Top: Archive Let's make Sandwiches When i was in Detroit last december, the big hit over there was "Sandwiches"; a silly, but irresistable minimal techno track by the Detroit Grand Pubas. Here is a Realvideo clip of a live PA they did. Recently the Pubas signed a major recorddeal, so don't be surprised if you hear more about them soon. Remember where you heard it first! (Sat Apr 8 21:57:28 2000) Sulzilla Hopefully you were able to download the preview release of Netscape 6 last week. Although it is a bit slow on my PC, i've used it quite a bit already and i am very impressed. If you don't like the default look, check out Cam's skin called Sullivan. You can see it in action here. (Sat Apr 8 21:33:41 2000) A long, long time ago... I used to add entries to this page. Other things got in the way so i wasn't really inspired to continue with it for some time. But let's try to bring this thing back to life again. (Sat Apr 8 21:25:28 2000) Pulp Phantom Episode One: The Fiction Menace. Some people really have too much spare time on their hands, but i'm glad they do. (Sun Jan 30 22:16:48 2000) Fixed Hubble As you may know the Hubble Space telescope was fixed recently. Some of the new pictures, like this one of the Eskimo Nebula, are stunning. (Tue Jan 25 01:30:12 2000) Be free! Release 5 of the BeOS (to be released before the end of Q1) will be free for personal, non-commercial use! I just wish they did this 6 months earlier. (Tue Jan 18 23:59:38 2000) Web Log Scoop Index Which blogger's the first with a good scoop? Find it out it in the Web Log Scoop Index, something i found in my logs. (Mon Jan 17 20:47:49 2000) Fax Machine I found this very funny single panel toon on Derf City via Indirection, another blog/portal made using bk2site. On Indirection you can also find out your weblogger name. (Sun Jan 16 16:54:43 2000) What if... Recently there were some rumors that Red Hat was to buy Be. Scott Hacker thinks out loud about the possibilities. (Sun Jan 16 15:03:48 2000) Don't Worry About the Coverband I don't think i already promoted this fine CD here. Go get it, it's got TV-99-AD! (Sun Jan 16 14:43:41 2000) Booty!! The Ghetto Tech Sound of Detroit is a nice article in Platform about the fast paced electro from DJ Assault & friends that seems to be getting more and more popular these days. (Wed Jan 12 22:52:41 2000) Underground Resistance The saga continues. Sony ripped off Underground Resistance by basically stealing the brilliant "Knights of the Jaguar" by DJ Rolando. Sony backed down, but apparently they just sold the ripoff to BMG, who are now promoting it in a big way. Please sign the petition. (Tue Jan 11 22:19:32 2000) 313 pictures This weekend i've been busy working on an online photo-album of my trip to Detroit. It is not completely finished yet, but you can already have a look. (Sun Jan 9 22:47:29 2000) Clone news Rotterdam record shop & label Clone now have their own domain name and a new website. Their label DUB also just released a compilation album, entitled "Nummer Een". (Sat Jan 8 13:43:40 2000) Kling Klang Apart from releasing their first new song ("Expo 2000") in 13 years just before y2k, Kraftwerk opened a new flashy website. (Fri Jan 7 23:29:01 2000) Slashdot interviews Woz Ubergeek Steve Wozniak answers questions submitted by Slashdot readers. Quite interesting. (Fri Jan 7 23:20:05 2000) Back to life Things here seem to be getting back to normal, so you can expect more updates soon and hopefully some sort of report of my trip to Detroit, Techno City last december. (Thu Jan 6 21:51:08 2000) Linkage I'm sorry about the recent lack of updates, but there's more to life than weblogging. Don't expect any updates for a while as i'll be away for some time... (Sat Dec 11 11:04:21 1999) Napster Thanks to Freshmeat i (finally) discovered Napster earlier this week and found lots of music i've been looking for for a long time. When you log into one of their servers, you basically add your mp3's to a worldwide database and share them with other Napster users. I bet the music industry loves this concept! (Thu Nov 25 22:42:16 1999) Weblog Monitor Dave Winer's new Weblog Monitor offers the most extensive stats on weblogs. (Thu Nov 25 22:37:37 1999) Toystory 2 