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Groove Armada has some funky stuff. End of story.

Groove Armada - Live From One Big Weekend 2004 [ 46:02 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

This is the house that funk built
Groove Armada style
All right, I’m checkin’ all you this evening an’ see you sittin around
But we aint gonna have none of that this evening, child
That’s right, don’t be lookin’ at me like that
See my name’s gran’ma funky y’all
Funky if you’re nasty darlin
And you’ve got to stay nasty
But see, I need a little more volume, you know what I’m sayin’
Give me volume on everything ’cause I want you to hear me
I wanna hear myself against the world
Check it out
If you all love gran’ma funky y’all you’re my gran’ babies
So get ready to get down, get funky, get loose
I see you, baby, shakin’ that ass
Shakin’ that ass
Shakin’ that ass
I see you baby shakin’ that ass
Shakin’ that ass
Shakin’ that ass
I see you baby shakin’ that ass
Shakin’ thay ass
I see you baby shakin’ that ass
Shakin’ that ass
Shakin’ that ass
I see you baby shakin’ that ass
Shakin’ that ass
Shakin’ that ass

…

This is the house that funk built
Groove Armada style

Burnout means you’ve pushed your creative energy beyond the point of recovery. Like a well of water, creative energy replenishes itself slowly over time. A person who has pushed their creative well too hard for too long will, like its watery counterpart, one day find it empty. They’ve pushed too far. Usually by the time you notice something is seriously wrong, there’s very little left to work with. Burnout then is something, once experienced, a wise person learns how to avoid and manage (which we’ll talk about later). But right now, lets cover some of the common signs that you’ve become toasty:

• You dread getting up in the morning (unless this is not unusual for you)
• You don’t care anymore about something you were passionate about
• You saw the title of this essay and felt a ray of hope
• Inspired motivated creative people annoy you
• Everything seems gray and pointless
• You’re drinking more or eating more, or showing whatever your signs of depression are
• You find it hard to relax
• It seems impossible to do basic work you know you’re capable of

via scottberkun.com

My good friend DJ John Tamm-Buckle of Twig Media and Kvist Records (buy Kvist 01!) turned me onto the deep heavy bass of Dubstep a couple of years ago. I have been a devotee ever since. If you can handle the bone chomping sounds and epic tracks, well today is your lucky day. Here is a dose of Dubstep for enhancing your aural ecstasy via directed bass. Podcasting these mp3′s is super easy with podPress, what a tight plug in.

Geroyche - Disciples of Bass [ 1:20:03 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

Go Japan! Golly, HD footage of the moon! Oh wait, we put a few people and cars on the moon 50 years ago. Kthxbye.

link to HD Video of moon flyover

I just listened to a cover of the Holy Diver song by Dio, an old metal band. Performed by the new metal band Killswitch Engage.. awesome!

Fun fact via Wikipedia:

The now four-member band took the name of “Killswitch Engage,” a name proposed by D’Antonio after watching an episode of the FOX program The X-Files entitled “Kill Switch”. The episode’s writer, William Gibson, came up with the title after a chance meeting with the industrial band Kill Switch…Klick; the bands are otherwise unrelated.

Only on a Friday can I combine William Gibson, heavy metal, X-Files, and an mp3 into a blog post.

Killswitch Engage - Holy Diver [ 4:08 ] Play Now | Play in Popup | Download

via The Telegraph

When you coined the word “cyberspace,” did you envision that the term might be your lasting legacy?
Not at all. I thought the book would be despised to the extent that it wasn’t ignored. Now, on a good day, my career seems so utterly unlikely that I wonder if I’m not about to snap out of a DMT blackout and discover that I’m not actually a famous writer of William Gibson novels but that I’m working at a used-book shop that smells of cat pee and drinking beer out of a cracked coffee mug.

via Rolling Stone

Android is the first truly open and comprehensive platform for mobile devices. It includes an operating system, user-interface and applications — all of the software to run a mobile phone, but without the proprietary obstacles that have hindered mobile innovation. We have developed Android in cooperation with the Open Handset Alliance, which consists of more than 30 technology and mobile leaders including Motorola, Qualcomm, HTC and T-Mobile. Through deep partnerships with carriers, device manufacturers, developers, and others, we hope to enable an open ecosystem for the mobile world by creating a standard, open mobile software platform. We think the result will ultimately be a better and faster pace for innovation that will give mobile customers unforeseen applications and capabilities.

via Official Google Blog

They’ve got our future, damn it.

It’s not the shiny future of jet packs and food pills oh no, that’s not what Japan is about. Nevertheless, they’ve got it and they’re living in it, damn them. They’ve got express trains that run on time and accelerate so fast they push you back into your seat like an airliner on take-off. They’ve got skyscrapers with running lights, looming out of the sodium-lit evening haze a skyline just like the famous nighttime scene from Blade Runner except for the shortage of giant pyramids (and they’re building one of those out in Tokyo bay). And they shave their cats.

In the future we will all have shaved cats. And six story high pornography boutiques that sell Hello Kitty! novelty toys on the ground floor. And 200mph super-express trains blasting between arcologies through a landscape scorched by the waste heat of a hundred million air conditioning units. And beer vending machines on street corners. And skyscrapers cheek-by-jowl with temples that are modern reconstructions of buildings dating back to the eighth century (said reconstructions only slightly older than the Christopher Wren iteration of St Paul’s Cathedral).

via Charlie’s Diary

It’s Friday, what else are you going to do?