the over-hyped exclusivity between religion and science (mainly over-hyped by fundamentalists who represent a small minority of religoius people) leads to our wonder and amazement that the current vatican astronomer accepts the big bang theory and ET, when in fact the big bang theory itself was first promoted by Roman Catholic priest Georges Lemaître and soon accepted by the Vatican.

I am an atheist, but it seems to me that the common impression that religion is incompatible with science is mainly due to the high visibility of fundamentalist nutjobs compared to the majority of people who are inclined to believe in god and remain fairly rational otherwise.

Looks like he's now got a link to a bit torrent of the album on the gangstagrass site.

STALLIO - I know what you meen, mash-ups are funnest when its two tracks you know already layered over each other. But maybe pitching Gangstagrass as a mash-up was not quite accurate, though it seemed like the closest term I could think of. In fact, the emcees on Gangstagrass actually recorded their vocals at Rench's studio, and then he went and created new beats and sampled lots of bluegrass and edited it around the vocals. So it's kind of beyond mash-up, it's sample based but creatively built, rather than just lining up two existing tracks and putting a whole acapella to a whole instrumental.

Also, the Missy Elliot and KRS-ONE references are from a description on Rench's site about his influences, he's generally not a "mash-up artist" and does lots of completely original recordings with custom recorded fiddle and pedal steel with singing, beats and scratching.

I'm assuming you can't sell this in Alabama.

I'm all for suspending disbelief and using a little jargon to patch small plot problems, but to just bee a geek about it: Tachyons are no longer considered a real possibility. They don't exist. They were hypothesized as part of a supersymmetry solution to the hierarchy problem of the standard model. This was in the 80's, and the particular formulation of supersymmetry which included tachyons looked promising. So it made sense at the time Alan Moore to use them as a plot mechanism in Watchmen. Since then, however, there have been better formulations of supersymmetry which dispense with the tachyon and do better at solving the hierarchy problem, plus new models of higher dimensional space that may solve the hierarchy problem and do not include tachyons. So at this point, its a bit silly to base a SF plot on a particle which was suggested but is no longer considered a possibility. I highly recommend Lisa Randalls "Warped Passages" book for a great explanation of supersymmetry, the hierarchy problem, and higher dimensional models of the universe.

This is still not half as bad a fudge as "Sunshine", the SF film based on needing to "re-ignite" our dying sun, when it has long been established that our sun will get bigger and hotter over the next 5 billion years.

I like that the only description they give of what objects are not permitted is that they are "three dimensional". Oh noes, its a Three Dimensional Object!

this picture shows the groom stabbing the effigy of the bride.

is that C. Everett Coop, former Surgeon General?

Why would someone do that to poor little Bjork?