Bankai, a Creative Common artist.

FRANÇAIS

   Bankai est un projet de musique électro (entre autres) qui se définit lui-même comme étant du style "nerdcore" (écoutez la chanson "Strut", y'a un sample de l'amiral Ackbar qui gueule "It's a trap !"). Toutes les chansons de Bankai sont sous licence Creative Commons et peuvent être téléchargées, remixées et diffusées LEGALEMENT et GRATUITEMENT depuis le site bankai.fm.

 Leurs chansons sont compilées en 2 EPs et une compilation de remixes :

• Quarter Circle Punch (2009)
• Teen Slut Pimp Strut (2009)
• Remixes (2010)

  Je vous recommande particulièrement "The Epic part III", "Faun" et "Strut".

  Bankai est l'artiste électro le plus cool et le plus innovant que j'ai écouté depuis la fin de la French Touch. Ecoutez, profitez, attention c'est addictif.

ENGLISH

   Bankai is an Australian electronic music project, in the nerdcore style (listen to there's a sample of Admiral Ackbar's voice yelling "It's a trap !" ). All Bankai songs are licenced under Creative Commons and can be LEGALLY downloaded for FREE on the website bankai.fm. The licence allows to remix all Bankai songs at your free will.

  The songs are published in 2 EPs and a remixes compilation :

• Quarter Circle Punch (2009)
• Teen Slut Pinmp Strut (2009)
• Remixes (2010)

   I recommend you to listen to "The Epic part III", "Faun" and "Strut".

   Bankai is the fresher and coolest electro artist I've listened since the end of the French Touch period. Listen, enjoy, but beware it's addictive.

LINKS 
Official website
Myspace
Facebook
Thesixtyone

The 61 : discover new artists and listen to their music for free

 

The 61 is a a cool, free and legal website designed in HTML5 (no Flash, so it's Linux-user-friendly ;) ). Its purpose is to allow listeners to discover new artists, and vote for them if they enjoy their songs.

The global design of the site is gorgeous : the very simple playing control are integrated in a big background image chosen by the artist. Many information can be displayed during the playing, like tour dates, lyrics, official website or myspace link, or even news about the band member's lives.

There are many different ways to discover new songs : top list, smart searching which takes into account your musical tastes, or just random !

Join the site to discover new artists, like Bankai, The Rescues, Tomac...

http://www.thesixtyone.com/

Operation Payback - 0day flaw in Linux Kernel

The Pirate Bay and the well-known group Anonymous (see this, this and this) have launched an initiative to protest against ACTA, French's Hadopi and several Major Companies' behaviour regards to illegal downloading.

ZDnet.au reports that a hacker leaked a 0day flaw of the Linux Kernel in order to allow Anonymous to rape several pro-Acta websites. The Portuguese ACAPOR website was redirecting to The Pirate Bay Yesterday, while ipo.gov.uk and sgae.es were DDOS'd.

Linus Torvalds and the Linux Foundation have been awared of the situation and are working on a patch.

Official Operation Payback Website : http://tieve.tk

Astonishing music from Mirror's Edge

8th of September 2010 : gray Google Doodle and keystroke10-hp.png

Today, Google's logo is gray. But if you try to type something like "Google" for example, it will turn colored. The name of the picture file used is keystroke10-hp.png. Yesterday, it was a bubble-animated logo.

Both Today and Yesterday's logos are HTML5 and Javascript based only. Google is probably planning to announce a great innovation in its search engine today. And I think it will be the Result Streaming.

Result Streaming allows you to see the results of your search before you are done typing it !
You can test it on a third-party website called http://keyboardr.com/ .

More info to come today, as Google has planned a big announcement!
 
Read more about this on : http://www.pcinpact.com/actu/news/58908-google-live-search-resultats-frappe.htm?vc=1&cid=3266517 [French]
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_tests_streaming_as-you-type_search_results.php

09/09/10 UPDATE : Google anounced Google Instant, with result streaming. I was right ;)
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/search-now-faster-than-speed-of-type.html 

Rick Astley : new single "Lights Out"

Rick Astley was made famous by the Rick Roll meme.

Time has past.

Nostalgia comes when the present does not measure up the promises of the past.

Neil Bissondath