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Friday, January 20, 2006

iPod iChing - Are r-modes Real?

Yay, it is friday. And, may I say, it is a 4-cups-of-coffee kinda friday.

So, time for lazy, lite iPod blogging.
Lets stay on topic.

Oh, mighty iPod: given last week's news at the AAS meeting about PSR Trz 5ad rotating at 716 Hz, is gravitational radiation damping of unstable r-modes the actual primary physical limit on observed pulsar rotation frequencies?

Whoosh goes the randomizer. Whoosh...


  • The Covering: In the Bleak Midwinter - King's College Choir

  • The Crossing: Come un bel di di maggio - Pavarotti

  • The Crown: Billy Boy - Twin Sisters

  • The Root: Norwegian Wood - Cornershop

  • The Past: Makarena - Strumparnir

  • The Future: Chrome Plated Heart - Melissa Etheridge

  • The Questioner: Interlude - Mannheim Steamroller

  • The House: Apollo - Stravinsky

  • The Inside: Body of Water - Billy Bragg

  • The Outcome: Silly Shapes - Twin Sisters



#11 is Strong Enough - Sheryl Crow and #12 is I Melt with You - Modern English.

Wow. The Past is the "Macarena" in Icelandic. done by the Smurfs.
That and Norwegian Wood.

The iPod can be cruel indeed.

The whole r-mode thing is clearly just completely on the wrong track.
I suspect our clue is in #12 (and I think a 12 item iChing is clearly appropriate, not the traditional 10 item list).

The Outcome is hard to argue with.

As always, the Key as explained by Sean

2 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

The Macarena in Icelandic? Where can we get this?

5:54 PM  
Blogger Steinn said...

Well, my copy is from a collection of children's songs, I think it is on the "St'ora Barnaplatan" but I'd have to check.
(yes it is - volume 2)

Be warned, it is sung by the "Smurfs" - ie actors voicing the Smurf characters, so is done in that excellent squeaky falsetto

URL below is the original album
http://www.tonlist.is/ViewAlbum.aspx?AlbumID=2858

tonlist.is will let you play a free snippet if you click on the song - and I think you can by either the album or the song by itself iTunes style.

9:47 PM  

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