youtomb
youtomb is a research project by MIT Free Culture that tracks videos taken down from YouTube for alleged copyright violation.
22.5.08
21.5.08
islsk
interview with eric castro, developer of islsk.
not like. as of yet, the application is leech only:
As of now, iSlsk is not capable of sharing your iPhone/iPod files. That caused some regular Soulseek users to get really angry, and they blamed me and complained [about iSlsk] flooding the network with “leechers” who only made larger queues. Because of that, I consider [uploading to be] the most important feature that needs to be implemented on future releases. I plan to keep improving others like file search, (e.g. allowing multiple searches at once), wish lists, and getting the music import to work better (it’s not stable the way it is now), as well as also adding chatroom and messaging support, since Soulseek is a community-based network.also, eric castro is apparently accepting donations for islsk, but never asked soulseek if they consented to its release. i don't know what other portable file-sharing apps there might be out there.
19.5.08
17.5.08
the amenathon vol. ii
Lisbent is back! Rocking the smelly white trash style as always, complete with trashy errors and obscure samples. The album features samples from the first Amenathon over J-lo, to Counter Strike, to Erwin Neutzsky Wullf, the danish cult writer. So prepare yourself for a sloppy gabber onslaught, complete with distorted Amens, filtered thinks, and tentacled filled madness.zip.
Enjoy!
also, really liked:
Les Sécrétions Romantiques takes you into something reminding of the Alec Empires Geist-universe with the Nozebleed Walz introduction. From there on you dive into a universe of diversity with everything from hardcore IDM to chippy electronica passing by gabba-core breaks and diverse French samples chopped in every possible way. This unique combination of chiptune, gabba, breakcore and horror is not only worth a listen, but instantly steals a spot in the illphabetik hall of fame – Excellent work by Les Sécrétions Romantiques!
zip.
16.5.08
how much internet traffic is due to p2p?
what percentage of internet traffic is p2p based?
it seems like either no-one knows for sure, or else the people who do know aren't telling.
it seems like either no-one knows for sure, or else the people who do know aren't telling.
15.5.08
14.5.08
13.5.08
11.5.08
10.5.08
9.5.08
110 million dollars please
TorrentSpy bit the dust only weeks ago, shuttering its peer-to-peer file-sharing site. Now a federal judge has ordered the company to pay the Motion Picture Association of America $110 million for infringement of thousands of copyrighted film and TV shows.
In a four-page final ruling issued Wednesday, U.S. District Court Judge Florence-Marie Cooper entered the multimillion-dollar judgment against TorrentSpy parent company Valence Media for willfully inducing, contributing and vicariously allowing copyright infringement on its Web site.
Cooper also issued a permanent injunction against the Web site, which shut down March 24.
The MPAA, which represents the Hollywood studios, filed suit against TorrentSpy in February 2006, claiming that the site's torrent files were illegally uploaded.
"This substantial money judgment sends a strong message about the illegality of these sites," MPAA chairman and CEO Dan Glickman said. "The demise of TorrentSpy is a clear victory for the studios."
Whether the MPAA will collect the $110 million from TorrentSpy remains to be seen. Court records show that Valence and TorrentSpy principles Justin Bunnell and Wes Parker have filed for bankruptcy.
7.5.08
5.5.08
4.5.08
chip
chip tune:
why does mediamax still work? i don't know. but it's better than the linkup, which doesn't allow hotlinking. so, might as well make the most of it while it lasts. i need a new host, among other things.
herbert weixelbaum: my sound is little, my day is gee (from hot gameboy music)melodies are strong!
sonofsam: old people can still do it
baron knoxbury: pr0n slagg (both off the pornochip comp; see here for more)
nullsleep: hard4u in tha bayou
nullsleep: i love u ... both of u (both off 8bp027)
nc otter: the problem (on chiptune not breakcore, and i dunno anything else about that other than aa.kurtz has something to do with it).
why does mediamax still work? i don't know. but it's better than the linkup, which doesn't allow hotlinking. so, might as well make the most of it while it lasts. i need a new host, among other things.
30.4.08
a moab tune called playhouse got featured in a mix on thematics radio:
It's a frickin' huge file, but I've got it online if you wanted to check it out. No worries at all if you can't be bothered! Just wanted to let you know I used it.such esteemed company!
