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- 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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