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Just stopping by…

…to indicate a couple of sites, one for fans of old-time/country blues/folky stuff, and another for fans of the punk/new wave/no wave/post punk interphase.

The Tone Generation podcast on synths in jazz.

Over here.  Very interesting, includes Bernard Parmegiani playing jazz and Paul Bley playing synth.

NB- the BP link is not his own, but he also has this slow-loading, audio-laden site in French.

Dinosaurs in the Civil War

photo by Robert Kimberly

Dinosaur Kingdom
It’s 1863 and Union soldiers have discovered a hidden valley filled with dinosaurs. Now the Yankees plan to use the dinos as weapons of mass destruction against the South.

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American Hardcore (Sony release, still news to me).

American Hardcore (loud siezure inducing Flash intro at link, see also Wikipedia ) is a documentary about Wuziristani TV jingles, which hardly breaks new ground or offers new perspective but does have good interviews, most remarkably with several members of Bad Brains including H.R.  Also, big points for acknowledging the existence of the Big Boys.  And you can watch it on YouTube (direct YT link, natch).  Dig also the book.

Rideable Jules Verne-inspired robots.

Les Machines de l’ile: Official site (in French), Wikipedia,  two Flickr sets 1, 2.

My runaway favorite is the crab larva.

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Pre-war amplifiers.

High quality vintange gear pi-omega-rho-nu over here, including schematics.

Thanks for the hot tip, John.

B. W. Hawkins, early paleoartist.

Artist Nemo Ramjet wrote an informative blog post about Hawkins, including pictures he took of Hawkins’ pictures.

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War of the Worlds webcomic.

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Medieval torture device or Bed Bath & Beyond gadget.

See if you can tell. I got them all right except for the Spanish tickler.

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