| INTERNAL |
NEWS
Downlow, upflow, rants, raves
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AUDIO
Discs, mp3s, musical delight
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AUDIO SOFTWARE
Audio wares for recording
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BOOKS
For your graphic reading pleasure
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DESKTOP
Pixel propaganda
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DEVICES
Odd contraptions that once existed
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NETWORK
Viral growth of distributed systems
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PAINTING
Panels for visual fulfillment
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PROSE
Poems that rhyme sometimes
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SCRAPBOOK
Articles about Pirate TV
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STICKERS
Collect, print, stick
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VIDEO
Loopers, blendz, & edits to make your TV pretty
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VIDEO SOFTWARE
Video wares for the cathode ray tube
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ARCHIVE
Miscellaneous old files
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INFORMATION
Who, what, when, where, why
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CONTACT
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ARCHIVE
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09.26.02
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Wheat paste
Prepare 1 cup (2.4 dl) of very hot water. Make a thin mixture of 3 tablespoons
(45 ml) of white flour and cold water. Pour the cold mixture slowly into the
hot water while stirring constantly. Bring to a boil. When it thickens, allow
to cool. Smear on like any other glue. For slightly better strength, add 1
tablespoon (15 ml) of sugar after the glue is thickened. After using a portion,
reheat the remaining in a covered jar or container to sterilize it for storage
or keep refrigerated. If wheat flour is not available, other flours will work. |
| 09.06.02 |
The network section is up and L3ARN is fully functionally.
More vid edits in the VIDEO section.
"All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling
man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom."
- Albert Einstein
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| 09.05.02 |
Some stuff I am going to add to the site:
- documentation of live broadcasts
- a full on projects section
- a video software section, maybe hardware section
- an updated painting section (long overdue)
Otherwise that's it. Not much news. I went to the new Apple store down in Soho. Whoa, this place
is fargin' crazy. All the computers there are hooked into the net, so being the curious one, I went over to this
site and downloaded some of my vids to the desktop, pulled up Quicktime and launched my vids on a fullscreen loop (on four
different monitors). This was awesome, I haven't seen my work this big and on so many juicy flat screens. I had a personal little
showing of my work at the store. Too bad they have a a guy on the floor who doesn't appreciate anyone who wants to see how
the technology actually works, he made me shut off all the loops that were running. Next time maybe I will film myself in the
store with their cameras loading up some vids and running them on their screens, and upload the whole thing from that access
point.
It's a jungle out there.
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| 08.27.02 |
Another week, even weaker. Growing mold on my brain. Shipwrecked on top of a building and lost at the information booth.
Call. We all miss each other because we talk to ourselves too much. Have fun and be sure to close the door on your way out.
Be careful. |
| 08.18.02 |
Turkle gives the characteristics of a hack as:
1. Simplicity: the act has to be simple but impressive.
2. Mastery: the act involves sophisticated technical knowledge.
3. Illictness: the act is 'against the rules.'
Turkles analysis of the key characteristics applies to any act, not just
those involving computers.
FROM: http://depts.washington.edu/chid/370-99/
napthali/sub_pages/socram.htm
Bye.
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| 08.10.02 |
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08.02.02
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Up late with nothing to say, but I changed some font sizes. There will be some new all original vids up over the weekend,
hopefully. I started writing this article about hacking and hip hop. It has turned into chapters. Maybe I will post it
here as soon I think its ready for public consumption.
Here is the link of the week. Dig around. Get lost. Forget about how long
you have been on the computer.
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07.30.02
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As you can see the logo has been revamped, I'll probably change it again sometime next week.
HOT! HOT! I can't wait until this heatwave breaks. I went in to my room the other day and it had melted. Oh, I found this strange
site with G.I. Joe guys and old glass bottles, kinda strange. I lost the link, but here, check this one out.
The G.I. Joe guy to the left, his name is Dialtone. Somehow all of this stuff got confused. Some stuff.
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07.06.02
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Whoa. Fourth of July here and gone. I saw some guy blow up it was so hot. Too hot to handle. Energy companies raked it in.
What's up with all the Mozilla users coming to this site? I checked my web stats and Mozilla is up there in the ranks. You guys made me
download the crap-ass hack of a browser and fix a sh*t load of font issues. Well, now they are fixed and hope they render correct on Windoze. Maybe its
the Linux people who are running Mozilla? I also got these other hits from a Lynx
text browser and a couple other unknown (UPG1 UP, ia_archiver, zzZ). What the hell are these things?
