd: Linklog

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Twitter: Simon Carless (Also, I have Twitter now.)

The Simon Carless Experience (Ah, this would be my new blog, then - please adjust your bookmarks/RSS feeds.)

Pink Tentacle: 'Decorated trains in Japan' (Like graffiti, only legitimate.)

Trends In Japan: Bacarobo 2008 - Stupid Robot Competition (VIDEO) (Last Saturday was the the long-waited finals of Bacarobo 2008, the “Stupid Robot” championship that made a name for itself last year.)

PSFK: 'Thoughts On TED’s Expansion : Cash In, Ideas Out?' (Interesting TED semi-backlash, considering that the conference has been pretty much unassailable to date. Via Dan Hon.)

Digital Disruption: 'The incumbent’s solution: 90% transformation, 10% innovation' (The Guardian's Simon Waldman on how bricks and mortar companies need to innovate subtly to get anywhere digitally.)

Big Picture: '2008, the year in photographs (part 3 of 3)' (This blog is just amazing - here's the year's photo highlights, in three parts.)

Back Of The Cereal Box: 'Speaking of Postcards' (These Lost promo postcards are cute.)

ASCII: 'Undistilled Amazing' (Recommending 'Live From Daryl's House', which I also heard was v.smart.)

Flickr: Seoul, Korea, December 2008 (Ah yeah, I sneaked to Korea before Xmas for the Global Online Game Awards, and never even blogged about it. It was... interesting!)

Machtdose: 'Favourite netlabel albums 2008' (Looks like some good stuff - man, I'm tragically behind on netlabels.)

Monotonik Forum: 'Cleaning up Archive.org Monotonik archives!' (As part of an wholesale attempt to fix up my net.label Monotonik's slightly neglected website and Archives, I'm fixing up its Archive.org MP3 archives into some better shape. Which means lots of free music, of course.)

YouTube: AddictiveTV's channel (The cunning VJs behind the Transambient series get relatively little love on YouTube, boo.)

MST3K recommendation: 'Time Chasers' (I am obsessed with this MST3K parody involving time-traveling light aircraft and chimneysweeps who took over the future. Please watch the MST version immediately. No, really, now.)

Long Now lecture - 'Lost Landscapes of San Francisco' (Rick Prelinger's ephemeral films are always worth checking out.)

Noerror - netlabel news page gets redesign (Looks swankier now - still v.useful!)

Monotonik - new on my net.label, Beak's 'Hard Nights' (Creative Commons-licensed guitar-idm neatness, and I'm looking for redesign help with the Monotonik site, if anyone wants to help out.)

YouTube: The Prodigy's 'Invaders Must Die' (Wow, just as I was discussing them, a new Prodigy video from their promisingly oldskool-sounding new album.)

YouTube: Pendulum Live, Voodoo People Radio One (Aussie drum and bass superstars cover The Prodigy live and shred-metal, with some style. Great tune, of course.)

Moodgadget releases Khonnor's 'Softbo EP' (Digital 'pay what you want' release from the amazing idm musician, late of Monotonik (as Grandma, mainly).)

Eldino: 'Netaudio Diagrams: November 2008' (Genres of the netlabel movement: 'The diagrams and the tables are based on my personal library of 43.057 netaudio tracks (316 Gb) and they are very accurate.')

VentureBeat: 'And now, for something completely different (on YouTube): Monty Python!' (I like it how they bother to record new stuff for things like this.)

Ironic Sans: 'Why didn’t anybody tell me about Ovation TV?' (Need to check out this channel again - I forgot it was so potentially neat.)

Pink Tentacle: 'Top 60 popular Japanese words/phrases of 2008' (Great cultural lessons here.)

YouTube: Edmonton - Alberta Meteor 1 (Not faked, awesomely extra-terrestrial.)

Blackdown: Dirty Canvas 2009 Calendar (Awesome grime calendar, with special Timmy Mallett cameo.)

CNN: Shout! Factory happily immersed in pop culture (Fun mini-profile of the current Mystery Science DVDs distributors, and original Rhino founders.)

Satellite News: 'Mystery Science Theater 3000 XIV' (Joe Don Baker!)

SLG: 'PRESS RELEASE: SLG Opens Boutiki' (Oo, walking distance from our house, too, will have to go check out.)

Resident Advisor: 'Warp set to release On The Hour' (Very neat.)

Pink Tentacle: 'Tezuka manga mutations' (Nice, abstract weirdness.)

CScout: 'My Room II from Yamaha for privacy within your home' (A garden shed for your living room!)

Pitchfork: 'A Year in dubstep and grime 2008' (Fascinating stuff on this awesome subgenre.)

GameSetWatch: 'On PixelVixen707, Brinkvale Insane Asylum, & Slow Burn ARG Craziness' (Some strange ARG-related shenanigans I noticed.)

Flickr: Las Vegas, November 2008 (Had fun, ate too much, hurray.)

Las Vegas dining recommendation - Hubert Keller's 'Burger Bar' (The most awesome high-end burger place around, with tonnes of craft beers on tap/bottle, too. Vegas is getting so good for dining.)

YouTube: Señor Coconut feat Romantica DA DA DA vocals A. Brito (A little more Coconut-ness, from a Japanese-only video of recent. Kinda scary.)

True Chip 'Till Death - a new chipmusic/visuals blog (...and absolutely excellent with it, the scene has been missing one of these for a while.)

