(CNN) — Music from late rapper Tupac Shakur has been included as part of the Vatican’s official MySpace Music playlist.
The seat of the Catholic Church released a list of 12 songs onto the social networking Web site’s streaming music service this week when the site launched in the United Kingdom…
Other contemporary tracks on the mix include Muse’s “Uprising” from their new album “The Resistance” and “He Doesn’t Know Why” by the folk group Fleet Foxes.
The Vatican knows what’s up.
WERS News
Representatives from about 200 countries are present in Copenhagen, Denmark for talks on climate change that are scheduled to start today.The summit, which is being called the 15th Conference of Parties, will center around discussions of a new international climate accord, and is the largest global meeting on the environment since the 1997 Kyoto Accords.
Climate change and the questionable effects of human-produced greenhouse gasses are both being investigated, as there is still wide spread skepticism about their effects on the planet. Recent controversies relating to these subjects promise to make a global agreement that much more difficult to reach.
Several thousand e-mails stolen from Climactic Research Unit (CRU) at the University at East Anglia in the United Kingdom have ignited even further debate on the validity of claims that the Earth’s climate is warming because of human action. These e-mails have been cited by those who question the availability of raw data and how easily research can be manipulated to point to global warming.
Since its founding in 2002, Nanosolar has raised a lot of money – half a billion dollars to date – and made a lot of noise about upending the solar industry, but the Silicon Valley start-up has been a bit vague on specifics about why it’s the next big green thing.
On Wednesday, Nanosolar pulled back the curtain on its thin-film photovoltaic cell technology — which it claims is more efficient and less expensive than that of industry leader First Solar — and announced that it has secured $4.1 billion in orders for its solar panels.
Martin Roscheisen, Nanosolar’s chief executive, said customers included solar power plant developers like NextLight, AES Solar and Beck Energy of Germany.
The typical Nanosolar farm will be between 2 and 20 megawatts in size, Mr. Roscheisen said in an e-mail message from Germany, where he was attending the opening of Nanosolar’s new factory near Berlin. “This is a sweet spot in terms of ease of permitting and distributed deployment without having to tax the transmission infrastructure.”
Yeah, so I don’t really know much about it, but it sounds interesting.
It’s fact. Hunx from Hunx and His Punx is the dude whose dick is being used as a microphone in the utterly homosexual NSFW Girls’ video for their hit song “Lust For Life” off Album.
Will 2010 be better than 2009 in terms of releases? It’s tough to say at this point, obviously. What I do know is that 2009 saw debut albums from many great bands (Pains of Being Pure at Heart and Uninhabitable Mansions, to name two), not to mention a wealth of awesome LPs from bands who’ve been around the circuit for a while (Black Lips and Arctic Monkeys, to name two). Here are some LP/EP that I will definitely get around to reviewing next year:
January
[12] Vampire Weekend (Contra LP)
[18] Cold War Kids (Behave Yourself EP)
[19] Spoon (Transference LP)
[26] Moonface (Dreamland EP)
[26] Magnetic Fields (Realism LP)
February
[9] Yeasayer (Odd Blood LP)
May
[?] Arcade Fire (?)
[?] MGMT (Congratulations LP)
[?] Walkmen (?)
Q3-Q4 Release Date
– Bon Iver
– Interpol
– Panda Bear
– Radiohead
– The Shins
– The Strokes
– Wolf Parade
IGN
Behold the world’s tax dollars at work. A Russian professor at the Saint Petersburg Technological University has developed a process that allows him to take almost any kind of alcohol, turn it into a powder, and then pack it into a pill for easy transport. Yeah, someone actually took the time and the research money to figure this out. Why bring a bottle of wine to your next dinner party when you can just drop a few tablets of whisky on the kitchen table and call it a night?“We have developed a technology that allowed us to turn any liquid solution into powder,” the scientist was quoted as saying by a web portal.
The mastermind behind the technique is Evgeny Moskalev, who was first able to produce vodka into a “dry” form, supposedly to make it easier for consumer to calculate an exact dosage. After the transformation, the “dry” vodka (or whiskey, or beer) can fit easily into bag or even your pocket.
Screw underage drinking, it’s all about thizzin’.
Washington Post
Bloggers who offer endorsements must disclose any payments they have received from the subjects of their reviews or face penalties of up to $11,000 per violation, the Federal Trade Commission said Monday.The agency, charged with protecting consumer interests, had not updated its policy on endorsements in nearly three decades, well before the Internet became a force in shaping consumer tastes. The new rules attempt to make more transparent corporate payments to bloggers, research firms and celebrities that help promote a product.
“Given that social media has become such a significant player in the advertising area, we thought it was necessary to address social media as well,” said Richard Cleland, assistant director for the division of advertising practices at the FTC.
I wonder if this will play any role for big name music blogs like Pitchfuck who probably haul in thousands just to positively review albums like Album. Contrary to popular belief, KLYAM does not receive any cash as to meet a monthly quota of at least 9,000 Death Cult (Black Lips, King Khan, and Jay Reatard) related posts.
Promo Magazine
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is warning more than a dozen online cigarette sellers that they may be in violation of the new regulations against selling most types of flavored cigarettes to U.S. citizens and have 15 days to prove that they have stopped those sales or risk government action.
A ban on the U.S. sale of cigarettes flavored with anything other than menthol went into effect on Sept. 22 as part of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act.
That law, enacted in June, gives the FDA power to regulate the content of tobacco products, along with the marketing and distribution of cigarettes and smokeless tobacco, and the impact of ads for those products on young people. The new law also lets the FDA limit the amount of nicotine in products and block labels such as “light” and “low tar” that appear to offer “healthier” cigarettes.
So some of us like BBT absolutely hate large scale cigarette smoke in places that clearly say don’t smoke, but we respect smokers’ freedom to light up.
The global elites have made great strides to realizing their full agenda, including:
*** The creation and control of central banks around the world — including our own Federal Reserve — which manipulates money supplies, causes runaway inflation, and keeps the wealth in the hands of their chosen few while the middle class is destroyed;
*** Control of the United Nations, which uses its power to destroy U.S. sovereignty through claims on our lands, our tax dollars and radical environmental restrictions aimed at crippling our industries and trade;
*** Their North American Union scheme to economically and politically merge America with Canada and Mexico through illegal immigration and “trilateral agreements” to further erode our national sovereignty for the benefit of multinational corporations;
*** Instigating and fomenting conflicts around the world, stretching our national defenses to the breaking point, while demanding military action be followed with “nation building” to rebuild what our government just destroyed.
Spencer Krug = Moonface = Dreamland EP: Marimba and Shit-Drums = January 26
Kids Like You & Me (KLYAM) 