Anyone know, . Bots of some kind?
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| 06.25.02 |
We have finally moved servers! Mp3s are now available in the audio section, check'em out. Our logo has been revamped
and the site has changed a little bit. I have about one hundred megs of space now, so the all the sections will become
even beefier over the course of the next month. |
| 06.14.02 |
Yes indeed. Lowco. Labs first ever print run! IBROKEDEZINE is now available, soon to be in a store near you(maybe).
Fifty pages of a chock full poems, pictures, prints, and other good stuff, another Lowco. exclusive offer. |
| 06.03.02 |
The webcam may be functional soon. Live vinyl, tapes and other miscellaneous contraptions. Other than that nothing is new.
I updated some of the links, and have been messing around on the audiovisualizers community pages.
I uploaded some pics from my low-power broadcasts. Hopefully soon my design book will be up on here along with a couple of half
hour videos that will available on VHS.
I would really love to make a DVD, but right now the price of DVD burners will put you in the hole. Thanks to
Moore's law we all shall soon be ripping our own DVDs.
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| 05.18.02 |
| The all new audio software section is up and running. It is sort of a visual archive of these small applications I collect and use to record with.
Soon I will have a video software section up, but for now just the music. And I added a new device: the
Tele-human. |
| 05.13.02 |
The new scrapbook section is up and running. Right now there is an archive of pirate TV articles there. This section shall hopefully
continue to grow, with more articles about various subjects. Maybe I'll add an archive of home recording articles? Seriously want to
get up my library of video samples, but that means moving servers. Until then, the only samples I am offering are in the experiments
section, which are all original samples.
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| 04.29.02 |
There is a great article in MacTech Vol. 18. No. 03, March 2002 on broadcasting over a network with Quicktime. Definetly one to read. I can rarely
find any indepth information on Quicktime. What I would love is an entire book dedicated to everything Quicktime. I found this one site,
The Little Quicktime Page, which is pretty good for links to Quicktime
related software.
Freedom Downtime is now available! Finally, I have been waiting a while for this. Check out
2600 for more details.
Yeah, and I found this strange site with some good reading material. ----------->
f0Rb1dd3n kn0wl3dg3 |
| 4.26.02 |
I may have fixed my stupid frames problem. I know it is of great consequence to you. Soon to be released on Lowco. HOME VIDEO
is Blume (a digital diary). A chock full of vid edits / deconstructions / distortions / broadcasts / restreams. It shall soon be posted.
What else?? An awesome place to dig around in is the online United States
government bookstore. The stuff for sale here is awesome: census data, space pamphlets, defense and security books,
just a lot stuff to lose your head in.
Okay. This guy is awesome.
Over at AudioVisualizers.com they had this video loop
contest. Anyone who entered would be sent a compilation of all the entries entered. Turns out I didn't win
anything once I had checked the site, but the other day I get this package. A crumpled manila shipping package, looking like
it had traveled half way around the world and back, arrived at my door. I hastily ripped open the package and, lo and behold, 23
compact discs poured out of the envelope. I haven't even been able to go through all the material this dude sent me. He stoked me
with all these vid-loops. Man. Every disc is jam packed with good bits of video made for twizzin. This dude rocks!
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| 04.18.02 |
| yeah boy. The site is finally live again, being out of commish for way too long. I don't what I have to say here right now, I am
just psyched that this shit is up. Links will not work for now because I am updating and dusting them out. As for the vid
sampulz, I may not have enough room here to upload them all, but check back soon. What else shall be added, spanky
new experiments and all new vid clips from Krueger to Math Problems. Oh yeah, the mp3s for the audio section shall
be up soon enough. For as long as this site has existed, I don't think I have ever posted any of my mp3s. --aight chill. |
| 12.10.01 |
I think I may have solved the problem with some loading inconsistencies on the different platforms. Definetly check out the links
section under video, all new links to VJ applications, I warn you that most of them are crappy. I am still waiting for that
one definitive video sampling program. I think I have used every single one for the mac, and most of them are just riddled with
bugs. Most of the bugs are in interpretating the video from the different formats (avi,mov,mpeg,swf). Its better to have all of your video files as one
format, or the program is confused easily. There too many issues to be resolved for smooth digi-mixing vid-twizzin, one is
screen resolution compatabilities, and porting the video to a projector, vcr or tv. Things need to be resolved for seemless transitions.