Here's the playlist:
General Patton vs The Executioners - Battle Damage Assessment and Repair/White Flag Surrender
Monsta Noodle - Pork Scratchathon
DJ Producer - Neglected Intellect
Teflon - Flabbergasted (ADD mix)
Usedtobecool - Tested on Blondes
Meat Shits - Sex-Life (dub mix)
Felix Helix - Fuckspace
Overseer - Signing on
E.P.S. Man - Gangster Love
Fex and Sum - Too much Beer makes me Gypsy
The Flashbulb - Red Vector Acid Minute
Girl Talk - The Feeling
Shitmat - Hardcore Necroism isn't all it's Cracked up to be...
Ravezombie - Pocket Slayer
Paul Blackout - Violent Behaviour
Celsius - Synth
Nordcore GMBH - Now
Swecore Noize Conspiracy - Hitler is Dead
LFO Demon - Maydayverbot
Sacrifice the Liver! - Small Town Syndrome
Scandanavian Noize Syndicate - Kill the Assassin
Fap* - Injured
Gross Prophet - Violents
Kode 9 - Lime
MonstR - 4am Brawl
Alaska Soundsystem - Polar
De-Koder - Knife
Djuep - Zombie Ravin'
Das Gritli Moser - God is Evil and he's gonna Punish you
Hecate - Black as Silence
Indi Bass - Ghost Dance
Drazen - Ancient Future
DJ Infinity - Untitled
Adroit - Subject KRK (Zardonic remix)
Evol Intent - Double Glock
Moab - Playhouse
Rechenzentrum - Parabolid
Mr.Oizo - Analog Wormz Sequel
Himiko - Suck (version 2)
DJ 6666 - Acid's not enough
Xear - I believe in me
Line47 - Taken away
Halo Manash - Lizard Circle
Tim Hecker - October
Ginnungagap - Black Snow, Blood Mountain
Tetsu Inoue - Dot Hack
Monotape - Slump
Graham Moore - Untitled
the file is just under 2 hrs long, it's 164 mb, it can be downloaded from this link, or streamed from here.
26.4.08
“‘Dirt is matter in the wrong place’” (Freud 1959: 172-173).
“Hell has burst and has poured forth abundance” (Bakhtin 1984: 91).
“Debasement is the fundamental artistic principle of grotesque realism; all that is sacred and exalted is rethought on the level of the material bodily stratum or else combined and mixed with its images” (Bakhtin 1984: 370).
“Abuses, curses, profanities, and improprieties are the unofficial elements of speech. They were and still are conceived as a breach of the established norms of verbal address; they refuse to conform to conventions, to etiquette, civility, respectability. These elements of freedom, if present in sufficient numbers and with a precise intention, exercise a strong influence on the entire contents of speech, transferring it to another sphere beyond the limits of language. Such speech forms, liberated from norms, hierarchies, and prohibitions of established idiom, become themselves a peculiar argot and create a special collectivity, a group of people initiated in familiar intercourse, who are frank and free in expressing themselves verbally. The marketplace crowd was such a collectivity, especially the festive, carnivalesque crowd at the fair” (Bakhtin 1984: 187-188).
“The abject is the mud of Narcissus’ pool” (Lechte 1990: 160).
“We do not like (how inadequate this word is!) what we see; but this, too, is beside the point. For abjection is precisely what we do not, consciously, want to see. There is, on the other hand, a certain emotionally charged fascination with abjection: horror and fascination are here entwined. How can the speaking being cope with such a contradiction? Kristeva’s answer is this: not by more repression, but through a kind of laughter (the expenditure of affect): an apocalyptic laughter, given that we are faced with abjection” (Lechte 1990: 167).
“carnival is simultaneously continuous with the contemporary world and desperately at odds with it” (Gardiner 1993: 37).
“carnival is an ‘antibody’ living within a pathological social body, always threatening to rupture it from within” (Gardiner 1993: 37).
“Much of this ideological mode of carnivalization, of course, revolves around the destruction of images sacred in other, different, often opposing cultural levels and dialogues” (Brottman 2005: 14).
“The punk, for example, estranges the discourse of mass-appeal, major-label, commercialized chart music by means of an uncomprehending stupidity (simplicity, naivétè), where the very aspect of not understanding, not grasping the conventions of a society, not comprehending lofty, meaning-charged lyrics, chords, words, labels, and events, remains vital.” (Brottman 2005: 16).
