A big farewell and R.I.P. to CBGB founder, Hilly Krystal.

Image from Phawker.com

So communications minister, Yoshihide Suga plans to replace the internet by 2020, huh? Good luck selling that idea to the Chinese.

Via Kotaku and Engadget

Cory Doctorow, of the badass Boing Boing team, will be in Japan at WorldCon, a Sci-fi convention held this year in Yokohama. Some of the events sound pretty cool. Just look at the very first one on the program guide: Exomusicology - The Study of Alien Music.

Science fiction has been creating alien cultures for decades, but we rarely think about alien music. Where are there descriptions of alien music in the genre? What might truly alien music sound like? Would we like it? Would we even recognize it?

And would it have a good beat? Could you dance to it?

Cory has posted his schedule on his personal blog

A big R.I.P. to activist, bandleader and drumming virtuoso, Max Roach.

A belated R.I.P. to Manchester’s finest, Tony Wilson

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