A strange trend that I observe: once I read something strange/bizarre/unusual in the blogosphere, I often find it a couple of days later in the polish media. And as opposed to “real” news agency news which have the source mentioned, these articles have polish authors.

How are they able to write about the news without even glancing at any blog sources? Simple, it’s 6th sense. I want to pay tribute to these great people. I know myself, so I’m sure I won’t go “hunting” for authors with psychic powers, but I expect the list will grow! The blogsearch is given for the couple of days before publication.

I won’t deep-link to articles, so you will have to search in the newspapers

Polish: Obserwuję dziwny trend: co i rusz jak przeczytam coś dziwacznego/nietypowego w blogosferze, po kilku dniach znajduję to w Polskich mediach. Ale w przeciwieństwie do “prawdziwych” niusów z agencji prasowych, które zawsze mają jakieś źródła, te artykuły mają polskich autorów. Jak oni są w stanie pisać wiadomości bez choćby rzucenia okiem na blogowe źródła? Proste! Mają szósty zmysł! W tym wątku oddam im przynależny hołd. Nie planuję “polować” na autorów o zdolościach mediumicznych, ale jestem przekonany, że lista będzie rosnąć. Podaję datę artykułu i blogsearch z poprzedzających go dni.

Nie chcę deep-linkować do gazet, zamiast tego podaję hasła do wyszukiwarki w gazecie:

Look what I have found in Google Maps!
This is the satelite view of Nürnberg City Market (Hauptmarkt):

Bigger view

And here’s a mundane aerial view of the same place taken from nuernberg.de:

I suppose it must have been some event during 2006 World Cup that Google has snapped…

I’ve just received the last two CDs I was missing from this 5-CD set.

And I can only say, there’s no space ambient spacier than that, EVER.

Symphonies Of The Planets is a 5-CD set of NASA recordings made by Voyagers.

According to the CD inlay the sounds come from:

• Interactions of the solar wind with magnetospheres of the planets
• Magnetospheres themselves
• Radio waves bouncing between planets and the surface of their atmospheres
• Field noise within space
• Interactions of charged particles & solar wind
• Charged particle emissions from the rings of planets

The instruments on board the Voyagers picked up all these emissions, and the CDs contain a selection of what happened to have fallen into the audible frequency range.

Every one of these CDs has a different flavor and contains ca. 30 minutes of droning sounds.
Unfortunately they sound exactly as I would like space ambient to sound. Why “unfortunately”? Well, because it raises an interesting question - if the human-generated drones (Lull’s Continue being a good example) sound like the “real stuff”, what’s the point in generating them at all? It’s like if someone were fabricating real stones (not to mention that other someone willing to go and buy these human-made real stones). I’ll have to sleep on that problem.