“profanity is always delimited by social context. Although the verbal content is far from arbitrary it is only in certain contexts that the relevant words are thought to be shocking, and it is always the situation of profanity, rather than the words as such, which generates excitement … it is always the situation rather than the lexicon which decides whether or not any particular expression is or is not a profanity and the gravity of that profanity” (Leach 1980: 218-219).
“There is no necessary connection between the symbol and that which is symbolized” (Hayakawa and Hayakawa 1990: 16).
“A learned vocabulary has two functions: first, it has the communicative function of giving expression to ideas–including important, difficult, or recondite ideas; secondly, it has a social function of conferring prestige upon its users and arousing respect and awe among those who do not understand it” (Hayakawa and Hayakawa 1990: 180).
Bakhtin, Mikhail. 1984. Rabelais and his World. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Brottman, Mikita. 2005. High Theory/Low Culture. Palgrave Macmillan.
Freud, Sigmund. 1959. The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud Volume IX: Jensen’s Gradiva and Other Works (trans. James Strachey). London: The Hogarth Press.
Gardiner, Micheal. 1993 “Bakhtin’s Carnival: Utopia as Critique.” Pp. 20-47 in Bakhtin: Carnival and Other Subjects, edited by David Shepherd. Amsterdam: Rodopi.
Hayakawa, S.I., and Alan Hayakawa. 1990. Language in Thought and Action. Orlando: Harcourt Brace.
Leach, Edmund. 1980. “Profanity in Context.” Pp. 214-228 in Not Work Alone: A cross-cultural view of activities superfluous to survival, edited by Jeremy Cherfas and Roger Lewin. London: Temple Smith.
Lechte, John. 1990. Julia Kristeva. London: Routledge.
24.4.08
rus zud: gabbenni amenassi and noize
23.4.08
22.4.08
21.4.08
tricky words
aberinkula – a type of nigerian drum
amenorrhœa – absence of menstrual period in a woman of reproductive age.
anbaric – electric
ancillary – in a lesser or supporting position
anhedonia – inability to experience pleasure
apophasis – ‘to mention by not mentioning’, argument by denial. apophatic – concerning the belief that god can only be known in terms of what he is not
apoptosis – programmed cell death
apostate – someone who has renounced a religious belief
appropriate – to take without permission
auratic – referring to the ‘aura’, in a benjaminian sense, usually of an artwork; the distinctive but intangible qualities such a thing posseses
cairn – a pile of stones set up as a memorial
circumbendibus - circumlocution
clinamen – the spontaneous movement of atoms (often referring to free will)
cloaca – terminal region of the gut in reptiles, amphibians, birds, including intestinal, urinary and genital organs
collateral misinformation – when someone alters a wikipedia article to win a specific argument, anyone who reads the false article before the ‘error’ is corrected suffers from collateral misinformation
complantation – the practice of planting different grapes in a specific type of soil (?)
concordance – a list of words used in a text, indicating the locations at which they occur – an index
concrescence – the growing together of organs or body parts
coruscating – giving out flashes of light
demotic – a form of late ancient egyptian writing, abbreviated and for everyday use; of or for the common people; vernacular
dhimmi – ‘people of the book’, non-Muslim under the protection of the state in a Muslim country
diurnation – the habit of sleeping during the day
dyscrasia – inadequate synthesis of blood
echolalia – instant, meaningless, and often involuntary repetition of phrases or words first produced by others
echt – (gr.) authentic, genuine
eidos – image or form, ‘idea’ in Greek philosophy, in anthropology: the distinctive expression of the cognitive or intellectual character of a culture or a social group
encomium – a formal text expressing high praise; such an expression of praise
entelechy – the real existence of a thing, as opposed to its theoretical existence
enuresis – involuntary urination, especially during sleep
ethetic – concerned with cleaning or cosmetics (?)
