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Tonight, a brief piece from La Musica Notturna Delle Strade di Madrid by Luigi Boccherini: Passacalle, as performed by Le Concert des Nations. Some of you will remember this in a slower, differently arranged form, appearing at the end of MASTER AND COMMANDER. Which is, in fact, the first time I heard it, and I ended up hunting down mp3s. It’s a quiet recording, and needs playing quite loud for full effect, I find.

Download audio file (passacalle.mp3)

Good night, internet.

BDSM JESUS DRESS-UP. Via Slinka, naturally enough.

Now it’s time for BDSM Jesus Dressup! Dress Jesus up in any of these exciting outfits and punish Him for all your sins! You can dress Him up again and again until He can’t take it any more! Just drag the items to Him with your mouse and they’ll snap right into place! Don’t be so shy, you know He wants it just as bad as you wanna be forgiven for it!

Molly Friedrich:

Well, I had been intending to talk Vodafone UK into upgrading me from my beloved-but-battered Nokia N95 8GB to the long-coveted Nokia N97. But I’ve just read a bunch of reviews, including one by the sainted Stephen Fry, and they’re all awful. It’s a resistive touchscreen that comes with a stylus? If I want one of those I can necromantise the old Handspring Visor with phone module that I have mouldering in a drawer somewhere. And that hideous, unfunctional-looking keyboard? I am very disappo

Brew Dog’s Trashy Blonde beer has caused a split in our household. I liked the hoppy bite, but thought it came down too hard on the bitter tones and had a sour finish. My daughter Lilith, however, a beer connoisseur ever since she was old enough to yank a pint out of my hand and say "bugger off, old man, it’s mine now"… she actually likes Trashy Blonde better than Punk IPA. She says that sometimes simpler is better, and that Trashy Blonde is big and fun and incredibly drinkable.

Why, yes, I

I’ve been neglecting the internet hole this week. Let’s see what’s happening in there:

* FREAKANGELS Episode 59 - endless discussion of Luke’s junk

* Wizard Philly show this weekend - the men of Avatar Press are off to molest you in darkened corridors

* PHONOGRAM 2: The Singles Club - there’s a new issue out

* Moving To Detroit - Trixie Bedlam’s started a trend (to pedants: this is a joke)

* UNDERGROUND by Parker and Lieber - preview of Jeff Parker & Steve Lieber’s new comic

InfraNet Lab is regularly mind-blistering, but its coverage of an exhibition called Out of Water: Innovative Technologies in Arid Climates is just fascinating. Land-stamping, sietch infrastructure and plans to save LA by letting the ocean eat a chunk of it, which also produces this lovely quote:

Los Angeles is a managed fantasy defined and sustained by its aging infrastructural legacy…

X Planes is basically your one-stop shop for weirdarse historical technoporn. Discovered it while I was doing research for IGNITION CITY.

experimental aircraft. exotic aeromachines. oddities. sleek silver cigars. pedal-o-trons. soviet hive-mind bombers. aerial joy. the olden days.

"Using humidity, temperatures and electromagnetic and sonic frequencies that parapsychologists have associated with haunted spaces, this project aims at building an environment that feels "haunted": a non-visual architecture…"

Because it’s Friday and we love you.