"A recent outbreak of a "plague" in a popular online game has scientists considering how the virtual world may provide clues to what people would do in real-world pandemics. In the role-playing game World of Warcraft, a "corrupted blood" spell killed characters and affected players in unexpected ways." Listen here
wnyc.org: <b<wnyc.org: Music made out of tones that you can't always hear -- but you can feel. The artists who make microsound think that even minute sonic changes can affect us. We asked three composers-- Dan Abrams, Steve Roden, and Taylor Deupree-- to tell us about their fascination with microsounds." Listen here
lifehacker.com: "Now that iTunes 4.9 supports podcasting and video blogging, you can use the del.icio.us bookmarking service to auto-load music and video files others have bookmarked." More
dradio.de: Vier findige Jungunternehmer aus Hamburg haben - voneinander unabhängig - vier eigene Cola-Marken entwickelt. Der Koffeinkick aus dem Norden folgt neuen Marketinggesetzen: Ein Werbeslogan lautet "Trinken für den Weltfrieden", und nur Gastwirte, die richtig lieb zu ihren Angestellten sind, dürfen die braune Limo auch verkaufen" Lesen/hören
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fertilizerfestival.com: "A super-concentrated four-day festival of the finest new music from Germany today…The good shit that fertilizes the mainstream. Music that inspires. Music that redraws the map. Music from beneath the radar. A fertile mix of music, artists and cultures you won’t find anywhere else." More
basementbar.com: "Earth was formed in Olympia, WA in 1990 by guitarist Dylan Carlson. The band actually signed to Sub Pop during the grunge years and an early demo session even featured Kurt Cobain on vocals. However, Earth were a darker, noisier, far more underground beast than even the grungiest of the grunge bands. They pioneered the sort of nearly unlistenable, super-heavy distorted drone that is now practiced by bands like sunn0))) and other stoner doom bands. Their music was mostly instrumental, sparsely using vocals and mostly just concentrating on creating the slowest ambient distortion they could. The band released several albums and went through several members, eventually becoming basically the project of Carlson and session musicians. Carlson put the band on hiatus after 1996’s Pentastar (In the Style of Demons), which at that point was the most accessible Earth album." More
npr.org: David Cronenberg has built a reputation for films that confound viewer expectations. Naked Lunch, The Fly and Crash subvert the line between reality and fantasy. More recently, Spider, a small-scale, indie effort, took viewers inside an unhinged mind. Now comes a big-budget studio picture called A History of Violence. " Listen here
bbc.co.uk: "Ralf Hutter from electronic legends Kraftwerk joined Gary Crowley for a one-hour special on the band" Listen here. The interview happend just a few days before the release of their latest CD.
ei-mag.com: Due to such high-profile festivals as the yearly Sonar behemoth, Spain’s electronic cliques have managed, slowly but surely, to bypass potential obscurity and encroaching marginalism. Ejival illustrates what it will take for the Iberian peninsula’s tonehackers to have their day in the sun" More
musicbythedolls.com: The doll number 1: Vladislav Delay (Finland). Natural-born drummer. Acclaimed artist and producer with wide range of output. The studio doll.
The doll number 2: Ars Electronica-winner Antye Greie aka AGF (Germany). Singer and producer who in addition to her acclaimed solo works has already worked with Craig Armstong on numerous occasions. We call Antye the art doll.
The doll number 3: Golden Globe-winner Craig Armstrong (Scotland). Composer who has worked with everyone and everything from MOULIN ROUGE and RAY soundtracks to writing chart-topping hits for artists and acts such as Massive Attack, U2 and Madonna. You could say he's the film doll. More info + mp3 downloads
npr.org: "In 1966, a young Marine took a reel-to-reel tape recorder with him into the Vietnam War. For two months, until he was killed in action, Michael Baronowski made tapes of his friends, of life in foxholes, of combat. And he sent those audio letters home to his family in Norristown, Pennsylvania." Listen here
wnyc.org. "Kurt Andersen talks with Neil Gaiman about writing the new film Mirrormask, produced by the Jim Henson Company. Gaiman shares his insights from raising teenage daughters, and describes what it’s like to work in the Henson family home, where old Muppets are put to rest in the laundry room." Listen here
epd-film.de: Von Terry Gilliam hat man in den letzten Jahren kaum etwas gehört. Jetzt hat er gleich zwei Filme abgedreht, "Brothers Grimm" und "Tideland" Link
allmusic.com: One of the longest-lived underground rock groups (if not the longest-lived), the Red Krayola lasted through the birth pangs of psychedelia past the death throes of post-punk. The one constant in its ever-shifting lineup was principal singer/songwriter/visionary Mayo Thompson, who seemed as concerned with deconstructing the language of "rock" music as with actually expressing himself within it. That made Red Krayola's catalog challenging, often difficult listening. Its saving grace was the quirky charm of Thompson's songs and vocals, with a whimsical humor and open-mindedness rather atypical of avant-rock.
npr.org: When Derek Kirk Kim's debut graphic novel Same Difference and Other Stories appeared in 2003 as a self-published paperback, it drew little notice. But Kim's sensitive and humorous work soon began receiving nominations for some of the comic world's top awards, and today, the San Francisco-based storyteller is one of the industry's rising stars. Listen here
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guardian.co.uk: As bassist for Sonic Youth, Kim Gordon was grunge's poster child. Now, as she moves into film, she's going back to her first love: car adverts. Link. found via antifreeze.de
Just out of curiosity, caused by my last posting, I did a search for lego and x-men, and ofcourse there are custom X-Men legos! 
