by Minter Dial | Jun 16, 2009 | Entertainment, New Tech
Nature meets Music. Here is a wonderful example of creativity, where a Slovenian chorus has created a superlative, supranatural segue into a wonderfully uplifting song, entitled Africa. The choir is called Perpetuum Jazzile, “Slovenia’s only jazz choir,...
by Minter Dial | May 27, 2009 | Entertainment, Mobile, New Tech
In another spam scam, Deezer, Europe’s leading “music on demand” site (equivalent of LastFM), has been attacked. They quickly reacted by sending out this mail (in French as it is a French based company), alerting its users that the offer of a free...
by Minter Dial | May 1, 2009 | Entertainment
Dans la série “il y a du spam qui gonfle,” je constate avec ennui la souscription spammatique que j’ai faite au newsletter de TV5.ca du Québec. Puisque j’ai quitté le Canada il y a deux ans et demi, je n’ai plus besoin de savoir ce qui...
by Minter Dial | Apr 17, 2009 | Entertainment
For those of you following this blog, you may know that among my interests is Astrophysics, with a focus on the String Theory, smoothly vulgarized in Brian Greene’s “The Elegant Universe.” (Here is Greene’s Faculty page at Columbia; and PBS...
by Minter Dial | Mar 18, 2009 | Entertainment, Politics
It took a little bit of exploration on dead.net and Rolling Stone to find out — substantially after the fact — that the [revised Grateful] Dead played for Obama in the Mid-Atlantic inaugural ball (20 Jan 2009). No one I know was in attendance or perhaps...
by Minter Dial | Mar 11, 2009 | Entertainment
Which tastes better: organic or conventional food? This Hammy the Hamster Goes Organic video (and especially the out-takes further below) is bound to produce a smile. And, if you are sensitive to the quality of the food you eat, then you could find the experiment of...
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