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July 27, 2007

Friday tunes: Soulful Beatle covers, Roger Waters, Archies; Thunderbird to split from Firefox; Time may not exist;; Sample Web radio

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:
Billy Preston – Eight Days a Week (Exodus)
Music Company – TheWord (Mirwood)
Bunny Sigler – Yesterday (Parkway)
Stevie Wonder – We Can Work It Out (Tamla)
Chris Clark – Got To Get You Into My Life (Motown)
El Chicano – Eleanor Rigby (Kapp)
Junior Parker – Tomorrow Never Knows (Capitol)
Bill Cosby – Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band (WB)
Soulful Strings – Within You Without You (Cadet)
Bud Shank – I Am the Walrus (World Pacific)
Soulful Strings – Hello Goodbye (Cadet)
Soulful Strings – The Inner Light (Cadet)

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.

I don't know if Thunderbird can survive as a product of a separate organization. I suspect it can't, especially when the origination of such an organization is based, more or less, on the product parent saying, "We have a kid no one wants anymore. We've decided we really don't like being parents, after all. Would someone like to adopt it?"

Measuring change:
Newsflash: Time May Not Exist
Not to mention the question of which way it goes...

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.”

Rovelli, the advocate of a timeless universe, says the NIST timekeepers have it right. Moreover, their point of view is consistent with the Wheeler-DeWitt equation. “We never really see time,” he says. “We see only clocks. If you say this object moves, what you really mean is that this object is here when the hand of your clock is here, and so on. We say we measure time with clocks, but we see only the hands of the clocks, not time itself.

Sample Web radio stations: Tun3r: These squares are all radio stations. Click anywhere to get started, or drag orange needle...

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