'Taurine Rules' energy drinks blog (Wow, a new energy drink review every day? Slightly insane in terms of how many there are nowadays.)

YouTube: LOUIE AUSTEN feat. SENOR COCONUT - Dreams are my reality (Odd Austrian jazz singer teams up with the peerless (Atom Heart!) Senor Coconut - just found this.)

Music recommendation: Danny Byrd (Completely awesome melodic jump-up drum&bass from the Hospital Records stable.)

Stand-up recommendation: John Oliver's Terrifying Times (Awesome stand-up on Comedy Central from the Daily Show correspondent.)

BB Gadgets: 'Coldcut's remix of Doctor Who vs. other sinister BBC theme tune classics' (Awesome Whovian stuff - via Jon.)

LFI International list of laser shows (Having seen Dark Side Of The Moon, I wanna see some of the more obscure ones, now - esp. 'Electrolyte: TRANCEnding Electronica'.)

Tokyomango: The crazy chihuahua lady's decked out ride (Yep, a little bonkers.)

South Bay recommendation: DeAnza Planetarium's laser light show (Their laser Dark Side Of The Moon was lots of fun, and they have Beatles/The Wall shows coming up, too. Smallish on-campus planetarium, but super-state of the art star projector and relaxed, comfortable setting = awesome.)

YouTube: NEON NEON - I Told Her on Alderaan / Trick for Treat (Video for the second double A-side single from the album of the year - Boom Bip/Gruff from SFA's Delorean gorgeous '80s concept album. Damn.)

Pink Tentacle: Manhole-infested Tokyo back street ('Whatever the explanation, this quiet residential street in Tokyo’s Setagaya ward boasts perhaps the highest manhole density in town, with 85 of them scattered along a 200-meter stretch of pavement.')

Trends In Japan: Mugen Peri Peri opens boxes forever without papercuts (I bought the bubble wrap toy in Japan, heh.)

You Thought We Wouldn't Notice: 'Iphony' ('Inside there is no anything looking like iPhone inner stuff but only two batteries and a light bulb lighting an apple logo shadow when the power button is being pressed.')

The Pen Is Mightier Than The Spork: 'The writing song meme' (Keep reading, it segues into a wonderful explanation of what it takes to make it in the creative business.)

YouTube: Audio of "Weird Al" Yankovic - Whatever You Like (Of course, you have to know the T.I. original, but it's pretty spot on re: economy woes.)

Blackdown: Devotional Dubz (From Grievous Angel: 'an incredible blend of soul samples and early dubstep classics, r&b vocals and 2step garage rollers.')

The Big Picture: 'The Sun' (My, it's impressivo.)

GameSetWatch: 'In-Depth: On Fable II, Real Estate & Sex' (Really enjoyed this Chris Remo piece on Fable II, which is, behind everything, pretty odd.)

Movie recommendation: In Bruges (Really one of the best-written movies I've seen in a while - sure, it's the Irish gangster thing, but highly recommended.)

YouTube: 'President George addresses the audience at the UK Music Video Awards 2008 with the help of his new treasurer.' (Adam Buxton's special intro for a UK music video awards show - 50 Cent ftw.)

GameSetWatch: 'TGS: Sense Of Wonder Night Showcases Indie Innovation' (A neat indie game competition I judged while in Tokyo.)

Flickr: Tokyo/Tokyo Game Show, October 2008 (Another reason for FFWD links slowness, apologies. But Japanese cakes are awesome!)

Swann Galleries' catalog for an amazing magic auction (Lots of beautiful posters, other magic ephemera. (Fixed link!))

Gamasutra: Opinion: Why LittleBigPlanet Is Web 2.0 For Games, Fulfilled (Something I wrote about the rather marvelous LBP on PlayStation 3.)

The Incredible Hulk: Final Round | RiffTrax (Oo, pre-synched Rifftrack to a Hulu.com video, just what I've been waiting for.)

Archive.org: Ilkae - Lighter Industry EP [mtk206] (New @ Monotonik, my net.label, kinda chiptune-y bleep idm of the good kind.)

Just Press Play: 'Dexter Gets His Own Newsstand' (Love this marketing-centric fake mag inserts in the style of the mag they're in - genius.)

B3ta: 'Turner didn't paint AT-ATs but if he did...' (B3ta is pretty darn smart.)

reality blurred + Anthrax suspect threatened to kill Kathryn Price ('The Mole’s original mole, Kathryn Price, was threatened by the man who the FBI and Justice Department say is responsible for killing people with mailed anthrax in 2001.' Odd.)

The Word: John Lydon's Country Life Butter Commercial (Boggle.)

Pink Tentacle: 'Photos: Robots at CEATEC 2008' (I like robots.)

GSW: 'GameSetLinks: On Blizzcon, Mirror's Edge, Scrabulous' (Am writing some longer link commentary from time to time on GSW, recently - you're reading it, right?)

XLR8R: The Orb's 'Full Orbient' podcast (Yum.)

System 7 - 'Hinotori' video clip (Love it that Steve Hillage is still going after all this time, doing awesome electronic weirdness - nice video.)

The Word: 'When Hardeep Met Les (Some people are claiming this is Alan Partridge-like - I see what they mean.)

Maghound - a magazine membership site (Interesting idea, switch subscription titles on the fly - mainly mentioning because its logo is a dachshund, YAY.)

