Monday: The Debate

Tuesday: In the Blue Corner.

Wednesday: In the Red Corner.

Thursday: Department of Unintended Consequences.

Friday: The Stakes.

Are we square?

Good night, sweet prints.

/cuennei

...what is circuit bending?

1. Shout Out Out Out
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2. Actual
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3. In-Flight Safety
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4. Morning After Girls
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5. Lightning Bolt
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6. Underworld
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7. Kas Product
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8. Oh No! Oh My!
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9. Windsor for the Derby
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10. Fridge
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11. Album Leaf
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12. Papa M
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13. Juan Atkins
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14. Orbital
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15. Lauren Garnier
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16. Kevin Saunderson
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17. Tapes 'n Tapes
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18. To Rococo Rot
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19. Minus the Bear
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20. Superchunk
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Vol. 5 of Music Week will have to wait until Monday. Bygones?

...carpal tunnel much...?

21. Breaks Co-op
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22. Leeroy Stagger
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23. Ladytron
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24. Hold Steady
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25. Isles
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26. Kings of Convenience
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27. Big Sleep
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28. J.F. Robitaille
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29. Furze
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30. Karl Denson's Tiny Universe
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31. Grant-Lee Phillips
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32. Swirlies
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33. Rob Crow
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34. Doers
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35. Stars of Track and Field
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36. Pat Robitaille
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37. Maximo Park
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38. Birds of Wales
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39. Fields
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40. Jarvis Cocker
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...and continues...

41. Porcupine Tree
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42. !!! (I hear they pronounce it "chk chk chk," hence the URLs)
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43. Midnight Movies
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44. Golden Dogs
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45. Tegan and Sara
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46. Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
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47. Mother Mother
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48. Groove Armada
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49. String Cheese Incident
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50. Krief
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51. South
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52. Albert Hammond, Jr.
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53. Daylight's for the Birds
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54. Two Koreas
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55. Elbow
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56. Rogue Wave
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57. Blackstrap
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58. Low Level Flight
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59. Blonde Redhead
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60. Waiting for Roger
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The list continues...

61. Cloud Cult
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62. As I Lay Dying
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63. Army of Anyone
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64. Dntel
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65. Neurosonic
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66. Hawksley Workman
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67. Simon Wilcox
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68. Esque
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69. Nassau
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70. Action Action
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71. Benjy Ferree
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72. Bright Eyes
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73. 31 Knots
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74. Duke Spirit
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75. Elvis Perkins
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76. Alela Diane
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77. El-P
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78. Klaxons
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79. Blackfield
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80. Nada Surf
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Here's the deal: this is a list of the last 100 new bands I've heard. These aren't recommendations; quite the contrary, in some cases I don't even like them. But different strokes, and all that.

And again, 100 bands. There will be typos, bad links, duplicates, fleas and ticks. If something doesn't look right, leave me a comment and I'll fix it.

But, hey? Enough of me yakking. Let's boogie!

81. Young Galaxy
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82. Brian Borcherdt
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83. Idlewild
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84. Spit Can
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85. Emmure
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86. Nuclear Assault
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87. Wayne Petti
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88. Lemon Jelly
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89. New Pornographers
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90. At the Drive In
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91. Blood Meridian
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92. Pride Tiger
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93. Hed Planet Earth
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94. Hot One
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95. Elf Power
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96. Boy
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97. Patrick Watson
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98. Lily Allen
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99. Hylozoists
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100. Early Years
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The only one of my De La Hoya-Mayweather predictions that came true was this one:

De La Hoya withers after the eighth, giving up three of the last four rounds.

Mayweather fought an excellent fight and beat De La Hoya the same way that Felix Sturm did: keeping away from the ropes and punishing him with the jab. If there is a rematch, I'm not paying for it. One episode of "Dancing with the Stars" was enough.

In what must certainly be a hoax or some deranged piece of satire, a web log ostensibly*** operated by Rosanne Barr blames colony collapse disorder on the Rapture. Not the textbook Rapture, mind you, but one commenced by "sociopathic businessmen."

