Aaaaaaaand they're back..

Traveling Wilburys: June 12: Both Alubms, plus a DVD with Videos and a Band Documentary

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After all we did for them

Please read this. Glenn Greenwald with some good reporting and, as is almost always the case, analysis you can sharpen an axe on.

Music Made From Genetic Patterns

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/05/24/proteinmusic_tec.html?category=technology&guid=20070524093000

Good Headline

MySpace "fingers" website's sex offenders

...From Xinhua news agency

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Wolf Blitzer has a short interview with Ron Paul about his "gaffe" at the most recent GOP presidential debate.

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

Fox GOP Debate

Ron Paul almost mobbed by the debate audience lead by Rudy for having the gall to claim that the main reason "terrorists hate us" is not our freedom, but our foreign policy.

Half Man Half Amazing is on offense

Synthesizers on 3-2-1 Contact!

More info on this video here

R.I.P.

Bill O'Reilly Really F'n Pissed About His Portrayal in Moyers Documentary

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeGk9CJRRjM

Moyers...from DownTown! (swish)

*in Marv Albert's voice*

Anyway, please watch this. I must paste the link because I have no discernible options other than spellcheck and "add image" as edit tools on my blog interface.

Does anyone know how to add more buttons to your "New Post" window, maybe someone with a Mac, ummm.... Horse I'm looking in your general direction...?

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/btw/watch.html

Chewie training for the Kashyyyk Marathon

I Have My Ticket.

Lollapalloza 2007

Pearl Jam, Daft Punk, Ben Harper & the Innocent Criminals, Muse, Iggy & the Stooges, Modest Mouse, Interpol, My Morning Jacket, Satellite Party, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Snow Patrol, the Roots, Patti Smith, Kings of Leon, the Black Keys, Regina Spektor, Spoon, Lupe Fiasco, TV on the Radio, Pete Yorn, G. Love & Special Sauce, Paolo Nutini, Amy Winehouse, LCD Soundsystem, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Silverchair, Femi Kuti, Yo La Tengo, the Hold Steady, Jack's Mannequin, Stephen Marley, Sound Tribe Sector 9, M.I.A., Slightly Stoopid, Blonde Redhead, Sparklehorse, Sean Lennon, !!!, Blue October, Son Volt, Motion City Soundtrack, Polyphonic Spree, Peter Bjorn & John, Silversun Pickups, CSS, the Rapture, the Wailers, Roky Erickson, Tapes n Tapes, Heartless Bastards, the View, the Cribs, the Fratellis, Ghostland Observatory, Tokyo Police Club, Rhymefest, Soulive, Cold War Kids, Annuals, Fields, Electric Six, Jim Noir, Elvis Perkins in Dearland, Sam Roberts Band, Black Angels, Charlie Musselwhite, Aqueduct, Juliette & the Licks, Dios, Viva Voce, David Vandervelde, Los Campesinos!, Chin Up Chin Up, Ryan Shaw, Colour Revolt, Satin Peaches, Illinois, Arckid, Mickey Avalon, The 1900s, Bang Bang Bang, Bound Stems, High Class Elite, Carey Ott, Matt Roan

Go Bulls!

Second in the east baby!

YELLING!!!!!!!!!!

cuteness of the day

Zack Morris and his Cell Phone Dethroned

Ms. "Web Reporter", you are now the reigning Queen of using "Overeager Future Devices".

The 20 Worst Lyrics In History

"Time is like a clock in my heart"

Blow Up

Some very cool footage of a virtual experiment done by the University of Chicago this week. (Warning: Movie is processor intensive)

Story from the Sun-Times below, a more detailed explanation can be found here:

Star 'blown up' by U. of C. team

March 23, 2007

BY DAVE NEWBART Staff Reporter

As bright orange and red flames engulf a star in outer space, it looks like something out of the movie "Star Wars.''

But it's in fact a complicated research project unveiled Thursday by researchers at the University of Chicago. Instead of blowing up the Death Star, these scientists "blew up'' a so-called White Dwarf Star -- on a computer -- to help learn more about a mysterious force known as "dark energy.''

The mystery of dark energy

The project, presented at a conference in California of the world's top space physicists, is the first ever to simulate in 3-D how a star explodes in graphic detail. It took software running on two powerful supercomputers -- operating for the equivalent of 58,000 hours on a desktop computer -- to produce the virtual explosion.

The explosion, scientists hope, could shed light on dark energy, which is what researchers have called the force behind the universe's continued expansion. So far, scientists don't know why the universe is not only getting bigger but at a faster and faster pace. But they believe the energy produced when stars explode at the end of their lifetimes -- which can last tens of billions of years -- has something to do with it.

Scientists have been trying to use computers to simulate the natural explosion process of stars for years. But they haven't been entirely successful because no one has ever seen inside the stars, which are light years away in distant galaxies.

Harvard astronomist Robert Kirshner, who wrote a book on using the explosions to measure dark energy, wants to see U. of C.'s model developed more fully, but said so far their work "looks very promising.''

Beyond the Big Bang

Exploding stars are also believed to have created elements in the universe not created by the Big Bang, such as iron and carbon. The virtual explosions will help scientists learn more about that process, said Robert Fisher, a research scientist at the U. of C.'s Center for Astrophysical Thermonuclear Flashes.

In addition to the science, Fisher admits it's fun to work on blowing something up that in real life is the size of the Earth and which would reach temperatures in the billions of degrees.

"It's like when you were a little kid, you want to know what happens when you set off a firecracker,'' he said. "This is just really a big firecracker.''

He's Still Just A Rat In A Cage

The torch-bearer for teenage angst is back... officially.