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Music Monday Double Feature: They are Climate Scientists

Australian climate scientists lip-syncing “I’m a Climate Scientist” from Hungry Beast. (Warning: profane language.)

Music Monday: 4th of July Special

The obligatory Hendrix. Watch Jimi Hendrix – Star Spangled Banner in Music  |  View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.com

Music Monday: Playing for Change

The Playing for Change Foundation is dedicated to musical education worldwide. From their mission statement: A decade ago a small group of documentary filmmakers set out with a dream to create a film rooted in the music of the streets. Not only has that dream been realized, it has blossomed into a global sensation called Playing […]

Music Monday: Start Wearing Purple

Because you can never have too much Gogol Bordello.  

Music Monday: the Grand Rapids Lipdub

5,000 people in Grand Rapids Michigan USA were involved in this project. From the YouTube Comments: The Grand Rapids LipDub Video was filmed May 22nd, with 5,000 people, and involved a major shutdown of downtown Grand Rapids, which was filled with marching bands, parades, weddings, motorcades, bridges on fire, and helicopter take offs. It is […]

Psychedelic Monday: Half Full Glass of Wine

Tame Impala

Psychedelic Monday: Sploosh!

Music: Ozric Tentacles. Featuring marine life. Mix by Bonci. Highlights: 0:33 Dolphin chasing ring bubble 2:02 Humpback(?) tailfin 2:58 Whale shark swimming with dolphins 3:44 & 4:07 Humpback baleen-syncing 4:11 Manta Ray 5:58 Human and dolphin kiss

Bio-Linux. Now available in the Cloud

For some time now, NERC has been providing us with Bio-Linux. If you don’t want to be bothered with installing all the essential bioinformatic software for your Ubuntu box, you can install Bio-Linux, either as a a Linux distro for installation from scratch, or as a set of packages for an already existing Debian or Ubuntu […]

Psychedelic Monday: Interstellar Overdrive

Pink Floyd, with Syd Barrett.

Psychedelic Monday: White Rabbit

The classic from Jefferson Airplane.

Psychedelic Monday: Solitude is Bliss

  From Tame Impala’s album Inner Speaker.    

Big Moon Rising

  Unless you have been living on the, um, moon, then you have heard about the large moon expected tonight. The moon will be almost at perigee (closest point to earth in its orbit), and full. Luna is expected to be bigger & brighter. Best viewed when it is on the horizon, seems even bigger […]

February: a Good Month for Music

Some good things happened in music this month. The Black Keys won Grammy awards for Best Alternative Album, (Brothers) Best Rock Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocals, Best Recording Package and Producer of the Year, Non Classical. Arcade Fire won a Grammy for Album of the Year, The Suburbs. Here are The Black Keys […]

Bad Project

No apologies to Lady Gaga necessary.

John Lennon, 9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980