Sample quote: "The food chain has been perverted by science and tech, and next comes FAMINE." (Emphasis is faithful to the original.)

It's a short, twisted read, so take it all in here.


***Pardon my ignorance on the subject. I don't spend much time surfing the celebrity blogosphere. And if I did, Rosanne Barr would be one of my last stops.

"Bottom line: meat’s an unacceptably inefficient substrate for future humanity."

Read the rest here.

Context? Paraphrased: to avoid the upcoming population bomb, we need to develop the technology to upload human minds onto some kind of über-server, or learn to photosynthesize. "Meat," and that is to say consumed meat and body mass, is too inefficiently fed, transported and kept warm/cool to allow a population of 100 billion and beyond.

Don't forget, coming up next week is Music Week.

For his part in the nationwide race to appear most well-schooled on colony collapse disorder, Bill Maher perpetuates a falsely attributed (and probably altogether invented) Einstein quotation here. The quote reads:

If the bee disappears from the surface of the earth, man would have no more than four years to live.

The comments section provides some interesting points. (Furthermore I wonder if -- assuming the worst-case scenario, that bees vanish altogether -- farmers couldn't just manually pollinate their crops.) Some of the more intelligible comments follow:

It's not all bees, just the Eurpean honey bees. There are still LOTS of other bee species still around. Also the honey bees were brought here 400 years ago to Virignia...
The Indians here prior to that had no problems growing their corn without the honey bees. They just knew better how to use their land, than the current human species do...
Read the article in the most recent National Geographic on this (on Jamestown) for more on the egological changes that the Europeans did to this country.

By: Maliika on April 20, 2007 at 04:50pm


Corn is wind pollinated. The squashes and berries still require bees. In fact, pollination isn't an equal opportunity operation. Pollinators are VERY SPECIFIC to the plants they can and will pollinate. Also, you might find the book 1491 very enightening. It discusses this very topic; at least in part.

By: angrywitwoman on April 21, 2007 at 02:29am


In an article published this week by Der Spiegel, the German magazine debunked well the recent PR campaign to divert the cause discussion of the bee collapse in North America and Europe from GMO and neonicotinoid pesticides to mobile phones. I thought your readers should know this information. The following link will take you to that article so you're not caught up on perpetuating disinformation from petrochemical companies. Der Speigel was amongst the first major publications in the world to cover Colony Collapse Disorder.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,477804,00.html...

Wikipedia is also up on this serious matter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colony_Collapse_Disorder...

Regards,

RichardG
Farmer
Canberra Australia

By: RichardG on April 21, 2007 at 04:42am


Bees navigate according to the position of the sun. Cell phones have nothing to do with bees but are a pain in the you know what when eating in a restaurant and some idiot at the next table think I should know he loved today's soap.
Pesticides, parasites, diseases kill bees cell phones kill only peace and quiet.

By: Poupic on April 21, 2007 at 10:01am


On the contrary, we do not know what part (or parts) of the sun's electromagnetic spectrum that bees use for navigation. Visible light is just one segment of the sun's radiation. Cell phones might indeed interfere with the ability of bees to navigate, depending on the frequency. The carrier frequencies used by satellites for our own navigation (GPS) is but another possible source of interference.

By: Sisyphuss on April 21, 2007 at 04:44pm


I am a bee keeper and an environmental activist.
I greatly appreciate your comments.
While all hymenoptera are very sensitive to the unseen environment, I do not believe cell phones are the cause of colony collapse.
Regardless of the cause, I do belive your comments on our laziness are accurate and indicative of a really BIG problem.
My educated guess is that there is a naturally occuring disease that has yet to be identified. I conclude this because the colony collapse has occured across the world with a variety of climates and environmental conditions.
I do feel GMOs are soemthing to be very concerned with, and I have always worried about their effect on pollinators and mammals.
Pesticides do not know when to stop killing; WAKE UP people, do your really need that kelly green, glow in the dark lawn?
What do you think those little flags on your lawn mean?