Kaiju Shakedown: 'Haxan in Hong Kong' (One of the Blair Watch guys goes for a Hong Kong-set, intriguing sounding flick.)

Pink Tentacle: 'For rent: Reversible Destiny Lofts (w/ video)' (Would love to live here.)

Hulu.com: 'The Dresden Files' (I really enjoyed this obvious but fun 'modern wizard' supernatural show when it appeared on Sci-Fi, and missed a few episodes, good to see Hulu picking up the slack.)

Trends In Japan: Homestar EXTRA from Sega Toys coming soon ('What we first reported on as the Homestar EX has now become the Homestar EXTRA, and now we have a better idea as to what’s inside this major upgrade in the best-selling home planetarium series from Sega Toys.')

Wired: Weird Al: Forefather of the YouTube Spoof (Def. a canonical article.)

Archive.org: New Prelinger collection movies (They're starting to upload new public service/industrial movies, the first in a few years - awesome.)

The Big Picture: 'The Baikonur Cosmodrome' ('The Cosmodrome was founded in 1955, making it one of the oldest space launch facilites still in operation. Here are collected some photographs of manned and unmanned launches from Baikonur over the past several years.')

37Signals: 'The NO!SPEC campaign vs. crowdSPRING' (Interesting discussion on the democratization/crowdsourcing of art creation.)

Blue Cat: 'Radioface' (''Radioface' is a group of people from the Cook'd and Bomb'd comedy forum. Done with a budget of about three pounds twenty, and yet the first video made me laugh more than anything I've seen on UK television in about three years.')

Wikipedia: Dead Set (TV series) (A Big Brother spinoff, created by Charlie Brooker, about "...a zombie outbreak which strands the housemates inside the Big Brother house." Could be genius.)

Adam Buxton: 'MOJO SONG WARS NEWS!' (The Beck pastiche for Mojo is pretty glorious.)

GameSetWatch: 'Austin GDC Wrap-Up: The Top Ten Lessons' (Decent sum-up of a fun time at our Austin show.)

Flickr: Austin GDC 2008, September 2008 (What I did third to stop me from blogging.)

Flickr: Maui, Hawaii, September 2008 (What I did second to stop me from blogging.)

Flickr: GDC Advisory Board, August 2008 (What I did first to stop me from blogging.)

43 Folders: 'What Makes for a Good Blog?' (I think this is an excellent list.)

Kottke: 'Not so middle management' (I'm pretty much middle management-ish, so this is interesting to me.)

The Onion AV Club interviews Tarsem (Really enjoy Onion AV Club interviews - via Crummy.)

DVD Savant: 'Remaking Remakes of Remakes' (On: 'The Legacy of 1950s Science Fiction Movies'.)

Back Of The Cereal Box: 'The Pop Murder Mishmash Contest' (Which Marilyn Manson sidekick has the worst name? We find out.)

Blackdown interviews Grievous Angel (More excellent/interesting UK music marginalia.)

London from above, at night - The Big Picture - Boston.com (Beautiful pictures of where I grew up (OK, a bit South of there, but hey).)

AICN: 'BBC To Shoot Another Hour Of RED DWARF In October??' (Well, we can hope.)

GSW: 'Event Commentary: Nvision & The Ship In The Bottle' ('Gamasutra publisher Simon Carless had a chance to visit Nvidia's Nvision 'visual computing' festival in San Jose, and brings this report on the show, real-time graphics creation, and the sometimes forgotten demo-scene.')

AV Club: 'The A.V. Club Guide To Getting A Tattoo' (All kinds of awesome in here.)

GSW: 'Real-Time Graphics Delight: The NVScene 2008 Demo Competition' (The top demo-scene releases at NVision - smart stuff in there.)

Project 5am - 'Quixotes Of Moons Fight The Windmills Of Brixton' [mtk205] (On my CC-licensed net.label: 'This time round, a Monotonik debut for Project 5am, aka Jason Haye, with the distinctly trippy 'Quixotes Of Moons Fight The Windmills Of Brixton'. Verging into deep house, electronic, and chillout, the full-length album is a delightful mix of trancelike and straightforward.')

East Bay Express: 'Orinda's Noise Vomitorium' ("Advances range from $5,000 for Pollard's latest all the way down to $650 for the Eagles of Death Metal's Peace Love Death Metal... Yet this Queens of the Stone Age spinoff band has blown past the 100,000-unit sales mark, and distribution costs hardly dent royalties from a tiny investment that has netted hundreds of thousands of dollars." Interesting.)

Archive.org: ''Your Hit Parade' - April 12, 1952 episode (1952)' (Wow, worth checking for the cigarette-themed sponsor animation, for starters. And seminal electronica geek Raymond Scott leading the big band.)

CNN: 'When Wacky Packages ruled' (Neat stuff - have unconvered some geek-related variants on these, will post about them soon.)

Last.fm: Erotus, Blamstrain's new label. (V. good quality idm, yay.)

Wikipedia: 'Long Way Down' TV show (This is showing on the Fox Reality Channel in the U.S. now, for whatever reason, and it's well worth watching.)

Twitch: 'Wright, Pegg and Hynes Talk SPACED!' (Delighted to see this doing so well.)

Kaiju Shakedown: 'Ryuhei Kitamura bombs' (Interesting MGS-related director, and Vinnie Jones is... I might rent this.)

