Skinny Puppy\’s first new album in 8 years, The Greater Wrong of the Right, is coming out May 25th. It\’s available for pre-order at a couple sites and Music Non Stop has a brief review. They have a new logo too. I can\’t wait for the tour.

01. I\’mmortal
02. Pro-test
03. EmpTe
04. Neuwerld
05. Ghostman
06. dOwnsizer
07. Past Present
08. Use Less
09. Goneja
10. DaddyuWarbash

Skinny Puppy Line-Up 2004:
cEvin Key + nivek Ogre
With Guests:
Danny Carey ( TOOL ): Acoustic Drums on track 8
Wayne Static ( STATIC X ): Second vocal on track 8
Statik ( COLLIDE ): synthesis / programming on tracks 1/2/3/6/8
Omar Torres: synthesis / programming on tracks 2/5/7/ tail of 4
Otto Von Schirach: sound design on tracks 1 and 9, synthesis / programming tail of 5
Cyrus Rex: synthesis / programming tail of track 9
Dre Robinson: synthesis on track 10
Pat Sprawl: Guitar on tracks 1/2
Saki Kaskas: second guitar on track 8
Traz Damji: synthesis on track 1

The GUIdebook is a big gallery of the history of graphical user interfaces. They have screenshots of the first Mac OS, Windows 1.0, and OS/2. There\’s also a neat chart of how icons changed over the years. I remember when we first installed Windows 3.0 on our home computer. It looks so primitive now.
[ From Ars Technica ]

100 movies that deserve more love. Some great movies here. I\’ve seen about a quarter of them, so that\’s 75 more movies to rent the next few months.
[ From Kottke.org ]

Some awesome stencil graffiti from the UK. I wouldn\’t call it graffiti though, it\’s art in another medium. I wish he had pictures of the actual stencils. They look hard to make. This is so much cooler than the usual juvenile tagging you see.
[ From Boing Boing ]

A Hungarian architect invented a light-transmitting concrete called LiTraCon. Thousands of optical fibers embedded in the concrete allow light to pass through. It\’s not transparent like glass, but if something\’s blocking the light the shadow will appear on the other side. Apparently the concrete is just as strong as regular concrete. I can\’t wait till they start making freeways out of this stuff. That\’s gonna rule.

I spent half an hour playing a little locked-room flash game called Crimson Room. The English is a little funny (\”There is no strange thing\”), but it\’s still playable. It\’s inspired by another game called Mystery of Time and Space. I haven\’t played that one yet cause it looks much harder.

The CeBIT show had a lot of cool portable gadgets on display. Probably not all of them will make it to production though.

Manga artist Leiji Matsumoto designed a futuristic river bus (pictures 1 and 2) for service in Tokyo. Looks like it came straight out of Blade Runner.
[ From one.point.zero ]

The Lensbaby looks really interesting. It\’s an SLR lens mounted at the end of a flexible bellows. The lens creates \”a ‘sweet spot’ area of focus that you can easily move around the picture plane by bending the flexible lens tubing.\” It creates a really neat effect. Check out the galleries.
[ From PhotoDude\’s WebLog ]

This site has some neat pictures of typography in and around London: 1, 2, 3.
[ From photographyBLOG ]