The Concord Music Group and Playing for Change has produced this truly wonderful video of street musicians around the world laying down their own unique music tracks on this great classic "Stand by Me" by Ben E. King. All the episodes are available here. http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=2539741&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=0&color=&fullscreen=1

The US government has a new website, http://www.ready.gov.  It’s another attempt at scare mongering in the style of the old "duck and cover" advice after WWII.The fun thing is that these pictures are so ambiguous they could mean anything!  Here are a few interpretations. If you have set yourself on fire, do not run. If you spot terrorism, [...]

The sofa appears to be made out of hundreds of thin, flat chair-shaped silhouettes, joined together by some kind of membrane in an accordion that can collapse down into a dictionary-think chunk or be spread out for feet on end, as a divan, chair or sofa. http://www.glumbert.com/embed/foldingchair

Yahoo has launched what it ambitiously calls the largest time capsule in the history of the world. It is encouraging people from around the globe to contribute personal photos, stories, thoughts, ideas, poems, home movies, the flotsam of every day life, in other words, to its site, timecapsule.yahoo.com. The point as with all time capsules, [...]

 Zune Fact Sheets Zune (.doc file, 56 KB, September 2006) Zune Home A/V Pack (.doc file, 41 KB, September 2006) Zune Car Pack (.doc file, 39 KB, September 2006) Zune Travel Pack (.doc file, 41 KB, September 2006) http://www.comingzune.com/

  Just when you thought you might have had enough of American Idol, SingShot is released. SingShot is an online community that allows you to record your own version of thousands of songs from a database of instrumentals, including songs by The Beatles, Elton John, Judy Garland, and Jay-Z. SingShot works by providing you with [...]

Toshiba has announced their development of a compact methanol fuel cell capable of powering a digital music player for up to 60 hours on a single charge. About the same as a pack of gum, 100mW and 300mW models of the fuel cell prototype run on single charges of 3.5ml and 10ml of concentrated methanol [...]