Strangely Perfect

Well here’s a strange thing I’ve just come across! huffduffer It’s a website utterly bereft of (normal) content except it’s chocka bloc full of MP3 files that are audio books.  It’s all public domain, so I’ve uploaded a reading of Crawling Chaos, written by H. P. Lovecraft, locally. Even stranger, if that is possible, I’ve [...]

Such was the comment made in the Guardian by paul lester as part of a review of a band called The Northwestern.  This is a FYI quote: It’s not often that one truly great band breaks up and another, equally good but different one forms in their wake with some or all of the same [...]

A quick merge of video and a vinyl rip of some Crawling Chaos music as an experiment. The clicks etc have been emphasised and the equalisation of the track has also been altered to emphasize the monochrome nature of violent history. ‘Enjoy’ is probably an inappropriate word. All pictures taken from the web. (SP) Music: [...]

The Scalpels are so Sharp and Clean.. Such are the thoughts running through my head as my operation to improve my hearing looms ever closer.. ha ha. It comes from a track called Animal Bondage by The Art Attacks ..which Crawling Chaos used to do occasionally as a bit of a wake-up, I guess.  Funny [...]

“So what?”  I hear you cry. Yeah well, I can understand.  Everyone knows YouTube and everyone has seen embedded videos on websites.  How it’s done doesn’t bother most people. WordPress have a default method of embedding.  The thing is, it may be better than it was 2 years ago when I started this lark, but [...]

Last night I had a bit of a technical splurge on the Crawling Chaos website.  It’s got a new theme and stripped out a lot of extraneous plugin widgetty things.  I also redid the pages menus in a (hopefully) more logical construct.  I re-jigged page dependencies and set up some 301 redirects in .htacccess to [...]

One other side effect of the Google release into the wild UK of Street View, has been people checking up places they know – and I’m no exception. This is where the band Crawling Chaos played their first gig: View Larger Map ….and this is a dude in a farty twat car, debating whether to [...]

Website blog stats can be very revealing. Someone in Australia recently did a search to find this website and another good return was this book on the Amazon website. If there’s ever one word or subject that attracts the eye is the word SEX.  Attach it to MACHINE and then  make it into a DIY [...]

This is a reprise following some experiments, of an earlier Heysel Stadium post.  It’s a quick merge of video and a vinyl rip of some Crawling Chaos music as an experiment. The clicks etc have been emphasised and the equalisation of the track has also been altered to emphasize the monochrome nature of violent history. [...]

Books by Clark Ashton Smith It’s important to realise the impact that this funny, eclectic, multi-talented, poor, skinny man has had on the world.  The whole genre of science fiction and fantasy and whole industries that hang off the backs of people like Tolkien, are also standing on the shoulders of people like H.P. Lovecraft. [...]

A quick merge of video and a vinyl rip of some Crawling Chaos music as an experiment.  The clicks etc have been emphasised and the equalisation of the track has also been altered to emphasize the monochrome nature of violent history.  ‘Enjoy’ is probably an inappropriate word.  For the full impact, play the lower video [...]

A Case of One Man’s Cake is Another Man’s Poison I first read the short story, “The Bureau d’Exchange de Maux” by Lord Dunsany, in the late seventies in a compilation, probably a Panther Books one.  It’s staggering simplicity is matched by the masterful telling. View Larger Map Later, in (a sort of) homage, Crawling [...]

I got an unusual (for me) comment spam this morning at 01:58 from a Kuala Lumpur spammer.  His modus operandi is to trawl WordPress blogs looking for the word “RapidShare” and then dump a deliberately malformed warez-type URL to a zip file promising unlimited super-fast Rapidshare accounts that have been compromised. I had such a [...]

a.k.a.   How Internet Sites strip out Content for Their Own Purposes These are called feed harvesters or content scrapers amongst other terms and exist solely to copy other people’s content for the purpose of serving adverts, charging folks for getting good hit rates, hosting malware… etc I came across one while checking a Google [...]