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 Mark your calendars if you like relatively good dance music. Royal Sapien (that's me) will be on John Digweed's radio program on May 19, 2007. It's on at 1am UK time, which is 8pm Eastern and 5pm Pacific. Listen live on the Kiss100 site. It's an exclusive mix just for the Digweed show featuring lots of new Royal Sapien stuff. More RS news coming soon. Labels: Royal Sapien  Every time I climb into a hammock, I think how it's really just a big, swinging net. And I think, "God: please don't let me die in this." - Merlin Mann “I couldn't think as slowly as you if I tried.” - Tom Coates Been trying to "understand" Java scripts... I feel stupid. Going to watch a movie to make myself feel better. - Elena Ho And I'm hungry. I feel stupid and hungry. Ugghhh!! - Elena Ho Registration price for the Web 2.0 conference in Oct is $3600! Holy crap! - Jason Kottke If you add a little coffee to the mix, insomnia converts to early rising. - Merlin Mann Labels: Twitter  The Wider Angle Podcast has returned! We've partnered with IODA, the most outstanding digital distributor online (and the distributor of my own Olaris Records) for access to their amazing library, which means great things for you - almost every song on the podcasts will be free to download on Wider Angle. We're still working out the format of the new show, but this Music Preview will give you a good taste of what we're going for. Part electronic, part indie, part chillout, this one hour mix should ease you into the Wider Angle Podcast Lifestyle. If you like the Wider Angle Podcast, check out the Royal Sapien Podcast [XML] [iTunes] and my show Decibels on Proton Radio. The tracklist is as follows, tons of free downloads below... Lou Bastion - Tabla Groove [Global Remix] Sunshine Jones - Anywhere You Are [King Street Sounds] Astral Matrix - Mr. Funkster Does It [Rampant Records] Rui Da Silva - Regressors [Kismet Records] Kerri Chandler - So Let The Wind Come [Nite Grooves] Ananda Project - Universal Love [King Street Sounds] Dan Mangan - Little Snitch [Muti Music] Four80East - The Drop [Native Language Music] DJ Rap - Feel It [Propa Talent Recordings] Matt Hirt - Jungle Love [Fervor Records] Sanchez Dub - Visions [Modus Vivendi] Soul Coughing - The Brooklynites [Luaka Bop] David Byrne - Fuzzy Freaky (Remix) [Luaka Bop] Phontaine - Nonsense (Disaster) [So Called Recordings] Beirut - Elephant Gun [Ba Da Bing!]      Download "Tabla Groove" (mp3)  More On This Album Download "Anywhere You Are" (mp3)
 Download "Mr. Funkster Does It" (mp3)
 Download "Regressors" (mp3)
 Download "So Let The Wind Come" (mp3) More On This Album Download "Universal Love" (mp3)
More On This Album Download "Little Snitch" (mp3) More On This Album Download "The Drop" (mp3) More On This Album Download "Feel It" (mp3)
 Download "Jungle Love" (mp3)
 Download "Visions" (mp3)
 Download "The Brooklynites" (mp3) More On This Album Download "Fuzzy Freaky" (mp3) More On This Album Download "nonsense (disaster)" (mp3) More On This Album Download "Elephant Gun" (mp3)
Labels: Wider Angle Podcast        Labels: flickr  The WWF created a beautiful and poignant living sculpture representing how much carbon monoxide a day of driving releases into the air. This may seem like an odd thing to say, but I wish the company where I work spent half as much effort getting us enthused about our products as Apple does. "Every time you go to work you are reminded of the products you ship. In big huge looming living color. I was impressed. Getting the message in is about feeding the culture. It’s about making people proud of the work [they're] working on." TED has a sparkling new web site where you can watch over 100 talks, with more to come. Very inspiring and extraordinarily brain-filling. [via Core77] These blood puddle pillows make you look like you're dead. I want one very much. [via reddit] New game at Flickr headquarters: faceball. Need to get some beach balls when summer hits. Gmaps Pedometer will let you track your path and it'll add up how far you traveled. [thanks Allyson] It appears that much of Cubism was inspired by the motion picture, which makes more sense than any other explanation I've heard. Over 130 faculty, students, and staff have been killed at Iraq universities so far this year. [via reddit] The Red Bull Music Academy has free podcasts of lectures from some of the best musicians in the world. Non-Format creates beautiful design. [thanks Preston] In the latest ruling on the law that will raise royalty rates so high that it will put most Internet broadcasters out of business, the "Copyright Royalty Board judges denied all