Blaggin, maybe people only blag when they need to because nobody is blogging their blog/blag Blag (n.) would be similar to blagiarism, stealing someone's idea and then boasting about your own input to it. Blagiarism (n.

)copying someone else's blogged ideas without attribution (or link) Blissed (adj.) a state of intoxication brought on by excess blogging
18 and above! Abusive writings!

Some new links in addition to the techie ones nicked off our pal and abusive blogger Beyond Pink are an ace all-female punk outfit from Sweden, and they're generous enough to offer free downloads of tracks from their forthcoming 10 Jedan Dva, Jebla Te Ja (Bosnian for one, two, fuck you ). The baby of Company Flow's El-P and, to my mind, the finest hip-hop label out there. If you like your hip-hop to push the envelope.

.. well, then you're probably already well aware of Def Jux.

But if, by some stroke of fate, you aren't, check them out. The online home of Earthstomp, aka one mr.e, a longtime friend of Them Buzz.

A kind of front-end for Cristian Vogel's Rise Robots Rise label and Mosquito Records, including one of the less twatty message boards I've visited in my time.
A painstakingly compiled, comprehensive genealogy of dance music and many of its myriad components. Its author seems pretty sceptical of its value as an educational tool, but as a handy, quick reference guide it's hard to beat.

Manami-N is a Japanese producer and purveyor of haunting, starkly beautiful electronic torch songs.
Matador is a long-running international label with a shining reputation and quite possibly the most impressive and eclectic roster in indiedom: The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Cornelius, Matmos, Mogwai, Pavement, Guided By Voices, Yo La Tengo, Boards of Canada and Mr Len are all on there or have been at some point in one territory or another. And that's just a few of them.

I started reading the NME when I was 15. Back then, I thought it was the ultimate badge of cool. These days, I feel faintly embarrassed walking out of the newsagents with a copy under my arm.

Still, I just can't bring myself to let it go. I don't know anyone else my age who still reads it. Come to think of it, I don't think I know anyone of any age who reads it.

Any road...

If Def Jux is me favourite hip-hop label in the world, Ninja Tune would be me favourite UK hip-hop label. Of course, to simply call them hip-hop would be to do them a massive injustice. They also deal in, um.

.. jazz.

Not as painfully hip among ver kids as they used to be, which can only be a good thing.
This is one of the greatest websites ever created. Which is fitting, because it's about one of the greatest albums ever recorded, the Beastie Boys' epochal second.

If you're as obsessed with Paul's Boutique as I am (which is completely), you'll find this invaluable.
It's the home of the mighty PE! The most remarkable thing about this website is PE's unflinching self-awareness.

Through objective, third-party reviews of their back catalogue, they apparently acknowledge that their later material doesn't quite match up to their first four albums. How many bands would do that? Bow down to them.

Si Begg is a super-prolific legend of leftfield dance, known variously as Si Begg, SI Futures, Cabbageboy, Buckfunk 3000, Bigfoot and probably Las Ketchup, and this is his website.
Some fucking loon I met on Myspace. Good tunes, though.

An online portal and label for lovers of all fresh, innovative underground and independent music. Beautifully designed, eye-opening AND a genuinely good read.
Manchester's Valentine Records is my friendly local indie and has been very nice to me since I moved to Manc.

They deal in just about anything that excites them, be that electronic or other, (though mostly electronic from what I've heard of the rest of their output). And they know their shit because they wisely saw fit to take an interest in Ultrafoetus. Are you listening, Ninja Tune?

Skint? Truck? Mute?

Twisted Nerve? And any others I forget? Bastards, the lot of yer.

(Originally) Sheffield's Warp Records is home to the likes of Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, LFO, Antipop Consortium, !!!

, Mira Calix, Plaid and shitloads of others, and has a well-deserved reputation as a leading light in both British and international cutting-edge music. It's a very groovy website, too.
A small Manchester-based collective of nutfunkers.

At the time of writing, they've put on an event at the 2005 Futuresonic festival and one night at Charlie's (the most fabulously surreal venue Manchester has to offer). More are in the pipeline. One to watch.

..
The UK's most eclectic high-profile indie, XL houses The Prodigy, Dizzee Rascal, Badly Drawn Boy, Basement Jaxx, Devendra Barnhart, Peaches and The White Stripes, among others.

Which I think is an agreeably mixed bag, even if you don't. You facetious twat.
Douglas Rushkoff is a fuckin' GENIUS.

Media commentator, cultural theorist, philosopher, columnist, novelist, film-maker and, more recently, theologist and sometime member of PsychicTV (he's probably an accomplished magician, too), Rushkoff is a veritable darling of the counter-cultural movement. Which is ironic, because he's also a firm critic of the counter-cultural movement. MC Loonee Dan is an avant-garde musician, programmer, writer and all-round nutjob.

On his website, you can learn about throat-singing, see a Java simulation of a tightening knot or pick up a recipe for red feta pie...