By: hymenoptera on April 23, 2007 at 09:43am


I have checked several beekeeping websites, and there is no mention of "colony collapse syndrome". Our local beekeeping society just had their quarterly meeting, and the subject matter on the roster was preventing swarms (bees swarm when the colony gets too big for the hive). You'd think if colony collapse was real, it would be the subject of intense discussion on beekeeping websites, and for beekeeping clubs, but its not. Just thought I'd let you all know.

By: redpill on April 23, 2007 at 01:17pm


according to a professional beekeeper in Arizona. When the african bees were moving north, the federal government set up thousands of hives across Panama. The thought was that the afican bee would breed with our honey bee and have docile offspring. The exact opposite happened and the offspring had more african genes and were much larger than the honey bee. (No research was done on this before this fiasco) Now bee hives are infected with a parasite that puts larvae in the bees and kills them. This is possible because the bees are large enough to support the larvae. Note: The original honey bee does not have this problem because it's body is too small for the parasite's larvae. Incidentally, the bee hives and the honey are contaminated with pesticide to keep the parasite colony in check. To save the bees, you need to kill off the african/honey bee mutants and raise millions of the original strain of honey bee. I suggest you don't leave the management of this up to the government elite.

By: bigA on April 25, 2007 at 05:09pm

All typing and grammar remain faithful to the original posts.

...as I get ready for Music Week next week, and Stem Cell Week starting May 14. (A natural progression, wouldn't you say?)

So for today, try this article, describing attempts to solve the riddle of colony collapse disorder, now that the honeybee genome has been mapped. Money quote:

Researchers have found some fungi in the affected bees that are found in humans whose immune systems have been suppressed by AIDS or cancer.

"That is extremely unusual," [said Diana Cox-Foster, an entomologist at Pennsylvania State University].

"I submit that we should think carefully before sending off [space] colonists to far-away places without ensuring that they’re capable of protecting the fundamental freedoms of their citizens, and not degenerating into the primitive tribes that humans seem automatically programmed to create in the absence of a checks-and-balances infrastructure."

Read the rest here. Clearly respect for human rights is more cultural than political, even though the preservation of rights should be the sole function of government. The film Serenity addresses the concept of a second collapse of empire quite deftly.

Reading this also lead us to his previous post, Overpopulation? Not a problem! Which leads us to lokeymassive.net (see the third, rather snarky comment). His page has some interesting MP3 files here and here.

...if he knew any better: last night we found Lou Dobbs bemoaning expensive Chinese products. To wit:

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KITTY PILGRIM, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over): Cheap Chinese products. Until now, the U.S. consumer has paid less and less for products made with cheap labor in China. But now, a handful of U.S. lawsuits claim Chinese producers have cornered the market, raising prices on a handful of basic commodities -- Vitamin C, pain reliever acetaminophen, saccharin, bauxite, rayon and magnesite, a mineral used in steel production.

HAMILTON LOEB, ATTORNEY FOR U.S. PRODUCERS: The trade associations, the industry groups in China, have served as a means for the Chinese companies to get together and exchange information about who's charging what and trying to keep prices up for product.

PILGRIM: The most glaring example of Chinese cartel action, Vitamin C. The U.S. buys $100 million worth from China, but U.S. antitrust lawsuits claim Chinese producers raised prices from $2.80 to $10 a kilogram. And nothing has been done.

WILLIAM ISAACSON, ATTORNEY FOR U.S. PRODUCERS: The Bush administration, like every other administration, takes great pride in busting cartels. And yet, here there are these cartels in China that they fully know about, and where there's no -- no discussion of them doing anything.

PILGRIM: China dominates the world for a certain type of bauxite used for steel, glass and cement. The Chinese share of bauxite has grown to 75 percent of U.S. imports. Antitrust lawsuits charge prices went from $85 to $116 after China took control.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

Read all of it here.