Music
Robert Moog RIP
Electronic music pioneer Robert Moog, RIP. Bob's Body Leaves Us :::::: MOOG MUSIC ::::::
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Music
Pat Metheny at Festival International de Jazz de Montreal 2005
A review of Pat Metheny Group’s outdoor performance of The Way Up at the Montreal Jazz Festival. It was filmed, hopefully there will be a DVD of this. Festival International de Jazz de Montreal 2005, Day 11, July 10, 2005
Religion
John Safran’s Podcast
If you like John Safran’s C4 show, you can listen to his radio show via the website or subscribe to his podcast feed. sunday night safran on triple j website John Safran and guests talk religion, politics and hoochies on-line sunday night safran podcast feed Sign up for the
Skeptic
Pastafarians challenge Intelligent Design
Pastafarianism is spreading fast… Boing Boing's $250,000 Intelligent Design challenge (UPDATED: $750K)
Graphics
Adobe Blogs
Adobe released a bunch of blogs recently. You can access them all via the home-page but each also has it’s own home-page and feed. * Adobe Blogs Home-page * Adobe Blogs Index Via Scoble
Automobile
"Big Dog" on Fiat
A Just-Auto rant on Fiat that’s worth a read! Insider Opinion: Big Dog: ‘What’s in a name?’ : www.just-auto.com …But if you view Ford as a possible example of nepotism gone mad, then there is surely one company that might be about to make it look like
ActiveWords
ActiveWords and Wikipedia....
Buzz posted a cool script which allows rapid searching of Wikipedia. It uses ActiveWords to enter the search term into the Wikipedia search engine for immediate results. buzznovation: ActiveWords and Wikipedia.... The fastest way to find out what a smoot is….
Approximately a Smoot
I was using Google Earth the other day and noticed in addition to the usual Kilometers, Miles, Feet there was the unit “Smoots”. What is a Smoot? According to Wikipedia the Smoot is a nonstandard unit of length created as part of an MIT fraternity prank. In 1958 Oliver R.
Auckland
Auckland City for Microsoft Flight Simulator - Real New Zealand
Microsoft Flight Simulator comes with basic scenery for “Auckland” but the only way you’d see it looking like this is out the window of a real aircraft! Godzone Virtual Flight have released Real New Zealand -- Auckland City "Base Pack" scenery for Microsoft Flight Simulator . This is
Science
Nanotech transistor - A new era?
Nature report on a Nanotech Transistor made from carbon nanotubes a few billionths of a metre across. Is this the beginning of a new era in electronics? Nanotech transistor powers up - news @ nature.com Carbon nanotubes could make for smaller circuits.
Politics
David Lange
Brilliant, witty, clever and flawed. He will be missed. Former PM David Lange Dies Former New Zealand Prime Minister David Lange died in hospital on Saturday after complications of renal failure. A Brilliant Tribute - Tom Scott On David Lange – Audio file Journalist/cartoonist Tom Scott talks about his memories
Comedy
John Cleese in NZ when I'm not!
John Cleese is coming to New Zealand to perform a new one man show in early December. Problem for me is that I’ll be in Florida