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I had nothing to do with this, but MySpace just re-launched their music site in the US with lots more music from major label artists.

It’s actually pretty cool to be able to listen to all this stuff for free and compile playlists. The product itself is definitely rough around the edges, but overall it’s not bad.

It’s been a while since I’ve come across any new music I liked. If you’ve got any recommendations, feel free to throw in their MySpace URLs in the comments.

Get the details over at the NASA Eclipse Home Page (I’m guessing they haven’t changed that name in 15 years). They have different images and schedules for different time zones.

F.W. Hunter, Army test pilot, Douglas Aircraft Company plant at Long Beach, Calif. (LOC), originally uploaded by The Library of Congress.

The Library of Congress has this and thousands of other photos on Flickr, featuring a lot of color photos from the WWII era.

PLANET B-BOY (RUN DMZ scene)

Upcoming screenings include the Edinburgh Film Festival and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Check their profile for more info.

Thanks to Bill Rini for tipping us off to this guy.

Normally I wouldn’t post anything about a show like Britain’s Got Talent (think American Idol in the UK), but this was pretty cool.

Paul Potts’ first appearance on Britain’s Got Talent:

When you hear that voice coming from that body, it’s simply amazing.

Paul Potts from last night’s semi-finals for Britain’s Got Talent:

Finally, here’s an NPR interview with him from this morning:

Car Phone Salesman Captures British Hearts

Happy Centennial, Oklahoma!

On June 15, 1957, a new gold and white 1957 Plymouth Belvedere Sport Coupe was buried in a time capsule in downtown Tulsa, OK. The time capsule was part of Golden Jubilee Week: Tulsa’s celebration of Oklahoma’s semi-centennial.

Find out more at Buriedcar.com.

Update 2007-06-14:

The chamber where the Plymouth was buried may have leaked, letting in water from outside. Instead of a pristine model of Detroit steel, we may find a decaying, moldy rust heap.

This is pretty sweet. The Zoom Quilt 2 is a collaborative art project that I found via Dysart’s blog.

Like most people, I have a keen interest in taking the pulse of the online music piracy phenomenon, looking for ways to combat the evil-doers that hurt American artists and the multi-national corporations to whom they’ve signed their lives away. For whatever reason, I find most peer-to-peer file sharing services a little annoying and haven’t been able to do as much research and polling as I’ve wanted.

The other day I stumbled across SingingFish while looking for cool stuff to dress up my MySpace page (I’m really 14). It’s a video and audio search engine that differs from Google in that it actually lets you search for files, versus pages that may or may not be related to what you’re researching. In fact, a lot of Google results for these kinds of searches tend to be clogged up with auto-generated banner sites that use SEO to get up in the rankings.

My limited experience with SingingFish so far looks promising. I was quickly able to determine that Sinatra’s music is still being pirated on the web and that Capitol Records and the Sinatra estate will have to step up their efforts to honor his memory by suing a bunch of people. Give it a shot.

The electric sports car is finally here, and it looks pretty damn hot:

Tesla Motors is a brand new car company whose first product is a roadster designed by a Lotus designer, engineered by a bunch of Lotus engineers, and manufactured in the Lotus factory. The configuration is that of a mid-engined, real-wheel drive two-seater with a bunch of batteries in place of where the engine would be. My kind of car.

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Thanks to braichu for the link (Flash required).