Links for 19-09-2007
Man sues God (seriously), assorted web-dev tools, big mass of music reviews and interviews ……
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1 – BuiltWith.com – Web Technology Profiler
“Find out what a site is built with.” Scan a site to discover the platform and engines. Reverse engineering is go!
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2 – Stripemania – Striped background generator
Does precisely what it says on the tin.
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3 – How to create VISTA style toolbar with CSS
“I want to show you what you can do with a minimal effort and a little imagination [...] We’ll try to reproduce that toolbar, with buttons and hover effect in cross-browser compatible CSS and HTML.”
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4 – CMS Showcase
“A showcase for well designed CMS based websites – sorted by systems.” Nice.
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5 – God on trial
“Chambers’ lawsuit, which was filed on Friday in Douglas County Court, seeks a permanent injunction ordering God to cease certain harmful activities and the making of terroristic threats.” Priceless.
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6 – Re-using ‘obsolete’ computers
Ten uses for an old PC, including router, file-server, media centre and so on. Just add Linux and some FOSS …
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7 – Re-Thinking the Magellanic Clouds
“The latest news about the Magellanics is that they may not be satellites at all, but independent galaxies that have approached comparatively recently.”
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8 – The Top 20 Most Bizarre Experiments of All Time
“To research my new book … I scoured scientific archives searching for the most bizarre experiments of all time — the kind that are mind-twistingly, jaw-droppingly strange…”
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9 – Why You Should Write Things Down
“The memory isn’t very reliable. Every time we remember something we recreate what happened rather than just replay a film from our mental archives.” Yup.
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10 – Album review: Gallhammer – Ill Innocence
“Gallhammer just took your preconceptions of Japanese rock music and stabbed them to death in a deserted churchyard.”
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11 – Album review: Laika Dog – Mercury
“Terrorvision’s Tony Wright proves he can still write quality down-to-earth Britrock with a grin on his face.”
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12 – Album review: The Destiny Program – Subversive Blueprint
“… while it may still be in its early draft stages, there’s plenty of evidence to suggest that The Destiny Program are going to unleash some hideously powerful new musical architecture at some point along the way.”
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13 – Album review: White Rainbow – Prism Of Eternal Now
“So, about the music – no songs. Sorry. There’s a taxi outside for Mr. Lyrics and Mrs. Melody, but they’ve already left the building in the company of some twitchy guy called Rhythm. What have they left behind them?”
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14 – Album Review: Magic Skool Bus – Cafe Trauma
“Ska-punk silliness just won’t lay down and die.”
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15 – Live review: iLiKETRAiNS / Lisa Lindley-Jones – The Joiner’s Arms, Southampton UK
“Welcome aboard the iLiKETRAiNS service from here to history. Your next stop – complete sensory immersion.” Seriously – if you like your moody progressive post-rock, go see this band play live.
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16 – Interview: iLiKETRAiNS – David Martin (vox, guitar) and Guy Bannister (guitar and extras)
“Post-rock history enthusiasts iLiKETRAiNS speak to Subba’s Paul Raven about touring, song-writing, and that quirky band name.” Lovely blokes, too.
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17 – Interview: Laika Dog’s Tony Wright (formerly of Terrorvision)
“Paul Raven talks to Tony Wright – affable working class hero, former frontman of Terrorvision and current frontman of Laika Dog – about the corporate music industry, the honesty of rock and roll … and drystone walls.”
September 19th, 2007 at 10:07 pm
Gallhammer, so named after their love of pre-Celtic Frost outing Hellhammer. Check out Sigh’s Hangman’s Hymn or Gallow’s Gallery for another take from Japan on how to make black metal interesting, fronted by multi-instrumentalist and all-round cool bloke Mirai kawashima.
September 19th, 2007 at 11:13 pm
Thanks for the tip-off, Ed, always appreciated.