via Dearie Me, here’s a link to a really cool music recommendations engine called musicplasma : the music visual search engine. It asks you what you like and tells you what else you may like. Looks pretty believable, if you ask me.
Month: September 2004
Something I learned yesterday…
I’m not just grouchy when I am woken from sleep; I’m also pretty grouchy when roused from the far edge of almost-falling asleep. I’ve never noticed that before. Gotta watch that.
If I Were One of the Faeries in Sleeping Beauty…
This week’s Friday Five from the musings of Laura at Green Boogers: I was watching Disney’s Sleeping Beauty the other night, while leafing through an old storybook for the original story, and I found myself snorting at the gifts the precious little princess got – gifts of beauty and song, virtue and kindness – So very useful. What five gifts would you give the fateful little princess? Woah. This one just blew me off course. I didn’t know she got any gifts, actually. I had to look online for a version of the story, and among the ones on this …
Alien Signal
This was just too potentially big not to mention: via Katolik Shinja: Yahoo! News – Could Space Signal Be Alien Contact? LONDON (Reuters) – An unexplained radio signal from deep space could — just might be — contact from an alien civilization, New Scientist magazine reported on Thursday. The signal, coming from a point between the Pisces and Aries constellations, has been picked up three times by a telescope in Puerto Rico. I’m very curious to see what comes of this.
An SF Image Realized
According to the Choson Ilbo, video phones are on their way in Korea. Not a very surprising report, but it’s nice to see at least one thing from the world of SF movies and novels making its way into reality. Though I doubt it’s because it was written about in SF novels. Hmm.