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Saturday March 26, 2005
Kissing With Confidence
By The Mullah
Whilst rifling through the bargain basement in a local second-hand record shop, I come across Kissing With Confidence by Will Powers. As I hold this piece of vinyl, a flood of childhood memories come back. I must have been nine when the track came out in 1983 and its infectious hooks are still embedded in my memory. It made it number 17 in the UK chart back then, but must have lingered long afterwards in commercials and the like. At a mere ten pence, this is too good a bargain to decline.
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Thursday March 24, 2005
Magical Adventures... IN SPACE
Magical Adventures... IN SPACE is the new spin-off from a great web comic called Wigu.
Magical Adventures... is a spoof of Japanese cartoons like Pokemon. It occupied the role of the cartoon within the cartoon - in the same way Itchy & Scratchy relates to The Simpsons.
Artist and writer Jeffrey Rowlands has wound down Wigu and is now give full vent to the strange world of Butter Dimension Quad.
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Thursday March 24, 2005
Planets Outside Our Solar System Viewed For The First Time
Astronomers using the Spitzer Space Telescope have viewed extra-solar planets for the first time. Previous efforts to discover these alien wanderers have relied upon unexplained variations in the orbital paths of other bodies.
Now astronomers can use infrared photography to view these planets directly. From NASA's press release:
"Spitzer has provided us with a powerful new tool for learning about the temperatures, atmospheres and orbits of planets hundreds of light-years from Earth," said Dr. Drake Deming of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md., lead author of a new study on one of the planets.
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Wednesday March 23, 2005
The World Saved By...Rock Dust?!
Rock dust yields extra-big vegetables (and might save us from global warming) - according to the Independent newspaper.
This by-product of quarrying could revive barren soil, based on a theory that the soil is naturally mineralised by glaciers during ice ages. As we're many thousands of years away from the next ice age, rock dust is intended to emulate this process.
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Wednesday March 23, 2005
Skip To The End...
What happens when a fan gets desperate for the much vaunted but yet-to-materialise third season of his favourite Channel 4 sitcom?
Why he turns to stencilism of course.
Alas, the third season of Spaced remains the televisual equivalent of vapourware for now.
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Monday March 21, 2005
Glade Festival Returns For A Second Year
Organisers have announced plans for a second Glade Festival this July. Last year's event was acclaimed as a much needed boost to a flagging festival scene.
Details are still hazy at this early stage. It looks as if this year's event will be largely similar, but with a few eye-opening enhancements. Keep an eye on Bubble Jam for updates.
Tickets for the Glade go on sale on April 27th, but may be available at a reduced 'early bird' price before this time. Subscribe to their mailing list for more information.
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Monday March 21, 2005
Little Princess Orchestra:
A Meditation by The Mullah
Were Little Princess Orchestra pushed?
Or did they jump?
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Monday March 21, 2005
A New Music Festival For Spain: The Rocket Festival
The Rocket Festival is a brand new festival taking place in Southern Spain during the Mayday weekend.
Unlike the infamous Dragon Festival, this event is entirely legal.
Compared to the corporate hell of the British summer festival, this looks rather good -- lots of DJs and live bands as well as site art from Banksy and members of the Mutoid Waste Company.
Best of all, it is in beautiful Andalucia and should be blessed with lovely weather -- as opposed to the usual British mudfest.
Friday March 18, 2005
13 things that do not make sense
New Scientist has a brilliant article about 13 things that do not make sense -- phenomena that are in defiance of conventional wisdom in the fields of physics, chemistry and biology.
Of the thirteen, perhaps the most intriguing is the tale of the NASA space probes that are accelerating due to some unknown force:
"The resulting acceleration is tiny, less than a nanometre per second. That's equivalent to just one ten-billionth of the gravity at Earth's surface, but it is enough to have shifted Pioneer 10 some 400,000 kilometres off track...So what is causing it?"
Friday March 18, 2005
Sci-Fi surveillance technology comes one step closer to reality
In the 1990 action movie Total Recall, passengers on an underground rail system are shown passing through a system that can detect hidden threats such as weapons.
British defence firm Qinetiq have developed millimetre-wave radar that can see through clothing and detect non-metallic weapons such as ceramic knives, as well as drugs and other contraband that airport metal detectors can't spot.
This technology has already been tested at airports and is being evaluated by Eurotunnel -- operators of the undersea tunnel connecting England and France -- as a way of detecting illegal immigrants hidden in vehicles.
Researchers at the firm are also working on a way of sensing human pheromones in sweat, based on the idea that a potential terrorist would literally exude the smell of fear.
Sunday March 06, 2005
"Hitch hikers Guide to the Psychedelic Squidgy Bits"
SesSION 2
Warning:
Failure to heed the following could result in a severe drop in social standing, feelings of isolation and the loss of the loved ones.
Do so at your peril.
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Saturday March 05, 2005
Street Art Gallery by Tony B.
Posted in: Art :: Eyes :: Street by bubblejam at 11:11 PM | Comments (0)