Mark Pesce was instrumental in the development of VRML, which - for those too young to remember a time when the internet was an exciting new cultural frontier and not just a big, hollow, stupefying billboard - stands for Virtual Reality Modeling Language, a tool for creating interactive, web-based 3D environments. Like regular Virtual Reality, it seemed revolutionary at the time and now seems unheard of. But I suspect that, also like regular VR, it has simply become so commonplace we don't even notice it.

Anyway, Pesce's more than a wank fantasy for nerds - he's also a faintly loony-tunes philosopher with some interesting ideas on memetics.
A little bit like rathergood.com, but not completely overrated.

Songs and animations, but bollocks to them. That shit takes too long to load. Check out games such as 'Female or Shemale' or 'Jailbait or Legal'.

Hell of a shame, but Adbusters is now sneered at by just about everyone. The cynical bastards. Whatever you think of its methods, the Adbusters organisation has its heart in the right place.

And yeah, as pretentious as it is, I LIKE the magazine! If people can read Dazed without wanting to crush the West, they should be willing to let Adbusters do its thing. Disinfo.

com is a fine alternative news source, dishing up noises from the under-ground, fresh takes on current affairs and science, secret history and conspiracy theories. Well worth a look.
Like a slightly unsavoury version of Disinfo.

com. I came across this site via a link to the video of Nick Berg's execution in aftermath of the Iraq war (note: mistake). I don't know why, but I can't seem to shake the feeling that The Memory Hole is authored by a gun-toting survivalist from a log cabin in the wilds of Montana.

Like Adbusters, No Logo seems to have become a fashionable target now for many on both sides of the fence. It's easy to forget the impact Naomi Klein's book made at the time - the mainstream simply hadn't seen such a celebrated, high-profile critique of globalisation and aggressive marketing before its publication. On her website, Klein widens her focus to take in other issues, such as US foreign policy.

I think that's a sufficiently polite way of saying, warmongering .
A corporation which hosts user-submitted activist projects and encourages the public to discuss, fund or participate in them. As their FAQ puts it: ark is indeed just a corporation, and benefits from corporate protections, but unlike other corporations, its 'bottom line' is to improve culture, rather than its own pocketbook; it seeks cultural profit, not financial.

I think I'm in love with every single person associated with this campaign. Their aims include the reform of sex laws which inhibit the sexual freedom of all consenting adults , the promotion of pansexual freedom, mutual tolerance and safer sex , the teaching of individuals, the media and authorities to revere sexual pleasure and the decriminalisation of prostitution. Even our supposedly modern society still has some very 19th Century attitudes towards sex, so it's reassuring to know there are people out there fighting the good fight.

BitTorrent is some download thingie that, um...

lets you, ah...

share bandwidth or...

something when you, em...

download stuff...

er...

I don't know about no bandwidth or any o' that stuff, but I do know it seems to make finding cracks a lot easier. NOT that I ever download cracks, of course. Them Buzz does not condone the use of pirated software.

Nor G4jima, No sir! Phew, that was close. You know that horrible moment in conversations, usually when you're with two or three other people, where you say something like, inserting hamsters into toilet roll tubes makes me sexually excited, expecting everyone to go, I know exactly what you mean!

only to hear your voice trailing off at the end of your sentence as you realise everyone around you is looking at you in shock and disgust and you can feel your whole world collapsing in on itself and the words 'social pariah' etching themselves into your forehead? No? Well, that's what I'm about to experience after I say that this website has some of the best fonts I've ever seen on the internet, if you like that.

.. sort of.

.. erm.

..
ODP is, as it sounds, a kind of open-source directory of web content, which volunteers can help organise.

As it's not for-profit, there's no 'premium customers' coming top in searches regardless of relevance, and of course, it's free to submit URLs for inclusion.
One for you producers and other assorted sound people. Simply record and send a sound file from your own library and Tank-FX returns it to you bathed in the natural reverb of the eponymous tank.

The website's written in German, so some comical online mistranslation may be necessary.
9 drawings produced by a professional artist as part of a 1950s experiment into the effect of LSD. Once administered with a dose, he was told to draw portraits of the same subject at various stages of his trip.

Drawing 6 is pretty special. Kind of like the classic Bert Is Evil, blamemutya exposes the wrongdoings of the Sugababes' sinister Mutya Buena.
A small collective of angry young(ish) nerds offload bile on a weekly basis.

That rare beast - a genuinely interesting blog.
This contains a reproduction of a 1950s CIA training manual on assassination. What was the point of the manual is unclear, but it appears to give instructions on the most effective methods of pre-meditated murder.

The Hassan i Sabbah connection is worth looking into as well. There's a good article at Disinfo.com about him .

I usually apply a golden rule to my web endeavours: no advertising, paid or otherwise; so I feel a bit guilty about listing this, a commercial website. But you have just, like, soooooo got to see what they're selling. Circuit-bending is basically the act of taking unsophisticated sound modules (in this case, children's speaky toys) and fiddling with the wiring and that until it sounds all fucked up.

