Xavier Defrang

The Wannadies - Hit (1997)

Plopbox is an online oldschool music jukebox. Cute little player that reminds me of fullscreen modes in good old DOS MOD players, too bad it breaks when you switch tabs (in Safari at least).

I have quite a decent bathroom collection of computer games and programming magazines (from 1986 to 2000) and that's an endless source of bogus predictions and phoney reviews.

We'll start with a quote coming straight from the dot-com era:

(...) studies have shown that, in Europe, by 2004, 200 millions mobile devices will be WAP enabled and 60% of all internet connections will be initiated with mobiles.

- Sophie Bocquillon (september 2000, in Programmez, p. 44) *

* I highly suspect the article featuring this quote to be an infomercial, although it was not advised as is and it seamlessly blend into the other very poor content of the magazine.

A trippy selection of dystopian anthems from the golden 90ies for all my fellow cyberpunk nightbirds...

• Future Sound Of London — My Kingdom
• Orbital — The Box
• Björk — All is Full of Love
• Massive Attack — Risingson
• Massive Attack feat. Tracey Thorne — Protection
• Robert Miles — Children
• Everything But The Girl — Missing
• Hoover(phonic) — Inhaler
• Olive — You're Not Alone
• Goldie — Innercity Life
• Adam F — Circles
• Adam F — Music In My Mind
• Natural Born Chillers — Rock The Funky Beat
• Photek — Ni Ten Ichi Ryu
• Roni Size & Reprazent — Heroes
• Deltron 3030 — Virus
• 2 Pac & Dr. Dre — California Love
• Dopplereffekt — Scientist
• Laurent Garnier — Greed
• Ken Ishii — Extra
• Atari Teenage Riot — Sick To Death
• Atari Teenage Riot — Revolution Action

I've spent the last few evenings watching old-school North-American professional wrestling. Do you also remember glorious moves such as the the piledriver, the sleeper or a close line with the top rope? What a guilty pleasure to watch Mean Gene's interviews, managers doing all kind of cheap shots outside the ring and listen The Body's attempts to justify obvious cheating acts!

But what happened to them since 1987? A quick look around the Wikipedia revealed a terrible truth: a lot of them are simply not anymore. The death toll among professional wrestlers is simply scary:

• Ravishing Rick Rude, Gorilla Monsoon, André the Giant, British Bulldog's Davey Boy Smith, The Big Boss Man, Hercules, ... all died of heart failure! Steroids, anyone?
• Mr. Perfect died from cocaine intoxication
• Junk Yard Dog and Adonis died in two distinct car crashes.
• Dino Bravo was shot dead. He's said to have been involved in cigarette smuggling ring...

And I probably missed some... I ain't the only one to be alarmed by such a high death rate... Hell, I can't believe even Miss Elizabeth committed suicide!

If you're somewhat into old-school hip-hop and electrofunk, check out all these rare mixes, remixes, bootlegs and pirate radio hometapings from the middle golden 80ies. For any heavy synthetic snare drum hits fan like me, this collection is pure pr0n!

If like me you spent a good deal of the early 90ies with a joystick in your hand, make sure you check this collection of old french videogames magazines. I actually gave up reading such magazines shortly after TILT stopped to focus on more nerdy issues like programming with machine level languages.

Dozens of classic C64 cracktros redone in Flash. Now enjoyable in your browser!

Cool gadget of the week : Commodore 64 Emulator for Nokia 3650!

A 32-bit CPU for your C64, anyone?

If you grew up with Lego bricks : the content of this site is really close to pornography! (Thanks Tris)