In another thing on "the Internets" I'm sure I'm late to hear about -- or haven't heard in a while -- there's some acted-out videos on YouTube to the "MC Hawking" songs that turn science explanations into raps in a computerized voice like that of, yes, Stephen Hawking. There's a bunch of them -- naturally some good and some awful.
A lot are diatribes against the Creationists, or anti-evolutionists. But this one on "entropy" -- to the Naughty By Nature song -- made me laugh at my screen. The time and effort involved! And a good entropy/thermodynamics refresher to boot. See kids -- science is fun!
I'm told by those more in the know than I to not feel guilty, because it's all for science and allegedly Hawking can be a bit of a tool to people (to put it kindly). Of course if I was in his physical situation, I suppose I'd be a bit short with people, too!
As you may have noticed, the site has changed. Sampa, the free-site host, did a version 2 of some sort.
Despite an FAQ that made it sound like allowing one's site to go through v.2 surgery would be okay, there were several flexibilities that surprisingly disappeared with the click of a button. (e.g. I cannot believe sidebars like this one are even narrower than before.)
And I'm told -- miraculously! -- that the conversion cannot be undone. Truth be told, I'm actually quite pissed. But free is free. Sampa has otherwise been good to me.
So I need to sort through site "features" to see how I can make do. Except that I don't have the time at the moment, in the middle of graduate classes and Lighthousehockey.com. (btw, I've removed that Lighthouse RSS feed so that you're not clogged with random Islanders hockey gibberish).
But I promise to touch up the accessories when I get a chance, and return to irregularly scheduled blogging.
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" songs that turn science explanations into raps in a computerized voice like that of, yes, Stephen Hawking. There's a bunch of them -- naturally some good and some awful. 
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February, 2008