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The Beastie Boys Collaborative Movie
The Beastie Boys are releasing a concert film/documentary called Awesome; I Fucking Shot That! on March 31, with a special showing event on March 23. Most of the footage in Awesome is shot by fans who were given cameras by the Beastie Boys for the movie. Worldchanging’s write up is well worth reading.
Games and Imagination
Will Wright, creator of Sim City and the upcoming Spore, has penned an inspiring essay for Wired on the ways in which video games build imagination, creativity and social consciousness.
Johnny Planetseed
Unlike other theories about extraterrestrial life in our solar system, this latest one from a Dr. Brett Gladman revolves around Earth being the source of that life. What Dr. Gladman and his colleaugues claim is that aside from wiping out the dinosaurs, the asteroid that struck the Yucatan Peninsula 65 million years ago also sent flying through space millions of planet fragments that might have contained microbes. Titan is the focus of the investigation as, according to the report, the mass of the moon would not have accelerated the incoming particles to a deadly speed.
The New Internet Advertising
It’s amazing how much detail web advertisers can get about web surfer behavior. I’m glad of the opportunity web advertising gives me to publish this site, but I sure get creeped out when I think how well some of the more sophisticated advertisers will be able to predict my behavior.