Harry reviews Toy Story 2. He quite likes it. (Mon Nov 22 23:48:31 1999) The other Office 2000 Office 2000 is 100% guaranteed to be Year 2000 Compliant. (Strange Brew) (Sat Nov 20 09:23:54 1999) Basement Jaxx Yesterday i went to see the Basement Jaxx in the Paradiso in Amsterdam. I wasn't too familiair with their music, but i was very impressed with the mix of old house, p-funk, disco, latin, etc. that they played. And so was everyone else present at this gig. Check them out if they're in your area. (Fri Nov 19 23:01:05 1999) Parallel universes From science fiction to fact? (Slashdot.org) (Fri Nov 19 19:14:25 1999) Hello, i'm chello Today i got a cable-modem and so far there haven't been any problems yet. Getting it to work under Linux was quite easy as well. (Wed Nov 10 23:32:33 1999) Expo 2000 Yes, it really says december 6 is the release date of a new Kraftwerk CD Single. I almost can't believe my eyes. I can't link to it directly, so to find the information, search on the title "Expo 2000". I presume it's a longer version of the jingle they composed for the Expo 2000 in Germany. (Mon Nov 8 23:20:48 1999) The Sounds of Science Creating your own Beastie Boys compilation on Musicmaker.com is very cool, but i really miss tracks like She's On It, Rock Hard and the Beasties' cover of the Beatles' I'm Down. (alt0169) (Sat Nov 6 20:12:37 1999) More Matrices There's some news on the sequels to The Matrix, the best movie of 1999 (in my humble opinion of course), on scifi.ign.com. (Slashdot.org) (Thu Nov 4 20:00:38 1999) Micro Modular So, yesterday i got myself a nice little red box with huge possibilities. I'm totally amazed with what this tiny machine is capable of. Thousands of patches for the Modular can be found online too. (Wed Nov 3 20:05:24 1999) Kling Klang Here's a cool picture of Kraftwerk working in their Kling Klang studio. (Sun Oct 31 18:00:39 1999) George Liquor George Liquor is on the cover of the latest issue of Wired. Also check out George's Fishing Story. (Thu Oct 28 21:16:43 1999) Drexciya Etronik has a small interview with a spokesperson for aquatic electro warriors Drexciya. I'm really looking forward to that album! (Thu Oct 28 20:12:20 1999) Shameless plug This weekend i uploaded 3 more tracks of my band TV-99-AD to mp3.com. I hope you like them. (Tue Oct 26 20:33:25 1999) Web Citation A good article about weblogs and Epinions can be found here. (Camworld) (Fri Oct 22 22:09:30 1999) alt0169 The fine weblog alt0169 has temporarily moved here because of hosting problems. (Fri Oct 22 18:51:09 1999) Dancer Fun for hours and hours is the flashy Interactive Dancer from GLOBO. (Wed Oct 20 20:05:30 1999) Doom It is now possible to use Doom as a tool for system administration. "Imagine running around with a shotgun blowing away your daemons and processes, never needing to type kill -9 again". (Slashdot) (Wed Oct 20 19:59:46 1999) ElecTribe R Soon i might be getting one of these. You can try it out online if you have the plugin. (Tue Oct 19 23:07:11 1999) The Fabulous Ruins of Detroit This weekend i booked a trip to Detroit in december to attend the party of the 313 mailing list. I'm looking forward to see those ruins again. (Tue Oct 19 22:49:07 1999) Urban Sounds The new issue of Urban Sounds is online, including interviews with Funkstörung and Carl Finlow. (Fri Oct 15 00:29:46 1999) Cam @ work There are now 2 webcams to be found in our offices: here and here. If you're "lucky" you'll catch me or Remco once in a while. (Wed Oct 13 23:36:19 1999) Time Space Transmat mp3.com is sponsoring the Transmat TimeSpace Tour featuring Detroit techno pioneers Juan Atkins, Derrick May, Kenny Larkin and more. Coming to a city near you soon (if you live in ths US), but download those mp3's first. (Wed Oct 13 23:10:34 1999) DUB The Djak-Up-Bitch label is now called DUB. Read an interview with label owner Serge on Pjoe.net. (alt0169) (Sun Oct 10 22:14:19 1999) Monty Python Night It's... Monty Python Night tonight on the BBC, including some new and previously unseen sketches. (Sat Oct 9 08:58:08 1999) The Human Behind Robot Wisdom An interview with Jorn Barger of Robot Wisdom, probably the first real weblog, on WebWord.com. (Alt0169) (Sat Oct 9 00:42:33 1999) 3 