Heat Vision and Jack

Megan had told me about this wonderful pilot for a television series called Heat Vision and Jack. Once I had found it, I knew what brilliance was. AV Club has a great article up containing clips of the pilot. Read the article, find the pilot on the internet, be entertained.

Broken Social Scene - Forgiveness Rock Record

Broken Social Scene has announced the title to their new album, Forgiveness Rock Record. Download a free mp3 from the new album.

Songs of the Civil Rights Movement

NPR Music has a great play list up consisting of songs from the Civil Rights Movement. This is all in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, which is January 20th for those that don't know.

I thought this was a great line from the article;

"Jazz speaks for life," King said. "The blues tell the story of life's difficulties — and, if you think for a moment, you realize that they take the hardest realities of life and put them into music, only to come out with some new hope or sense of triumph. This is triumphant music."

You can listen and read it here.

Letters of Note

I stumbled across this great blog called Letters of Note; they post correspondence that are typically from someone of some historical note or influential in pop culture. Two of my favorite so far are Kurt Vonnegut's letter home after surviving the fire bombing of Dresden and John Kricfalusi, creating of Ren and Stimpy answering a letter from a fan.

High Dynamic Range

So Stew got a new DSLR for Christmas and coupled with his MacBook Pro has started experimenting with HDR Photos. I think they have a surreal look and are very beautiful.

Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts.

I came across this great article published on the Huffington Post about Science Denialism. Steve Newton is a project director at the National Center for Science Education and hits it spot on when he says that deniers tend to ignore the facts and refuse to listen to reason. All a scientist ask for is testable provable evidence to back up your claim, which should not be hard if they are as right as they seem to think.

The Symphony of Science

I think these are the greatest thing done with Autotuning outside of Autotune the News.




You can see the collection of the Symphony of Science here.

2009 Bioscapes

Olympus has announced their 2009 Bioscapes Photography Contest winners. These are photographs taken at a microscopic level; beautiful, surreal, and awe inspiring.

Spotify on the Horizon!!

The wicked cloud music app Spotify is reported by the LA Times to be hitting us shores in early 2010! I am very excited for the arrival of these program and look forward to having a cheap and effective way to broaden my musical horizons!!

The Solar System to Scale

This is a really radical scale model of the Solar System; gives you an idea of just how massive our own backyard is.

Particle Physics Give Me a Large Hadron

So CERN has the Large Hadron Collider back up and running. Smashing particles together at damn near the speed of light, this giant machine will allow us a better understanding of our Quantum Reality.

Boston.com has a great gallery up featuring some of the damage and other random pictures of this modern wonder.

Richard Dawkins

The Onion AV Club has an excellent interview with Richard Dawkins up. Most famous for his book of The God Delusion, Dr. Dawkins has been at the fore front of the "New Atheist" movement.

You can read the interview here.

Tone Matrix

Be warned, this could consume your day.

http://lab.andre-michelle.com/tonematrix