Here’s my proposed (incomplete) soundtrack for 2008, courtesy of Daptone Records and SeeqPod.
Category: Reference
Not All Remakes Suck
IMO, it looks like Cassandra Wilson (goddess that she is) may no longer have the market cornered on brand new takes on old songs…
“What Have You Done For Me Lately” by Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings
“Smells Like Teen Spirit” by The Bad Plus
(This has been a test of SeeqPod. Had this been an actual post about certain songs, you would have been inundated with snarky commentary.)
Resistance Is Even More Futile
The Top Ten Transhumanist Technologies
The Lifeboat Foundation has a special report detailing their view of the top ten transhumanist technologies that have some probability of 25 to 30-year availability. Transhumanism is a movement devoted to using technologies to transcend biology and enhance human capabilities.
Eugenics
I just needed to put this where I was sure to find it again…
via Paleo-Future
How the Edwardians Spoke
Via Warren Ellis
She Talks to Angels
Christian angelic hierarchy – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: The Assumption of the Virgin by Francesco Botticini at the National Gallery London, shows three hierarchies and nine orders of angels, each with different characteristics
* First Hierarchy
o Seven chief Archangels (including Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael)
o Seraphim
o Cherubim
o Thrones or Ophanim
* Second Hierarchy
o Dominions or Dominations or Kyriotites
o Virtues or Dynameis
o Powers or Exousiai
* Third Hierarchy
o Principalities or Archai
o Archangels (all others)
o Angels
Which MACGYVER Episode Was This?
Ebony and Ivory
Hail, Jaws
Shark’s virgin birth stuns scientists | Earth News | Earth | Telegraph
“A female hammerhead shark has given birth without the help of a male, after genetic tests revealed that its baby shark had no paternal DNA.
An international team reports that the shark’s ‘virgin birth’ was down to an unusual method of reproduction known as ‘parthenogenesis’, where an egg starts to divide without being fertilised.”
Mundane-SF Stuff
Mundane-SF: Encyclopedia of Life:
“Recently I got an iPod which now allows me to listen to all kinds of interesting broadcasts from around the world that were previously unaccessed. The aggregator software, the citizen journalism, the interviews with scientists who speak about what they believe in without the need to be filtered through the boring style required of scientific papers — all of this has appeared in the last couple of years as yet another phenomenon never mentioned in an SF story before it happened. Like most aspects of the internet.”