Idiot Toys: '*Jingle* Promotional image of the weeeek' (Nice darts sponsorship.)

The Big Picture: '2008 Olympics Opening Ceremony' (Well worth watching, btw - some insane stuff in there.)

Drowned In Sound: ' Cornelius return with live DVD and remix' (Neat - I presume they're 5:1 mixes too?)

Adam Buxton: 'MeeBOX WEEK!' (V. neat surreal pilot from the other half of Adam & Joe - sadly not picked up.)

AICN: 'Unofficial QUANTUM OF SOLACE Theme Song Leaks!' (Joe of Adam & Joe gets reasonably silly.)

Wikipedia: Berry & Fulcher's Snuff Box (Just got this on DVD, beautifully bizarre and extremely interesting. If Adult Swim picked up Garth Marenghi, then...?)

Blackdown: 'Never looks a gift horse in the mouth' (Getting the police to help with your dubstep record cover featuring Wild West + horses = awesome.)

Music Thing: 'B&K Type 1850 Anorectal ultrasound transducer' (Scaary.)

Big Picture Blog: 'Total solar eclipse of 2008' (Absolutely beautiful pictures.)

TVShowsOnDVD: Full details of MST3k 20th Anniversary Edition DVD set (So looking forward to this.)

NASAImages.org (New site done by the Internet Archive and NASA, awesome online archive - here's more info.)

YouTube: 'shuffle76's Videos' (Video projections for recent Neon Neon (Boom Bip + Gruff from SFAs doing Delorean concept album!) live shows. V.cool.)

Secret Fun Blog: 'REN & STIMPY PRODUCTION MUSIC!' (Naughty but nice - via Frank.)

Music Thing: 'Incredible Japanese Paper-Powered Miniature Pipe-Organ Kit' (Neat neat neat.)

Back Of The Cereal Box: 'No Need to Watch It Now' (Amusing TV descriptions.)

bleepshow with pete cooper (Great daily electronic podcast with lots of netlabel stuff (inc. Monotonik) on it.)

YouTube: Nissan 'All Action Almera' ad (Starring Phil Cornwall, and completely awesome, forgot about this - via James Moran.)

Charlie Brooker @ Guardian UK: 'Online POKER marketing could spell the NAKED end of VIAGRA journalism as we LOHAN know it' (V.cute.)

Panopticist: 'Spike Jonze’s Skateboard Detonations' (A '...fantastic slo-mo video sequence, in which top skateboarders ride through a postindustrial landscape rigged with explosives'.)

Twitch: 'Twitch Video Player Top Ten!' (Some great cult stuff in here.)

DVD Savant: 'Dark City (Director's Cut) Blu-ray' (Just ordered this, very much looking forward to it.)

The Big Picture: 'Large Hadron Collider nearly ready' (Beautiful pictures.)

Music Thing: 'DJ Frank has spent 3 years buying vinyl in Africa' (Really interesting documentary, quest.)

Yank Blog: 'Go Into Al’s Brain' ('New in 2009, Al’s Brain… a 3-D journey through the human brain. Premiering at the OC Super Fair.' WTF?)

Kaiju Shakedown: 'Tony Jaa found' (Click back for some interesting Ong Bak 2 gossip.)

Twitch: 'First Poster for Joseph Kahn’s NEUROMANCER' (I see this is back on, post-Chris Cunningham. Will it work? Dunno.)

CGEF: 'Futurama at Comic Con 2008' (Nice limited-edition figures. And various other things.)

GameSetWatch: 'Bell, Game, and Candle - 'Tall Tales About Anticipation and (Not Much) Accomplishment'' (One of the odder things we've run on GSW recently - but permitting weirdness is half the fun.)

Flickr: 'Reno/Virginia City, NV, July 2008' (Fun long weekend.)

Boom Studios: 'Cthulhu Tales Vol 1' (Web version of Lovecraftian comic, yay.)

Boston.com: 'Recent Volcanic Activity' (More amazing pictures from The Big Picture.)

Comic Book Resources: Tilting At Windmills, July 18th ('Of my Top 20 best-selling books over the last twelve months, only six of them were released in the last twelve months.')

EW: 'Alan Moore Still Knows the Score!' (Great to see what he's up to - shame he's so disenfranchised with what might be a decent adaptation of Watchmen.)

Trends In Japan: 'McBakery Men in cook up McDonalds campaign' (Japanese European pastries are absolutely the best.)

AICN: 'Ricky Gervais Gets On with the Deceased in a Very Pleasant Trailer for GHOST TOWN!' (Interesting to see the Hollywood-ization of Gervais - looks fun, though.)

BBC News: 'Lost tapes of the Dr Who composer' (Wow, that techno piece is just amazing - via Warren Ellis.)

Satellite News: 'Jim Mallon interview' (The quiet controller of the MST3K franchise talks.)

The Muppet Newsflash: '"Studio DC: Almost Live" Moves to August Premiere' (Old school Muppet variety, sorta Disney-fied. Better than nothing!)

Reality Blurred: 'Animal Planet moves into edgier, compelling territory with Whale Wars, Grizzly Man Diaries' (Good to see some of that grittier stuff taking hold.)

Video: ‘Daruma-otoshi’ skyscraper demolition (Very scientific way of doing things.)

