From REM.HQ: “The band officially confirmed today that the new record will be titled Around the Sun…Around the Sun will be released on Warner Bros. Records October 4th (internationally) and October 5th in the United States. The first single will be ‘Leaving New York.'” And, in other R.E.M. news, the band will be part of MoveOn’s Vote For Change Tour, with Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam, Jurassic 5, and many others.
No more Superstations.
“This is a fight about freedom–the freedom of independent entrepreneurs to start and run a media business, and the freedom of citizens to get news, information, and entertainment from a wide variety of sources, at least some of which are truly independent and not run by people facing the pressure of quarterly earnings reports. No one should underestimate the danger.” Fed up to the gills, Ted Turner takes on Big Media in the Washington Monthly.
Ugh.
Don’t call it a comeback…maggots return as an accepted medical tool. Well, I for one am overjoyed. The jury’s still out on bleeding, I guess.
Time to build a research lab.
In true Civ 3 fashion, USA Today ranks the most and least literate US cities. “Yuppie magnets” Minneapolis, Seattle, and Pittsburgh are at the top of the list, with Texas and California rounding out most of the bottom slots…score one for the South.
Not Exactly Soundgarden.
“The more black holes eat, the more they spill, and it is widely thought that their feeding frenzies power the violence seen in the nuclei of many galaxies, including the powerful quasars that are so bright they outshine their parent galaxies.” The NY Times delves into the strange sounds emanating from black holes. “The frequency of these waves was equivalent to a B flat, 57 octaves below middle C, the astronomers calculated.“
Terror in a Can.
So apparently the information that led to Sunday’s terror alert dates to before 9/11. Hmmm. I hereby retract my fearmongering retraction.
From One President’s Son to Another.
“Does anyone really favor an administration that so shamelessly lies? One that so tenaciously clings to secrecy, not to protect the American people, but to protect itself? That so willfully misrepresents its true aims and so knowingly misleads the people from whom it derives its power? I simply cannot think so.” Ron Reagan eviscerates George W. Bush in Esquire.
Follow the Bouncing Ball.
So did Kerry-Edwards get a post-convention bounce or not? Depends on how you spin it, it seems. I’m not too concerned, frankly…I think most people know how they’re going to vote at this point (including the Kerry Republicans.)
The Doom of Man.
Word is Julian McMahon of Nip/Tuck will be Victor Von Doom in the forthcoming Fantastic Four. Never seen Nip/Tuck myself, but his headshot looks the part.
Gotham Gas Guzzler.
For the Batman completists out there, AICN obtains some digital footage of the Batmobile in action. Looks like it might have a bit of a rollover problem.