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A Place to Bury Strangers & some neat Web 2.0 tools for 2009-01-05

Woods off the screen porch at home, Falmouth, VA, USA

  • To those who wait… A Place to Bury Strangers, Drawer B
    Fortunately, a year and a half later, Eric noted A Place to Bury Strangers playing on Sirius Radio and referenced an old Pitchfork review he had read about them and today I am very happily reunited with the sounds of Ackermann. Kismet!
    (tags: aptbs oliver)
  • Resolver Systems: Resolver Oneâ„¢
    Resolver One blends a familiar spreadsheet-like interface with the powerful Python programming language to give you a tool to analyse and present your data.
    (tags: spreadsheet python)
  • Quintura Affiliates Service
    It’s noteworthy that from the description given in the article, even running your own DNS server won’t stop this, unless said DNS server is either running custom software to never service unknown names, or it’s completely inaccessible from the outside. Any DNS server that both sender and recipient can talk to will work for what he has, though it can almost certainly be detected via audit logs.
    All this reminds me of a friend who used to talk about IP tunneling over DNS, because DNS was usually a deliberately open port in any firewall. This would allow him to run programs talking to non-standard ports by going through the IP-over-DNS gateway, then having another end of the tunnel on his home machine to send packets out. No idea whether or not he ever actually did it, but there is software out there to do this…
    Posted by: Bryan Feir at December 17, 2008 5:44 PM
    (tags: web search web2.0 searchengine API sitesearch)
  • Online Polls: Find the best Web Polling Software for your needs
    Most Web Polling software are free, intuitive and require no technical knowledge but the only problem is that there are just too many polling services available and picking the one that best fits your requirement may not be that easy. The following guide therefore highlights the unique features of all the popular web polling software around and this should help you make the right choice quickly.
    (tags: web online web2.0 Survey polling poll webtools polls)
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Refine Your Life

Flash Light with ToolBox I was using this kind of nice ratchet hand screwdriver that Lynn received for listening to someone give her a sales pitch abut retirement plans. It worked well. I used it to open our CD player that had stopped working, and miraculously I got it to work again. The tag line on the box is what i think is worth mentioning:

Refine Your Life By Livening Your Tool

Livening, as you recall, is the preent participle of liven, and liven means to make or become lively.  One has to agree.

Other quotes on the box are

Travel Around With You.

It’s Small, But You Get Everything  Inside

DIYers And Daily Life Helper

Lighten The Night To Beat The Darkness

If you want to order one of these for yourself and refine your life, it’s listed at Bechna.com.

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Some neat Web 2.0 tools, ECAR study of IT & Undergraduates, & A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2009-01-04

Roots in the creek at home, Falmouth, VA, USA

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Teaching
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Interview with Oliver

Mushrooms on felled poplar at home, Falmouth, VA, USA

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Service Included

A witty and informative story of a woman who works her way up to the wait staff of a four-star NY restaurant, Per Se. This very readable book goes through the establishment of a new restaurant, and it’s striving for a great review from the NY Times food critic. The story also mirrors the author’s involvement in the restaurant and her romantic involvements to the point where she is ready to move on form the restaurant but happy to stay with her current lover and companion. As you read the story you are also let in on the secrets of a successful restaurant, and the characteristics of great servers. This is highly recommended if you like food, like learning about restaurant life, and like a good read. Enjoy yourself,  go to a good restaurant but first read “Service Included.”

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Eun-Ha Paek & A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2009-01-02

Beech tree at home, Falmouth, VA, USA

  • ISE Cultural Foundation: Once Upon A Time | .FILAS, n{e}ws
    “Once Upon A Time” pulls its viewers back into the awe and wonder we experienced while captivated by Cinderella, Momotaro, or any fantastical folk-tales. Like kids with flashlights under the covers, curled up with the Brothers Grimm, we have always been tantalized by the unbounded worlds fairy tales bring to life.
    (tags: Eun-ha exhibit)
  • Annual Kodak Animation Screening
    Films include: — HISTORY OF THE MEAT PACKING DISTRICT, UNNATURAL HISTORY OF WALL STREET and BOWERY from Gary Leib.   

    — THE ROYAL NIGHTMARE from Alex Budovsky
    — ELEPHANT GIRL and MOTHER’S DAY from David Lobser
    — HUNGER LIKE THE WOLF from Eun-Ha Paek

    (tags: eun-ha screening)

