I'm on holidays until August in the meanwhile enjoy a recent selection from the Net Art Open on the Stunned homepage and a collection of some of my favourite free MP3 blogs on the sidebar.

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The Flaming Lips have made the Fearless Freaks soundtrack available to download for free, the album consists of the following 8 live tracks and includes cover artwork

1. Wayne's Intro
2. With You
3. You Can't Stop the Spring
4. Shine On Sweet Jesus
5. Space Age Love Song
6. Mouth in the Incubator
7. When You Smile
8. Sleeping on the Roof

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There's nothing I can say that can possibly add to all the news comment on yesterday's bombs in London so I'll say nothing other then to say that my thoughts go out to all Londoners. I don't really understand the urge of bloggers to just say something, or to rehash the news even to the extent of capturing images from the telly and posting them online. I suppose for some it's an attempt to understand the unthinkable and for others an exaggerated sense of the value of their own opinions - the downside of the blogging phenomena. Less palatable but not surprising are those who use the bombing to score cheap political points.

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Tyler Greene of Modern Art Notes visits Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty and Walter de Maria's Lightning Field

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Last year I was in Paris on the final day of Le Tour but as I was leaving that day and unfortunately flying Swine-air I had to leave before the race arrived (with ryanair in Paris the bus leaves three hours before your departure - thankfully Aerlingus have matched their prices and fly to Roissy so never again) This year I'll be in Paris again but leave to go south the day before the tour arrives, hmmm.
For the more obssessive among you a huge PDF to download on Lance Armstrong's last Tour. From the comprehensive Tour de France blog

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From the Boston Review a must-read Noam Chomsky lecture What We Know On The Universals Of Language And Rights

Which brings to mind the segment at the end of Downfall where Traudl Jung (Hitler's secretary in the bunker) admits grudgingly that not knowing was no excuse, if it wasn't then it's even les so know.

...I have become satisfied that I had no personal guilt and that I knew nothing about it — I knew nothing of the extent of this. But one day I happened to pass by the memorial plaque for Sophie Scholl which was put up in the Franz-Josef-Strasse [in Munich] and I saw that she was born in the same year that I was, and that, in the same year that I started working for Hitler, she was executed — and in that moment I actually felt that being young is no excuse, and that maybe one could have found out some things.

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From The Ten Thousand Things William S Burrough's advice for young people and two Stina Nordenstam songs from The World is Saved at The Hype Machine

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Young Fine Gael call their magazine the Vulcan, no seriously they actually call it The Vulcan. It's almost too easy.

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