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Thursday, January 31, 2008
  Housewatch 4.10
It's been such a long time since a new episode of House, M.D., I almost forgot about my resolution to try and explain some of the science and medicine behind the show.

This week, the woman had breast cancer. But it wasn't in her breasts, it happened to be behind her knee. So how did it get there? It wasn't metastasis. Rather, it was a developmental abnormality that left her with some breast tissue that should have been resorbed before she was born.

So, we have to digress into embryology and teratology, which is embryology gone wrong. Many tissues are created, sorted out, grown, trimmed and pruned as an embryo becomes a fetus and then a baby. In the woman's case, a small patch of breast tissue wasn't properly disposed of during development, and it later became cancerous. 35 is young for breast cancer, but they did mention her mother died of it and that the patient had a prophylactic double mastectomy.

Was that really breast milk House extracted from the knee? Yes. Risperidone can stimulate breast tissue to produce milk.

So the women's treatment became a standard course of surgery and chemotherapy.

Finally, it's worth mentioning osteopetrosis (literally, bonestone). It's rare, basically the osteoclasts, which are supposed to clip and remodel bone, are defective. Or carbon anhydrase deficiency can lead to mildly acidic blood, which alters bone metabolism.

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Tuesday, January 29, 2008
  Swoon 219 - January 28, 2008
Skwerl - All Woman (Defected)
Son of Raw - A Black Man in Space (Sax Mix) (Objectivity)
Pan Pot - Faces (Mobilee)
Riton - To The Gum (Get Physical)
Marcello Giordani - Respect Yourself (DJ Naughty remix) (Mule)
Minilogue - Orglar A (Minilogue)
Fairmont - Flight of Albatross (Metope Mix) (Border Community)
Exercise One - Wandering (LAN)
Sasha - Mongoose (Emfire)
Jackmate - Interspherical Tension (Resopal)
Guy J - Night Loss (Bedrock)
Junior Boys - Like A Child (Carl Craig mix) (Domino)
Jesse Somfay - Grasping Stars (Meerestief)
Pole - Achterbahn (Shackleton mix) (Scape)
Venetian Snares - Point Blank
Burial - Ghost Hardware (Hyperdub)
Mathew Jonson - Twin Cobras (Wagon Repair)
Pinch - Qawwali (Tectonic)
Femme Generation - Orlando Boom (RAC mix) (Independent)
Rabbit Season - Brink (Independent)
Theatre ov Idiots - Light (Inter)
Artist of the Year - It Is Time For Le Party (Universal)
Daft Punk - Touch It (Virgin/EMI)
DVAS - Joust (Pop Echo)

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Tuesday, January 22, 2008
  Swoon 218 - January 21, 2008
Gorillaz - Kids With Guns (Quiet Village mix) (Parlophone)
Jennifer Cardini - August in Paris (Mobilee)
Underworld - Beautiful Burnout (Tiefschwarz remix) (Different)
Fairmont - Darling's Waltz (Border Community)
Deadbeat - Mecca (Dub) (Wagon Repair)
Animal Collective - Peacebone (Pantha du Prince mix)
Minilogue - Star Command (Traum)
Mathew Jonson - Symphony for the Apocolypse (Wagon Repair)
Perc und Fractal - Up (Kompakt)
DJ Yellow and Astrid Suryanto - To The Top (Guy J mix)
Chromeo - Bonafied Lovin (Jori Hulkonnen remix) (Last Gang)
Pelle Buys - Come Into My World (Chaim remix)
Stefan Goldmann - Lunatic Fringe
Marc Houle - Porch (M-nus)
Butane - Hallucinate (Alphahouse)
Lucio Aquilina - Magic M (Cocoon)
Amon Tobin - Kitchen Sink (Boxcutter remix) (Ninja Tune)
Burial - Archangel (Hyperdub)
Feist - My moon my man (Boys noize remix)
Ghislian Poirier - Diaspora (Ninja Tune)
Mlle Caro and Franck Garcia - Mon Ange (Buzzin Fly)

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Monday, January 21, 2008
  My Dada album cover
From Joey, I tried the Dada album cover meme. From wikipedia, a random article as band name, I got Spring Creek, South Dakota, from quotations.com I got this quote "I wanted you to see what real courage is, instead of getting the idea that courage is a man with a gun in his hand. It's when you know you're licked before you begin but you begin anyway and you see it through no matter what." from Harper Lee's "To Kill A Mockingbird", (the last four words are the album title) and this picture from flickr's recent interesting posts (3rd picture).