voor 12 Radio 3voor12 has a 7 hour live broadcast scheduled tonight. From 9 til 4 Central European Time, the station will broadcast interviews, DJ sets and live performances from artists like Luke Slater, Speedy J and Quazar. The broadcast covers the Amsterdam Dance Event. (Fri Oct 8 20:10:22 1999) Playstation 2 workstation Sony may use Playstation2 technology for a workstation line. The power of the Playstation 2 matches or surpasses the power of workstations and PC's, so it becomes difficult to use them for development. (Slashdot) (Thu Oct 7 20:19:21 1999) Planet X A British astronomer may have discovered a new and bizarre planet orbiting the Sun, 1,000 times further away than the most distant known planet. Other astronomy news: the Hubble discovers the birth of a galaxy. (Slashdot) (Thu Oct 7 20:13:15 1999) Adult Interview You can find an interesting interview with Adult (Ersatz Audio) on pHinnWeb. (Wed Oct 6 20:28:58 1999) Archive Finally! You can now browse the old news on this site in the archive. (Tue Oct 5 23:59:41 1999) iMac rebirth As expected the new iMac was introduced today. I quite like the graphite one. (Tue Oct 5 22:22:10 1999) Axis Records The legendary Axis label is online now. Too bad it's all monster size flash files, where some javascript would've done the trick. (Tue Oct 5 07:56:28 1999) Reaktor This weekend i've been playing a bit with Reaktor, a software synth/sampler, and i must say i'm very impressed. It does just about anything you want it to do and it sounds incredible. (Tue Oct 5 00:03:44 1999) Pleistocene Park Scientists hope to clone a woolly mammoth that was found in a Siberian ice field in 1997. "Why not? I'd rather have a cloned mammoth than another sheep". (Slashdot) (Sun Oct 3 09:42:23 1999) Etronik Etronik is a new weekly online magazine devoted to electronic music. This week they have a bit about the upcoming Drexciya album and you can win an exclusive Innerzone Orchestra boxset. But please don't enter, because i want to win it. (Sat Oct 2 00:57:12 1999) A Guy Called Gerald Acid house and jungle pioneer A Guy Called Gerald uploaded a couple of tracks to mp3.com. I'm looking forward to hear what Gerald's been up to lately. (Thu Sep 30 21:24:56 1999) Radio Lelystad Tonight i'm standing in for DJ Statik, presenting an hour of music on a local radio station. If you're in the area (very unlikely), tune in to 91.1 FM. Too bad they don't do Realaudio broadcasts. (Fri Sep 24 21:19:07 1999) Crossfader Thanks to crossfader.com for the nice words and the link. (Thu Sep 23 21:35:29 1999) Don't Panic More Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy news: Douglas Adams' company The Digital Village is working on a real live Guide! Very cool. (Slashdot) (Wed Sep 22 22:21:36 1999) Geek bits Some intersting things on Geeknews.net today: An x86 emulator project for Playstation2 and The Pizza Box server. (Wed Sep 22 22:12:12 1999) Another NSI email security hole Once again the Dot Com People show us what they know about security just a few days after a previous vulnerability. (Camworld) (Tue Sep 21 21:46:17 1999) Jesux I think the Jesux Linux distribution is meant as a joke, but with those wacky Christian Americans you'll never know. (Memepool) (Mon Sep 20 21:02:00 1999) Online Hitchhiking You can now play the Infocom adventure of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy online. Just don't forget your towel. (Sun Sep 19 13:00:27 1999) Tresor becomes 8 Today's the 8th birthday of Berlin record label Tresor. Tonight a live PA of Dan Bell will be streamed from the birthday party at the Tresor club, so tune in quickly. Next week Juan Atkins is spinning. (Sun Sep 19 00:29:29 1999) Wip3out Last week Wipeout 3 was released for the PlayStation (also playable on the upcoming PlayStation 2 of course). Once again a great game which saved me a lot of money on my phonebill. (Fri Sep 17 20:20:45 1999) Sega BSD Sick of playing games on your Dreamcast? Then install OpenBSD on it! I'll wait for a Linux port to the PlayStation so i can use mine as a webserver. (Slashdot) (Tue Aug 24 23:00:31 1999) Eddy Wally! Yes, the legendary Eddy Wally, the Voice of Europe, has his own homepage. Even without being able to understand the Dutch