I want one. And I realise that's an endorsement, but there you go.
A cerebral internet radio station co-run by the aforementioned : underground and experimental music, sound-art, docs and other tasty features are very much the order of the day.

If, like me, you're an angry neurotic with an ever-shrinking sense of perspective, you'll be hurled into fits of apoplectic rage by those ubiquitous abuses of quote marks, eg, t-shirts - 5. SCORE an inward victory against an ignorant world by visiting this website! CACKLE maniacally!

SCRATCH your face until it BLEEDS! DISPATCH another victim then RUN frantically as you hear POLICE SIRENS in the DISTANCE!
If you've never wanted a feel for how big things are , there's something seriously wrong with you.

Honestly. You should see a doctor. You make me fucking sick.

You FREAK.
Illegal Art is, quite simply, an online resource dedicated to freedom of expression. At the time of going to press, it's still hosting Dangermouse's Grey Album, if anyone's interested.

Are you racist? Sexist? Homophobic?

Find out here.
Anyone into getting loaded would find something of interest here - it's a huge database of articles and relevant information on all popular (and some not so popular) mind-altering substances, from harmless, boring old weed through DMT and special K to opiates and crack. Personal accounts AND proper scientific reports and everything.

A journey into the dark corners of one woman's psyche as she lays bare her obsession with Billy Bob Thornton. I shouldn't insult your intelligence by telling you that it's actually an elaborate hoax, but I don't want you to think that I didn't know. In any case, the author blows her own cover by writing a bloody essay about her game on the 'About' page.

Nevertheless, this is a bit unsettling.
Media Jam is the free monthly e-zine what me and my mate Dave Zero from do. It's all about the media and that.

We got commentary, reviews, interviews...

All kinds of stuff, in fact, all media-themed. You should check it out. Or I'll bend your throat.

This is a marvellously irreverent article about - surprise! - the Messiah Complex. The bloke who wrote it appears to be evil, but he certainly writes a mean essay.

Art and toys and shit, brings to mind a slightly less frivolous Brunching Shuttlecocks, if you remember that. Check the virtual flick-book.
NNDB is an intelligence aggregator that tracks the activities of people we have determined to be noteworthy, both living and dead.

.. it mostly exists to document the connections between people, many of which are not always obvious.

A person's otherwise inexplicable behavior is often understood by examining the crowd that person has been hanging out with. Profiles here on pretty much everyone who was ever famous for any reason ever, from Pol Pot to Holly Johnson.
Don't expect me to explain this.

I don't know what it is, how it is or why it is. Best you just see it for yourself.
This is a loose-knit organisation of thinkers, doers, artists, scientists, writers.

.. hell, just about anyone.

Not specific to any one issue or interest, PM's aim is to breed fresh thinking on any issue that anyone cares to bring to the table by throwing together as many different conflicting brains as possible to shoot the shit over them. I'm a member. That alone should be enough to make you want to be.

A writers' magazine and publisher of contributions by writers of varying degrees of success. I have a very occasional songwriting column here.
An online magazine of sorts and a directory and co-operative of musicians, writers and assorted artists.

At the time of going to writing it's still pretty young but already growing bigger by the minute, thanks to the phenomenal networking skills of kingpin Marcus James. Worth keeping an eye on.
Ah, rotten.

com: a legend; a museum of unpleasantness; a grainy, 8mm document of the horrors that lurk down the unlit alleyways of existence, where human beings become so much meat. If you fancy peering into the abyss for a while, here it is.
A veritable hive of misanthropy and home of the Do-It-Yourself Pope and the Kill Everyone Project.

All things concerning the boudoir covered here, including reviews of erotica and sex toys and guides on dirty talk and finding your local sex-positive culture . Yum! Sites like this restore my faith in the edifying powers of the internet.

A semi-underground publisher of leftfield literature, notable particularly for William 'Upski' Wimsatt's classics No More Prisons and Bomb the Suburbs.
Wherein Charlie Brooker of The Guardian Guide (the greatest TV critic - possibly columnist, full stop - under the sun) sends up British television with an eye (and tongue) as sharp as needles. Actually, are needles sharp?

Are pointy things sharp? Someone email me and fill me in. Sadly no longer with us, but the archives are still ripe for the picking.

As it sounds, the ULA is a loose underground collective of writers. Their aim is to steer the world of literature back towards engaging with society, rather than observing it from a distance. My poncey description makes it sound a lot loftier than it actually is.

This website is PUNK FUCKIN' ROCK! Check.
This is a bit embarrassing, but I like this website.

The Word Spy reports on new words and phrases or new uses of existing ones as they seep into the popular vocabulary. The joy of words
Thanks again to thembuzz for the links hope you make it down to Norvundevolution matey! see G4jima links below.

Spongefork is a complete softsynth, sampler, live controller, use your computer keyboard, by external pitch tracking, or by MIDI input.
PDF about future online interactivity etc.
- prints available of generated flash no less!

!! - hey flash can do anything for these guys!

- nice 3d logo menu system...

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