Self-Promotion Postmodernism Generator, http://dev.null.org/postmodern/ As seen in Nature Melbourne A Week in Melbourne, http://www.melbournemovies.com.au/ Movies currently playing beat.com gig guide, http://www.beat.com.au/beatgigs.html Who's playing where MelTrip, http://meltrip.cjb.net/ Unofficial Melbourne public transport portal. # Train Trip Planner, http://www.baysidetrains.com.au/index_train_services.htm?http://mtserv.met.vic.gov.au/nt/train_trip_planner.asp Train & Train Map, http://www.alphalink.com.au/~mikeya/mike/images/metmap.gif Better than the official ones (GIF) Victorian weather forecasts, http://www.bom.gov.au/weather/vic/forecasts.shtml Melway Street Directory, http://maps.ausway.com.au/ausway.cgi?CITY=MELBO Look up streets online UK JobServe, http://jobserve.co.uk Live venues # Punters Club, http://www.aian.com.au/punters/ The Empress, http://www.aian.com.au/empress/ The Dan O'Connell, http://www.thedan.com.au/ #Webzines, &c. # Signum, http://www.signumpress.com # Art, music and miscellaneous phenomena Art & design FontSite, http://www.fontsite.com/ Typographical webzine tDR, http://www.thedesignersrepublic.com/ Jan Svakmajer, http://www.illumin.co.uk/svank/ Czech surrealist animator Joseph Cornell, http://www.artchive.com/artchive/C/cornell.html He made boxes of found objects Jim Flora Gallery, http://www.inhi-fi.com/flora/ Wacky beat-age album covers Shag, http://www.shag-art.com/ Oh behaaave! Collaborative art SongForge, http://songforge.openrecording.com/ Computer art Alphabet Soup, http://www.theory.org/artprojects/alphabetsoup/ Generates random letterforms with grammars Music 4AD history, http://www.atomicpop.com/4AD/history/4ad-history.html From atomicpop.com; with downloadable back-catalogue Gravitygirl, http://gravitygirl.shafted.com.au/ CD reviews by a Melbourne indie journo The War Against Silence, http://www.furia.com/twas/ CD reviews with extra hairsplitting Band/artist pages The Field Mice, http://home.clara.net/koogy/fm/index.htm Kinda like New Order only twee Sir, http://sir.shorts.cx/ downtempo melancholia; MP3s available Curve, http://www.curve.co.uk/ yes, that Curve. Spearmint, http://www.spearmint.net/ English indie pop par excellence FourPlay, http://www.fourplay.com.au/ some good mates of mine Swirl, http://www.swirl.com.au/ Sydney shoegazer turned guitar-pop Dandelion Wine, http://www.dandelionwine.com.au/ Some friends of mine Minimum Chips, http://www.minchips.com/ post-krautrock New Waver, http://www.spill-label.org/nw/ bracingly bleak Ninetynine, http://ninetynine.org/ They rock like you wouldn't believe Mikelangelo and the Black Sea Gentlemen, http://www.oninvisiblewings.com/ Jack the Ripper was a gentleman too, you know... Architecture in Helsinki, http://www.aih.rocks.it/ So nice it hurts Music shopping Traffic Sounds (AU), http://www.traffic-sounds.com/ Local indie retailer; free shipping Twee Kitten (US), http://www.tweekitten.com/ Good range of indie Entertainment Coming Attractions, http://www.corona.bc.ca/films/homepage.html Scoops on films in production. Fonts 04 extra bitmap, http://cgi3.tky.3web.ne.jp/~oshimoto/extra/bitmap/index.html from Japan Fontomas, http://www.fontomas.com/ font of the week ROTORtype, http://www.rotor-fabrik.com/type/ Bitmapesque F6Design Type, http://www.f6.co.nz/v1/type/ Warning: requires Flash Music software Ces' VST plugins, http://www.cferrari.dial.pipex.com/ some nice synths Cycling '74, http://www.cycling74.com/ makers of MAX and Pluggo Redzone LM-4 drum kits, http://www.redzone.cwc.net/800x600/vstpage%20Lm4.htm archive Guitar tabs Dreampop guitar tabs, http://www.geocities.com/angelspine/ Slowdive, Cocteau Twins, Low, etc. Sarah Records tabs, http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Mezzanine/8926/sarah.htm has some Field Mice Lush Tablature Archives, http://malvina.com/lush/ the 1990s 4AD indie-pop band Samples SampleNet, http://www.samplenet.co.uk/ loops, instruments, vocals, etc. Ideas The Halfbakery, http://www.halfbakery.com/ A clearing-house for wild ideas Long Now Foundation, http://www.longnow.org/ The Library and the Clock Viridian, http://www.viridiandesign.org/ Climate-conscious design movement, or something Dogme 95, http://www.dogme95.dk/ Purity in cinema Voluntary Human Extinction Movement, http://www.vhemt.org/ Live long and die out Principia Discordia, http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tilt/principia/ or, How I Found Goddess and What I Did To Her When I Found Her Church of the SubGenius, http://www.subgenius.com/ Give me Slack. Geek stuff Python, http://www.python.org/ A really doovy language Freshmeat, http://www.freshmeat.net/ Software for your Linux box Slashdot, http://slashdot.org/ Join the Penguinhead Army Rockbox, http://rockbox.haxx.se/ Open-source Archos firmware Linux Sound/MIDI Software, http://linux-sound.org/ Index of sound/MIDI apps for Linux Good Things Chai!, http://www.odie.org/chai/index.html as in the Indian spiced milk tea; mmm... Interesting Historical Atlas of Europe, http://www.euratlas.com/summary.htm Political boundaries from 1-1700 CE Amusing Slow Wave, http://www.slowwave.com oneiric The Parking Lot is Full, http://www.plif.com/ twisted Red Meat, http://www.redmeat.com/redmeat/ twisted Inexplicable Object of the Week, http://www.geocities.com/Vienna/9938/object.html Derf City, http://www.derfcity.com/ post-ironic Pokey the Penguin, http://www.yellow5.com/pokey/ defies explanation Cat and Girl, http://www.catandgirl.com/ Philosophy in a cute little comic Indie Rock Pete, http://www.indierockpete.com/ it's about a scenester Fun Mornington Crescent, http://madeira.physiol.ucl.ac.uk/cgi-bin/delphi/interactive/mcg/mcgames.pl formerly the York server SissyFight, http://www.sissyfight.com/ like a bunch of girls Java Arcade Emulator, http://web.utanet.at/nkehrer/jae.html classic arcade action on your web browser mame.dk, http://www.mame.dk/ Historical arcade ROM repository ScummVM, http://sourceforge.net/projects/scummvm Open-source LucasArts game interpreter