And if you’d like to listen, it’s archived over yonder, or if you’d like to download, try this link here.

The excellently edited voice of your guildmaster appears at around the 15:00 mark.

So I just back from recording a segment for In the Loop, a show from Minnesota Public Radio where it is now unspeakably cold.

We talked about science, not music, but hopefully managed to inspire a few listeners regardless. Between my awkward pauses and strange mouth noises, of course.

I’ll post the podcast when it’s up; the show airs [...]

You may or may not have noticed a new link in the “fellow travellers” area down there on the right.

It’s to Hello, Poindexter!, the blog of Heather D’Angelo, who sometimes tours the world as one-third of the ethereal indie-pop combo Au Revoir Simone, and who sometimes studies Astrophysics at Columbia University.

For a good sense of [...]

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Because I know that what the internet really needs is more people putting sad, hungry monkeys* on their cellphones, here’s my latest attempt to sell out: ringtones sampled from “Beautiful (Have Another Plum)”.

Even low-fidelity home recordists can make our own ringtones now. Download the format you need here, and enjoy your calls in a way that’s bound to [...]

How very unexpected.

But pleasant nonetheless.

Arthur C. Clarke’s last message to the world:

So many of his wishes have already come true.

From the BBC:

“Sir Arthur has left written instructions that his funeral be strictly secular,” his secretary, Nalaka Gunawardene, was quoted as saying by news agency AFP.

She said the author had requested “absolutely no religious rites of any kind”.

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When asked why he [...]

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