British rock guitarist Eric Clapton sells more than 70 of his instruments at a charity auction in New York, raising more than $2.15m.
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Eric Clapton to sell over 70 guitars for charity
The U.S. attempted to turn over a new leaf with Russia when the two powers exchanged documents ratifying the START arms control treaty in Munich. “Today we exchange the instruments of ratification for a treaty that lessens the nuclear danger facing the…
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U.S., Russia Begin Arms Control Pact
Climb every mountain and ski any path with the world’s first GPS-enabled goggles For backcountry trailblazers, Recon Instruments ‘ new Transcend goggles introduce advanced technology for carving your own path while providing essential protection from sun and snow. The GPS-enabled goggles “require minimal interaction” yet boast an impressive amount of features, including a full-color micro LCD display, Google Maps overlay, real-time statistics (speed, altitude, vertical, run-counter, temperature and more), and keep a log of averages, maximums and minimums for each run over the entire day. Vancouver-based Recon fitted the goggles with lenses from Boulder, CO-based Zeal Optics, who created two versions—polarized ($400) or for an even greater sun shield, polarized and photochromic ($500). Both styles are PC and Mac adaptable and through a micro USB port you can easily upload your stats at the end of the day. The goggles weigh just around nine ounces, last six to eight hours through a rechargeable lithium-ion battery and sell online from both Recon Instruments and Zeal Optics .
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For 17 years, Ted Kaczynski meticulously prepared his instruments of death from a cabin on a remote piece of property in central Montana.
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‘Unabomber’s’ 1.4 acres for sale
The folk rock sounds of over a hundred instruments on British band Stornoway’s first album Five years in the making, Stornoway ‘s recently-released debut album Beachcomber’s Windowsill like so many records before it, is the story of a homegrown musical enterprise. The band of Brits, named after a town on the Scottish isle of Lewis, met and honed their earnest, folk-rock style at the University of Oxford, where an eight-track recorder served as their primary means of laying down songs. But for whatever they lacked in recording equipment, the quartet made up for in sound. Fast-forward to Beachcomber’s Windowsill , an album delivers over a hundred various instrumental notes—from the echoing chimes of a church bell and the signals of a Morse code message to the indecipherable sound of carrots being chopped. Sensationally disorienting, the love song “Zorbing” kicks off the album, leading with a choir-like effect that builds to an excitedly robust crescendo. Frontman Brian Briggs explains the title, which takes its name from a slightly madcap activity involving a person rolling down hills inside a large, transparent ball, “I thought zorbing would make a good metaphor for how I was feeling at the time when I wrote the song.” “If you listen closely, you can hear stuff like various band members muttering, lots of hiss and funny little details that you would normally clean up if you were in a studio,” Briggs says of the album’s audible quirks, which he and the band deliberately chose to preserve. While an amalgamation of sounds, the album is a thoroughly complete work, featuring 11 tracks of mostly-acoustic offerings ranging from fast-paced and riff-heavy (“Watching Birds” and “I Saw You Blink”) to gently wistful (“Long Distance Lullabye”). Look out for the band on tour in the U.S. starting mid-November 2010. Beachcomber’s Windowsill sells online from Stornoway (where you can also get a hacky sack to go with it), Amazon and iTunes .
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