motions for rehearing and also declined to postpone a May 15 deadline by which the new royalties will have to be collected." [via tailrank] The Landlord starring Will Ferrell and Pearl. [Funny Or Die] [thanks Kirk] Labels: Links  If you get a chance today, head over to the Ministry of Sound article on my new compilation Audio Tour 2, out in May on Fade Records. It's linked from the front page. Labels: Royal Sapien  I'd like to alert everyone, who I know have been waiting anxiously since January, that I've added a new episode to the Royal Sapien Podcast. You can grab the xml feed or subscribe in iTunes. The tracklisting for this month is as follows: INXS - Elegantly Wasted (Royal Sapien Just For Funk Remix) Horse - Careful (Royal Sapien Private Label DnB Remix) Royal Sapien - The Robot Royal Sapien - F.U.C.K. Orbital feat. David Gray - Illuminate (Royal Sapien's Lightened Up Remix) Jim Croce - Operator (Royal Sapien's Phoning Home Remix) Royal Sapien - No Love For D Redacted - Redacted (Royal Sapien Remix) Carmina Verano - On Your Own Labels: podcast  I'm a bit late learning about shabu, an incredibly concentrated variety of crystal meth. "Most of the home-cooked speed in Denver is only 10 to 20 percent actual crystallized methamphetamine, adulterated with toxic by-products of the makeshift ingredients used in crude manufacturing processes. While any tweaker with a hot plate can whip together a batch of bathtub speed, Shabu requires a trained chemist working in a fully equipped laboratory with uncorrupted components. The result is pharmaceutical-grade meth -- 95-plus percent pure." Scarier still is Fentanyl, a synthetic form of heroin that is much like the opiate, but about 100 times stronger. According to an article I read in Details, a dose the size of two grains of salt placed on your hand would kill you. It's becoming one of the most popular drugs in LA. Why do kids start using drugs in the first place? "Kids do drugs because they realize that adults have lied to them about it. If they are to discover the truth, they have only one course of action: Do drugs." Of course, the lies are usually about relatively harmless recreational drugs, so kids are never encouraged to investigate on their own for fear of discovering the truth, so they never learn about the much more dangerous drugs parents don't know about. Then they get into real trouble. [via reddit] These 60 second spots seem like they'd be anti-drug, but they're actually pro-online privacy and directed at kids. Amazingly, they're also really good. [via waxy] The Tower of Terror was modeled in Half-Life 2. Amazing. Ride the ride from your desk. [YouTube] If you haven't yet filed your taxes, don't forget to request the Telephone Excise Tax refund -- only available this year, by request, to make up for an illegal tax on telephone service. [via The Nation] If you enjoy Internet radio, please take five minutes to help save it! The RIAA has convinced the Copyright Royalty Board to hike royalty rates well past what virtually all webcasters can afford. Even NPR. The RIAA thinks that limiting the music people can listen to will result in more sales. Sound reasoning if I've ever heard it. So please call or email your representative and tell them to STOP the RIAA from fucking our music, or we could face a very dark (and very quiet) day on the Internet very soon. Lots of times the older (free) version of software is superior to the updated one. When that happens, check oldversion.com to see if they have what you're looking for. Firefox shortcut: ctrl/cmd+L highlights the address bar. Nice! [thanks Mike] The top 10 most hated things online, according to Google, include SBC Yahoo DSL and Brooklyn. [via waxy] EMI is letting iTunes go sans DRM, but apparently Microsoft is making the whole Zune store DRM-free. Didn't see that coming. Google Labs debuted a free 411 service. Call 1-800-GOOG-411 to try it out. [via Paul Terry Walhus on Twitter] My Maps was also officially launched on Google Maps, allowing users to create their own annotated maps and share them. Hans Groiner reinterprets the music of Thelonius Monk. [YouTube] Domain name prices are arbitrarily being raised 7%, yielding another $27 million per year for the domain monopoly Verisign. So far, this is the best random YTMND creation I've seen. Create your own, randomly. I Can Has Cheezburger? has some great photos of animals with captions. Stupid and very funny. Interview with Mindy Kaling from The Office at Onion AV Club. "I'm not good at anything except writing jokes. I wasn't good at sports, I wasn't good at anything artsy, ever. I think there was a real worry for a while about what