Links for 10-09-2007
Cascio wants an open singularity, a green light for fusion research, a whole load of music reviews …
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1 – Album review: Saturation Point – Three
“So sit back in the sunshine, roll another number, and turn it up loud – there’s time enough to go flying for the afternoon, and Saturation Point make a fine volunteer pilot.”
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2 – CD single review: Mexicolas – Shame
“Mexicolas have a spare seat in the truck, so hop on and head for the border – but make sure you bring a bottle.”
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3 – CD single review: Serotone – Shine Alone
“Scotland’s Serotone are a rarity – a young band who wear their influences on their sleeve, but manage to stake out a little bit of their own territory at the same time.”
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4 – Album review: The Pope – Sports
“You’d not be considered crazy to assume that a band who’d choose as blasphemous a name as The Pope are probably on a mission to overturn expectations and piss in the eye of popular culture.”
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5 – Album review: The Actual : In Stitches
“Liking this album isn’t going to win me any credibility from my hard rock and heavy metal friends. But you know what? I don’t give a damn.”
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6 – Album review: The Big Sleep – Son of the Tiger
“Like the old proverb says, sometimes it’s better to travel than to arrive. If your musical life seems short of adventure, you could do far worse than walk alongside the Big Sleep for a while.”
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7 – CD single review: Scrim – My Revolution
“… it’s going to take some slightly deeper life experience before they can deliver songs that can convince me they’re any more revolutionary than voting for the Liberal Democrats.”
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8 – Paul Kincaid: We Are All Science Fictionists Now
“… if we are to bring the ghetto walls crashing down, if we are to end the divide between the two cultures, perhaps it’s a good thing that the mainstream has discovered the scientist — because science fiction seems to have lost him.”
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9 – Nuclear fusion project gets the green light
“… to develop commercial nuclear fusion using lasers to crush together isotopes of hydrogen – deuterium and tritium – to create helium. This releases neutrons and huge amounts of energy.” We can hope, I guess.
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10 – Jamais Cascio’s Singularity Summit Talk: Openness and the Metaverse Singularity
“… scenarios are not predictions, they’re provocations. They’re ways of describing different future possibilities not to demonstrate what will happen, but to suggest what could happen.”
