Timeblog.net

Ok, I promised to to a song Top 100 you like T-_Bone just did, but I have to confess: I’m not able to. So, instead I thought to present some songs you might not know, but should.
We start with a song by the Progressive Metal combo Mystic Force, taken from their debut album from 1993, […]

Today, as a special guest talk for my institute’s seminar, Paul Crutzen had been invited. He received the Nobel prize in Chemistry in 1995 for his work on discovering the mechanisms that lead to the destruction of ozone in the athmosphere.
He today talked about the influence humans have on our planet’s climate. He listed the […]

This little guy here is a robot, that’s not too special. Special about him is the way he gets energy. He has eight batteries that are loaded by energy from bacteriae. From bacteriae that eat flies! So they feed a fly into each cell, the bacteriae consume them, and after 14 minutes of battery […]

Really, are there no good blog search engines out there? Technorati is so-so, but try and find me some blogs that write about Metal. There must be someone writing about that, right?

And, for the delight of your eyes and ears, here are videos for my Top 5-albums, courtesy of your favourite video sites

So, end of year already, time for top albums. 2006 was somewhat anticlimatic regarding new releases. After some thinking, I came up with this version of my Top 5 albums. Beware, I called this first iteration, as I plan to do a Top10 actually. This means more thinking what albums came out this year and […]

400000 people have been killed in Darfur. Did you know it? Maybe you have heard about it, but do you realise just how many people that are? Just been murdered, like that? Where’s the attention from the world?
Darfur Wall has a number for each person murdered. Look at the wall, it’s still grey. Each dollar […]

The application/game Snow Days lets you create snow flakes. Apparently, I become very easily addicted to stuff you should have done by hand as a child, but that is now realised as a flash application. Here are some of the flakes I created:

I tried to find different ways to make nice flakes. Here are the […]

Spock’s Beard almost took a fall when their leader Neal Morse left to wander the enlightened paths of Jesus, God or whatever illusion sprang out of the dark corners of his brain. But the band had a strong will to continue and so they did. They have released their third post-Morse album some weeks ago […]

This is the Trumpet Bloopers page, containing audio snippets of hilarious moments when the trumpet wouldn’t play what the trumpeter intended to.
This is bad, especially since it is a Symphony orchestra. You can find the long version on the page, it’s worth the buildup!