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Karr Benet Oswald

August 28, 2006 mediajorge Leave a comment

This just in from CNN:
– DNA found on JonBenet Ramsey’s body does not match sample DNA from suspect John Mark Karr, Denver, Colorado’s KUSA television station reports.
Well, Color me surprised! Then, call me Mulder. I’m still waiting for Skull and Bones to get jiggy with Karr a la Lee Harvey Oswald. He’s got 3 names, so start counting letters, y’alls. The only real shock so far is that Karr—who looks drugged, coached, and eerily radiant in the media glow (standard publicity practice)—hasn’t up and gone all JonBenet himself on us yet. Quothe the lower-case patsy: “In every way,” he added, as authorities bundled him into a waiting vehicle. “It’s not at all what it seems to be.” As chicken li’l’s been asquawkin’ from the first shoe drop: Something’s rotten in them thar hills, and it ain’t Osama, Dubya!

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Quiet Storms

August 28, 2006 mediajorge 1 comment
So it’s not all fire and brimstone, a musical levity break courtesy of Earplug, Nouvelle Vague and Osunlade.
Nouvelle Vague squeezes another round of electronic tropicalia out of jangly guitars, wispy female vocals, and a knack for plucking Gen X’s heartstrings. On their follow-up set of covers, Bande à Part, a gentle batucada on U2’s “Pride” milks a sickly sweetness from its bitter root; a raucous samba and bright vocals festoon the Buzzcocks’ “Ever Fallen in Love”; and the Cramps’ guttural “Human Fly” warbles a dubby, spaghetti western cabaret. Even more effectively, Yazoo’s “Don’t Go” taps the torch and twang deep in Alison Moyet’s melodramatic register and strikes moonshine gold. The inebriated rhythm, dulcet keys, and aloof refrain on Heaven 17’s “Let Me Go” pool into an orgy of last-call hipster pathos, while New Order’s ultra-classic “Confusion” sounds even bleaker with acoustic instrumentation and French inflection. Close to home and near the bone, Nouvelle Vague’s inside joke remains smart and cool well after the funny factor fades to grey.

-JH

St. Louis neo-soul brother Osunlade has range: he’s worked with Patti LaBelle, Gerardo, and even Sesame Street, as well as electro-soul peers like Spacek, Zero 7, and 4hero. On his latest release, Aquarian Moon, Osunlade plays drums, Minimoog, and a dozen other instruments. The album was recorded in 12 days on the Greek island of Santorini, which may hint to why some tracks break down into unstructured atmospherics. But on the title track “The Day We Met for Coffee,” “Flow,” and the hidden cut “In Flight,” the lush mixture of horns, strings, disjointed Afro-Mediterranean beats, gauzy vocals, and subdued house patterns hits its moving mark.

-JH

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This is Your Brain—on the phone…

August 28, 2006 mediajorge Leave a comment

Vladimir Lagovski and Andrei Moiseynko from Komsomolskaya Pravda Newspaper in Moscow decided to learn first-hand how harmful cell phones are. There is no magic in cooking with your cell phone. The secret is in the radio waves that the cell phone radiates. The journalists created a simple microwave structure as shown in the picture. They called from one cell phone to the other and left both phones on talking mode. They placed a tape recorder next to phones to imitate sounds of speaking so the phones would stay on.


After, 15 minutes: The egg became slightly warm.
25 minutes: The egg became very warm.
40 minutes: The egg became very hot.
65 minutes: The egg was cooked. (As you can see.)

Conclusion 1: Cooking eggs with mobile phones is possible but very expensive ($4.55 or 123 Rubles)
Conclusion 2: All this talk of danger is exaggerated; even if your brain gets cooked, it would take a couple hours of talking on a cell phone.