Something of a trance homecoming for me. I threw this together more/less off-the-cuff tonight since I sat down to write and just spaced. Maybe it’s because I’ve been a little sick again? Who cares. Presenting…
Viral Tonsilitis a Texture mix:
- The Crystal Method “Cherry Twist”
- Paul Grogan “Haleakala Sunrise”
- Tekara “Breathe In You” (Lost Tribe remix)
- Blu Mar Ten “Numbers”
- Quivver “One Last Time” (Lee Coombs remix)
- Pheq Attack “The Activity”
- Kings of Spin “Lifestyles (part two)”
- Medway “The Baseline Track”
- Junkie XL “Zerotonine” (Slacker’s Tens remix)
192 kbps MP3 download
Via Boing Boing: the tale of Howard Dully, a California man who makes his living as a bus driver who had a transorbital lobotomy at age 12 in 1966. He describes how he’s always felt like he’s been missing something. And maybe he has.
Kind of a gut-wrenching tale. And makes you think about what we do and how we do it — what we know (and don’t know) about the treatments we ply. (Just think about the side-effect profiles of the most commonly prescribed anti-psychotics…)
currently playing: Cardinal “Bodyslide”
Via Slashdot: a quickie round-up on Microsoft’s beta release of Office 12, including screenshots, a link to the PC Magazine review and more.
…Office 12 introduces a new interface based on tabs that organize sets of functions under headings such as ‘Write,’ ‘Page Layout,’ and ‘Review,’ plus a combination toolbar-and-menu called the ribbon, which displays a different set of icons and menu items depending on the tab selected, and displays different sets of icons depending on whether you’re working with text, graphics, tables, or other kinds of data.
Anyone whose been using Adobe apps recently (Photoshop 7+, Illustrator 10+, etc.) is already familiar with the UI concept on which this is based. Question: will Microsoft have a lawsuit on their hands? (F_D says: Doubtful based on the screenshots…)
A nice round-up of the WSIS news/happenings over at Sampo.
Classical/flamenco guitarist Ottmar Liebert is down with the Creative Commons.
He uses the Creative Commons Sampling Plus license to make large amounts of his music available to the public for remixing.
A and I have a couple of his CDs. He’s a great guitarist and worth a listen. And worth the remix apparently, too.
