New Trek

Wired has this great article, To Boldly Go Where No Fan Has Gone Before, in their Dec issue on a bunch of people that are making episodes from the non-existent season 4 of the original Star Trek series. They're calling these Star Trek New Voyages and offering the episodes as free downloads. Amazing stuff!

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NPR : Neighborhood Up in Arms over Home Cyclotron

NPR : Neighborhood Up in Arms over Home Cyclotron

I'm sorry but this sounds cool! Maybe because I'm currently reading American Prometheus : The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer and like the idea of being able to accelerate particles in the privacy of my own home.

Shining Redux

I'm sure this is old, but I just found this great mashed-up version of a Shining trailer, Shining Redux, that puts a whole different spin on the movie. I was pointed to it by the Christmas Story mash-up, A Christmas Gory. Good stuff!

Warrenellis.com » The Metasciences

I've been getting way too much of my new music from Warren Ellis lately. He recently posted this heads up on The Metasciences. They've now got their whole album available for download on the myspace. Good stuff!

Shrift available now!

Six Degrees Records artist Shrift finally has a full-fledged page now, with a link to their first video off the forth-coming album! I thought I'd put in an advance order for the album on Amazon, but people already selling advance copies. So I snagged one. This is the most excited I've been by a new disc in a long, long time.

NPR : Tonle Sap: The Flowing Heart of Cambodia

Heard this story,
NPR : Tonle Sap: The Flowing Heart of Cambodia, on NPR this morning and it reminded me of my first trip to Cambodia. Just randomly I was in Phnom Phen for the water festival and saw all the boat races they talk about. The streets were festive but there was also a tension as well, which played out when Hun Sen launched his coup to oust his co-Prime Minister. But back at the guest house I was staying at, the owner gave us all an impromptu lesson on the Khmer custom of trying to shove as much uncooked sticky rice in your mouth and then eating a banana?!?

Pandora Radio

I just found this very cool little Flash-based web radio, Discover Music - Pandora. On of the things I like about it is that you can build a station based on specific artist or songs and the add and remove artists along the way. The selection of tracks for the "station" is based on the Music Genome Project, which sounds like semi-"scientific" marketing talk, but if it works...