Technology, Books and Other Neat Stuff

10 random songs from iTunes (as gacked from pretty much everyone by now!)

Nuvogue - Thomas Dolby - Gate to the Mind's Eye
You've Been Flirting Again - Björk - Telegram
Masterman And Baby J - Randy Newman - Land Of Dreams
Je serai espionne - Baxendale - You will have your revenge
La Tristesse Durera / Manic Street Preachers - Various Artists - Wired (Disc 1)
Babylon Sisters - Steely Dan - Remastered
CRW / I Feel Love [R.A.F. Zone Mix] - Various Artists - Trance Nation 3 (Disc 2)
Tall Paul Vs Inxs: Precious Heart (Original Mix) - Euphoria - Ibiza Euphoria (Disc 2)
Wondering Where the Lions Are - Bruce Cockburn - Various Bruce Cockburn
Beached - Camel - Nude

A nice mix of trancey stuff, prog stuff, strange stuff, cynical electropop, stuff that's influenced SF writers, and stuff that was picked up from TV programmes...

Are we hearing the tolling of the death knell for the traditional hand-drawn animated movie? Disney is closing its Florida animation studio - the folk who gave us Lilo and Stitch, amongst many others.

The current Disney pipeline is now pretty much all CGI...

...not once you wire it up and add the solar panels...

Still, the new version of the Scott eVest has to be a neat toy for serious geeks. Not sure what the Bluetooth folks will think about the "patent-pending Personal Area Network (PAN)", though. It seems a bit impolite to steal a name that's already in use for something similar (even if it is a matter of wired versus wireless).

...to your desktop PC.

You can now download and play with the Maestro control software used to manage NASA's Spirit rover, along with a data set of the images used to navigate the robot. And if you've got 3D glasses, you can have even more fun!

(Probably best to conserve the site's download bandwidth and use the BitTorrent links)