language you might find this site very enjoyable, but you'll definately miss out on the guestbook. (Tue Aug 24 22:33:31 1999) Reverb Also updated is Reverb, a magazine by Dan Sicko (author of the fantastic book Techno Rebels) and Matt MacQueen. (Sat Aug 21 15:37:16 1999) Be Back I'm sorry for being silent for a while. I've spent most of my computing time in BeOS recently and i'm thinking of moving the development of this site to BeOS as well by using TrackerBase, but this will take some time. Today i added a new bunch of links and some musical news. (Sat Aug 21 15:29:33 1999) Interference Online magazine The Skinny has an interesting interview with I-F. (Sat Aug 21 15:26:15 1999) Better Ideas After years of musical silence, Derrick May is suddenly back. He provided the music for a Flash movie on the Ford website. Surprisingly it's drum 'n' bass! (Sat Aug 21 15:19:37 1999) The Manual So, you want to have a number 1 hit? Then read The Manual, written by The KLF. They should know, cos they had a few of them. (Wed Aug 11 22:23:32 1999) Wipeout 3 The third installment of one of the most spectaculair PlayStation games, WipeOut, will be released before the end of the year, but the website is already starting a buzz with movies and other flashy stuff. Oh, and if you like The Designers Republic, you're gonna like this site a lot! (Wed Aug 11 22:14:51 1999) Solar Eclipse If you're in Europe and haven't heard about tomorrow's total solar eclipse you must've been living under a rock for the last few months. (Tue Aug 10 23:28:43 1999) Bands Speak Out on MP3.com Wired has an interesting article about artists on mp3.com. Record companies don't have to be scared of mp3.com (yet?), but for up and coming bands it is a great way to promote your music. (Tue Aug 10 23:17:03 1999) Let it Be Well, sorry for the lack of updates this weekend. I've installed BeOS 4.5 last saturday and i must say i like it a lot. I'll write more about this OS soon, but for now check out the screenshot i made yesterday. (Mon Aug 9 23:24:07 1999) Outrageous On-line Uncle Al Uncle Al sent me a link to his site. New weapons of mass consumption, not recommended for children or mammals in general. (Fri Aug 6 19:14:16 1999) M$ Typography site I've never been a big fan of Microsoft and their products, but their Typography pages are a very good resource for everything font related. (Thu Aug 5 20:22:17 1999) Theorem mp3's Right now i'm really enjoying some mp3's from Dale Lawrence a.k.a. Theorem. On this page you can download some of his unreleased gems. Beautiful atmospheric grooves. (Wed Aug 4 22:31:20 1999) The Athlon Family For my next computer i'm seriously thinking of equipping it with one of the Athlon family members from AMD. A 600Mhz Athlon Professional sounds very interesting! (Geeknews) (Wed Aug 4 22:19:35 1999) Delsin launches new site The quality techno label Delsin from Amsterdam launched its new site today. With three new releases coming up, the future looks very good indeed. The Real Audio clips are already online. (Wed Aug 4 19:35:45 1999) A to Z of Electro David Toop wrote an A to Z of Electro music for The Wire magazine focusing mainly on old school electro. Get those sneakers out of the closet, homeboy.. (Tue Aug 3 20:36:44 1999) Camworld The very fine Camworld has a new design. Quite nice actually. (Mon Aug 2 23:29:27 1999) SGI goes for Linux In this article you can read that SGI (the company formerly known as Silicon Graphics) will be focusing on one OS: Linux instead of IRIX. Personally i never found IRIX very stable, but i must admit i haven't used it much. (Slashdot) (Mon Aug 2 23:12:59 1999) Lunar Impact The Lunar Prospector has crashed into the Moon as planned, to see if there's water up there. Details should appear soon. (Sat Jul 31 12:25:02 1999) The Hitchhiker's Guide movie Here's a nice interview with Douglas Adams about the movie of The Hitch Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy coming in 2000. (Looka!) (Sat Jul 31 09:04:18 1999) Monty Python Speaks CNN has put the first chapter of the new Monty Python book, "Monty Python Speaks", online. A must-read if you're a Python fan! (Slashdot) (Fri Jul 30 23:26:42 1999) Penguin Mints Soon i'll finally get a (very nicely