Hot Chip @ Plastic People - Wed 30th May

Party People

Celebrating the release of the new Hot Chip DJ Kicks album on K7 the boys will be taking
over the eminent east London venue Plastic People for an evening of fine music, drinks
and dancing.

They'll be playing a special experimental DJ set layered with keyboards, effects and
sprinkling of Hot Chip magic to make it a night you won't forget.
But in case you do I'll be there recording it for an upcoming special on samurai.fm

Party starts at 9pm - Plastic People is very small and it'll be packed so get there early.

See you there.

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Ishiuchi Miyako: mothers

2007-05-24 until 2007-06-16
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Sydney, AU Australia





Ishiuchi, one of Japan’s leading contemporary photographers, will be the focus for an exhibition entitled mother’s and will comprise 68 photos relating to her recently deceased mother. Ishiuchi was the artist chosen to represent Japan at the 51st Venice Biennale in 2005. The moving series of photographs she exhibited at Venice was acclaimed as one of the Biennale highlights. The images are disturbingly poignant, personal and intimate. Ishiuchi’s early oeuvre focuses on buildings and street scenes, but in 1990 she shifted to photographs of the human form, starting with the group of works entitled 1•9•4•7, which featured close-up photographs of the hands and feet of women born the same year as Ishiuchi (1947). The artist’s own words in the accompanying catalogue illuminate her continuing preoccupations with time and decay: 'The hands, feet and face are always exposed to the air that surrounds the body and thus are subject to gradual destruction by the elements and time. The body, like a vessel which only receives what is given into it, accepts whatever time and the elements do to it. Things that make a body unique seem to gather at the extremes of the body.' read more

A&E Pulls Spots in Protest

Source: Adam & Eve
by: Company Press Release

(HILLSBOROUGH, NC) -- Adam & Eve, the nation’s number one choice for all things erotic, has pulled its advertisements from Xm Radio’s "Opie & Anthony Show" following the duo’s 30 day suspension in censorship protest.


"We support free speech… not censorship," explains Adam & Eve Director of Marketing Chad Davis. "Adam & Eve was built on First Amendment rights. We cannot, in good conscience, ignore the fact that ‘Opie & Anthony’ were suspended over comments that the FCC has no jurisdiction over."

Joining Adam & Eve in this stand against censorship are numerous other advertisers and listeners.

"We’ve received word that thousands of customers have cancelled their subscriptions to Xm Radio over this," says Davis. "It’s obvious that America is taking the issue of free speech seriously."

Adam & Eve will be back on the air with their normal advertising schedule (effective 6/15/07) when ‘Opie & Anthony’ return from their suspension. While ‘Opie & Anthony’ is off the air, Adam & Eve will support its listeners by continuing to offer 50% almost any item on adameve.com by using code "XM202" at check out.

Adam & Eve has built its reputation over 35 years as America’s leading source for sex-positive adult entertainment. With over 10 million catalog and internet customers, Adam & Eve represents the best of the adult industry and has been featured in USA Today, Time Magazine, U.S. News & World Report, Men’s Health, Forbes, Gentleman’s Quarterly and more.

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Razor-thin TV screen you can wear as a T-shirt

In the race for ever thinner displays for TVs, cell phones and other gadgets, Sony may have developed one to beat them all - a razor-thin display that bends like paper while showing full-colour video.

Sony Corporation posted video of the new 2.5 inch display on its' web page.



In the video, a hand squeezes the 0.3 millimetre (0.01 inch)-thick display, which shows color video of a bicyclist stuntman, a picturesque lake and other images.


Sony will present the research and video at an academic symposium in Long Beach, California, for the Society for Information Display this week, the Japanese electronics and entertainment company said.



The display combines Sony's organic thin film transistor, or TFT, technology, which is required to make flexible displays, with another kind of technology called organic electroluminescent display, it said.



The latter technology is not as widespread for gadgets as the two main display technologies now on the market - liquid crystal displays and plasma display panels.



Although flat-panel TVs are getting slimmer, a display that's so thin it bends in a human hand marks a breakthrough. read more

Is Tesla Motors thinking about getting into the "gas" station business?

Yesterday, Tesla Motors received $561,000 for the development of a UL-approved 16 kw (medium-power) public commercial charging station from CARB. They say the technology "could be used to power up electric vehicles throughout the state of California." Might we someday drive our Roadsters and WhiteStars to the Tesla station for a fill-up?



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Cool OS X Wifi App - WiFInd 1.1

Shows you if wireless networks are locked or unlocked and their signal strength - right in the airport menu. It’s a tiny lightweight plugin for OS X that makes connecting to reliable wireless networks quicker and easier. Whether you’re at home, the office or at your favorite cafe - WiFind will help you locate a signal and start browsing!



