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...Belle and Sebastian's Mick Cooke. Issued on Rough Trade, the label that evolved from the legendary punk-era London record shop, it's specifically for kids ("and grownups too" acknowledges the small print). "Go Go Ninja Dinosaur!" roots Four Tet's electro-tinged refrain on the opening track. From there, the likes of Snow Patrol, the Flaming Lips, Jonathan Richman, the Kooks, Ivor Cutler and the Divine Comedy tackle subjects from mud and astronauts to Pooh Bear and bunions. All proceeds from the just-released album go to Save the Children's campaign that funds children's education...
...ended when I tried to locate the song on iTunes the next day, because all I could remember was the bass line. Thankfully, Sony Ericsson[an error occurred while processing this directive] is ending that frustration with two new Walkman phones that enable on-the-spot music identification. With Track ID, a technology powered by a company called Gracenote, the W850i and W950i phones can capture a song fragment wherever you hear it, and send it to Gracenote's Mobile Music ID (MMID) database for identification. In seconds the title and artist are sent to your phone display...
...performs with better than 90% accuracy on a 3- to 5-second sample. "I have been in a bar that was so noisy all I could detect was a guitar chord - and that was enough," he says. Gracenote's MMID database includes more than 10 million musical fingerprints, and Track ID works at any point in the song. Now if only my Track ID-enabled phone could identify the acquaintance whose name slipped my mind at the nightclub, it would be the ultimate in tech gadgets. The W850i is available at the online stores of many mobile-network operators...
...math, organismic and evolutionary biology, philosophy, Sanskrit and Indian studies, Slavic languages and literatures, and visual and environmental studies, according to Kenen. Several of these departments plan to offer more than one secondary field. For example, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures submitted a proposal suggesting two separate tracks, one in Russian studies and one in Central European studies, according to Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities Justin M. Weir. The EPC has also received proposals that are not directly affiliated with specific departments; some professors, for example, have submitted a proposal for an interdisciplinary secondary field in health...
...American show that works for them but gets canceled in the U.S. In Britain, Channel 4's acquisitions director Jeff Ford says he was willing to take a risk on the much anticipated NBC drama Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip because of creator Aaron Sorkin's track record with The West Wing. So far, Studio 60--about a Saturday Night Live--like comedy show--hasn't performed all that well. "We feel the show goes beyond TV and is a workplace drama," says Ford of its appeal to British viewers. "But I'll let you know what happens...