Swoon 136 - April 24, 2006 Orbital - Times Fly (ffrr)
Meat Makes Meat - Dilemma (United Deviations)
Subtractivelad - Safety In Numbers (n5md)
Autechre - Corc (Warp)
Chromatik_d_zdb.tmp - Freedom35 (Megalomedia)
Vitalic - Wooo (PIAS)
Coldcut - Aid Dealer (Ninja Tune)
Birdy Nam Nam - Engineer Fear
Artist #9 - Orange Buddah
Isolee - Beau Mot Plage (Playhouse)
Jackmate - A Love Supreme In Mind (Resopal Schallware)
Last Session - Sometimes I Feel Like (Prescription)
Hiperboreal - Dandy del Sur (Nacional)
Jeff Bennett's Lounge Experience - Is There Knowledge Left (Petrol)
Sinewave - Todd's Journey Into Temporal Space (Vinyl Republik)
Glissandro 70 - Bolan Muppets (Constellation)
The Future Sound of London - My Kingdom Part One (Virgin)
Herrmann & Kleine - Leaving You Behind (Morr)
Polygon Window - Audax Powder (Warp)
Husky Rescue - New Light of Tomorrow (Evil 9 remix) (Catskills)
Another Electronic Musician - These Given (n5md)  ¶ 10:38 AM 0 Comments Links to this post

  Astromart Articles - Pulling an “All-Nighter”: Inside a Messier Marathon Astromart Articles - Pulling an “All-Nighter”: Inside a Messier Marathon

In March and April daring astronomers have the chance to see all of the 110 objects discovered or cataloged by Charles Messier. It's a tough observing program. You can't spend much time with any object, it's on to the next, before it sets, and then there's big periods of nothing while the next set of objects rises.

This guy made it even tougher by only using a 4" refractor and equally big binoculars. I have a hard time identifying some of these with my 8" telescope. It's an interesting read. It really does take all night, from sundown to sunrise the next morning.

I've seen all the Messier objects, but never in one night. I've probably seen 40 or so on the best summer nights. Someday I want to try and do them all.  ¶ 3:21 PM 0 Comments Links to this post

  Free Association: Thirty years of making people sad Free Association: Thirty years of making people sad

Ha-ha-ha. The Selfish Gene had a big impact on me too, but not quite like this.  ¶ 4:05 PM 0 Comments Links to this post

  Swoon 135 - April 17, 2006 Nathan Fake - Numb Chance (Traum)
Bola - Vibe a Rolla (Scump remix) (Peacefrog)
The Project - Here We Go (R&S)
Crowdpleaser & St. Plomb - New Times Roman (Mental Groove)
Oxia - Domino (Kompakt Extra)
Popnoname - On the Run (Italic)
Triple R - Tengo Suerte Esta Noche (My Best Friend)
Pelle Buys - Enemy Mine (Italic)
DJ Koze - Kosi Comes Around (Audion mix) (Kompakt)
Butane - Tinker Toy (Num)
Alex Under - El Diluvio Azul (Traum)
Stardiver - Borderline (Kompakt Extra)
New Order - Jetstream (Pete Heller Phela Vox) (Warner)
New London School of Electronics - Dream to Dawn (Rising High)
Beaumont Hannant - SC931 (GPR)
Meat Makes Meat - White Flag (United Deviations)
Subtractivelad - Rarum Natura (n5md)
Birdy Nam Nam - Escape
Coldcut - Boogieman (Ninja Tune)
Michael Mayer and Mathias Aguayo - Slow (Kompakt)
Circlesquare - Fight Sounds (Output)  ¶ 9:06 AM 0 Comments Links to this post

  Yummy mummy - but not what you think Mothers feed their young. They can do this by providing food before birth, like in an egg yolk, or via a placenta, or after birth, via milk or finding food. Pretty obvious you say, and you're right, but biologists have discovered an amphibian that looks like a worm where mothers let their newborn offspring peel and eat their skin.

The young worms (of the species Boulengerula taitanus) grow specialized teeth to peel and eat the skin. The mothers modify the outer layer of their skin so it is easy to remove and highly nutritious. It doesn't appear to hurt the mothers too much, and that's the key. If they can give up this food without too much harm to themselves, their children should be much better fed, and therefore better equipped to survive in the environment. If it hurt them too much, they wouldn't be able to produce many offspring, since they'd be dead. It's a fine line, and an example of natural selection at its finest.

The study is in this week's Nature (link will come when available). You can read what nature.com, New Scientist and National Geographic have to stay.  ¶ 10:21 AM 0 Comments Links to this post

  Swoon 134 - April 10, 2006 Bedrock Voices (Freelance Icebreakers mix) (Bedrock)
Hardfloor - Reverberate Opinion (Volume)
Detune - Flying Area (Rising High)
Black Dog - Psil-cosyin (Warp)
Jesse Somfay - The days of My Youth Ended in Broken Bottles (Traum)
AFX - Box Energy remix (Men)
Kid Spatula - Buttress (Planet mu)
Amon Tobin - Triple Science (Ninja Tune)
Radioactive Man - Strong Booze (Rotters Golf Club)
Bostich - Tengo La Vue (Nacional)
Number9 - Warlords of Zolzellion
Autechre - Silverside (Warp)
Vitalic - Poney part 2 (Pias)
Bedrock - Voices (Slacker mix) (Bedrock)
Eat Static - Element 115 (Volume)
Coldcut - Just for the Kick (Ninja Tune)
Bittersweet - Take 2 Blue (Quango)
Depeche Mode - Precious (Mute)  ¶ 9:28 AM 0 Comments Links to this post

  Diamond ring to totality excitement This video gives an excellent example of the transition from the diamond ring to totality, and the excitement that comes with it.


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  YouTube - solar eclipse ( g?ne? tutulmas?) YouTube - solar eclipse ( g?ne? tutulmas?): http://youtube.com/watch?v=TnqIwLKRuEg

This gives a rough representation of what I saw last week in Side, Turkey. This person was about an hour away from me. But it doesn't give the real excitement. Instead of music, I would have preferred hearing the reactions of people around me.  ¶ 4:14 PM 0 Comments Links to this post