Turner Classic Movies: 'Hold On!' (TCM is awesome for screening odd ephemera like this, the second (!) Herman's Hermits movie, about... naming a spaceship after them?)

Film.com: 'Fritz Lang's Lost Metropolis - Rediscovered!' ('If the find is complete as they say it is, we'll see major scenes that have previously been a mystery.')

Archives Hub: 'Collections of the Month, July 2008: Stanley Kubrick' (Some really nice snippets here, would be awesome if the entire collection got digitized - via DVD Savant.)

Rope Of Silicon: ''Watchmen' Trailer to Comic Comparison' (Surprisingly faithful, then.)

Apple.com Trailer: 'Watchmen' (Oh my.)

Flickr: 'Obon Festival, San Jose, July 2008' (A pleasant Sunday!)

MST3K Satellite News: '“Hollywood After Dark” Now Streaming Online' (MST3K spinoff-ish stuff on Hulu - I've rented this and it's pretty good fun.)

EW: ''Hellboy II': Meet Luke Goss, the New Nemesis' (From Bros to this, indeed.)

Shots Ring Out on Vampire Weekend's 'Oxford Comma' video (Directed by Richard Ayoade from The IT Crowd and others, btw.)

YouTube: 'Common / People - a William Shatner, Kirk & Spock slashup' (Lest us forget, the Shatner album this cover from is AWESOME ('Has Been') - via everyone. Whoa, and there's a Shatner 'Has Been' ballet movie coming out?)

The Comics Report: 'CR Sunday Interview: Lynda Barry' (Awesome, on the state of comics on alt.weeklies and other things - via The Beat.)

Snopes.com: 'Ball Girl Makes An Amazing Catch' (More fun when you think it's real.)

Pitchfork: 'Jarvis, Peaches, Kills, Gary Numan Play Boosh Fest' (Hope they do a DVD of this, since I'm not in England, boo.)

Modern Mechanix: 'With plug-in programs, anybody can use these personal computers (Nov, 1979)' (Yum, Texas Instruments.)

Google Sightseeing: 'The Top Gear Test Track' (The finest celebrity car racing track of recent years.)

AICN: 'Learn Who Plays The Starship’s Engineer In Ronald D. Moore’s Fox Sci-Fi Pilot VIRTUALITY!!' (Nice to see more sci-fi on network TV, potentially.)

Guardian: 'Channel 4 recreates The Shining to promote its Kubrick season' (Very cool.)

The Beat: 'Who Is Number One?' (Still tracking The Prisoner remake closely.)

Pink Tentacle: 'Magazine photos fool age-verification cameras' (Oh, technology.)

EW PopWatch: 'Trailer Blazer: 'Quantum of Solace'' (Bond. Rocks. A. Lot.)

You Thought We Wouldn't Notice: 'You Will Soon…' (Interesting discussion of skate shoe inspirations.)

Cartoon Brew: 'Bedrock City' ('Bedrock City, the kitschy little theme park in Custer, South Dakota, was created in 1966 by a coalition of local concrete makers. Now, artist/photographer Todd Oldham has discovered the park’s inner coolness.')

Free Music Archive prelaunch blog (The WFMU chaps compiling CC-licensed music of all kinds - great idea.)

The Big Picture: 'Man on the Moon, Future and Past' (Space is great looking.)

YouTube: '24 Hour Garage People (in Lego)' (YouTube has some great fan Half Man Half Biscuit fan videos now - also see the Eraserhead/'Restless Legs' mashup.)

Media Matters: 'Fox News airs altered photos of NY Times reporters' (Uhhhh. Via Waxy.)

YouTube: Reeves & Mortimer - 'Vic's Jacket' (More of these skits are appearing on YouTube recently, which is good news if I want to show you, dear reader, some of their surreal genius.)

Archive.org: Fedflix collection (Very undernoticed: 'Here we feature the best movies of the United States Government, from training films to history, from our national parks to the U.S. Fire Academy and the Postal Inspectors, all of these fine flix are available for reuse without any restrictions whatsoever.')

Live365: Six Degrees' online radio station (The world music folks who are releasing The Orb and Tom Middleton in the States nowadays have a podcast on Live365, a site I'd almost completely forgotten about.)

YouTube: Holy F*ck - 'Lovely Allen' music video (Absolutely crankin' electronica improvisation instrumental stuff - like a bleep Mogwai?)

TV recommendation: Dr. Who - 'Silence In The Library/The Forest Of The Dead' (Absolutely amazing pair of Steven Moffat episodes for the 4th season of new Who - his episodes in general are the best sci-fi I've seen in the last ten years.)

New Monotonik release - Risch's 'Synesthesia' [mtk203] (Latest on my netlabel, Ninja Tune-ish UK electronica goodness.)

PBS.org: Time Team USA in production (Awesome, and someone needs to start showing the British Time Team in the States again already.)

YouTube: 'Chemical Brothers - The Golden Path (Live)' (I forgot about this performance, which is an AWESOME stadium-sized Wayne Coyne vs. Chem Bros lovefest from Edinburgh's MTV Europe Music Awards in 2003.)

NYT: 'Who Altered British TV? ‘Who’ Indeed' (On Davies, and Moffat a little bit.)

Wikipedia: Boogiepop Phantom (Christian recommended this to me as something I might like if I like Lain - also, Paranoia Agent and possibly Death Note. All of these are non-shrill, murky noir-ish anime series, so might be good tips for readers, too.)

