GRUB2 0-day attack explained

Great explanation with full details on the assembly code and things like IVT

http://hmarco.org/bugs/CVE-2015-8370-Grub2-authentication-bypass.html

the Soft Moon

Very X-Rated ish music. Almost industrial at points.

Extra points: "Being"

skeuomorphism

Skeuomorphism is a concept in technological design that describes our tendency to retain tactile aspects of the physical world as we move more of our lives onto screens. At Apple, for example, skeuomorphic design was thought to ease the transition from the real to the virtual. Turning a page on your Mac or iPhone would closely resemble turning a page in a real notebook, paper sounds included. If you can recreate the physical aspects of a very familiar, tactile world in the flat, virtual reality of an operating system, designers have long believed, maybe more people will feel comfortable using the product.

http://fusion.net/story/164975/sex-toy-vibrator-shape-design-no-penis/?mod=e2this

the Comsat Angels - "I Come from the Sun"

Another interesting song from a J.G. Ballard inspired playlist.

http://8tracks.com/bynar/he-thought-of-cars-part-2

the National - "Conversation 16"

Good enough, although not as industrial as the rest of the playlist.
http://8tracks.com/sowegotbusiness/tamer-animals-a-high-rise-playlist

Pocket Knife Army - "This Time I'll Come Out Unharmed"

Beginning of "Grow Up" has strong Portishead "P3" overtones (that "terminator song")

Sneaker Pimps

• "Half Life" - ok song
• "Strike me down" - a very Rob Zombie "Clubbed to Death" remix-y song

Korn - "Paranoid and Aroused"

Well, it's a fitting title for many moments.

clocksources and all things ticking

Though very Intel specific, a good and fairly in-depth read on Linux kernel and clocksources. Woei!

https://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2013/06/20/eliminate-the-dreaded-clocksource-is-unstable-message-switch-to-tsc-for-a-stable

Sevdaliza - "Children of Silk" (2015)

EP, triphop. Intriguing.

Go March - "Go March" (2015)

Kraut, elektro, Belgian, debut. Instrumental. Quite good.

• "Slow Horse" - bit of a Spanish guitar influence

tty magic, intricacies, and amazing details

http://www.linusakesson.net/programming/tty/index.php

Basically I just want to copy the whole article. It is an amazing read.

Tears, or MY EYES BLEED CHEMICALS

Crying is a more complicated process than you'd think. First of all, there are really three different types of tears. Basal tears keep our eyes lubricated constantly. Reflex tears are produced when our eyes get irritated, like with onions or when something gets into our eyes. The third kind of tear is produced when the body reacts emotionally to something. Each type of tear contains different amounts of chemical proteins and hormones. Scientists have discovered that the emotional tears contain higher levels of manganese and the hormone prolactin, and this contributes in a reduction of both of these in the body; thus helping to keep depression away. Many people have found that crying actually calms them after being upset, and this is in part due to the chemicals and hormones that are released in the tears.

Daft Punk - "Technologic"

The music itself isn't the best, but the quiet parlando part at the beginning, with the empty revved electrolized voice just listing words, would be an awesome start of a film or clip. Imagine, just a black screen, cinema in darkness, those words, for thirty seconds or more, then either very slowly or very fast images of people consumed by technology.

(perhaps I'm describing the clip?)

Siouxie and the Banshees - "Strange Fruit" (Through the Looking Glass)

Almost carnavalesque song, slowing down, waltzing...

Gloomy Synthesizer Sundays - part 2.

So... post-punk came from punk, borrowed its DIY attitude, its love for modern art (symbolism, Dadaïsm), applied that to rock music, to look beyond the usual rock music boundaries (using dubstep, synths, etc), but not necessarily limiting itself to the sonic resonances of punk...

And from there came, end of the 70's, crashing into the 80's, among others, cold wave. Primarily French music style, though it was Kraftwerk and Siouxie and the Banshees who first provoked that description.

http://8tracks.com/aboynamedpalle/gloomy-synthesizer-sundays-part-2

Nancy Nova - "no no no" : funny song

NTD - Start Over

Drieluik waarin vooral de eerste twee delen fantastisch absurd en surreëel waren.

Deel drie, "puur dans", was minder makkelijk te volgen (minder gevoel voor een verhaal?) maar nog steeds indrukwekkend. Muziek deed sterk denken aan Clint Mansell maar was van Max Richter.

Calexico - Edge of the Sun (2015)

Not the whole album is great but:

• Coyoacán - pretty nice
• Roll Tango (bonus track) - nice
• Volviendo (bonus track) - great Spanish parlando song. I don't know what he says and I do not care, it sounds amazing.

Orange Blossom / Hend Ahmed - "Mexico" (Under the shade of violets)

Great mexican-guitar song with female French vocals.

Interesting album as well... powerful, nearly gothic with its untranslatable female voice and power rock riffs.

Fuzz - "II" (2015)

Curious rock album full of old 70's scree rock sounds, yet also a curious violin or something on "Silent Sits The Dust Bowl", while "Say Hello" has a distinct The Doors feeling to it.