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New science raps from funky49 - Dirty Apes Discove->

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funky49
funky49 writes "BEATS, BASS AND BEAKERS! Rapbassador, the album funky49 created to promote Tampa’s Museum of Science and Industry now has a sequel: Dirty Apes Discover Science. This release is aimed at the nerds, geeks, scientists and engineers who need some hip-hop in their life. It is also for rap fans who have had their fill of songs about cars and jewelery.

Dirty Apes Discover Science is a genre-spanning work with influences from dubstep, electro-house, R&B to old school hip-hop. In the lead track “Science Like Us”, the scientific method (observation, hypothesis, prediction, experimentation, conclusion) is amazingly distilled into 8 bars of rap. “Gene Swap” humorously delves into the under-represented biological side of sex. There is praise for the humble particle in “My Electron” as well as jabs at the willful ignorance by the Insane Clown Posse. Kudos are given to everyone’s favorite internet company with “Google That”. Personal to funky49, there is mad love for the scientist/inventor in “Ben Franklin is my BFF”. The track “Particle Business” highlights the quest to discover how the universe evolved and the David and Goliath-like competition of discovery that existed between CERN in Europe, and Fermilab, outside of Chicago, IL. A music video for “Particle Business” was shot at various locations at Fermilab and was created by Dan Lamoureux of Nerdcore for Life acclaim.

Dirty Apes Discover Science download links:
http://funky49.bandcamp.com/album/dirty-apes-discover-science
http://funky49.com/tracks/albums/DADS/funky49_DirtyApesDiscoverScience.zip"
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Comment: Re:Which is what it's good for. (Score 1) 141

by funky49 (#35682892) Attached to: 50% of Tweets Consumed Come From<nobr> <wbr></nobr>.05% of Users

The key to Twitter is this: If you follow people that you don't find interesting, you won't find Twitter interesting. If you're picky about who you follow, it can be an information junkie's best friend.

Please mod up this kind soul who gets it. Twitter is a Swiss Army Knife. Don't complain about the toothpick when you should be using the scissors. Use the tool how you like.

@funky49

Comment: Blackberry Playbook (Score 1) 158

by funky49 (#35189540) Attached to: BlackBerry Devices May Run Android Apps

I was at a Blackberry event earlier this week (stuffed myself mad with shrimp, clams & crab legs!) and noticed that the Playbook could run multiple environments and not just BB6. One of the other environments was Webkit. Well Chrome is made from Webkit and on Monday I got a CR-48 from Google so I asked the guy if the Playbook would be able to run ChromeOS. He hemmed and hawed and I interjected that I had to ask something good because my boss was in the crowd. He ended up telling the crowd to watch for upcoming news about what exactly the Playbook could run.

I was amused.

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Fermilab Battles Back in Rap!->

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funky49 writes "In the summer of 2008, a hip-hop tribute to CERN’s massive new European particle collider took the web by storm. Since then, “The Large Hadron Rap” has garnered more than 5.7 million views on Youtube. But today, the “O.G.” of particle colliders, Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois battles back with it’s own hip-hop song and music video.

"Particle Business" highlights the quest to discover how the universe evolved and the David and Goliath-like competition of discovery between the world’s largest particle physics laboratory, CERN in Europe, and Fermilab, outside of Chicago, IL. Their goal, the Higgs-Boson, a fundamental particle thought to give matter mass, theorized but as yet unable to be measured. Particle Business combines a phat hip-hop beat with lyrics about particle physics, limits on science funding, the competitive-collaboration that exists in science research and urging people to watch television like Mr. Wizard's World and Carl Sagan's Cosmos instead of the entertainment of MTV."
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Comment: Re:MS needs to be thinking about the 720 (Score 1) 169

by funky49 (#29222627) Attached to: Microsoft Drops Xbox 360 Pricing
Why would the stronger hardware aspect of the PS3 all of the sudden start attracting gamers away from the 360?

The trouncing would come due to the PS3's stronger horsepower being reflected in games while the X360 games stagnate. Since there is 'room to grow' in terms of BR versus DVD discs and SPUs to be tapped on the PS3, it is more future-proofed than the X360. As Microsoft wants to recoup development costs for the Xbox consoles, they will stick with the X360 longer which will make the PS3 look more and more favorable.

My father was a God-fearing man, but he never missed a copy of the New York Times, either. -- E.B. White