1. The Velvet Underground (30)
2. Vic Chesnutt (25)
3. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (21)
4. Skip James (19)
5. Atlas Sound (16)

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In its heyday, animals were killed specially for taxidermy. Carl Akeley, who designed the great dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History in New York and is generally considered the most influential taxidermist of all time, once strangled a leopard with his bare hands.

The internet is a child with many fathers. It is an extremely complex multi-module technology and each module—from communication protocols to browsers—has a convoluted history. The internet’s earliest roots lie in the rise of cybernetics during the 1950s. Later breakthroughs included the invention of packet switching in the 1960s, a novel way for transmitting data by breaking it into chunks. Various university and government networks began to appear in the early 1970s, and were interlinked in the 1980s. The first browsers came on line in the early 1990s—20 years ago this August.

Many seemingly unrelated developments in the computer industry played an important role. The idea of personalised, decentralised and playful computing was being advanced by the likes of Apple and Microsoft in the 1970s. In contrast, IBM’s idea of computing was of an expensive, centralised and institutional activity. If this latter view had prevailed, the internet might have never developed beyond email, which would probably have been limited to academics and investment bankers. That your mobile phone moonlights as a computer is not the result of inevitable technological trends, but the outcome of deeply ideological and now almost forgotten struggle between two different visions of computing.

If there was one site that seemed to validate the ethos of the early pioneers—that people are good and, under the right conditions, will co-operate in the name of shared goals—it was Wikipedia. It is also one of the few sites that defied the for-profit model typical of internet start-ups. Wikipedia refuses to show ads or pay contributors. Instead, the site depends on donations from users and grants from foundations. Wikipedia is a painful reminder of what the web could have been had the early vision of the internet as a shared, communal space not been co-opted by big business.

What the internet badly needed in its first two decades of existence, and what it needs still, is a book akin to Jane Jacob’s 1961 The Death and Life of Great American Cities which attacked the practices and attitudes of 1950s US urban planners and proved hugely influential. The structure of online space requires a similar critique.

I didn’t think it was ever meant to go the full two weeks. I think Zimbardo wanted to create a dramatic crescendo, and then end it as quickly as possible. I felt that throughout the experiment, he knew what he wanted and then tried to shape the experiment—by how it was constructed, and how it played out—to fit the conclusion that he had already worked out. He wanted to be able to say that college students, people from middle-class backgrounds—people will turn on each other just because they’re given a role and given power.

Based on my experience, and what I saw and what I felt, I think that was a real stretch. I don’t think the actual events match up with the bold headline. I never did, and I haven’t changed my opinion.

John Mark (“Guard”)

Music played

1. 

   Erik Satie — Gnossienne No.5

2. 

   James Blake — Olivia Kept
3. James Blake Versus Drake — Half Heat Full Versus Up All Night

4. 

   James Blake — Pan

5. 

   SALEM — Trapdoor

6. 

   Snoop Dogg — Drop it like it’s Not (Harmonimix)
7. [unknown] — Unknown
8. Klaus — Tarry

9. 

   D’Angelo — One mo’ Gin
10. [unknown] — Sicko Cell
11. Blawan — What You Do With What You Have R&S Records

12. 

    James Blake — No More Than A Road (Dub)
13. James Blake — At Birth (Dub)
14. The Chain — Suffer For Your Art R&S Records
15. Peverelist — Roll With The Punches (Harmonimix)
16. [unknown] — Navigator

17. 

    OutKast — Return of the G
18. Africa Hitech — Out In The Street
19. DJ Nate — 3 Peat

20. 

    James Blake — Deeds
21. Gavin Bryars — Three Elegies for Nine Clarinets II
22. Gavin Bryars — Three Elegies for Nine Clarinets III
23. Odi et Amo — Johann Johannsson
24. Grouper — Vessel

25. 

    James Blake — Untitled
26. James Blake — Untitled
27. [unknown] — What Was It

28. 

    The Tallest Man on Earth — Love Is All

29. 

    SALEM — Redlights
30. Rev. James Cleveland — Jesus Saves
31. Trim — Confidence Boost (Harmonimix)

32. 

    James Blake — Evening Fell Hard For Us
33. James Blake — Placing Us
34. James Blake — Words We Both Know
35. Arthur Russell — Love Comes Back

36. 

    Stevie Wonder — You and I

Feast your eyes on the world-famous Detrich Collection made up of over 100 Vintage Diana F+ Clones, Vignettes from Coast to Coast photo exhibition and the Custom Clones Collection being auctioned off for charity.

The Customized Clones exhibition is a collection of Diana F+ cameras customized by some of the most interesting artists, illustrators, film makers, creative types, and great Canadians that make up our social fabric!

“Coast to Coast” features Lomographs captured with the plastic lens of the Diana F+ inspired by Canada…be it the people we love, places we feel at home, moments snapped in perfect squares that represent the country and what it means to live here.

By tirelessly searching its many hidden nooks and crannies – and by placing a hell of a lot of Ebay bids – Mr. Allan Detrich was able to amass what must be the most incredible, diverse, and mouth-watering collection of Diana cameras and Diana clones in the entire world.

Live entertainment, free gifts, delectable snacks and liquid libations await as well, culminating in a night sure to satisfy all your senses and truly kick off the month-long celebration of all things Diana with a bang!

[I]t’s kind of like this. You have a gun pointed at your head from birth. This gun has a big label on the barrel called “diseases of civilization”. The trigger is rigged to a scale, which when tipped causes the gun to go off and give you diabetes, heart disease, arthritis, dementia, IBS, etc.

On one side of the scale, weighing it down so that the gun doesn’t fire, is a pile of weights labeled “genetic resistance”. Some people are born with bigger, heavier weights on this side of the scale, and some people only have little bitty ones. The other side of the scale is labeled “neolithic lifestyle”.

Obviously, if you never eat neolithic foods, never miss sleep, and never get chronically stressed out, nothing ever piles up on your neolithic scale, and the gun never fires, no matter how little genetic resistance you have to neolithic agents of disease. Your genetic ability to handle neolithic foods could amount to one single grain of sand compared to someone else’s 40-lb bag, and you would still be healthy. But nobody lives a perfect lifestyle, so we all have some load on our scale. And some people’s triggers get pulled way more easily than others.

So sure, bipolar and lots of other pathologies are “genetic”. But everything is genes + environment. And if your environment doesn’t include the foods and behaviors that cause disease, then you won’t get sick, even if you are genetically predisposed to get sick in the presence of said foods.

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2. The Throne (15)
3. Deerhunter (13)
4. Blakroc (12)
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Australian authorities have identified Ned Kelly’s remains 131 years after he was hanged. Scientists used DNA from Kelly’s great-great-nephew Leigh Olver to identify the bushrangers’s bones in a mass grave. Kelly – famous for his homemade suit of armour – was sentenced to death after his gang killed three policemen