I just finished putting together a mighty e-mail message to a friend who recently asked, "What music subscription service do you use?"What, me, subscribe?WFMU's "Beware of the Blog":http://blog.wfmu.org/freeform/2008/02/mp3-truffles-es.html recently shared a fantastic post on music blogs and it inspired me to share my own list. It makes sense to also share it with all of you...and, not surprisi...
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It's a Big Music Blog World Out There
"Most Awesomest..."
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Obama - Morrissey 2008
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My Little "Name That Tune"
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"Don't tell me I'm an inch too short..."My BF fell asleep on the loveseat even as Dälek was bleeding out of the speakers - so I need something to amuse me.
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A Touch of Competition from Last.fm?
From the "Last.fm blog":http://blog.last.fm/2008/01/23/free-the-music :As of today, you can play full-length tracks and entire albums for free on the Last.fm website.Full-length tracks are now available in the US, UK, and Germany, and we’re hard at work broadening our coverage into other countries. During this initial public beta period, each track can be played up to 3 times for free before a .
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Mercury's Backside
Courtesy of "BBC News":http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7192479.stm:The first pictures taken by the Messenger probe as it passed Mercury on Monday have started to arrive at Earth.They include images that show parts of the surface missed by the Mariner 10 spacecraft when it flew by the planet in the 1970s.The data began transmission to Earth on Tuesday.!http://messenger.jhuapl.edu/galle...
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More Science, More Pictures
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...cos I know that's how you like it.So here come the winners of the "Benoit Mandelbrot Fractal Art Contest":http://www.fractalartcontests.com/2007/winners.php. Pity it takes so long before we students get to learn the cool stuff about math.And for some lovely background music, consider Anthony Phillips's "Through the Black Hole/Pluto Garden" (I'll share more about that later). Yes, that "Antho...
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From Rehab to Vaccine
From "Mind Hacks":http://www.mindhacks.com/blog/2008/01/would_you_vaccinate_.html:Treatment Online has an interesting "piece":http://www.treatmentonline.com/treatments.php?id=1983 on the development of a cocaine vaccine. Unlike other drugs that reduce the pleasurable effect of addictive drugs, this is genuinely a vaccine - it persuades the immune system to attack cocaine molecules.The developer...
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