purplemass.com

The other day I was listening to WFMU radio when they played a great tune by Big Blood. This tune had a the kind of warm/sweet but at the same time primal sound – hard to describe but I liked it an managed to track down some of their music on some of the more independant radio stations (WFMU and WMBR) and their myspace site.

Here’s on of their live shows on WMBR (search for Big Blood).

And finally, here is a video of theirs on YouTube:

bookmooch.com

Once you are a member of BookMooch (it’s free), you can submit a list of your books you want to get rid of alongside a list of the books you’d like to have. For every book you give away, you get a book.The only cost you incur is the postage of the books. Great idea!

An examination of the two main 9/11 information paradigms

This is a short informative video comparing the main stream media with what we can get as alternative news online.

Douglas Adams’ speech at Digital Biota 2, Cambridge U.K., September 1998.

There are some oddities in the perspective with which we see the world. The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be, but we have done various things over intellectual history to slowly correct some of our misapprehensions. Curiously enough, quite a lot of these have come from sand, so let’s talk about the four ages of sand.

Read more

From CBC News World.

Part 1: What Afghanistan wanted and how the U.S. responded
Part 2: Is the U.S. a terrorist state?
Part 3: Differing perspectives: Robert Kaplan and Noam Chomsky
Part 4: Can trust be restored?
Part 5: Clash of civilizations

A former NASA astronaut who has walked on the moon has said aliens are not only real but have visited Earth several times

Read more

A website dedicated to computer generated modified cars. There are some excellent fake 3D images created from ordinary photos of cars. There’s also a tutorial explaining how it’s done (courtesy of Will).

Visit site

This was a long and laborious task.. It took a lot of research, coming across some extremely useful websites and a little bit of coding to get the job done.

I’ll write a full report on this later on but for now, here’s how we did it for purplemass:

1. Converted our Serendipity blog to a Movable Type format, ensuring the data was saved in UTF-8
2. Import data into WordPress (edited the MT import file)
3. Some posts ended having the wrong authors – this was changed manually

Members of China’s armed police demonstrate a rapid deployment during an anti-terrorist drill held in Jinan, capital of east China’s Shandong Province July 2, 2008, roughly one month ahead of the Beijing Olympics.(Xinhua/Fan Changguo Photo)

From news.xinhuanet.com