Beats, Breaks, and Crates

Portland gunk-punkers Rib Cages have a brand new seven-inch for ya, called "Right on or Wrong," which we like better than its rumored original title "Righty Tighty Loosey Goosey." It's released on the possibly theoretical label Lemon Session (Lemon Session is also a blog by Kevin L. Jones, who recorded the seven-inch for Rib Cages in his Berkeley, CA, studio in June of last year). You can hear Rib Cages live tonight (and presumably pick up a...  

Valuable paintings that are shipped or loaned to museums or other destinations around the world will soon have unusual traveling companions for their long journeys – sensors that can detect the buildup of pollutants within their specially-designed shipping crates. Occasionally, adhesives and other chemicals within the crates can breakdown and the fumes can damage the works of art. But the new sensors, developed by scientists at the Fraunhofer...  

Barn owls are seen on and in one of the nesting boxes. That's the new auditory trajectory of Israel's ammunition crates, the result of a new joint project between environmentalists and Israel Mil...  

Hating Go Pet Design’s modern designer dog crate gets praised as the Bertoia Chair of dog crates. Go Pet Design’s modern wire dog crate is gorgeous, sure. But it’s hard to imagine it sitting seamlessly in your pad, or being cozy for your dog. If you want a choice modern dog crate, why not choose one that looks [...]  

To the Editor: Harold Wilson is correct in pointing out in his Dec. 7 letter in The Tribune that animals deserve more than food and shelter. That is why we have our hens in cages to provide a better environment for the hens. Cage-free hens suffer and...  

Anyone who watched the recent Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 25th anniversary circle-jerk on HBO has to have noticed Sting rocking a massive beard. Not a Norris Skipper, not a soul patch, or even an imperial. No, it's looking like Sting seems to have fully committed his face to a Grizzly Adams/Frederick...  

In 1836, scientist Michael Faraday observed that a charge on a conductor resides only on its surface and does not impact anything enclosed within. To demonstrate this, he coated a room with metal foil, had high-voltage discharges strike its exterior, and showed with an electroscope that no electric charge reached the interior. Today, any container made of a conductor that shields its interior from electric fields is called a Faraday cage. What...  

For those of us working at the Switched offices in Manhattan, we are intimately familiar with a certain stripe of New York mother that raises all kinds of hell on stroller wheels. Seriously, we'd rather get in a cage-match with some iron-faced kickboxers than these moms who would roll over any commuters in the way of their little baby's buggy. Perhaps artist Shi Jinsong had them in mind when designing these frightfully malevolent carriages on...  

Tonight! 11pm-1am... LeRoy Brown and Research Deluxe Recs on 91.5 WPRK... Stream live at WPRKDJ.org - Hosted by Stereo 77. We'll be playing a few tracks from the new release as well as discussing what's to come for 2010.  

MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine soldiers using metal detectors, sniffer dogs and an excavator unearthed more than a dozen crates of bullets Friday in the mansion of a local mayor linked to last week's massacre of 57 people, a spokesman said.  

These miniature fruit crates and vegetable flats are an easy project that gives you skills to go on to better things. Boxes are a mainstay for all kinds of scale constructions, so it is a good idea to practise making easy ones until you are good at creating exact cuts and sanding items square. Based on traditional apple boxes, these crates can be used to store miniatures, to fill store scenes and attics, or to show off produce on market...  

Lebanese troops and U.N. peacekeepers uncovered several crates of explosives during operations along the southern border with Israel. The Lebanese military said it uncovered 12 crates loaded with TNT during weekend operations with Spanish forces ...  

On December 15, 2009 Research Deluxe will be releasing LeRoy Brown's first album, appropriately titled theLRBeatsuite. The album was originally completed in early 2007 from sessions that were recorded in the mid 2000's but saw a series of ups and downs while making its way towards an official release. This piece combines elements of hip hop, funk and soul, yet cheffed up with a nice experimental twist. Distribution for the release covers...  

NY Fed Told AIG to Hide Details of Swaps Payouts to Banks. This latest revelation confirms the Fed's commitment to secrecy and, although troubling, at this point should come at no surprise. The most important element is that AIG itself determined it should .... he first learned about the bonuses from his staff after the fact. I think he can likely be indicted for at least perjury, IMHO. Pittman: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087...  

“Peter King (R-NY): Saying the Word “Terrorism” More Often Will Keep Us Safe” … and Obama not saying the word means that it does not exist… Blue Texan… You are the dumbass.. Reply. eCAHNomics January 6th, 2010 at 10:39 am ...