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Check out the PONR exhibition opening tonight 6pm in Pallas Heights. Pallas heights is a new venture organised by Pallas Studios based in semi-derilict flats on Buckingham St in Dublin's city centre and it's one of the most interesting curatorial ventures in Dublin today. Get along if you can.
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Hilariously biased and OTP local radio football commentary from the BBC. My favourite is "I'm never seen anything like it... ha, ha, ha, ha!" and Gazza the spoilt fat brat.
You don't need to like football to enjoy these.
No more dirty dancing in North Down where the DUP Mayor has banned the charity civic ball because he believes that all dancing is sinful (yes even line dancing)
In the wake of desperate attempts to discredit peace protesters, a timely quote
Naturally, the common people don't want war ... but after all it is the leaders of a country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in every country.
- Hermann Goering
background to the quote
So the EU has done a deal with US authorities which will allow European airlines to pass passenger information to US authorities in return the United States gave assurances about the "appropriate handling" of the records, which include not only names but also the passenger's itinerary, contact phone number and other details, such as credit card numbers.
And you were worried about hackers getting your credit card number, travel to the US and uncle sam will have it.
Imagine it could add a whole new dimension to EU vs USA economic war, the RIAA could bill Europe for all those metallica mp3s they downloaded and that's only the beginning.
An interesting Horizon program last night which traces the first evidence of art back to 70,000 years ago effectively debunking the Human Revolution theory of human evolution which put the advent of human thought to around 50,000 years ago. It also offered evidence of Neanderthal art which would indicate that Neanderthals had more in common with us then previously thought but deepens the mystery of what happened them.
Art, of course, is the turning point in human evolution which separates us from other animals.
I think I should get that on a t-shirt.
Cat Power's You are Free is released today haven't gone looking for it yet but Cat Power albums are notoriously difficult to find in Dublin.
She makes it onto the front page of Liberation today and gives a really interesting interview about the album and it's recording. Oh yeah, the downside, it's in French.
The new album is being streamed at the new Cat Power site though it has to be said I haven't got it working, also the Peel session - which was sublime -is available on his site.
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Millions marched to stop the war in 600 cities around the world yesterday. I was proud to be part of the Dublin march where over 100,000 from all walks of life and from all shades of political opinion demonstrated for peace in one of the biggest demos in the history of the state. For many this was the first time they had ever protested but had come out because they had to make their voice heard both to our government who are consistantly ignoring the views of the public and to add their voice to a global call for peace. Yesterday, it was time to stand up and be counted.
This was a clear, unambigious message to politicians to step back from the brink and pursue a peaceful path. We can only wait to see if they respect the wishes of the people.
Reports including photographs and video from RTE and Indymedia
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Now that the Rhizome Artbase is charging for access Net.Art connexion is a new version of the database with the added advantage that it's also easier to use and a lot faster
As far as I'm concerned you can't have too many visualisations of net traffic and IP-3 creates a real time visualisation of visitors to the site so, by the very act of observing, you dynamically change what you are observing. Kewl!
Pinhole photographs taken from within the photographer's mouth.
From the good people at Transnational Temps a scheme which harnesses the energy expended at New York Gyms and sends it to African villages. Now that's what I call alternative energy!
And finally Courtney Love in nude pics shocker
More Cat Power news as the nail-biting countdown to the new album's release continues. Matador have made a Cat Power site which is unfortunately flash based with a big download but quite nice . It'll have a new song off the album streamed daily 'till the 11th, a new forum and lots of links to various fan sites.
She's also recorded a new John Peel session to be aired on the 12th at 10pm and on the web at Well worth checking out as her previous session included such gems as her 30 sec version of freebird.
The Spike latest is that the temporary aviation light on the top is broken and that today they're going to make another attempt to fix it. This is a good cam to watch it on.
For those of you searching for that Old Spike news and pictures they're archived here. and more here.
I'm back from Barcelona where I was talking about Spook... with David Casacuberta as part of a series on surveillance and privacy on the net at the Mediateca at Fundació "la Caixa". The talk was held at the very impressive Caixa Forum with simultaneous translation into Catalan ( a first for me ) and a very good turnout and interested audience. If you're in Barcelona check out the rest of the series if you can.
On the art trail I got to see MACBA - a museum that continues to impress - and Banquete a vast and ambitious exhibition of digital art currently at the Palau de la Virreina and travelling later to ZKM and Madrid with, I think, the possibility of further venues to be announced. As part of the exhibition they had set up a 4Mbps wireless network free for all in range for the duration of the show which I felt was a very nice touch and an interesting angle on public art.
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