New York Times: 'True-Life Tales: A Head Case' (From 2007, but only just spotted - MST3K's Mike Nelson on the headache that wouldn't leave.)

James Moran points out a great McGoohan 'The Prisoner' interview (Can't say enough about the series.)

YouTube: Zombie Girl - 'Go Zombie' audio (In that kinda rave/industrial/trash subgenre, and totally fun with it - via Keithbee's Last.fm station.)

MST3K Info: 'Historic Comic-Con Panel' (Yep, Rifftrax and Cinematic Titanic on the same panel, and there's the first Shout Factory MST3k set coming - should be epic!)

The Orb MySpace: 'The Orb Re-mastered & Expanded versions' (Nice, 2xCD versions of all major Orb albums.)

Music Thing: 'Philip Glass: How Do They Play It So Fast?' (A commenter: 'Speed really isn't the hard part as much as tedium.')

Waxy.org: 'Interview with Alan Taylor, Creator of Boston Globe's The Big Picture' (Awesome new blog.)

Modern Mechanix: 'Will Autogiro Banish Present Plane? (Mar, 1931)' (Oh yes, the autogiro!)

Jean Snow: 'Yokai Attack!' (Neat Japanese monster book alert.)

Trends In Japan: 'B.S. Alert: Japan’s “robot for lonely men” is quite the opposite' ('The robot in question isn’t even Japanese and is only licensed by Sega Toys from [non-Japanese firm] WowWee with a different exterior.' Wow, didn't know that.)

Shots Ring Out: 'What's The Point?' ('So if albums are becoming a loss leader, where does that leave the music video? Having a loss leader for a loss leader is something you do when you want to go out of business.')

WarrenEllis.com: 'Inviting Death From Space' (Why telling aliens about Doritos first may not be a good move.)

Six Of One on The Prisoner remake ('Sir Ian McKellen (The Lord of the Rings; The Da Vinci Code) is in the role of Number Two and James Caviezel (Deja Vu; The Passion of the Christ) plays Number Six.' Via Wil Wheaton.)

GotFuturama: 'The Futurama on Comedy Central Cuts Guide - Bender's Big Score' (Startlingly geeky. And quite interesting, if you can decipher.)

GamerBytes - our new console digital download blog (I did mention we launched this, right? XBLA, PSN, and WiiWare didn't have a dedicated blog, and now it does.)

GameSetWatch: 'The Dobbs Challenge Contest Winners Announced' (I organized this Visual Studio-sponsored game modding competition (with full source code available) for work, and am v.happy with the quality of the results, yay.)

TV Squad: 'Christopher Guest dissects Stonehenge for National Geographic - VIDEO' (Spinal Tap is necessary to life.)

Pitchfork: 'Hey Look! It's the Joy Division Zune!' (This is actually kinda cool.)

Music Thing: 'Vladislav Delay has an exceedingly beautiful recording studio' (Yep, he really does, if you're a music geek.)

Improbable Research: 'Dead Duck Day: A fond look back' (Honoring... oh, you work it out.)

Hollywood Reporter: 'Guy Ritchie signs on to Sherlock' (Silly that it's based on a not-written comic or something, but more Sherlock can be excellent news.)

Cartoon Brew: 'The Disney-Pixar Merger…Two Years Later' ('In tying the knot with Pixar, however, Disney can finally have its cake and eat it too.')

EW Popwatch: 'Bob Odenkirk vs. Rogue Wave: Pick a side, fast!' (Wacky.)

Modern Mechanix - the blog ('Yesterday's tomorrow today' - some great scans from old science, computer mags.)

AICN: 'Pixar's John Carter of Mars becoming a reality?' (Really hope this happens.)

eBay: 'Custom Brass and Marble 22" Steampunk LCD by Datamancer' (This retro-technology engineering trend really does make things look beautiful.)

YouTube: 'Spacewarp 5000 Marble Roller Coaster Set' (If I had too much money, I would buy pointless but neat toys like this.)

IGN TV: 'What's Been Cancelled?' (Extremely useful list of what TV shows didn't make it and why for the major U.S. networks.)

Bowers & Wilkins Music Club subscription service (Interesting idea from a speaker company (?), exclusive lossless albums from acts recording at Peter Gabriel's Real World Studios.)

Trends In Japan: 'Regional food campaigns at Lawson' ('Lawson is also currently featuring a Hokkaido Ham Fighters (another baseball team) tie-in for products exclusive to the Hokkaido region that use only local ingredients.')

Mens Gangu eBay store - science toys (I forgot about this totally cool Japanese toy subniche - mechanical/scientific devices!)

AICN: '‘These Aren’t Tentacles!!’ FUTURAMA MOVIE II Trailer!!' (Really looking forward to this!)

Venture Bros. Shirt Of The Week club (...tied to the new series. NEAT.)

Stereogum: 'New Morrissey Video - "All You Need Is Me"' (I think he's getting happier!)

Subterranean Blog: 'MTV's History' ('It’s gonna depend on a formula of your ability to ingest pop music + your age as to what year you think MTV started really sucking musically.')

Twitch: 'First Details On Alex Proyas’ KNOWING' (Dark City is tremendously under-rated.)

Flickr: 'Stranger #002 Warren Ellis' (This is a beautiful picture.)

Shots Ring Out: 'Kanye West - Flashing Lights (Version 3.0)' (Three videos? Kanye is picky.)