I would be good at. I was just this chubby little Indian kid who looked like a nerd." The International Herald Tribune wonders if, despite all the hype, Timbaland could make it as a pop star, or if he'll fade back into the background, just making beats. Over 3,000 American troops have been killed in Iraq. Not to mention 650,000 civilians, a number that has been reconfirmed. Dick Cheney is a Creep. [YouTube] [via kottke]  Wider Angle has 5 Joost accounts to give away! Joost is free Internet TV with select shows from National Geographic, Comedy Central, and some much weirder stuff, too. I've been watching my own personal World's Strongest Man and Stella marathons while I work on promo stuff. Joost will still be free when it's available to all, but for now it's only in beta. To get one of these fancy exclusive invites, be one of the first five people to send me the message "joost" on Twitter! UPDATE: All the invites have been given away. Congratulations to everyone who got one! Winners will receive their invite when I get back to my PC -- Joost isn't friendly with Macs without Intel chips. UPDATE 2: Joost isn't letting me on the network. Once I get in to access the invites, they'll be sent out.  Many links are waiting to be posted, but I've been busy. Lame. I know. This weekend I was mixing Decibels and working on a ton of promo art for my tour to support my new compilation Audio Tour 2 that I mixed with Chris Fortier, and tonight I have to do a mix for John. Oops, tripped. Enough shameful self-promotion. I promise I'll post a bunch of excellent new stuff soon. This great photo is from Dry Valleys of Antarctica. Now back to compiling my tracklist and watching World's Strongest Man on Joost.  When you venture to the redesigned MSNBC site, an aspect of the design may seem oddly familiar. So when you see that color-changing graphic in the upper left meant to represent the "fuller spectrum" of news -- a "Wider Angle," if you will -- please remember where you saw it first. I'm not saying they stole the idea from my site with a relatively small (but wonderful!) readership. I'm sure they stole it from a much bigger one. See also: the design I created for Avant Guardian, a Milwaukee production company, several years ago. In addition: their new logotype is one of the few designs that doesn't look appropriate set in Gotham. MSNBC is allegedly a news business, thus it deserves a newsier face, unless they soon plan to open a chain of museums, nightclubs, and perfume manufacturers. (Gotham is my favorite typeface of the moment, so I get militant when I feel it's misused.) Labels: wider angle  This correction arrived almost immediately after Harper's Weekly was sent out this morning. The statement "In New York City, someone stole the penis of a chocolate Jesus" is not true; the source was a satire website that was mistakenly thought to be a genuine news source. Harper's Weekly apologizes for the error.My dad noted, "The mistake, of course, is that it was actually chocolate AND nougat..."  Despite the poor grammar, the Greenpeace site requesting Apple to start being at least a little environmentally responsible has good intentions, and you can submit your own design that is hopefully better than this one. [thanks Steven] Some companies are looking to reinvent album art as interactive experiences on the computer, which really seems more like an interactive experience on a computer than album art. But perhaps that's just me. After seeing Tom Coates's photos, I really want this Leica D-Lux 3 camera. The top link referenced on Twitter today was for StationRipper, which I hope doesn't gain much traction. Recording individual songs en masse from free netradio stations at their expense feels dirtier than I like to feel. Educated Earth has links to a lot of great documentaries. WNYC is producing a new morning show that will be "less produced than 'Morning Edition,' more live, more conversational, more interactive." Sugar Hill, the origin of the Sugar Hill Gang. [thanks Alexis] Caught the first episode of The Tudors from Showtime streaming on Netflix this weekend. While Showtime has excelled at quality dramas (Queer As Folk, Dead Like Me, The L Word), they've lacked in beautiful programs, at which HBO is king (Six Feet Under, Carnivale, Rome, The Sopranos...). With The Tudors, Showtime has successfully achieved the opulent look they were going for, but that's about it. "One hesitates to say that [Jonathan Rhys Meyers] phones his performance in. It's more like he dictates it to an assistant who then submits it via fax." Alanis Morissette covers "My Humps." 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