severak
5.6.2026 01:10:01
Life Is Life: The Strange World Of Laibach, Narrated By Laibach
Laibach are one of the most misunderstood groups going, with their uniforms and martial music wearily misinterpreted. Here, they guide Luke Turner through significant moments in their 30 years of subversion, from being banned in Slovenia, providing grist to Žižek's seditious mill and provoking phonecalls from Slobodan Milošević to this year's Tate Modern triumph
severak
5.6.2026 00:36:02
The Yugoslav Psy-Op That may have Given us Laibach… and Inspired Rammstein
A Bosnian satirist Dr. Nele Karajlić recently claimed that the entire Yugo rock scene of the 1980s was created by the socialist State; but what if he isn't joking? A report by Robert Rigny
severak
15.5.2026 16:57:52
Recenze: Zemský ráj to na pohled - 70% + Revoluční retro
Následují retro plky, které vlastně s filmem nesouvisí, ale rád bych je uchoval pro příští generace:
severak
11.5.2026 00:11:26
Electronic pianos - The Bad, The Good and The Ugly
A brief (but not brief enough) survey of ELECTRONIC pianos for those who feel they need to know.
severak
5.5.2026 13:34:33
How Many Children Learned Mathematics From Kiselev’s Textbooks?
A demographic estimate, with sources, of the readership of A.P. Kiselev’s textbooks across Russian and Soviet education — and a look at why one textbook held its place for so long.
severak
4.5.2026 10:23:08
The Internet has no benches
on building free public infrastructure for enjoyment
severak
2.5.2026 01:04:01
Let's Write A Reverb
No magic numbers, no tricky tuning: a clean and flexible approach to designing a smooth high-quality reverb, using a variation on the classic feedback-delay network (FDN) structure.
severak
29.4.2026 10:38:24
Withnail's Coat & I
He may have had tailoring from Hawkes of Savile Row, but Withnail’s coat has a more complicated history.
severak
16.4.2026 16:33:04
Masayoshi Takanaka And The Great City Pop Awakening
The legendary Japanese virtuoso reflects on his unexpected global resurgence and life as an internet icon...
severak
10.4.2026 17:08:12
Why Do We Tell Ourselves Scary Stories About AI?
Our tales of AI developing the will to survive, commandeer resources, and manipulate people say more about us than they do about language models.
severak
8.4.2026 21:38:50
The Real Reason Men Should Read Fiction
Literature is often pushed on allegedly reluctant men as a machine for empathy. I read it for a different reason.
severak
24.3.2026 14:00:14
Windows Native App Development Is a Mess
I tried to build a Windows native app using Microsoft's latest technologies. Now I understand why everyone builds Electron apps.
severak
17.3.2026 14:24:56
A proposal to classify happiness as a psychiatric disorder
It is proposed that happiness be classified as a psychiatric disorder and be included in future editions of the major diagnostic manuals under the new name: major affective disorder, pleasant type. In a review of the relevant literature it is shown ...
severak
10.3.2026 15:15:54
Too Much Color
I spent too much time looking at too many colo(u)rs to try and optimise them for csskit. Here are some interesting findings.
severak
10.3.2026 12:00:04
Lotus 1-2-3 on the PC w/DOS
VisiCalc started it, but 1-2-3 finished it. "It" being the discussion of what a spreadsheet can be, and also VisiCalc itself.
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