{"id":1774,"date":"2008-03-02T14:08:53","date_gmt":"2008-03-02T18:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1774"},"modified":"2008-03-05T22:46:52","modified_gmt":"2008-03-06T02:46:52","slug":"a-disturbance-in-the-force-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=1774","title":{"rendered":"A disturbance in the force"},"content":{"rendered":"

V<\/span>ia Metafilter (thread<\/a>), I found out that Yo La Tengo’s “Murdering The Classics”<\/a> session is happening today. WMFU will have a livestream<\/a>, starting at 5PM EST (pls\/MP3). If you need a different output stream, the WMFU blog<\/a> has other types of formats, including RealAudio and Windows Media [Note: below a sample of the session].\n<\/p>\n

Slashdot (and other news sites) reported that the American Institute of Physics<\/a> released a study that shows that other spacecraft have experienced velocity anomalies, much like the ones detected by the Pioneer 10<\/a>. The comments over at Slashdot are hilarious<\/a>:\n<\/p>\n

I’m sorry officer; I was experiencing a velocity anomaly.<\/em><\/p>\n

That’s too bad, son, I’m still writing you a ticket. From now on keep it under 299,792,458 meters per second. The law is the law!\n<\/p>\n

I’m not sure why I would bring it up here but the big news yesterday was about that Belgian lady who wrote up a book about her experiences during the Second World War<\/a>: the book was even made into a movie. It was all fake (she isn’t even Jewish) and she explains her motives:\n<\/p>\n

“This story is mine. It is not actually reality, but my reality, my way of surviving”\n<\/p>\n

Wikipedia has a good background story<\/a> about the hoax, which includes several references to the original publisher Jane Daniel (blog<\/a>), who apparently suspected her story to be a fake.\n<\/p>\n

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Update 1:<\/em> Good stuff: though, Georgia Hubley of Yo La Tengo is apparently missing today. I’ll try to get a small sample up tonight.\n<\/p>\n

Update 2: <\/em> It looks like the 128 KBS streams are ‘full’. I was kicked out a couple of times but was able to connect back within seconds.\n<\/p>\n

Update 3: <\/em> And as promised a soundbite from the session “Yo La Tengo is murdering the classics” – Jefferson Airplane’s ‘White Rabbit’<\/a> (30+ second sample).\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Update 4: <\/em> WMFU has more: a video of YLT’s (hilarious) ‘The Passenger’<\/a>, which indeed ended up with lyrics about Jack Nicholson.\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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