designed) tin of those Penguin peppermints thanks to Copyleft and my credit card. (Wed Jul 28 23:08:34 1999) Sample guide Marsel has started a sample guide for (Detroit) techno records. It is not as big as the Encyclopaedia Breakannica yet of course, but there are already some surprising entries to be found. (Wed Jul 28 19:46:19 1999) Amiga Pics Amiga.org has some pictures of the new Amiga. Looks pretty good, but the site is quite slow right now, probably due to the Slashdot Effect. (Slashdot) (Tue Jul 27 19:49:31 1999) New weblog Bruce Perens of Debian fame has started a weblog called Technocrat using the open source software package Squishdot. (The Stuffed Dog) (Mon Jul 26 21:13:11 1999) Javascript kiddie This guy knows his Javascripts and uses it in ways i've never seen before. Very original and definately worth a visit. (Sikkema) (Mon Jul 26 20:55:28 1999) MP3.com also launched IPO You may have already heard it, but as expected MP3.com went public wednesday and the shares did very well. This also gives me a chance to plug our page on MP3.com here. (Thu Jul 22 22:27:27 1999) Springer may run for Senate If you thought an actor as president was a bad idea, then this bit in Salon will make you weep. (Wed Jul 21 23:44:05 1999) Be IPO Be's Initial Public Offering was launched today. 6 million common shares at a price of $6 = $36 million. Perhaps they can now afford to write drivers for my video card. (Tue Jul 20 22:30:10 1999) How to Toilet-Train Your Cat I wonder if i can learn Koffie to do this. Probably not. (Tue Jul 20 21:14:32 1999) Ice Cream It was very warm and humid here today, so this site, and this one as well, is like food porn to me right now. Very hot... (Mon Jul 19 20:01:13 1999) bo2k pranks Back Orifice 2000 can offer a lot of fun as this unsuspecting web cam owner came to discover. (Mon Jul 19 01:21:28 1999) Yaris Later this week i'm getting a new car from work: a Toyota Yaris. The dashboard is very cool, much cooler than on this picture. And talking about cool, it also has AC! (Sun Jul 18 20:51:54 1999) World Wide Whois This Whois tool is very handy, perhaps almost as good as the command line interface. Just one of the many nifty Geektools. (Sat Jul 17 22:37:34 1999) Caffeinated Soft Drinks This very nice (but somwhat old) article about caffeinated soft drinks can be found on Dwelling. Personally i really like Mountain Dew, but unfortunatly it isn't for sale here in The Netherlands. (Sat Jul 17 10:57:10 1999) New Plaid album The new Plaid album, "Rest Proof Clockwork", should be out now. The Warp Records site has some nice Flash animations, Real Audio and a Radio mix online. (Sat Jul 17 01:08:52 1999) Shake it! If you want to give your browser a little exercise, go here. (Sat Jul 17 00:27:07 1999) Enter the weblog Push and Portals are some past day internet hypes, but here's a new one: weblogs. You can read all about this new phenomenon here and here. Some good examples are Camworld, Robot Wisdom, Scripting News and Sikkema op het Net (Dutch). (Fri Jul 16 23:48:04 1999) Mozilla M8 out A new release of Mozilla, the future of Netscape browsing, is available now for Linux, MacOS, Windows and BeOS(!). (Fri Jul 16 19:41:10 1999) Tiniest web server Once again the record for the smallest web server has been broken. Check out the IPic, an implementation of a TCP/IP stack on a on a PIC processor. You can start a hosting center in your pocket with a few of these. (Wed Jul 14 22:31:55 1999) South Park warning The ChildCare Action Project (US) warns us about the upcoming South Park movie, "another movie straight from the smoking pits of Hell". Sounds good! Found this link on Slashdot.org. (Wed Jul 14 00:14:41 1999) Firecracker Give Away X10.com is giving away a total amount of 1 million US dollars worth of Firecracker home automation tools for free to readers of freshmeat.net. Only for US and Canada citizens i'm afraid. (Tue Jul 13 23:55:06 1999) New features Thanks to some cool new features in bk2site, the software i use to generate this site, i'm now able to offer bits of news here. So, if you have any news, please send it to me. Your contributions are very welcome! (Tue Jul 13 22:02:52 1999)

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