explantation – removal of implants
expropriate – to deprive of possessions, (of the state:) to take for the public good
geoponic – of or relating to agriculture, growing plants in the earth (as opposed to hydroponic or aeroponic)
gest – (gr.) yeast
glossolalia – speaking in tongues
homunculus – a miniature person
hubris – excessive pride, as effects heroes in classical plays and thereby leads to their downfall
hyperkinetic – characterised by excessive movement
ibid – ‘in the same place’, referring to the title already mentioned
idiopathy – a disease or illness having no known cause or origin
ileum – lower end of small intestine
infobesity – the sense of mental bloat arising from information overload and fatigue
infomania – obsessive checking of email, text messages etc., at the expense of actual work
inhume – bury
intercrural – between the legs
ipseity – selfhood
irrumatio – oral sex performed on the male where the penis is actively thrusted (the distinction is based on who is moving: in fellatio it is the mouth and head. the distinction has largely fallen into disuse)
jejunum – middle part of small intestine
logorrhoea – excessive talkativeness, especially when uncontrolled or incoherent, as in certain mental illnesses
lychnobite – someone who works at night and sleeps in the day
musematic – concerning ‘musemes’, minimal units of musical meaning
noctilucent – shining at night
nomenclature – a system of names; terminology
nosocomial – (referring to infections) acquired in hospital
nosology – the branch of medicine concerned with the classification of disease
nsbm – national socialist black metal
obtuse – slow to understand
occultatio – to describe something by not describing it
op cit – ‘in the work cited’
ophiolatry – the worship of snakes
orthorexia – or orthorexia nervosa – the ‘correct’ eating disorder, an unhealthy fixation on eating healthy food
otaku – japanese for obsessive ‘nerd’ or geek’, appropriated, with a positive valuation, in the u.s. by hardcore anime fans
ouroboros – symbol depicting the circle formed by the serpent swallowing its own tail
pabulum – foodstuff; insipid intellectual nourishment
paralipsis – invoking a subject by denying it should be invoked: ‘i don’t want to talk about the allegations raised against my opponent’
parsimonious – frugal, stingy; or of an explanation - requiring a minimum of detail
parthenogenesis – reproduction from an egg without fertilisation or impregnation
patrilineality – agnatic kinship – a system in which one belongs to one’s fathers linaeage; property, names or titles through the male line
pavid – timid, fearful
pecksniffian – unpleasantly hypocritical, corrupt behind a façade of benevolence (after a character in dickens’ martin chuzzlewit)
pellagra – disease produced by a deficiency of niacin. symptoms include dermatitis, diarrhea and nervous system disorders
pod slurping – downloading large amounts of data to a usb or audio device
prepone – to reschedule an event to an earlier time
priapic – phallic; preoccupied with masculinity and male sexuality
primus inter pares – the leader or representative of a group of equals (first among equals)
pusillanimous – lacking courage, fearful
rahowa – ‘racial holy war’, american neo-nazi hail
recondite – requiring specialist knowledge to be understood
recto – front side of a printed sheet, right-hand page of a printed book (cf. verso)
sequelæ – conditions resulting from an event; morbid conditions following an illness or injury
somniloquy – talking in one’s sleep
stoma – an opening or hole, especially that made in the colon or ileum via the abdomen
suture – the line of junction between two bones or plates; the stitches used to close a wound
tinctumutation – change of colour
verso – back of a page, any of the left-hand pages of a book, usually printed with an even page number (cf. recto)
Walpurgis night – a wild celebration or a nightmarish situation, walpurgisnacht, traditionally celebrated on the april 30/may 1
some tricky words i wouldn't use, because i don't really understand what they mean and haven't been able to get definitions for them:
brechtian
contrectation
erotogenicity (erotogenic)
phallophoria, phallophor
spectrality
stanislavskian
teknonymity
amenorrhœa – absence of menstrual period in a woman of reproductive age.
anbaric – electric
ancillary – in a lesser or supporting position
anhedonia – inability to experience pleasure
apophasis – ‘to mention by not mentioning’, argument by denial. apophatic – concerning the belief that god can only be known in terms of what he is not
apoptosis – programmed cell death
apostate – someone who has renounced a religious belief
appropriate – to take without permission
auratic – referring to the ‘aura’, in a benjaminian sense, usually of an artwork; the distinctive but intangible qualities such a thing posseses
cairn – a pile of stones set up as a memorial
circumbendibus - circumlocution
clinamen – the spontaneous movement of atoms (often referring to free will)
cloaca – terminal region of the gut in reptiles, amphibians, birds, including intestinal, urinary and genital organs
collateral misinformation – when someone alters a wikipedia article to win a specific argument, anyone who reads the false article before the ‘error’ is corrected suffers from collateral misinformation
complantation – the practice of planting different grapes in a specific type of soil (?)