I can't wait for this era of Digital Conversion to end, and the day of full Digital Immersion to begin. From water to air, like steam.
Soon a webcam will be up, because the bom ass DSL line will be fully functional. Oh yeah, and the long awaited, mpthreez. I know have linked
to them, they are just not up on the server.
The direction of the site is changing a little. I may be pushing more towards modding more, showing some of my personal
mods and how all these things are a collective vision. I am trying to push into building a small home network, and getting a mp3 jukebox up and
working on this LAN. I am slowing building the Lowco. LAN. Everything is customized. I want to put up all my efforts in building this, from specs
to pics. So I have some work to do. |
| 10.09.01 |
Ooooooooouuuuh. Stickers are back! Yep, that's right I'm bored so I put them back up.
Check'em out. Oh yeah and there's a new file in
the VIDEO. More nonsense for consumption.
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| 10.08.01 |
Did some cleaning. Got meself a haircut. Clipped my toenails. Took a shower. Did some fixing on the site. Not much else.
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| 09.02.01 |
| Built some SH*T. Busted. Tired. Changed. |
| 08.30.01 |
Most of the vidz are up now. I have been waiting until I had some spare time to upload all of them, which means uploading at
2 or 3 in the morning. I got around to upping the smaller ones, and I am going to wait to up the heftier ones when I have a
faster connection. The MP3s will be up in the audio section probably next week. I got these cool ass skeleton gloves today and
picked up the fresh new issue of POPtronics.
I'd actually like to start a new section on the site doing music reviews of the sort. I may just start reviewing discs and vinyl that I
buy or find if I have any time. I am also thinking about hooking up a webcam, the only thing is that I don't have an always on
connection, so updates of the cam would be sporadic. I have been holding out on buying one because I want to wait until they
have better firewire cams. I just won this video transmitter on eBay that will send video 300 feet to any television tuned channel
15 or 16 on UHF. So I am psyched to get that up and working. Oh yeah, and I have to fix the post section, I just haven't had time
to write the scripts. I hate copying and pasting other people's code because sh*t just gets ugly. I always like working from the ground up so I have more control over the whole process. yeah.
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| 08.14.01 |
I have done it again. I completely revamped the site. I tore down all the flash I was working on and opted to use straight html. The flash crap was just getting out of hand, sure, I learned a lot about flash, but I just started to hate the way flash reacts. I didn't have enough overall control of my flash documents. Yeah, you can script it and all that, but just plain flash would'nt cut it. So here I am back to basic html and java.
Well, I just had a hernia operation and now a couple of days later I am finally beginning to walk normal again. Sh*t was not fun. I got a spinal tap though. My legs were numb for about four hours.
Fresh new vid samplez for all y'all vid-twizzers. And if you're not on the vid-twizzin' I suggest a healthy dose
of Arkaos VJ. Oh you'll definetly be pleased, especially if you're portin' your video out to
some big ol' screen or if your MIDI cables are straight plugged into your cranium jack. |
| 07.02.01 |
| Too busy for dumb sh*t. I am still waiting. Waiting. |
| 06.09.01 |
The Labs will be in Brooklyn, NY soon enough. We hope to be moving into our new space on July 1. I
haven't been on the net lately because the place I am staying at now is a fargin' crack den with some
shite ass phone line, so updates will be sporadic as they have been these past two months. The site
has changed a bunch since then, but I think I am still weak in my content. Once we're settled in Brooklyn
things will start to take a much larger shape. I hope.
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| 06.04.01 |
Cleaner, crisper, meaner and maybe leaner. The site is definetly getting some finesse now, I haven't
had any time to update this news section lately. I am in the process of moving so I have had a sh*tload
of stuff to accomplish. But when I've had time I changed some of the layout around making it a bit more
layered. This sh*t starts to take over your life, I mean the web is the most transient place and trying to
stabilize a transient thing is next to impossible, you can never grab a hold of whatever it is. I am diggin'
the colors, yeah.
This dude Tuan e-mails me, asking me for some music, so being the nice guy I am I e-mail him back to
tell him I will send out some CDs for a trade. I burn the CDs, mail'em (to Thailand!), and haven't heard
from him for two weeks now. I put in my money and hard work to get this guy some rare digs he leaves
my ass hanging cold. So Tuan if you are reading this send me something back, or at least an e-mail
telling me you got the goods.