Ironic Sans: 'Blogs, Bloggers, and Blogeurs' (Good tips for random neat blogs.)

EW PopWatch: 'It's not too early to save Joss Whedon's 'Dollhouse'' (Might as well get started ahead of time!)

Reality Blurred: 'Clay Aiken impregnated his best friend, will be a dad' (Uh, no. Just no.)

Northcape - Some Bright Valley [mtk202, idm] (Latest on my net.label: 'A Monotonik debut for Brighton, UK-based electronic artist Northcape, then, with the sublimely mellow 'Some Bright Valley', all chilled-out strings and gently departing sunsets.')

Kevin Kelly: 'Loving Robotic Jellyfish' (I want a few.)

Pink Tentacle: 'Highway interchange photos' ('Photographer Ken Ohyama has a magnificent Flickr photoset of highway interchanges in Japan.')

CNet News Blog: 'Look out, Apple TV: The $100 Netflix Player has arrived' (Oo, getting one of these - if their ordering site works properly, sigh.)

The Orb's MySpace: 'A few words from Alex and The Orb on Tour.....May 2008' (Some danger of a U.S. tour in Aug/Sept, Dr. Alex claims!)

PW The Beat: 'John R. Neil’s OZ' (Wonderful art.)

Cartoon Brew: 'Portishead Videos by Nick Uff' (Beautiful hand-drawn stuff by an English gardener.)

AICN: 'Have You Checked RickyGervais.com Lately?' (Indeed, some really funny set reports from his new movie (but no RSS, sigh).)

Wikipedia: Weezer's 'Pork & Beans' music video (Useful for defining who is in it, for the non-meme-obsessed - semi-via Waxy!)

Guardian UK: Massive Attack talk to Miranda Sawyer ('It's always a terrible and crucial time with us ... that's Massive Attack')

Flickr: My burgeoning collection of alt.watches. (Making like William Gibson and becoming a watchgeek - a lot of these are sourced from the AMAZING Alexander Hi-Tek collection, an obscure '80s brand that I'm adoring.)

NYT: 'Steampunk Moves Between 2 Worlds' (Definitely wired, not tired or expired.)

The Pirate Bay: 'Izmar - I Love P2P (2008 Chillout-Triphop)' (A sometime Monotonik-releaser puts his music releases up for free on ThePirateBay - neat use of P2P.)

Flickr: 'Los Angeles - May 2008' (Wandered around LA, Disneylands, met Asimo, went to Arcade Infinity, awesome.)

The Bird And The Bee - 'Polite Dance Song' (Directed by Eric Wareheim from Tim & Eric, suitably bizarro.)

Gelf Magazine: 'Christmas Ape Kills Michael Tunison' (Bloggers, alter egos, and the Washington Post clash.)

Quick Stop Entertainment: 'MASTERS OF SONG FU - The Battle Begins!!!!' (Quick Stop is stealth neatness, as per usual.)

Google Sightseeing: 'Street View Sabotage!' (Don't like Google Street View? Plastic bag over camera!)

GameSetWatch - where I'm doing most of the updating (You're all keeping up with this if you like video game culture, right?)

Twitch's regular cult film trailer Top 10 ('Up at the top it’s all Finland all the time with the one two punch of Sauna and Iron Sky perched comfortably at the top of things.' Some awesome stuff in here.)

MySpace: Dark Horse Presents - new Evan Dorkin strip (Poor ol' furries, eh?)

Shots Rings Out: 'SRO guide to VBS.tv' (I need to get more clued up on VBS.tv, it has some neat stuff on it - add it to Pitchfork TV, Adult Swim, Hulu as clickable online video sites.)

Cartoon Brew: 'Disney’s Beverly Hills Chihuahua' (Nuff said!)

Slouching Towards Bethlehem: 'The Robot in Japan, 1920-1938' (Amazing early Japanese robot dreams.)

Twitch: 'SFIFF51: GONZO—Q&A With Director Alex Gibney' (Looking forward to seeing this doc about the Doctor.)

ValleyWag: 'Turner shuts down comedy site SuperDeluxe.com, and "no one could deny they were crying their asses off"' (Shame, but shows the issues in monetizing online content.)

Reality Blurred: 'Fox Reality cancels Reality Remix, orders “cynical” Reality Binge' (More cynical is what 'all media' is inevitably getting to be punchy, sadly.)

AICN: Spaced coming to U.S. DVD (With, uhh, Quentin Tarantino and Diablo Cody on the commentary track? Nice.)

Blackdown: 'The flow dan' (Explaining the lyrics of genius grime MCs.)

AICN: 'Criterion is going BluRay!!!' (Later this Fall, some of its top titles - nice!)

the antvilleQuarterly! - .torrents of great music videos (Really nice idea, and (reasonably) legal too - via WaxyLinks.)

Takara Tomy: 'Wonderful Shot dog/cat camera' (Complete with dachshund model. )

The Independent: Will Self's columns (Oo, Ralph Steadman cartoons, gorgeous - via Rossignol.)

Pitchfork Media: 'The Month In: Grime / Dubstep' (Immensely fascinating scene.)

Music Thing: 'The Pod: Community Techno Unit' (Total hilarious early Boosh-related silliness about rave in the community.)

YouTube: Cup Of Brown Joy - Elemental (Totally British colonial awesome - via RPS.)

