Listen to the PJ Harvey Peel session, her new album UH HUH HER is out next Monday.
thanks IdFlux

Orbiter, the free space flight simulator is a very (maybe too) realistic space flight simulator where you too can have the fun of crashing over Australia! very large ~36MB download
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The short list for the Turner Prize includes Langlands and Bell’s House of Osama bin Laden, it’s been a long time since I’ve hated an exhibition so much. Still it confirms the Turner’s position as the Eurovision of the artworld – but not as popular.
Christian Analysis of American Culture reviews American movies scoring them under the following categories;
Wanton Violence/Crime,Impudence/Hate, Sex/Homosexuality, Drugs/Alcohol, Murder/Suicide, Offense to God, with sometimes surprising results, they also count the’cuss words which in and of itself is a useful service.
Playfair which removes DRM from Apple itunes is back after the evil Apple Corporation closed it down. Alternatively you could just object to dodgy proprietary formats with built in DRM and spend your money elsewhere like AudioLunchbox no DRM, ogg and mp3 formats, you buy it you own it!
X-ARN’s (Actions Reseaux Numeriques) Artnode – online versions of many new media mailing lists in one place

Shark teeth, jaws and fins are to be added to appendix II of the CITES treaty(Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) , which allows strictly regulated trade and sets quotas. Great Whites are an endangered species whose populations have plunged dramatically due to the so called Jaws effect
From one lind of shark to another (groan) the official Festival de Cannes website and the Guardian’s Cannes coverage

From Artnet the spring photography sale results with a new high of $478,400 for Diane Arbus’ Identical Twins (Cathleen and Colleen), Roselle, N.J.
To continue the photography theme check out Exactitudes – portaits of Rotterdam Street styles, and to prove that more is more the Daily Photo Project – down at the moment due to bandwidth problems – and Tomoko Sawada’s 400 photo booth self portraits, 365 daily self portraits and a photo of every mile across America
Finally the less obsessive In Public .
I’ve been asked where was this photo taken the answer is I’m not sure. I took it on a flight to Paris from Dublin, I think it’s Dublin but I don’t recognise anything but I will examine the higher res version more closely and make a definitive decision.

Picasso’s French police files including his 1940 citizenship application.
Metascene is back from the dead (again) with some live MP3s of the recently reunited Pixies who I’ll be seeing at Rock Werchter – if my tickets ever arrive.
Cearn

Tonight is the last night of Dublin’s Vectorial Elevation your last chance to light up the Dublin sky