Sunday, September 17, 2006

Washington Social Club

They are an Indie rock band, you guessed it right , based out of Washington DC. I saw them play at the Kennedy Center as part of the Prelude festival. They sounded great. It was a short 40 minute performance. They have released an album and are currently working on the second one. They played some songs from their first album "Catching looks". Notable among them is "Backed to the future".

More -
Official website
"Backed to the future" on youtube.com
Prelude festival webpage

Sunday, September 10, 2006

Wikipedia - Learn here

On the web besides google, I use wikipedia the most. I have never been a fan of encyclopedias (in book form). I have always thought of them as cumbersome. I like the search and link features of wikipedia (in general any website). This way I can get the information I want quickly and also jump to topics in the presented information immediately.

Today I was looking up on the novel Hyperion by Dan Simmons and ended up on a wild chase on quite a few topics. Here are a few of the topics I checked.

Hyperion the novel
Titan
Parthenogenesis
Mediocrity Principle
Giant impact hypothesis