Monday, 3. May 2004

BBC Radio 3 - Building a Jazz Library


Geoffrey Smith the presenter of Jazz Record Requests selects some stunning recordings from the world of jazz. Listen to the clips and watch the jazz library grow as we periodically include Geoffrey's latest selections.

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Mozilla Thunderbird - Milestone 0.6


The e-mail and newsgroup client for 2004 and beyond.

Thunderbird makes emailing safer, faster and easier than ever before with the industry's best implementations of features such as intelligent spam filters, a built-in spell checker, extension support, and much more.

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What is AudioPaint ?


AudioPaint generates sounds from pictures. The program can read JPEG, GIF and BMP files and translates each pixel position and color into frequency, amplitude and pan information. AudioPaint can therefore be considered as a massive additive synthesis tool.

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Command Errors Aided Iraq Abuse, Army Has Found


An internal Army investigation has found a virtual collapse of the command structure in a prison outside Baghdad where American enlisted personnel are accused of committing acts of abuse and humiliation against Iraqi detainees.

A report on the investigation said midlevel military intelligence officers were allowed to skirt the normal chain of command to issue questionable orders to enlisted personnel from the reserve military police unit handling guard duty there.

¬> nytimes.com

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An Iraq Prison Diary


Bernhard, a Whiskey Bar reader in Germany, has made a spectacular catch - or cache, I should say, since it comes from the bowels of the Google data base.

What he stumbled across is the diary of one Joe Ryan, a frequent caller and on-air personality at station KSTP, a conservative talk radio station in Minneapolis. More recently, Joe has been serving as a military interrogator at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, and KSTP has been posting his diary on their web site.

¬> Whiskey Bar ¬> Google cache of the diary

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The Abu Ghraib Prison Photos


It’s the "liberation" of the Iraqi people

These are just some of the photos that led to an investigation into conditions at the Abu Ghraib prison, now run by the occupation authorities, as revealed in a shocking report broadcast by CBS on 60 Minutes II.

"This is international standards," said Karpinski, in an earlier interview with CBS. "It's the best care available in a prison facility."

¬> albasrah.net Link is down ¬> whatreallyhappened.com UP
¬> G o o g l e's cache of www.albasrah.net.
¬> G o o g l e's cache of ctdsaddam.i8.com.

Lack of Leadership Led to Prison Abuse, Officials Say

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DUDLEY CAMERAS ARE TORCHED AGAIN
Speed limit and camera news for the West Midlands


Two Gatsos in Dudley which were destroyed by fire in 2002 have been set alight again. The top picture shows the camera on the A459 at Cinder Bank and the lower one is on Tansey Green Road.

¬> speedcam.co.uk

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Marijuana Plants Found Growing At Fla. Day Care


Authorities in the Fort Myers area are looking for the operator of a local day-care center after marijuana plants were found growing on property.

Lee County deputies said they initially went to Cynthia Boesenberg's house to find someone who was wanted on felony warrants. However, they discovered several marijuana plants growing in her back yard.

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soundwasta


will be gone for a couple of months. This means that there will be no new mashes under this alias probably till autumn. Soundwasta is gone but I'm still here so check back from time to time to keep yourself up to date for my other "projects".

right click to save Madonna and Mick Jagger - Sweet Secret
Shaggy and The Beatles - Let It Be Me

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Der Killermonat Mai


Der Mai ist gekommen ... die Bäume schlagen aus ...... der Text dieses Liedes wurde jetzt vom Verkehrsclub Österreich offiziell bestätigt.

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IDC


Big thanks to Eddy Temple Morris on The Remix and Jim Gelatly on Beat 106FM for playing the recent IDC Franz Ferdinand booty "David Byrne Was Born In Dumbarton", which is also going down particularly well with several radio stations across the USA and with Scots Shakespeare Irving Welsh when he attended the recent IDC date in Glasgow.

¬> idcmusic.com

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"David Byrne Was Born In Dumbarton'" Talking Heads/Franz Ferdinand
"Heartbreaker Music" The Glitterati/Madonna/KLF/Bowie
"Safe From US" Massive Attack/Lennon/George & Tony

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NETFLIX


by abe linkoln. flash w / sound. based on: scarface, clockwork orange, pulp fiction, fight club and wild style.

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