Sunday, August 27, 2006

eep!

Elton John tells Rolling Stone magazine that he wants to record a hip-hop album with Grammy-winning producer Dr Dre.
"I want to work with Pharrell, Timbaland, Snoop, Kanye, Eminem and just see what happens," John says in the September 7 issue. "It may be a disaster, it could be fantastic, but you don't know until you try."
The 59-year-old says he is a fan of Blackstreet's "No Diggity" and Tupac Shakur's "California Love."
"I want to bring my songs and melodies to hip-hop beats," John says. "I love these beats, but I have no idea how to get them."

Yeah I liked to play with magnets when I was a kid too, but....

Heard the one about the two Irishmen who say they can produce limitless amounts of clean, free energy? Plenty of scientists have – but few are taking them seriously.

There is a test rig with wheels and cogs and four magnets meticulously aligned so as to create the maximum tension between their fields and one other magnet fixed to a point opposite. A motor rotates the wheel bearing the magnets and a computer takes 28,000 measurements a second. The magnets, naturally, act upon one another. And when it is all over, the computer tells us that almost three times the amount of energy has come out of the system as went in. In fact, this piece of equipment is 285% efficient

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Saturday, August 26, 2006

I guess he was Feelin' Way Too Damn Good....

Posting late in the evening or exceptionally early in the morning can have its upside. I didn't really read too much into this story, but I couldn't resist the song reference considering the situation. You can click on the picture to open the story.

Tuesday, August 08, 2006