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Odd thing I found on blip.fm today. No atttribution. Any idea what recording it’s from?

TIMEFRAMES: Narrative and Sequence in Comics

Sunday 28th June 2009, 11am - 6pm

D’Arcy Thompson Lecture Theatre Tower Building, University of Dundee

Timeframes, the third annual Dundee comics conference will be held in association with the Dundee Literary Festival on Sunday 28th June 2009. It will explore how the medium of comics bends, distorts and manipulates time, and the representation of the past and future in comics, and how the comics form relies on sequence. The speakers include prominent

I knew these shirts were out in the wild, but I didn’t think anyone was actually buying them.

And then:

Possible site of free will found in brain - life - 07 May 2009 - New Scientist
"Free will, or at least the place where we decide to act, resides in a part of the brain called the parietal cortex, new research suggests." I don't see how this can end well.
(tags:med doom doooooom )YouTube - Bloksky

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13 things that do not make sense - space - 19 March 2005 - New Scientist

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Has the ?Anime Bubble? burst? | Japan Probe
"An interesting graph from an Asahi Shimbun article reporting th

And we’re back.

(I am constantly forgetting the title of this piece of music. So I place it here to remind myself.)

BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Hobbits ‘are a separate species’
"Scientists have found more evidence that the Indonesian "Hobbit" skeletons belong to a new species of human - and not modern pygmies."
(tags:sci history )aM laboratory
"Simple sinewave synthesizer triggered by an ordinary 16step sequencer. Each triggered step causes a force on the underlaying wave-map, which makes it more cute."
(tags:music toy web greatest+thing+ever will+never+work+again )Morgenrat
"..this remarkable film, ?Morgen