"Researchers spearheading a worldwide effort to find ET, or anyone else out in space besides us humans, plan to revisit a group of their most likely candidate radio signals using the world's largest radio telescope."

Global Extraterrestrial Hunt to Revisit Old Signals

"breve is a free software package which makes it easy to build 3D simulations of decentralized systems and artificial life. Users define the behaviors of agents in a 3D world and observe how they interact. breve includes physical simulation and collision detection so you can simulate realistic creatures, and an OpenGL display engine so you can visualize your simulated worlds."

breve 1.5 : simulating 'Decentralized Systems and Artificial Life' on OSX

Apparently, Yamaha is starting to unveil information about their new vocal synthesis technology at Musikmesse in Germany. No more Pop divas or boy bands when we can do it all via DSP. I'm not 100% convinced, but apparently they are showing a VST instrument with the technology now... This link takes you to a babelfish translation of the Japanese-language page.

Vocaloid - Vocal Synthesis via Yamaha

] Since the end of the cold war, the United States has been
] trying to come up with an operating theory of the
] world?and a military strategy to accompany it. Now
] there?s a leading contender. It involves identifying the
] problem parts of the world and aggressively shrinking
] them. Since September 11, 2001, the author, a professor
] of warfare analysis, has been advising the Office of the
] Secretary of Defense and giving this briefing continually
] at the Pentagon and in the intelligence community. Now
] he gives it to you.

The Pentagon's New Map

Genndy Tartakovsky is doing an animated Star Wars bit for Cartoon Network this fall. Hmmm.

Three-Minute Epics: A Look at Star Wars: Clone Wars

Insight into the story behind the emails that have been surfacing out of the Columbia investigation, courtesy of author and ex-MOD contractor James Oberg.

James Oberg quoted on bad reporting of email what-iffing

Banal pop music is better when it comes from Mexico...

Las Ketchup

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] China has revealed further details of its plans to
] explore the Moon - the first unmanned probe could be
] launched by 2005, say officials. They also hinted that
] the motivation for the missions is to mine the Moon's
] resources.
]
] The lunar program, named Chang'e after a legend about a
] fairy that visits the moon, would be in three phases.
] First an orbiter would be sent to the Moon, followed by a
] lander, and then finally a sample return craft.
]
] "We will be able to embark on a maiden unmanned mission
] within two and a half years if the government endorses
] the scheme now,'' Ouyang Ziyuan, chief scientist of
] China's lunar exploration programme, told The People's
] Daily.

New Scientist - China's moon plans