    • A Place to Bury Strangers

  • spOOOnful.com » Blog Archive » A Place to Bury Strangers
    Imagine My Bloody Valentine distortion with the raw sound and monotone vocals of Joy Division, and you might have some insight as to what to expect from these up-and-coming rockers. Armed with guitarist Oliver Akerman’s self made effects pedals (through his company Death By Audio) and a talent for voluminous melodics, A Place to Bury Strangers have been attacking eardrums all over the country for nearly three years since their first EP in 2006.
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  • Cool Music Central: The Best Singles Of 2008
    Top 50 Singles of 2008 Idle hands – THE GUTTER TWINS
    The step and the walk – THE DUKE SPIRIT To fix the gash in your head – A PLACE TO BURY STRANGERS
    (tags: aptbs)
  • the SoHo Journal
    And headliners A Place to Bury Strangers are widely known as New York’s loudest band; those of you who missed My Bloody Valentine last fall may get to experience an equivalent sonic assault. Nothing soothes the anxiety of unemployment better than 130 decibel soundwaves. Bring earplugs, but go.
    (tags: aptbs brooklyn ny)
  • SEE Magazine :: Gogol, VanGaalen, And Gallagher Hill
    Holy Fuck: It was HF’s second show here within six months (shortly after they appeared on SEE’s cover, they were among the shortlist for the Polaris Prize), but the highlight this time around was Brooklyn’s A Place To Bury Strangers, who are now looking like one of the hottest emerging noise-rock outfits in North America.
    (tags: aptbs)
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A Place to Bury Strangers review 2008-12-25

Snow at home, Falmouth, VA, USA

  • A Place to Bury Strangers – A Place to Bury Strangers Review – sputnikmusic
    This band has true potential to become a giant in the genre way after the peak of shoegaze-A Place to Bury Strangers echo that gravity that captured the era damn well, eschewing lots of noise, atmospheric, techno-laden drums, and an altogether manufactured sound. It’s nothing revolutionary, creative, and in fact it’s all been done before.
    (tags: aptbs review)
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A Place to Bury Strangers links for 2008-12-24

Snow at home, Falmouth, VA, USA

  • Review / Mint Ive @ Bodega Social Club, New York, 20/05/08 / Gigs // Drowned In Sound
    Not since Loop’s penultimate visit to the city when its Trent University was a polytechnic, or even My Bloody Valentine and the Boo Radleys carving up the Loveless tour in 1992 have I witnessed anything so incredible in its execution as this. As brutal as it is mesmerising, A Place To Bury Strangers are one of those bands whose sheer ferocity leaves no holds barred, whether it be the deafening combination of feedback, guitar and bass that make ‘Don’t Think Lover’ sound like an entire city collapsing, or the intermittent spurts of pedal-infused din that punctuate every break in the set, almost like an introduction piece for the next slab of incessant noise.
    (tags: aptbs uk review)
  • Facebook | Street Carnage’s Notes
    USA FOR AFFLUENCE: ALL-STAR BENEFIT. The lyrics and who-sang-what
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Oliver Ackermann links for 2008-12-23

Please sign, Fredericksburg, VA, USA

  • The Hot List : Rolling Stone
    When My Bloody Valentine’s Kevin Shields, Wilco’s Jeff Tweedy or Spoon’s Britt Daniel want to push their guitar sound to 11, they go to Oliver Ackermann, maker of the boutique line of guitar pedals called Death By Audio. For the last few years, Ackermann — who also fronts the shoegaze-noise outfit A Place to Bury Strangers — has been building some of the most innovative effects boxes on the market: the “Interstellar Overdriver” is an insanely loud distortion box that also generates bizarro waveforms, the “Octave Clang” mixes ear-bursting fuzz with rich sitar-esque tones and the “Supersonic Fuzz Gun” has six knobs and one switch for endless combinations of guitar noise.
    (tags: deathbyaudio rollingstone oliver)
  • Oliver Ackermann « post it notes
    A Place To Bury Strangers December 12, 2008
    Filed under: music — cschutte @ 9:00 am
    Tags: a place to bury strangers, joy division, BRMC, Oliver Ackermann
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  • Getty Images – Entertainment Blog » Blog Archive » Season For Charity And Parody
    Harrington, member of Les Savy Fav and Pitchfork TV “Beardo” host enlisted a crew of indie musicians and friends including Andrew W.K., Fred Armisen (Trenchmouth), Moby, Nancy Whang of LCD Soundsystem, the New Pornographers’ Carl Newman, Ian Svenonius (Nation of Ulysses, The Make Up, Weird War), Okkervil River’s Will Sheff, actress Amy Carlson (Third Watch/Law & Order), Oliver Ackermann of A Place to Bury Strangers, Gavin McInnes (Street Carnage/ex-VICE), comedian Seth Herzog, plus members of Love as Laughter, Excepter, Cheeseburger, and Panthers to participate in this tongue in cheek critique with high production value and discreet charm. Watch the video here.
    (tags: oliver video)
  • Tuning up on Flickr – Photo Sharing!
    Oliver Ackerman of A Place to Bury Strangers at the Barfly, Birmingham
    (tags: aptbs oliver uk birmingham)
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Podcatcher & Podacaster links for 12-22-2008

Sassafrass, Fredericksburg, VA, USA

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2008 12 22 ernie About the Internet and the Web
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