concordance – a list of words used in a text, indicating the locations at which they occur – an index
concrescence – the growing together of organs or body parts
coruscating – giving out flashes of light
demotic – a form of late ancient egyptian writing, abbreviated and for everyday use; of or for the common people; vernacular
dhimmi – ‘people of the book’, non-Muslim under the protection of the state in a Muslim country
diurnation – the habit of sleeping during the day
dyscrasia – inadequate synthesis of blood
echolalia – instant, meaningless, and often involuntary repetition of phrases or words first produced by others
echt – (gr.) authentic, genuine
eidos – image or form, ‘idea’ in Greek philosophy, in anthropology: the distinctive expression of the cognitive or intellectual character of a culture or a social group
encomium – a formal text expressing high praise; such an expression of praise
entelechy – the real existence of a thing, as opposed to its theoretical existence
enuresis – involuntary urination, especially during sleep
ethetic – concerned with cleaning or cosmetics (?)
explantation – removal of implants
expropriate – to deprive of possessions, (of the state:) to take for the public good
geoponic – of or relating to agriculture, growing plants in the earth (as opposed to hydroponic or aeroponic)
gest – (gr.) yeast
glossolalia – speaking in tongues
homunculus – a miniature person
hubris – excessive pride, as effects heroes in classical plays and thereby leads to their downfall
hyperkinetic – characterised by excessive movement
ibid – ‘in the same place’, referring to the title already mentioned
idiopathy – a disease or illness having no known cause or origin
ileum – lower end of small intestine
infobesity – the sense of mental bloat arising from information overload and fatigue
infomania – obsessive checking of email, text messages etc., at the expense of actual work
inhume – bury
intercrural – between the legs
ipseity – selfhood
irrumatio – oral sex performed on the male where the penis is actively thrusted (the distinction is based on who is moving: in fellatio it is the mouth and head. the distinction has largely fallen into disuse)
jejunum – middle part of small intestine
logorrhoea – excessive talkativeness, especially when uncontrolled or incoherent, as in certain mental illnesses
lychnobite – someone who works at night and sleeps in the day
musematic – concerning ‘musemes’, minimal units of musical meaning
noctilucent – shining at night
nomenclature – a system of names; terminology
nosocomial – (referring to infections) acquired in hospital
nosology – the branch of medicine concerned with the classification of disease
nsbm – national socialist black metal
obtuse – slow to understand
occultatio – to describe something by not describing it
op cit – ‘in the work cited’
ophiolatry – the worship of snakes
orthorexia – or orthorexia nervosa – the ‘correct’ eating disorder, an unhealthy fixation on eating healthy food
otaku – japanese for obsessive ‘nerd’ or geek’, appropriated, with a positive valuation, in the u.s. by hardcore anime fans
ouroboros – symbol depicting the circle formed by the serpent swallowing its own tail
pabulum – foodstuff; insipid intellectual nourishment
paralipsis – invoking a subject by denying it should be invoked: ‘i don’t want to talk about the allegations raised against my opponent’
parsimonious – frugal, stingy; or of an explanation - requiring a minimum of detail
parthenogenesis – reproduction from an egg without fertilisation or impregnation
patrilineality – agnatic kinship – a system in which one belongs to one’s fathers linaeage; property, names or titles through the male line
pavid – timid, fearful
pecksniffian – unpleasantly hypocritical, corrupt behind a façade of benevolence (after a character in dickens’ martin chuzzlewit)
pellagra – disease produced by a deficiency of niacin. symptoms include dermatitis, diarrhea and nervous system disorders
pod slurping – downloading large amounts of data to a usb or audio device
prepone – to reschedule an event to an earlier time
priapic – phallic; preoccupied with masculinity and male sexuality
primus inter pares – the leader or representative of a group of equals (first among equals)
pusillanimous – lacking courage, fearful
rahowa – ‘racial holy war’, american neo-nazi hail
recondite – requiring specialist knowledge to be understood
recto – front side of a printed sheet, right-hand page of a printed book (cf. verso)
sequelæ – conditions resulting from an event; morbid conditions following an illness or injury
somniloquy – talking in one’s sleep
stoma – an opening or hole, especially that made in the colon or ileum via the abdomen
suture – the line of junction between two bones or plates; the stitches used to close a wound
tinctumutation – change of colour
verso – back of a page, any of the left-hand pages of a book, usually printed with an even page number (cf. recto)
Walpurgis night – a wild celebration or a nightmarish situation, walpurgisnacht, traditionally celebrated on the april 30/may 1
some tricky words i wouldn't use, because i don't really understand what they mean and haven't been able to get definitions for them:
brechtian
contrectation
erotogenicity (erotogenic)
phallophoria, phallophor
spectrality
stanislavskian
teknonymity
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