"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will."
- George Bernard Shaw
I saw this short animation film a few months ago at the CU international film series, and stumbled upon it online today. The idea behind the movie, by Blur Studios, is pretty interesting. Oh yes, its about a gopher who’s trying to get the farmer’s market produce.
I just tried Pandora (thanks, Manish) and am already hooked.
Pandora is a fabulous (and intelligent) interface that works as the front-end to the Music Genome Project. Simply put, Pandora is a music discovery service and streaming radio service rolled into one brilliant online music application. The service allows you to create (upto 100) custom radio stations based on a particular artist or song, and then generates a stream by populating the ’station’ with songs that are musically similar to your choice, irrespective of artist popularity, etc. The service has an advertising-supported, free version, and is completely legal (unless you use the service to make personal copies of the streamed content).
In two words, highly recommended.
Found this interesting Wired.com article on how Hollywood can be leveraged to (hopefully) attract young minds to science and engineering. Apparently, an effort has been underway since 2004 (by the Air Force Ofice of Science Research), to have real-life researchers develop film scripts. While it would be nice to see watch movies that are technically sound, but its debatable whether a scientifically correct script can pull off a blockbuster, without some element of sci-fi - like uploading a virus into an alien mothership.
Amongst the ideas featured, the movie I’d go watch is Drexler’s Laboratory 
Wired Story
