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Roger Waters In Mumbai 2007 [no label 2CD] The first CD is available today, the second will be up Sunday. Funky16Corners Radio v.28 - Rubber Souled Pt1: Soul covers of Beatles tunes Playlist: The Archies When They Rocked: 1968-69 The Archies were the Beatles of virtual bands -- innovators whose sugary hooks and catchy choruses spawned a legion of inferior imitators (The Bedrock Rockers, Jabberjaw). The Riverdale High quintet scored several hits in the late '60s, but 'Sugar, Sugar'-- the No. 1 song of 1969 -- remains the band's claim to fame. Phooey: Mozilla Thunderbird to Find New Home as Mozilla Foundation Focuses on Mozilla Firefox at mozillaZine. The mail program suffers from neglect compared to the killer browser. On her weblog, Mozilla Corporation CEO Mitchell Baker has announced that Mozilla Thunderbird is to move to a "new, separate organizational setting" as the Mozilla Foundation continues to focus ever more closely on Mozilla Firefox. Shelley Powers asks Where is Mozilla Heading: Years ago, Mozilla received flack for focusing on developing an application framework rather than just a browser, a move that ultimately paid out over the years. Now, I'm seeing a reverse trend: a focus away from a framework and towards one product, AdobeF…urh…Firefox. Measuring change: This is my kind of headline, but I'm not exactly comfy in the world of quantum mechanics. There's not a lot to chunk out in this discussion. Well, maybe this... “I recently went to the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder,” says Lloyd. (NIST is the government lab that houses the atomic clock that standardizes time for the nation.) “I said something like, ‘Your clocks measure time very accurately.’ They told me, ‘Our clocks do not measure time.’ I thought, Wow, that’s very humble of these guys. But they said, ‘No, time is defined to be what our clocks measure.’ Which is true. They define the time standards for the globe: Time is defined by the number of clicks of their clocks.” Sample Web radio stations: Tun3r: These squares are all radio stations. Click anywhere to get started, or drag orange needle... |
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