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Apple’s Lesson for Sony’s Stores: Just Connect

RETAIL is supposed to be hard. Apple has made it seem ridiculously easy. And yet it must be harder than it appears, or why hasn’t the Windows side of the personal computer business figured it out?



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Brain-eating zombies invade SF Apple store

A horde of decaying zombies invaded San Francisco's downtown Apple store on Friday evening, hunting for brains, terrifying the customers, and gnawing on iMacs.


It was difficult to judge the exact number of zombies that shuffled through the city's shopping district, losing limbs, blood, and unmentionable body parts along the way, but probably at least 150 converged on Union Square. Then they decided to visit nearby businesses, including the Apple store, Nordstrom, the Disney store, and the Westfield Mall. read more

Custom Zune colors arrive

Got $74 to blow on a Zune that isn't watermelon, brown, blue, pink, etc.? Well c'mon in, the fine proprietors of Colorware are now processing new colors for Zunes, and will redo-ify your current player for $74, or send you a new one all done up for $325. (Note: new Zunes cost under $200 at some online retailers, so if you're thinking over a new dev



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Dell Offers Three Consumer Systems With Ubuntu 7.04

"It’s finally here. Later today, Dell will offer U.S customers three different systems with Ubuntu 7.04 installed: the XPS 410n and Dimension E520n desktops and the Inspiron E1505n notebook."



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Freebies Round-Up: Icons, Buttons and Templates

We’ve selected fresh high quality icons, buttons, vector graphics, templates and layouts. You might know some of them, but hopefully not all of them...



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Virtual Hallucinating Device shows what it's like to be insane

Being crazy is hard, but it's worth the effort. Especially if you're a cop, paramedic, or social worker who may someday need to deal with a person having a psychotic episode. At those times, empathy can be crucial.That's where Virtual Hallucinations comes in.



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Intel Gets the Lead Out

Intel Corp. has taken another step toward being greener by announcing that they will stop using lead in its new microprocessors.



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450w-500w Power Supply Battle Royal

You guys asked, "What about regular mid-range PSUs?" So we bought five power supplies at Newegg and then tested them to see if they would do what they were advertised to do. A melting fiery mess proves you get what you pay for. 5 PSU enter, 1 PSU leave.



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Power-Hungry Google Goes Green to Save Greenbacks

Google's uber-efficient use of power saves a lot of money AND energy; its servers’ power supplies now run at 90% efficiency or better, cutting down the energy losses by a factor of four. Says Google, "We believe this energy-saving power supply technology can be applied to home computers, too."



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Automatically upload a folder's photos to Flickr

I love Flickr, but I'm terrible at uploading pics to my Flickr account. I need a way to monitor my pictures folder to upload everything I dump in there. Luckily a cross-platform script called uploadr.py can watch a folder of your choice for new pictures, then automatically upload them to your Flickr account. Here's how to set up uploadr.py.



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PICTURE: It's not a beautiful rainbow, it's a beautiful 'moonbow'

Commercial photographer Brent Gilstrap captures a moonbow over Yosemite Falls. Ideal conditions for moonbows include clear skies, abundant mist at the base of a fall and the absence of artificial light.



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Everyone in The Known Universe Is Afraid of Google?

Firms in Silicon Valley and beyond fear search giant's plans for growth. For a company that pledged to not be evil, Google makes a lot of enemies. From Madison Avenue to Hollywood, some of industry's most powerful entities are marshaling their forces to combat a company that has risen to the top of the business world in less than a decade.



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All-electric, All sports car: new pics and specs of the $70,000 UEV Spyder

The UEV Spyder is an all-electric two-seat sports car that will soon be available for around $70,000 (plus $30,000 for optional lithium ion batteries). It has a top speed of 100 mph, does 0-60 in 7 seconds and a has a range of 70-150 miles (250 with li-ion). Is it a Tesla? No. Is it still really cool? Yes. New pictures and specs were released today



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Hitachi announces 1000GB Blu-ray Recorder

Hitachi has revealed a 1 Terrabyte Blu-ray recorder at the Harvey Norman retail conference being held at the Melbourne Convention Centre.



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Steve Jobs on critics, 3rd party iPhone development, and the future of .Mac

At Apple's annual shareholders meeting on Thursday, chief executive Steve Jobs ran into some fresh sources of criticism and also commented on some new products and strategies, such as third-party iPhone application development and the future of the company's .Mac online services.



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Apple snags nearly 10 percent of U.S. retail notebook sales in March

"Apple's line of MacBook and MacBook Pro notebooks combined for nearly 10 percent of all notebook sales at U.S.-based retail stores during the month of March."



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Microsoft to sell $1B in software to Lenovo

China's largest PC maker says the purchase advances goal of protecting intellectual property worldwide.



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