So I've got a new CD to listen to in my car, real proper driving music. Nine Inch Nails' excellent Ghosts, a huge four-disk bastard, 36 tracks of ambient industrial brilliance. For anyone unaware for ambient industrial, it's essentially music made with the sound-effects from Star Trek - every whoosh, tap, and low rumble, all accompanied by weird aboriginal drum music. It makes me feel like Han Solo jumping to hyperspace whenever I put it on, although I'm not sure if it's entirely safe - I can't tell what's the engine and what's the music now, and have stalled twice already because of this...
In other egocentric music news, I have wrecked my arm trying to play Hall Of The Mountain King - in justification, it sounds better when played loudly. Very loudly. And angrily.
And in science news... nothing. Ever since that CERN announcement, actual science has kind of dropped off the radar. The coolest thing I could find was a kind of "anti-magnet" magnetic shield that a team have made.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15017479
I mention this if only because it's done nothing to assuage my fear of terrorism. If anything, I'm now more afraid. It's in no way unfeasible to use this tech to hide anything you want from an MRI machine. And if they create proper light cloaking - again, the research is happening... god I'm paranoid enough with the possibility of invisible ninja assassins...
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