.: Above The Aether :.

I discovered a new science fiction magazine online that publishes original and reprinted science fiction stories and interviews. According to the Light Speed Magazine “about us” page: Lightspeed is an online magazine focusing exclusively on science fiction. Here you can expect to see all types of science fiction, from near-future, sociological soft sf, to far-future, [...]

(Web geekery ahead. You have been warned.) I’ve recently played around with Yahoo Pipes, a feed aggregation and manipulation service provided by Yahoo, (here’s a yahoo or wikipedia explanation of the service) to manipulate some of my iTunes feeds to more easily update my little green Shuffle. You see, I have a handful of feeds [...]

I’ve been catching up on listening to some of the numerous podcasts piling up in my iPod. I just hit gem and thought I’d share. The May 10th episode of Escape Pod, an original science fiction podcast, was called Impossible Dreams and it was really quite good. It reminded me of watching old episodes of [...]

I subscribe to a fantastically good podcast called the Sound of Young America by Jesse Thorn (podcast feed, iTunes subscription, archive).  Jesse posted a link on his blog at MaximumFun.org to a great interview Bill Moyers conducted with John Stewart.  It is quite long (33+ minutes) but it’s well worth it.  If you have a [...]

Justine and I went to see The Prestige this weekend with Leslie & Ted. It seemed like an interesting plot, but I think I unraveled most of the plot in my head before the movie was over. It was still an interesting movie, though. I picked up a couple books this weekend too. The first [...]

Audioslave – Revelations This is the best thing Chris Cornell has done since Soundgarden (that’s not a fantastic complement, but a complement nonetheless). It’s really not too bad and reminds me of the mid-90s grunge. It’s full of interesting hooks and signature Cornell howling. I give it a 6. The Rapture – Pieces of the [...]

- Dave

I’ve been watching the mighty Channel Frederator on my iPod for a couple weeks now and have seen many very funny cartoons. This is one of the funniest. – Dave