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- There There
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- All I Need
- Lucky
- Nude
- Morning Bell
- 2+2=5
- A Wolf at the Door
- Videotape
- (Nice Dream)
- The Gloaming
- Reckoner
- Exit Music (For a film)
- Bangers n Mash
- Bodysnatchers
- Idioteque

Encore 1

- Pyramid Song
- These Are My Twisted Words
- Airbag
- The National Anthem
- How To Disappear Completely

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Watch Arcade Fire’s Interactive Short Film The Wilderness Downtown

Web 2.0 is coming, and Google want it work work as badly as anyone on the planet. HTML5 and VP8 Video this "Chrome Experiment", check it out. And iindie rock group Arcade Fire are along for the ride. Not only are they collaborating with Spike Jonze on b-movie science fiction short film, but they just completed an experiment with Google Labs utilizing HTML5 tech for a music video “The Wilderness Downtown”. Choreographed windows, interactive flocking (vector based and actual birds...), custom rendered maps, real-time compositing, procedural drawing, 3D canvas rendering. Check it out and use Chrome... Firefox works ok but it's really made for Chrome.

Sunday is for Crackpot Paranoid Conspiracy Theories

Remember 'Loose Change and' those other 9/11 documentaries (like Michael Moore's 'Fahrenheit 9 11') that made all those claims about Osama Bin Laden being buddies with George Bush and their complicities in the Airline disatsers from nearly a decade below? Apparently Fidel Castro believes Bin Laden is US spy (source Boing Boing)

Why? because of documents published on WikiLeaks which claim that;

Osama bin Laden is in the pay of the CIA and that President George Bush summoned up the al-Qaida leader whenever he needed to increase the fear quotient.

It's pretty hard to fathom that Castro buys this tale entrely, but it's a hell of a story nonetheless.

For more, read this story from the Guardian Online, and the Wikileaks page Castro must have been reading.

Avatar is returning to Theatres this Christmas!

Just as we thought that the giant blue balls of Fox's marketing department were all out of juice we are thrown another 3D amazement that seems very familiar. Avatar is returning to theaters and this time it's special: 8 minutes more special in fact and if that doesn't intice you well... there's nothing else to report. You'l still have to pay $20(AU) to get in and see the thing and even though I'll most likely go and see the finest 3D film ever made it nerks me that I'll still have to pay stupidly high prices for the privilege. Wasn't $2,740,405,721 from the box office enough? What about all the people who have bought the BluRay and now will have to go get another one so they can see what they origionally paid for. Errggg.... comes out December 18th 2010.

Say the magic word: Apple sues David Copperfield

Here’s something David Copperfield can’t make disappear: a lawsuit filed by Apple in California Northern District Court. At issue: the word magic.

Apple claims ownership of magic, demanding that Copperfield immediately cease using the word, and seeking $4.2 million in punitive damages.

No question, magic has been in the air in Cupertino. Following Steve Jobs’ introduction of the “magical and revolutionary” iPad, Apple has used magic to describe iPad on its website as well as in videos, press releases, newspaper/magazine ads and TV commercials. Apple also sells a Magic Mouse, Magic Trackpad and only last week introduced the Magic Footpad. Indeed, The Academy of Magical Arts in Los Angeles tells us they’ve already discussed dropping their use of the word, simply because Apple has run it into the ground.

But David Copperfield is standing his ground. “I’m a magician. I do magic. End of story,” reads his 9-word statement. 16 words, if you include “Tell them where they can shove it,” which Copperfield gracefully added following his statement.

Apple’s press release explains, “David Copperfield has every right to entertain, but no right to confuse. In the public eye, magic equals Apple. Mr. Copperfield dilutes the Apple brand and profits by his use of an Apple asset.”

Our source inside Apple expresses frustration with the famous illusionist. “Copperfield went way over the line when he started using the magic word. That’s Apple territory. There are plenty of other words to choose from. Sorcery… legerdemain… thaumaturgy. He’s a creative fellow, he’ll figure it out. He just needs to keep his mitts off of our word.” Linky to article

Oh, and I might just add... this is all fake! Not surprising if you were paying attention... it does sound like something Apple would do though.

Grisly find in search for Japanese centenarians

A nationwide search for missing centenarians in Japan has led to another grisly discovery -- the remains of a Tokyo woman who was believed to be 104 stuffed into her son's backpack for nearly a decade.

The police find at their apartment came weeks after the discovery of the more than 30-year-old mummified corpse of a man who had been thought to be celebrating his 111th birthday sparked concern about the very old in Japan.

Officials have fanned out nationwide since then to check on the whereabouts of citizens registered to be over 100, amid concern that some relatives have failed to report their deaths in order to draw their pension payouts.

In the latest find, made by police Thursday in an apartment in Tokyo's Ota ward, the dead woman's 64-year-old son told officials that his mother had died nine years ago, but that he hadn't been able to afford a funeral for her.

Japan had more than 40,000 registered people aged over 100 at last count, but by last week, officials had found that nearly 200 of them were missing.

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Vacume up a Galaxy, Nature Destroys Own Environment

One of the best things about modern astronomy is that we can "see" with our instruments a whole lot that our eyes could never see. This very cool new image from the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, along with a radio image from the Very Large Array, shows the galaxy-altering power of the active supermassive black hole in the center of M87.

Known for a long time to be a powerful radio source, it was found to have a supermassive black hole that was feeding on surrounding gas. Although a few billion times the mass of the sun -- which is HUGE to us -- it is just a tiny fraction of the mass of the galaxy. And yet, its actions influence the entire galaxy, as well as the cluster around it.

Whereas the radio emission comes from jets of material that are flung away from the black hole's vicinity at speeds nearing that of light, the x-ray emission comes from the hot soup of particles that pervade the galactic cluster. These interact as the radio jets appear to blow "bubbles" or cavities into the x-ray gas. Putting the pieces together provided observational evidence of the physical link between the actions of the supermassive black hole and what is going on the in the rest of the galaxy.

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Futurama Writer Created And Proved A Brand New Math Theorem Just For Last Night’s Episode

We all knew the writing staff of Futurama was brainy, but this is something else. To work out the ridiculous brain switching plot line from last night’s hilarious episode, writer Ken Keeler (who also just happens to have a PhD in mathematics) ended up writing and proving an entirely new theorem. This is probably the most impressive bit of side work from a TV writer since a writer of Desperate Housewives discovered a new species or the staff of Full House developed a vaccine for a specific strain of syphilis.

In the episode “The Prisoner of Benda,” the Professor and Amy use a new invention to switch bodies. Unfortunately, they discover that the same two brains can’t switch twice and have to come up with some equation to prove that, with enough people switching, eventually everyone will end up in their rightful form. This, of course, leads to much hijinks as well as the grossest sex scene the show has ever done (take that, Prof. Farnsworth and Mom!).

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Two arrested after $50m Van Gogh painting stolen from Cairo museum

Two Italians were stopped by police at Cairo airport last night trying to flee Egypt with a Vincent van Gogh painting that had been stolen just hours earlier.

The £32 million painting, known as Poppy Flowers or Vase With Flowers, was taken from the Mahmoud Khalil Museum on the banks of the Nile.

Egypt’s culture minister Farouk Hosni said airport security confiscated the oil painting from an Italian man and a woman.

One Egyptian official, who asked not to be named, told The Mail on Sunday: ‘It is believed the thief cut the painting from the frame and hid it in his suit.’

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