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If you were really into MySpace and how industrial/cyberpunk bands started making friends on community sites some two years ago, THE DOSE might ring a bell. It was a free PDF magazine (that I designed to be print-ready just in case I got the possibility to make it into a commercial venture that I failed miserably, but anyways) focusing on a single city in every issue, showing all the interesting music, bands, DJs, pieces of art that we thought would be fascinating for you. I learned how to do proper DTP and layout with the mag. I also came to know excellent people and musicians, made the magazine count at a few places. I made three issues (Budapest, Tokyo, London, consecutively) and then I became a full-time journalist and decided I didn’t have the time to continue this project anymore, because, let’s face it, the majority of the work was done by me. (This is how I get good results. But I digress.)

So now I declare extended hiatus and also upload the previous issues to Scribd. Share the love, download the mag, contact the bands and also drop me an email to planetdamage at gmail if you think this idea is good enough to monetize. Or tell me you love the mag and break my fucking heart in two.The Dose website is in a state of death and dismay, by the way.

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Higher Intellect (Warren Ellis pointed this out, preterhuman.net, comprising like 200k text files on various subjects. Main link takes you to cyberpunk when perceived in the 80s/90s, shit before people realized the zeitgeist is already happening. Heaps of nostalgic value.)

Mundane vs Hard SF (a longer paper on SFdiplomat concerning Rucker and hard SF being the touchstone of scientific correctness. Please close your browser when it comes to Occam’s Razor. You will be brainwashed.)

The Big Book of Drugs for Cyberpunk 2020 (I’m not really a fan of cyberpunk2k20, but anything that rings its nootropic bells is thumbs up for me. INT-boosters, aphrodisiacs, yes.)

European Orientalism in Futuristic Movies (originally kicking the dirt around Casshern, a few readworthy comments)

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I am immortal and now I have inconvertible proof as well.
Monday noon welcomes half our office with this Banditos Habanero Sauce, heat rated 10/10, which is, for those not well-versed in culinary arts, is a motherfucking groin punch by Mike Tyson. So don’t ask how, but I got this straight into my right eye. Twenty minutes of washing my eye with milk made the intense experience float away. (Milk kills capsaicine, remember this when applying chili or pepperspray into your face.) Note: it was fun. Note two: wouldn’t do that again, though. Next time: wasabi-ginger green tea sauce 戦争!

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My sources tell me Jasper Bernes is now a minor household name in cyberpunk poetry. He also runs a blog on bs. Burt says that it’s the poetry the world of Neal Stephenson’s Snow Crash would include if that world could include really good poetry (and I’m not sure it could). Snow Crash does include poetry, although it’s more like the updated twentieth-century version called lyrics. My best bet for cybepunk poetry still lurks in the depths of the previous-millennium era, in a PC game called Bloodnet - that would still be a treat for moviemakers or even series producers, for that matter, easily taking the best bits of Strange Days, Hellgate:London (it’s more like templars fighting vampires in lower Manhattan) and lots of street-gang bravado. The link for Bloodnet is here, quite unconveniently killed by an ESA notice. Lucky I bought it in a miserable RPG shop for something like four bucks. (Update: that was a hilariously bad way of finishing up this post. I am frustrated.)

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The Department of Defense officially codified its understanding of cyberspace as a warfighting domain with the publication of the National Military Strategy for Cyberspace Operations. In this document, cyberspace is defined as a domain characterized by the use of electronics and the electromagnetic spectrum to store, modify, and exchange data via networked systems and associated physical infrastructures. According to this definition, cyberspace is a very real, physical domain that is comprised of electronics and networked systems that use electromagnetic energy. Cyberspace exists across the other domains of air, land, sea, and space and connects these physical domains with the cognitive processes that use the data that is stored, modified, or exchanged. (bye, via and thanks for the fish)

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By one of the guys that did Mme Tutliputli. Sheer morning genius, if you’ve ever been a rock musician or an organizer high on whatever available (and then fell), you surely know how that feels.

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Just when you were pondering about what genre comes next, you come across the next generation of mainstream oldschool Gothic, She Wants Revenge, just another manifestation of Bauhaus and Joy Division, but no worries, the kids don’t remember the original bands no more. And actually She Wants Revenge (run via Geffen) sounds just captivating enough to make you forget about how you can go on in endless circles about bands who revive genres. And just after this you realize, oh my God, it’s the next loop we’re in. Has fifteen years just passed?

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Ten of the world’s most unique restrooms. Missing out stuff like the one in Frankfurt where you control a car simulator with your epicly long streams of piss.

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Speaking perfectly for itself. (from PinkTsunamii via gizmodo.jp)

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HIMAWARI is art, is cyberpunk, is high-tech organic orgasm. Himawari is the Japanese Björk, the kind of electro-alternative that would-be art students love, the one that whispers about how emotions, tragedies, lies and hopes really work.If you remember how Björk sounded like around her Post-era with all the mangled brass lines, the eclectic layers, the dirty trip-hop work by Tricky - you all have it in Himawari, although it’s much more dense, tense and eager to explode.

Don’t look surprised. Lena and Takeshi Ichikawa live on the Tokyo-Detroit axis and it explains it all, the emptiness, the artistic freedom, the emphasis on technology - they’ve even been interviewed in High Tech Soul,a superb piece of documentary on Detroit techno. The editors love it so how about popping online and ordering that together with Pomposo, their new album?

And as for their website, we checked out their video gallery, then tore our hands off. Our designer friends did the same. It’s super artistic ownage and we respect them as our children from the future.

(from THE DOSE issue 2)

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