Play Russian Roulette in bash!

Run this:
[ $[ $RANDOM % 6 ] == 0 ] && rm -rf / || echo \”You live\”

Win32 App of the century

This app is worth its weight in plutonium.

Powerbook Resuscitation Addendum

The solution outlined in this post turned out to be crap, just as a nagging voice in the back of my head had been saying for some time. Who’s ever heard of installation media wreaking this much havoc? OK, actually I have, but considering the routine that actually checks installation media, it still […]

Introduction to field recording

If you’ve ever wanted to give field recording a try, this here is an excellent guide.

Hackers and Painters revisited

As someone who actually got Paul Grahams book as a present, I couldn’t agree more with this post - aside from the naked chicks maybe, cause we all know programmers get tail for days.

Nervous Mix

Nervous mix, 3 turntable action and no chance of an accurate playlist - anyone that can guess 3 tracks or more gets a bottle of Salmiakki, promise.
(Lalbel)namedrop mode: Einstürzende Neubauten, Vromb, Residents, Nurgle des Trolls, Grim Dubs, Felix Kubin, S.Y.P.H., Frieder Butzmann, Das Synthetische Mischgewebe, Head Resonance Company, Night on Earth, Pan Sonic, CoH, […]

Chinese Astronaut Propaganda

Today’s high tech utopia, via Boingboing:

More pics here.

Cthulhu - Water Resistant

Another excellent mix by Cthulhu - from hard, banging acid to slightly more abstract fare, with a smattering of REM in the middle.
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The Australian Noise-based Art of Zen

Recently discovered Australian artist Birchville Cat Motel generally produces ultranoisy fare quite similar to Merzbow et al.
But! Check out the split-release Assholes of the World Unite and Hunt in Packs with Guilty Connector on Celebrate Psi Phenomenon for a truly luscious, minimal 20+ minute soundscape in the form of Birchville Cat Motels ‘Seven Silver […]

Resuscitated: my Powerbook

What an odyssey. I wake up Friday morning only to find my trusty lifesucker to be in permanent kernel panic mode. After a couple of boots, I manage to launch the Tiger install DVD, and do a reinstall & format. Reinstall goes smoothly, only to find myself back in aforementioned permanent kernel […]