AICN: New Hancock extended trailer (Oo, drunk superheroes.)

Kaiju Shakedown: 'A Death Note for distribution' ('So everyone's on the same page about theatrical distribution for Asian films being dead in America, right?')

BBC: 'Dancer Bez is declared bankrupt' (Aw, poor Bez! Via Linkbunnies.)

AICN: 'BLAKE'S 7 Fly Again!!' (Yeah, Dr. Who, you have a lot to answer for!)

Pitchfork: 'RZA's World: Ice Picks, Chess, and System of a Down' (The Wu-Tang-er is still going strong, yay - interesting updates.)

Daily Mail: 'Graffiti artist Banksy pulls off most audacious stunt to date - despite being watched by CCTV' (Very cute - via Shots Ring Out.)

Twitch: 'Frank Miller’s Adaptation of THE SPIRIT Gets A Trailer' (Albeit incredibly tease-y, but hey.)

Matt Wescott: 'Pimp My Chips' (The Radiohead cover is ace.)

Monotonik: Aleksi Eeben - The Four Tales [mtk201] (Latest on my net.label - jazz-electronic Finnish demo-scene oddness, yay.)

Outpost Gallifrey: 'Radiophonic Workshop - 50 years' (Zooooooooooom.)

Music Thing: '25 Ways To Kill A Piano' (There's something satisfying and horrible about this, simultaneously.)

Flickr: Have been in Los Cabos, Mexico (Kinda a 'not my speed' quiet holiday, but it was fun anyhow!)

Tokyo Mango: 'The Annual Stupid Robot Contest' (We need more stupid robots.)

Forbes: 'The Brothers Behind Ultaime Fighting' (I've been watching a lot of UFC recently - it's pretty addictive.)

Salon.com: Re-Viewed: TV on DVD, "Knowing Me, Knowing You ... With Alan Partridge" (Absolutely wonderful stuff.)

Pink Tentacle: 'IKEA decks out Kobe train' (Stylishness.)

Metafilter: 'Elephant Polo and other strange things' (Really weird, don't go too far down the spiral.)

Improv Everywhere: 'Best Game Ever' (Beautiful pranking.)

NYT: 'In Princeton, an Offline Haven for Music Shoppers Thrives' (There's a place in San Luis Obispo like this that I really liked.)

Nerve/IFC: 'The 50 Greatest Comedy Sketches Of All Time' (Much linked, but well worth perusing.)

Open Rights Group: 'John Buckman: Magnatune' (This is kinda working, but if this is the best 'success' in this area, it's a bit depressing actually. Look at casual games as a much better example of digital distribution, I would argue. [Via BoingBoing.])

AICN: 'CLONE WARS theatrical trailer hits the nets' (Looking distinctly interesting.)

Shots Ring Out: 'Death Cab For Cutie - I Will Possess Your Heart' (New music video, notsobad.)

WFMU Blog: 'Doris Duke, just your local wacky rich babe' (Random fun stuff.)

Reality Blurred: 'TiVo predicts Syesha Mercado will be voted off, as fast-forwarding is “predictive” of results' (Unfortunately she was not (though she was bottom 3), but that's a fascinating predictor.)

Cartoon Brew: 'Little Nemo test film' (Wow, when Brad Bird comments in your blog, you know you have a good one.)

Grok Robots: 'Segway’s New RMP' (Oo, crazy multi-direction thing!)

MySpace: 'The Orb at work in the studio. BBC 6 Music' (Video: 'Dr. Alex Paterson from The Orb did his 6 Mix and invited us to the legendary Ealing Studios in London to give us a sneaky peak at his new project; HFB - High Frequency Bandwidth.')

Underwire: Who Spin-Off Sarah Jane Adventures Hits Sci Fi (Kid/teen focused Doctor Who add-on, should still be v.fun.)

b3ta: Completely horrific Batman/'80s pop clone (Ouch, my head.)

AICN: 'Disney And Pixar Announced Their Whole Slate Through 2012! Philip K. Dick?! NEWT?! A Pixar Fairy Tale And Much Much More!' (Wow, lots of interesting animated movies coming up.)

[op3n]029 - SIMON CARLESS - h0l @ Monotonik's Oddly Retro 'Age Of Netlabel IDM' Mix (A Creative Commons-licensed mixtape of some Monotonik, some other stuff I did - electronic headphone goodness.)

Monotonik: Chromatic Flights - Heavy Stars Will Fall [mtk200] (Yep, 200th MP3 release on my CC-licensed electronic music netlabel, with some shoegaze-y, cosmic Floridian idm, yay.)

The Pen Is Mightier Than The Spork: 'The Torchwood writing process: Part 1' (Oo, Torchwood!)

Pitchfork: 'Morrissey Wins Apology From Word Mag in Libel Suit' (Hm, he's a dangerous man.)

Shots Ring Out: 'Kanye West - Homecoming feat. Chris Martin' (Not bad.)

Reality Blurred: 'Elliott Yamin’s mother died Monday; TMZ mocks her death' ('I mocked TMZ yesterday for their alleged journalism, but clearly should have just pointed out what unrepentant assholes they are.')

Kaiju Shakedown: 'Bollywood sci fi?!?' ('A trailer...for a Bollywood movie...set in the future...with robots!')

Rummage Through The Crevices: 'Chinese MC Hammer' (Viral video gold, indeed.)