Ken Tucker reviews the new album from Daft Punk, Random Access Memories:
I freely admit that, until the new Random Access Memories, I wasn’t much of a fan. I could appreciate the craft and imagination that went into creating the French duo’s mixture of electronic genres — techno, house, disco — but the mechanical repetitions and heavily filtered vocals didn’t turn me on in any other way. But now, Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo have come up with an album that exposes the human side of their musical impulses. It’s the equivalent of removing the helmet-masks the pair invariably wears in public performances. Random Access Memories is a collection filled with music that suggests mad romance, heartache and an embrace of the past that’s never merely nostalgic or sentimental.
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Daft Punk is an innovative & talented duo. I always deeply enjoy the listening experience.
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Never mind the big-budget NASA satellites. A team of young engineers has tricked out a few off-the-shelf cellphones and sent them to space. The smartphones are already above us, sending images and data back to ham radio operators on Earth.
via Can You Hear Me Now? Cellphone Satellites Phone Home
Photo: NASA Ames Research Center
This is why I love science!
npr:
Never mind the big-budget NASA satellites. A team of young engineers has tricked out a few off-the-shelf cellphones and sent them to space. The smartphones are already above us, sending images and data back to ham radio operators on Earth.
via Can You Hear Me Now? Cellphone Satellites Phone Home
Photo: NASA Ames Research Center
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It’s getting rather nasty outside. Time to put on the big boy boots.
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Sweetie pie!!
Oh so cute! I want one of my own, imagine walking him/her on a nice evening.
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I love wolves!!
Cute little Wolf puppies! Bet they’d be awesome guard dogs.