.: The Vice Law of Cool: Square derivatives of the diminishing value of Cool. Socio-Thermodynamic Theory and Hipstanomic Application .

It's science time:

Science and Math. 

(ok - some satire)

The experiment in the following video was conducted by the cutting-edge social technicians at Vice. (Vice Institute of Cool Extraction - Hipstanomics Dept).

It predictably demonstrates one of the fundamental laws of Cool. 

(Cool being a value of social temperature). 

Study of the theoretical values of  social temperature is known as the field of Socio-thermodynamics. 

Its practical applications are known as Hipstanomics.

If  we say

Cool = C

then

C x C ≠ C²

Whenever the value of Cool is squared, the result will always be W

W = Wack

and as we know, 

Wack is the inverse of Cool, 

expressed here as

W = -C

therefore

C x C = W 

or

C² = W

or simply

C² = -C

so we have proven that Cool to the power of Cool, cannot be anything other than the inverse of Cool itself. expressed in the video below as:

lightsaber x segway = Wack 

[Nb: At the time of writing the cool value of a segway is negligible but measurable]

Vice lead the industry in deriving and extracting the value of Cool, and the huge amount of wealth involved, means only they can afford the technology required for this kind of research.
Therefore I propose we name this fundamental law of Socio-thermodynamics:

The Vice law of Diminishing Cool Values.

Bam!
Give me a fucking job.

.: Warehouse Mentality - KetateK - [An open audiotool project]

Ok - sorry for lapse in updates. More coming soon.
I have moved house. I wll post more about that, but this article was lying around, ready to post.

This is nothing special, just some ye olde style warehouse tek - made in audiotool.com,
It took about 30 mins, over at a friends place.
All you need is a browser with flash and an internet connection.
Go there and open the actual track - you can see how i have used the different sound and fx. Then remix it if you feel like it.
Join the site - and post results below in the comments.. get a prize!




Audiotool is an online app / software environment, has a great array of effective and intuitive sound generators and access to a massive community library of samples other people have uploaded and made freely available with CC licences. If you can already sample and loop, then just upload away, and add your own loops to the Audiotool preset banks in the 'Cloud'.
Soon other people will be using your sounds in their tunes and you will get a contributing production credit, on the tracks they publish.
Like this amazing song below [not mine], somewhere it uses a little Juno sample I made.







-_-
Audiotool.com is due for an upgrade very soon.

 : audiotool.com, Update 2012:

.: Help Bubbles go to Outer Space

“Bubbles” (or rather Mike Smith, the actor who plays him) from the greatest Canadian television show of all time, Trailer Park Boys, wants to go to outer space. The Metro News in Toronto is holding a contest to put one of their readers into space and Smith wants to win.



VOTE HERE: Race for Space:
Send MIKE SMITH aka BUBBLES into SPACE!!!
And remember you can VOTE 10 times a day from any IP address.

Via Dangerous Minds

.: Electronic Countermeasures

Tomorrow's Thoughts Today are a a London thinktank and with Electronic Countermeasures are doing what the Pirate Bay have proposed creating an aerial network that uses autonomic swarm formation to create, disperse, and reform high-throughput temporary networks in the sky.

Thanks Cory at boingboing

Electronic Countermeasures @ GLOW Festival NL 2011 from liam young on Vimeo.

via torrentfreak

.: You are listening to Los Angeles

 "A "personal appeal" from site founder Eric Eberhardt: Hi! If you're digging all the music & ambience in your web browser & want to help me bring the site to iPhones and make a bunch of other updates, please consider making a donation to my Kickstarter Project that will be running till the end of February. (And you can always help support the site by sharing it with friends on Facebook & Twitter too!)"

You are listening to Los Angeles:

.: Meanwhile: - Swarms of Nano Quadrotors

Yes, it has been all over the interweb this week -but people are giving me puzzled looks when I mention it.
So, just in case you have been holed up in a cave, check out the latest developments at Skynet.

via Youtube

So far: 41,332 people think these goddam nazi dragonflies are apparently 'Awesome!'

- and only 298 found them at all troubling?!

I can't help notice they are not bearing cool refreshing drinks, for us humans to sip, as we enjoy all that extra leisure time technology was supposed to provide us with.

We humans are working harder than ever - and we don't even have lame robot butlers like C3-PO to complain to.

And what about those hoverboards we were promised?

Thoughts?

.: Until AM - Soundcloud Dj Interface

If you like Soundcloud -  you need to check this out.

Yes. Now! [link]..

