Don't forget The Fitness is finally headed to San Francisco this Friday, April 2nd at Cafe Du Nord with Fannypack and Stay at Home Bomb.

Come out This Saturday night and celebrate the FINAL party at San Francisco's legendary Betalounge and celebrate Robotspeak Sessions' first anniversary with an amazing lineup of local electronic music talent including Broker/Dealer, Morchipet, Mork Choklad, Chris Degiere and my personal favorite Men Machines, Cybrid. Betalounge has been a pioneer in both the San Francisco party scene, and online with their Network Syndicate - Sponsered by Robotspeak. Do not miss this one!

Having grown tired of the oppressive atmosphere concrete can give to a structure, 27 year-old Aron Losonczi has invented a type of concrete that allows light to pass through. By combining fiberoptic material with standard concrete, the newly-dubbed 'LitraCon' will allow silhouettes of outdoor shapes to pass through to the inside of rooms.

Losonczi hopes this will give buildings a "lighter" feeling. The material has all the load-bearing strength of regular concrete and should become available later this year.

I've never been a big Howard Stern fan. I've heard the show and been amused from time to time, but after this I think I'm ready to give him another chance. Listen to an MP3 snippet of a recent Stern anti-bush rant.

Supercomputer Beats

Looking for something new in the experimental electronic music scene? Check out Google Plex. A fascinating concept in music by S.E.T.I researcher Dr. Scott Bruzenak - music derived from analyzing and extracting bursts of patterns from seemingly random data. Truly unique!

So many robots in the news these days, I can't keep up. Here are a few of the more interesting links:

- A Mini Cooper r50 has been turned into a robot that closely resembles a Transformer.
- $1 million DARPA sponsored race by driverless robots ended Saturday after all 15 entries either broke down or withdrew.
- Award winning Japanese designer who created the Bitman wearable device, Ryota Kuwakubo, showcases his lo-fi robots online.
- iRobotnow movie trailer now online at Apple's QuickTime page.
- ZMP and Mizuno have teamed up to produce a robot called Nuvo that can be controlled via your cell phone or via voice commands.

The year digital cameras went analog...

Continuing to buck the trend of computerized do-everything-automatically digital cameras, Epson and Cosina have teamed up to launch the Epson Rangefinder Digital Camera R-D1, a six-megapixel digital camera designed to accept legendary Leica M-mount lenses. The R-D1 is another beautifully designed cameras with knobs, switches and dials that is sure to whet your retro appetite. An article can be found here, with more pictures here.

Feeling a John Hughes moment coming on? Then dust off your leather jacket, put on a little eyeliner and head to Slims tomorrow, Monday 3/15 to catch The Psychedelic Furs and Berlin as they relive some of their time-tested new wave singles (Pretty in Pink, Love My Way, etc.) Concert presented by New Wave City and VH1.

Salon.com has just broken a major story detailing how the Pentagon created a special office to manipulate intelligence data on Iraq and WMDs. It's written by Karen Kwiatkowski, a military officer who watched this unit at work, telling us the inside story in her own words.

Tickets for Kraftwerk's 4/28 San Francisco appearance at the Warfield go on sale Sunday.

Tokyo Electric - Tonight:

Wondering about the links to the right? I'm fascinated by the idea of Google's AdSense concept, and I want to see if their algorhythm can effectively scan my site and give relevant links. So far, all I seem to get is links to industrial robotic sites, but let's see if they can serve proper music links.

Our beloved Brooklyn has officially jumped the shark. It appears that legendary hangout Halcyon, purveyor of fine coffee, well worn mid-century modern furniture and great music shopping is closing. It appears their greedy landlord has raised the rent. Thanks to Joshua Glazer for the tip.

The New York Times has a fascinating article on how a Kerry/Clinton (that would be Bill) ticket could be constructed, as well a scenario in which Clinton could actually become president again!

If you missed last night's Matthew Dear show, you really missed out. He tore up the trackpad in the bass-ment of Club Six and had many a booty shakin'. He also sends out a shout to our friend Mr. Doyle at Burnlab.

If you're looking for something to do tonight, you can hang with the PLANET° Magazine and Warp Records folks for the Squarepusher album release party. It happens at 8:30 at Laszlo (in front of Foreign Cinema), and best of all, it's free!

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