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| 05.13.01 |
I am updating this in the air. Bored and can't wait to get into the city. Don't feel like writing much now, I
will upload this tonight after dinner when I am home. Peace.
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| 05.07.01 |
| YEAH! The l0b0y BOXSET is now available. Check the music section for the brand new digs. I saw some
dude throw this bottle out of his car today and I got pissed. Oh, well. Ignorant f*ck. |
| 05.06.01 |
I put in this percentage loader so people can tell how long the file is taking to load. I am starting to mess around
with a sub-menu system so parts of it are starting to be uploaded. This dude Tuan from Thailand wants to do
an interview with me over email for his experimental music mag. He still has not emailed me back yet. So, Tuan,
if you are reading this as soon as possible.
I will be shipping out the discs on Tuesday. Got alot of sh*t to sort out around here, so I may not be updating
as often as I have.
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| 05.03.01 |
Fixed some font problems. May be moving my physical self. I bought lots of yogurt. Tried to go to La Luz de Jesus,
but it was closed. Rode my bike. Nothing is new. New is nothing. Is nothing new? Nothing new is. Knew nothing.
No thing. Thing. No.
Let me divulge to look at the emergence of the term "Bling Bling". I have seen the latest incarnation of the term used
in a McDonald's commercial and by Rikki Lake. The earliest form I have to reference is by use of it in a conversation
at a show I was at. "Bling Bling" is interesting to me because it encompasses a wide range of ideas I have been thinking
about. First off, its slang and denotes flashy jewelry, especially gold and diamond rings.
I can only guess of its origins, but it is some form of onomonopeia maybe stemming from "cha ching", the sound of a cash register opening. The B-L
part may be an additive from "blowin' up", a cell phone ringing or pager going off. So these two terms "blowin' up" and
"cha ching" have been spliced to create the more catchy "Bling Bling". The term is just as flashy when said as to what
it refers. The term hit a widespread audience once nouveu riche rappers began using it all over the place. But now
we can see the marketing of this term as it is coopted, reassed, and redefined as it is placed in commercials such
as with the McDonald's commercial.
This example of the fashionable-feedback loop is evident with the marketing
campaign of Budweiser with "wusup". It happens so fast now, its so hard to read into anymore. I remember when
I'd see breakfast cereal commercials with skaters using the fatter decks with the big wheels when in reality all the
skaters were skating with double lipped boards with small wheels. Skateboarding at the time may have been too
progressive for the execs in the marketing department to agree on, so they opted for the layer of skateboarding
history already categorized and understood.
Now the source material for new marketing campaigns is extracted directly from its target audience, chemically altered and
then carefully reinjected directly into the vein from which
it was pulled. This reinjection creates a type of hyper-fantastic reality. This is analogous to any chemical imbalancing
ritual. Can I thus define advertising as drug if it thus creates changes to chemicals in my body? Maybe, I would have
to do some serious studies of the effects of advertising on the human body. But is it soley advertising, no, it is much
larger than that, it starts to become the entire mediascape. So, is the mediascape a drug? Maybe, if there is any
evidence of addiction to television or the internet. Here I would have to define drug, mediascape, and reality in any
attempt to justify my argument. But, this is only supposed to be a stupid update section. I'll probably save this and
work on it a little more I think.
All this from "bling bling". |
| 04.27.01 |
| I updated the links section and posted and rearranged the video section. I got some cool ass samples of
Max Headroom that I'm going to put up maybe next week. I fixed these stupid scroll bars and have been
working on this Speak N Spell emulator that will be up later tonight or sometime next week. Been working
on some paintings about astronauts. I circuit bent this puppy piano and got some nice tweeked sounds out
of it. I have been working on a new music project called "The Children of Nu". I have so much time since
I've been unemployed it has forced me to keep my mind working by starting all these senseless projects.
So, if you have a job to offer me, my ass
pronto. The Hong Kong CD I got off eBay is delicious future funk. My cat friggin' spilled this huge glass of
water on this old catalog, The Last Whole Earth Catalog, and now its all f*cked up. Silly cat. |
| 04.20.01 |
Jobless and frustrated. I might have posted some new video stuff, that is if I can drag my ass to do it.