Until.AM is the brain child of two Helsinki based developers / music lovers Aaro Väänänen and Tuomas Karhu.
It is still in the early beta stage - and lacks a cue monitor or nudge buttons, but it is very fun to play around with and it works well, even if beatmixing is a challenge.
Simple but effective, Until.AM looks like a very promising project, all in all.
The application is cloud-based.& it runs in your browser [it can also play files from your HDD].
There is nothing to install, and you don't even need to log into Soundcloud.
Just click this link...
Mix.Until.Am
Too easy, 

Now you're a Dj

...and so is your Nan.

Tip: If you want to find all your uploaded Soundcloud tracks easily, search your "user name" in quotation marks.

.: YouTube 'hacks'.

Ok - Not really hacks, as much as URLs that utilise youtube in a novel way.

SHOW ME x NON-STOP - This URL allows you to type in a search term and you will be streamed nonstop fullscreen clips. Good for party visuals, stitching up co-workers and wasting your download quota.

Network Awesome - A kind of retro web-channel, lovingly curated from the well stocked bowels of youtube. Presenting 6 hours of thought provoking and eyeopening footage everyday, along with original reviews and companion articles. Network Awesome also has an impressive archive of obscure and esoteric video gems.

Create Your Own Mixtape This site is a kind of advertisment (for some movie called  'Submarine') - however, it's also a very good idea. It lets you compile a mixtape from any youtube clip and share the result. Because, youtube is now the easiest place to find obscure recordings on the internet, obviously...

TWOYOUTUBEVIDEOSANDAMOTHERFUCKINGCROSSFADER.COM - This may be the best website ever made.

.: This is why swords are awesome

mind blown via Zgeek

.: That's it, I'm done with the internet for today.

I think I'll go outside.
[NSFW]

.: The Greatest Speech Ever Made

In 1940, one of the most important speeches in recorded history was given by a comedian by the name of Charlie Chaplin.
This is the speech from the end of his film 'The Great Dictator',cut together with more current footage that poignantly highlights the importance of his words.

.: How to sell bras bras bras!

Yes, this is an actual Australian TV advert.


 
Stay classy, Wollongong.

via 777? and t03cutt3r

.: Kevin Cyr's Camperbike gives me wood veneer.

 W A N T !
 W A N T !

And so to answer the inevitable questions:

• Yes, it's real.
• Yes, - it is 'Art'.
• No, you can't buy one, - you have to make your own.
• You just pedal it. Doy!
• No, it would not be better with an engine.
• Well, your mum stayed over and she didn't complain.

 .: Kevin Cyr's Homepage :.

I have nothing more to say but; - cars and mortgages are now officially for suckers and bogans.
 Get off the petrol, or get off the planet!

Kapeesh?

.: How to build a House with a Reciprocal Roof

         

It looks like a still from 'Lord of the Rings' but it's not, it's a real home, in Wales.
This incredible hobbit-like house was handmade by a man named Simon Dale.

He'll even tell you how to do it on his website and he makes it sound fun and easy;

"The house was built with maximum regard for the environment and by reciprocation gives us a unique opportunity to live close to nature. Being your own (have a go) architect is a lot of fun and allows you to create and enjoy something which is part of yourself and the land rather than, at worst, a mass produced box designed for maximum profit and convenience of the construction industry. Building from natural materials does away with producers profits and the cocktail of carcinogenic poisons that fill most modern buildings."
'I am not a builder or carpenter, my experience is only having a go at one similar house 2yrs before and a bit of mucking around inbetween. This kind of building is accessible to anyone. My main relevant skills were being able bodied, having self belief and perseverence and a mate or two to give a lift now and again."

.: "Why I am an anarchist" - ESR

Eric S Raymond [or ESR] is most widely known for his definitive book on the history of the rise of open source software and Linux,  'The Cathedral and the Bazaar'. He is also responsible for the assembling of  'The Jargon File'. aka 'The New Hackers Dictionary'
He is a bit of a legend from way back in hacker culture and open source dev & his website is a must-visit HTML treasure, well worth exploring. His essays are very interesting and wide ranging.
lots of great stuff to read.
I read this one many years ago,

• WHY I AM AN ANARCHIST

William Shirer's The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich is one of the most subtly horrific pieces of writing ever uttered. The single most chilling paragraph in a book that does not flinch from describing Nazi atrocities is this one:
On August 19, 1934, 95% of the Germans who were registered to vote went to the polls and 90% (38 million) of adult German citizens voted to give Adolf Hitler complete and total authority to rule Germany as he saw fit. Only 4.25 million Germans voted against this transfer of power to a totalitarian regime.
With this vote, the position of Führer as an amalgam of President and Chancellor — the elevation of Adolf Hitler to the status of dictator — was formally and democratically approved by the German people.