space • time • tech
- The importance of owning physical (and digital) media when possibleI wrote some about the continued popularity of physical media here in 2024, but I wanted to do one more post on it this year, to also feature some other formats, history, tips and tricks, and outright advantages of owning your own stuff. A quick note about some of the websites I’ll be linking to […]
- The Gemini protocolMost people familiar with the internet know the HTTP protocol, the one that retrieves and displays our www websites. HTTP was initiated in 1989 and went from there. Gopher is another web protocol, like HTTP. It was introduced in mid 1991, but it fell out of favor later, to HTTP. Some more on Gopher is […]
Hails and Ales
- Weekly Release Roundup (10/07/2026)Another week has passed and the metal has arrived right on time. Hails! Haserot - death - USA Cranial Osteotomy - death - Russia Lithopaedia - death - USA Rotten...
- Weekly Release Roundup (03/07/2026)You want some new metal releases? Of course you do. Let’s get in to it. Hails! Dichotomy - death - USA Coprolith - death - Canada Mortem - death -...
1001 Other Albums
- SpaceAce Sunday | France Gall – Baby Pop (1966, France)In memoriam of 1001OA contributor SpaceAce/J, gone today 2 years, a spotlight on a 1966 album he submitted from French pop star France Gall.
- Casiopea – Mint Jams (1982, Japan)A spotlight on a live album that captures the Japanese jazz fusion band Casiopea at their heyday.
der thomas
- Albums of my life: 1993AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHAHA! The year is 1993 and I was still in Volksschule (elementary school). My main musical influences were Queen, David Hasselhoff, EAV and Jazz Gitti. Other than that, 1993 was a bit dire when it comes to albums that are very important to me, but let's see. Honourable mentionsCarcass - Heartwork is of course an […]
- Albums of my life: 1992Hey, kids, rock'n'roll. In this blog entry I will discuss my most important albums of 1992. Tick-tock, tick-tock. As alwas, let's start with... Honourable mentions Alics in Chains - Dirt - I tried so many times to get into AiC and especially this album and I always failed. I had to turn 41 to finally […]
The Reed and Pickup
- Physical Media - A Slight ReturnWhilst I’ve written about my fondness for physical media already, the recent announcement by Sony that it was ending the production of physical PlayStation games from 2028 lit a fire up the internet’s metaphorical rear-end and I think I need to talk about it again. This announcement from Sony coincided with the news that they […]
- What we choose to shareOne thing that often gets missed in debates around the internet, particularly now that governments are locking everything away behind an age-verification wall is how our relationship to the internet has changed. In the early days, our computers were relatively benign. They didn’t know anything about us besides what we chose to share. Even though […]