Listed the tracks on the Kid Lucci album. Started reading a new book. Finished reading THE Philosophy of
Andy Warhol. eBay is the best place to freakin buy CDs. I got a Trans Am CD for six bucks, I got Sonic
Youth "Goodbye Twentieth Century" for nine dollars. Oh yeah and that's a double disc. I got Hong Kong
coming in the mail, five bucks. I went to the music store, I don't know what it was called, some generic
record store name that you usually find in a mall that is owned by some other corporation that is in bed
with some other corporation that is eating off the plate of yet another corporation which is, well nevermind.
The point of my story here was to compare the prices I was getting my music for. The Sonic Youth disc was
seventeen dollars brand new, I got mine for a measely nine. If I paid seventeen dollars for that disc where
would have my money gone? A percentage to the host store, a percentage to the record company, a
percentage to the print and manufacturers, a percentage to whoever else, and a percentage to the band,
I hope. What the hell am I trying to say here, I guess I may be bragging about the good deals I've made.
Oh yeah, and last week I got an Aphex Twin CD for ten bucks, Richard D. James. The disc rocks. Then
I had the question, why was this person selling such a great piece of music? I have such dumb pride in
my music collection, I love it, I rub it with a diaper.
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| 04.11.01 |
| Changed some colors, fixed broken links, refined the menus, cleaned stuff, ate brownies, watched Divorce
Court. Painted pretty pictures. |
| 04.06.01 |
Well, we have moved. Lowco. Labs is now in effect. Aw yeah, I got splenty of space here to upload some
serious files. Some people have been saying that they can't get through the site after the little into, the links
should come up on top after you go through the menu on the bottom, maybe the links are being drawn too
far off the screen?? I don't know, so I am gonna go to Kinko's and check it out over there. Give me the lowdown
if anything isn't working right. Stuff that is going down, check out Habbo, its this fat ass graphical chat room, pretty sick.
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| 04.03.01 |
Whoa. I have overhauled the entire site, talk about non-stop. Everything has been changed, hopefully making the
site cleaner and easier to get around. I took out all the animations for now, I just want to set up a more thought out
structure before sh*t starts movin around. I think it looks a helluva lot better and its much easier on my eyes as well.
The audio still isn't up because I haven't moved servers yet. I'm still debating who should host the site. Fat Cow has
a good deal and so does No Monthly Fees. I tried out NoMonthyFees but they're f*ckin annoying. They keep sending
me emails telling me that I am suspended from there servers. Energy crisis here in California, it is such a crock of
steaming bullsh*t. Otherwise, I am overzealous that the site is looking better and working better as, download times
are down as well. Check the video section for the new vids, there's some experimental stuff in there that I've been
working on mixing and sampling. I have been drinking a lot of V8 lately, man that sh*t gets my ass going.
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| 03.18.01 |
Yesterday was my birthday. Yay. Let's see, what have I changed? I reformatted some of the pages making the text
easier to read on screens not optimized for 1024 X 768. I hope you all can read some the stuff here now. I enlarged
the pictures of the artwork and the live pics. Changes will always be taking place here because it is a work in progress
probably never to be finished. I want to get a web cam up and live soon, but I think were moving before all that happens.
I moved some stuff around hopefully making it easier to navigate around. I think it is pretty self explanatory. I painted my
box and decked it out with hot ass stickies. My cat chewed through my phone line so I gotta head over to Radio Shack
and pick me up a new line.
MIR is going to be crashing into the ocean sometime this week, I think I'll tape it post the video. There is actually a plane you can take out there over near New Zealand and watch the piece of junk enter the atmosphere. Tickets are a buttload of money.
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| EXTERNAL |
ACTION
Politics and thought change
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ART
Things made by humans for no reason
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DIGITAL CULTURE
What computers have done to us
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EXPERIMENTING
Material suppliers and general information
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FILEZ
Learn about how much you don't know
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FRINGE DATA
For when you have nothing better to do
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MUSIC
Artists, labels, samples
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MODDING
Hardware hacks
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PHONES
Supplying voice traffic
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RECORDING
Kill all labels and start your own
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SCIENCE
The space in which math exists
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SITE
Of no educational use
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SOLAR
Radiant energy
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TURNTABLE
Why is there such a fascination?
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VIDEO
Artists, feeds, files, info
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