thievery corporation – radio retaliation
i just downloaded the most recent album of my favorite dj duo - thievery corporation - called radio retaliation via amazon music. i have been to their 'richest man in babylon' tour concert in berlin, germany and was blown away - it's electronic music, downbeat with elements of dub, reggae, rap, triphop, brazilian, house, indian sounds, lounge-jazz, bossa, global beats
google android phone launched – t-mobile htc g1
this morning google and t-mobile launched the first android-powered handset manufactured by htc. this largely anticipated device comes with a big touchscreen and a slide-open full keyboard. it's a 3g phone, wifi enabled, built-in gps, drm-free amazon mp3 music store, android market app store, 1gb storage, copy and paste and a chrome-lite browser. it will be available october 22, 2008
cern powers up its large hadron collider
for the weekend, cern's 27 km large hadron collider explained in a rap. experiments at cern help us understand the world we live in by the telegraph (via tom foremski / silicon valley watcher)