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Excuse the light posting recently. The reason being that I am converting Jahsonic.com to a MediaWiki which takes a lot of time. I would like to ask your help. I am especially looking for technically skilled people.

At this moment I am looking for someone to write a WikiMedia bot to automate some simple tasks.

Contact me at jwgeerinck at hotmail.com if you want to help out.

P. S. : the song is Newcleus’s Jam On It, “the theme song to Wikipedia” due to “the little chipmunk-funk voices” that go ‘wikiwikiwiki‘.

They’re so irritating, those lists

After 1001 Books (2006), 1001 Films (2004) and 1001 Albums (2006), it is now time for:

1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die (2007) – Stephen Farthing
[Amazon.com] [FR] [DE] [UK]

They’re so irritating, those lists of the best ten paintings, the best five novels… It’s ludicrous: if you’re ever in a position where your options are so reduced then the chances are you won’t have any choice. OK, you might be torn between which books to take on a long flight or for a weekend in the country but, asked to choose in some definitive way between Tolstoy or Dostoevsky the only reasonable response is “both”. Likewise, if you’re forced to choose just ten great paintings then what is at stake is probably not your personal preference but the fate of art and civilisation itself. –Geoff Dyer via http://www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk

Does anyone have a digital list of the painting entries?

Related: painting – greatness – visual arts – lists

See also: 1001 Books (2006) – 1001 Films (2004) – 1001 Albums (2006)

Happy Easter (2)

To my girls, Bonnie, Fee, Fara (from left to right)

Easter at Jahsonic.com:

  • In 1950, one Michel Mourre, who in 1950 took over Easter Mass at Notre-Dame to proclaim the death of God.
  • Then there are the Easter Islands of which anthropologists believe that they became depopulated because its warring tribes eventually cut down all of each other’s trees.
  • Recording engineer Herb Powers Jr. used to hide proverbial easter eggs inscribed on the records he pressed. For many record collectors, discovering their album has vinyl graffiti is like finding an Easter egg.
  • The flagellation of Rose Keller took place on April 3rd, 1768, Easter Day. The woman had been picked up by the Marquis de Sade and taken back to a house in Arcueil, where she was bound and flogged.
  • “Easter Parade” (1982) is a song by Ingrid which can be found on Ultimate Breaks and Beats
  • There was a Wild Pitch party on a easter sunday in 1990 Tony and Disciple rocked.
  • René Guyon wrote the “The Pagan Easter“.
  • Penitential books stated that one could not engage in sexual activity 40 days before Easter

This is obscene art

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAIIogcH49I

LUX – The Chapman brothers at Tate Modern.

Lux is a television show on culture presented by my youth hero Luc Janssen. His radio show Krapuul Deluxe was highly influential and he has been described as Belgium’s answer to John Peel. Recently, Janssen has fallen out of favour, especially since an interview I read with him in De Morgen where he said something stupid about the identity-creating-capabilities of owning a Le Corbusier chair.