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Monday, January 14, 2008
  Science songs busting out everywhere
This video is making the rounds of biology blogs faster than an ebola outbreak. What could get nerds so excited? PCR.



Nature's The Great Beyond has a nice roundup of other science songs.

But they missed one of the best, They Might Be Giants - Why Does The Sun Shine?

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Sunday, January 13, 2008
  Swoon 217 - January 14, 2008 Best of 2007
Disk Jokke - Flok L Farta (Kindische)
Chymera - Murmur
Partial Arts - Trauermusik (Kompakt)
Canvas - The Cat (Rebelone)
Justin Martin - The Sad Piano (Jimpster mix) (Buzzin Fly)
Junior Boys - In The Morning (Hot Chip mix) (Domino)
Riton - Hammer of Thor (Connaisseur)
Inkfish - Prescreen (Nick Muir mix)
Pantha du Prince - Saturn Strobe (Dial)
Paul Kalkbrenner - Altes Kamuffel (Bpitchcontrol)
Gregor Tresher - A Thousand Nights (Great Stuff)
Danuel Tate - Pushcard (Wagon Repair)
Le Noir - Eleny (Radio slave panorama garage mix)
H.O.S.H. - Steppenwolf
Shackleton - Blood On My Hands (Ricardo Villalobos Apocalypso Now mix) (Skull Disco)
Pheek - De Begg Degg
Claude von Stroke - The Whistler (Audiofly mix) (Go Deeva)
Alex Smoke - Prima Materia (Abort mix) (Soma)
Dusty Kid - The Cat (Southern Fried)
Spooky - New Light (Spooky's Strobelight mix) (spooky.uk.com)
Ame - Enoi (Innervisions)
Surgeon - Whose Bad Hands Are These? (Autechre mix) (Dynamic Tension)
James Zabiela, Nic Fanciulli - No Pressure (Renaissance)
Minilogue, KAB - That's A Nice Way To Give Me Feedback (Great Stuff)
From Karaoke To Stardom - Stompin Nation (Rrygular)
Marc Marzenit - Spheere
Reynold - Bumper
Sasha - Coma (Emfire)
Cobblestone Jazz - W (Wagon Repair)
Lopazz - We Are (Get Physical)
Chemical Brothers - Do It Again (Virgin)
Motiivi Tuntematon - Mankind Failed (Kompakt)
Digitalism - Pogo (Virgin)

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Thursday, January 10, 2008
  Best music of 2007
I guess I'm a little late, compared to a lot of other blogs and websites, but here's (nearly) all the music I liked in 2007. I'm sure there's track and other bits and pieces I forgot, but it's mostly there.

Best of 2007

albums:

Pantha du Prince: This Bliss (Dial)
Apparat: Walls (Shitkatapult)
Cobblestone Jazz: 23 Seconds (Wagon Repair)
Digitalism: Idealism (Kitsune)
Boys Noize: Oi Oi Oi (Boys Noize)
From Karaoke To Stardom: Undo Redo Weirdo mix
Luciano: No Model, No Tool
Cristian Vogel: Double Deux/Delicado (station 55)
Gui Boratto: Chromophobia (Kompakt)
The Field: From Here We Go Sublime (Kompakt)
Chemical Brothers: We Are The Night
Bola: Kroungrine (Skam)
The Black Dog: Book of Dogma

compilations:

Ewan Pearson: Piece Work (K7)
Shut Up and Dance! (Ostgut Ton)
Rekids One
5 Year of Get Physical

mixes:

John Digweed: Transitions Vol. 3 (Renaissance)
Lee Burridge: Balance 012

eps:

James Zabiela: Perseverance
Ame – Enoi/Balandine
Minilogue – Inca/Urubamba
Minilogue – Space/Star Command
Danuel Tate – Pushcard
Tom Middleton – Excursions 1
Motiivi Tuntematon – Speicher 48
Aril Brikkha – Winter/Berghain (Kompakt)
Maxime Dangles – Agujas/Love Water
Surgeon – Whose Bad Hands Are These?


tracks:

Alex Smoke: Prima Materia (Abort mix) (Soma)
Ame – Enoi
Ame – Fiori
Anja Schneider – Loop de Mer (Mobilee)
Apparat – Fractals (Shitkatapult)
Audion – Noiser (Spectral)
Canvas – The Cat
Chymera – Murmur
Claude von Stroke – The Whistler (Audiofly mix)
Cobblestone Jazz - W
Disk Jokke – Flok L Farta
Dusty Kid – The Cat
Fort Dax – C Conceit, Knot Point, Hanging
Gregor Tresher – A Thousand Nights
H.O.S.H. - Steppenwolf
Inkfish – Prescreen (Nick Muir mix)
James Zabiela, Nic Fanciulli – No Pressure
Junior Boys – Like A Child (Hot chip mix)
Justin Martin – The Sad Piano (Jimpster mix)
Kabale und Liebe – Mumbling Yeah
Krak Street Boyz – Street Power
Le Noir – Eleny (Radioslave panorama garage mix)
Len Faki – My Black Sheep (Radioslave remix)
Lopazz – We Are
Matthew Dear – Deserter
Minilogue, KAB – That's A Nice Way To Give Me Feedback
Pantha du Prince – Saturn Strobe
Partial Arts – Trauermusik
Pierce & Twirdy – Cuaba (Babicz in full efx mix)
Popnoname – No Doubt
Popnoname – Kapital
Pryda – Armed
Reynold - Bumper
Riley Reinhold – Lights In My Eyes
Riton – Hammer of Thor
RQM & Filewile – Damn (Jahcoozi mix)
Samim – Heater
Samim – Zleep
Sasha – Coma
SCSI-9 – Another Day Acid
Shackleton – Blood On My Hands (Ricardo Villalobos mix)
Sian – Apple Tree
Silicone Soul – Bad Machines
Simon Baker – Plastik
Skwerl – All Woman
Slam – Azure (Radioslave remix)
Solieb – We Are Moving
Soylent Green – La Forza del Destino (Radioslave mix)
Spooky – New Light (Spooky's strobelight mix)
SuperMayer – Two Of Us
Thomas Fehlmann – With Oil
Tiger Stripes – Hooked
Tiger Stripes – Mad At Me
Tigerskin – as we are
Trentemoller, Buda – Gamma (Minilogue remix)

crazy long tracks that were still good:

Ame – Fiori, 18 minutes
NSI – Bridge and Tunnel People, 15
7th Plain – Symphony For the Surrealists, 13 minutes
John Digweed – Gridlock, 25 minutes
Pheek – De Begg Degg, 22 minutes
Luciano – Somewhere Near This Heat, 15 minutes
Cristian Vogel – DD Engine, 16 minutes
Minilogue – Inca, 13 minutes
minilogue, KAB – That's A Nice Way To Give Me Feedback, 12 minutes
Tolga Fidan – Tanbulistan
Alex Neri and Luca Bacchetti – La Fogographia, 12 minutes
Dusty Kid, Psika, 14 minutes
Shackleton – Blood On My Hands (Ricardo Villalobos mix) 18 minutes

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Tuesday, January 08, 2008
  Swoon 216 - January 7, 2008
Will Saul - Cubrika (Simple)
Ripperton - Farra (Connaisseur)
Disk Jokke - Flok L Farta (Kindisch)
IMPS - Almost Live But Definitely Plugged (Mule)
Artist of the Year - You Gave me a stroke on the dancefloor (EMI)
Theatre Ov Idiots - Mind (Interdimensional)
The Cansecos - Juices (Upper class)
Gorillaz - Kids With Guns (Hot Chip mix) (Parlophone)
Lessound - Flysdontmind (Independent)
Onur Ozer - Eclipse (Vakant)
Prosumer and Murat Tepeli - Butterfly (Ostgut Ton)
Tom Middleton - Sense Is Real (Big Chill)
Deadbeat - Mecca drum jack (Wagon Repair)
Danuel Tate - Pushcard (Wagon Repair)
Efdemin - Just a Track (Dial)
Dubfire - I Feel Speed (Audion remix)
Nosak - Abstract Collection (Rotate)
Jackmate - Interspherical Tension
Marc Marzenit - Spheere
Radio Slave - Bell Clap Dance (Rekids)
Kabale und Liebe - Mumbling Yeah
Navid Tahernia - ...I Like (Kompakt)
Sian - Wear Your Scars Like Medals (Roland Appel mix) (Aus)
Joy Division - Atmoshere (Factory)

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Tuesday, January 01, 2008
  ipspotting
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