November 26, 2007

[Read This Book] Dispatches

November 26, 2007 – 9:11 am
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Michael Herr’s trippy fascinating recollection of his time as a journalist during the Vietnam War - first published in the 1970s - is not about Iraq:

Conventional journalism could no more reveal this war than conventional firepower could win it, all it could do was take the most profound event of the American decade and turn it into a communications pudding, taking its most obvious, undeniable history and making it a secret history.

Nope… doesn’t sound like today at all, does it?

Arrrghh… Seriously… Doesn’t anyone in the high councils of war read??!! How does FUBAR keep crashing down? This is not ancient Peloponnesian War stuff… surely someone in the Bush Gang remembers something from their draft dodging days of yore…

Demilitarized Zone / head for the Green Zone / head up in the Ozone… So much for the Golden Age of Journalism…

Thumbs and toes way up… Terrific terrific read…

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links for 2007-11-26

November 26, 2007 – 7:23 am
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Ubuntu Personal Package Archives 101

November 26, 2007 – 3:18 am
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“Personal Package Archives 101 session: join Jordan Mantha (Laserjock) and Launchpad developer Celso Providelo (cprov) to learn the basics of using Launchpad’s PPA to build and host your own Ubuntu packages.”

Where: #ubuntu-classroom on Freenode.
When: 15.00 - 16.00 UTC Wednesday 28th November

(spotted in Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #67)

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November 26, 2007 – 1:37 am
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Mmm… President’s Choice Buffalo Wings & Blue Cheese-flavoured potato chips are hell yes(!) tasty…

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Ghost World by DJ Spooky

November 26, 2007 – 1:28 am
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[Listen/Download MP3] Ghost World - An African Story in Sound by DJ Spooky

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“In Africa, When an old man dies, it is like a library burning to the ground” a quote attributed to Leopold Senghor

Tracklist — Mega Mix!

Por Por Akwaaba Welcome! Car Horn Orchestra of Ghana
Intro: Lafayette Afro Rock Band “Darkest Light” mixed w/Max Roach and Abdullah Ibrahim “Streams of Consciousness” (NY and South Africa)
Intro collage
African Anarchist Radio
Malcolm X “The Roots of Savagery” mixed w/
Max Roach/Abdullah Ibrahim “Streams of Consciousness” (NY/South Africa)
Tony Allen “Crazy Afro Beat” w/scratches by Rob Swift Vs Dj Spooky (NY and Nigeria)
X Plastaz “Msimu kwa msimu” (Tanzania)
Alif “Douta Mbaye”(Senegal)
K’naan “Soobax” (Somalia)
Kelis “Trick Me” (dancehall mix) (USA)
Fela “Kalakuta Show” (Mix Master Mike, Lateef and The Gift of Gab Remix) (Nigeria)
Lotfi Double Kanon “Bled Miki” (Tunisia)
MC Solaar featuring Ron Carter “Un Ange En Danger” (France/Senegal)
Akon “Locked Up” mixed w/ Nelson Mandela “Moments in Black History (Brad Sanders)” (NY/Senegal/South Africa)
Angola National Anthem - “Angola, avante!” Author: Manuel Rui Alves Monteiro (b.1941); Composer: Rui Alberto Vieira Dias Mingao
Mixed w/Malcolm X “The Root of Civilization”
Dj Spooky featuring Tapper Zukie “Revolution Dub” (NY/Jamaica)
Frederic Galliano featuring Pancha Angola: Kuduru Sound System
Frederic Galliano featuring Pinta Tirru “Entra No Roda” (Angola/France)
Bunny Lee Meets King Tubby “African Roots and Reggae” - (Jamaica)
Cesoria Evora - Angola (original + Carl Craig remix) -Dj Spooky remix (Cape Verde Islands/Detroit/NY)
David Byrne and Brian Eno “My Life in The Bush of Ghosts: Vocal Outtakes” (New York/London)
Fela “Zombie” (Nigeria) (remix)
King Britt “Obafunke Theme” (Philadelphia) mixed w/
Interlude Idi Amin speaks (Uganda)
Orson Welles “Citizen Kane” (L.A.)
President Obasanjo mixed w/”Move” by J Dilla (Detroit)
Ryuichi Sakamoto “Riot in Lagos” mixed w/ Nigerian National Anthem (Japan/Nigeria)
Baka Forest People of South East Cameroon - Water Drums (Cameroon) mixed w/
Foday Musa Suso “World Wide Funk” (DJ Spooky remix) (Gambia)
Master Musicians of Jajouka featuring Talvin Singh “You Can Find the Feeling” mixed w/ Abdul Nasser “Independence Forever” (Morocco/Egypt/India)
Duke Ellington “Afro-Euraasian Eclipse” (NY)
Oum Kalthoum “Hob Eih” (Egypt) - Dj Spooky remix
Mixed w/Tectonic “Heat Sensor”
Charlie Dark “Afro Dreaming”(UK-Ghana)
The Monks of Keur Moussa “Nous Te Louons, Pere Invisible” (Senegal)
Ginger Baker/Tony Allen (UK/Nigeria) - drum solo mixed w/
Drexciya “Polymono Plexusgel” (Detroit)
Zimbabwe Legit “Shadows Legit Mix” Dj Shadow remix (Zimbabwe/San Francisco)
Soweto Gospel Choir “Rivers of Babylon” (South Africa)
Konono No1 “Kule Kule” (Congo)
Abdullah Ibrahim “Mindif” (Dj Spooky remix) (South Africa/NY)

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