Found via Steve Lawson’s excellent blog , this is a fantastic gizmo that looks bizarre but, if it does what it says on the tin, would liberate many knob-twiddlers. No longer would they develop crinkly spines from hours spent hunched over FX pedals.
The basic use of the pedal is to end the endless bending [...]
Archive for May, 2005
White wristbands sold by the Make Poverty History coalition were made in Chinese factories accused of using forced labour, it has been disclosed.
(Source: The Independent)
Oh dear…
You would think the three charities involved would have taken great care sourcing the wristbands. Apparently not.
Have a read of the full story, link above, for some class stupidity.
Laura Veirs is a tiny dynamine, a songwriter who has, in the space of a few years, found her own voice and style. Her 2004 album, ‘Carbon Glacier’ is a dazzling fusion of trad American blues/folk with more off-kilter, European melodies. The Independent called it the “most enthralling album of the year thus far.”
Laura [...]
The government’s plans to introduce identity cards were dealt a body blow last night after it emerged the true cost of the scheme could top £18 billion, more than triple the official estimate.
The figure has been calculated by experts at the London School of Economics, who have spent months producing one of the most authoritative [...]
“This is how liberty dies. With thunderous applause,” Padme Amidala
I fell in love with ‘Star Wars’ way back in 1977, when I was 11.
I came out of the cinema with my Dad and my head was buzzing and filled with a thousand flashing images. As we left the Eagle Centre car park, everything [...]
I just watched a short report claiming that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Iraq’s al-Qaeda leader, has been seriously injured. Placing him in context, the reporter said:
The man who is behind the carnage in Iraq…
But as far as I’m aware, George Bush is perfectly healthy.
Bush and his axis of evil invaders have killed 100,000 Iraqis. Abu Musab [...]
“The US, as the unrivalled political, military and economic hyper-power, sets the tone for governmental behaviour worldwide,” she [Irene Khan, Amnesty Secretary General] said.
“When the most powerful country in the world thumbs its nose at the rule of law and human rights, it grants a licence to others to commit abuse with impunity.”
The administration [...]
In 1969, the BBC wanted to make a series that would be a scientific counterpart to Civilisation, their highly successful series on Western Art, given by Lord Clarke. They turned, eventually, to Bronowski, though not without experiencing some difficulties. It was not a light undertaking for Bronowski, either, as he described later in the introduction [...]
Courtesy of Project Bongos, one of the scariest things I’ve seen in a long time. I don’t know quite why these robot cats are scarier than the Sony Aibo jobbies, there’s just something…creepy about them. It’s the eyes. Those eyes!
Judge for yourself, watch the video by clicking here.
I really, really hope it’s all a fantastic [...]
I recently wrote a rant for Sandman Magazine in wich I complained that people weren’t doing enough with CD-Rs. I see CD-R as being the perfect format for indie music releases: it’s cheap, cheerful, good audio quality and most people have access to a CD player somewhere (unlike a vinyl deck).
I’m very pleased that [...]