We'll start today's post by opening up the old mailbag:

Greg, from the Scottish funk band Nacoya sent me a note to alert me of their new website. (I saw Nacoya at the Pyramid in September of 2002. groovetasticfunksoulfusion.)

Nico from rapkings radio, sent me an updated link for their wonderful German hip-hop streaming radio station.

Over the past few days, I've started to receive a bizarre new type of spam. The emails do not appear to have any commercial content. In fact, they appear to be composed of stream-of-consciousness lists of random words. An example:
"Subject: Re: CYKBYGI, whether pushkins poetry
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chicagoan featherbed asset estimate greenish filmdom detonate lavish threefold functor"
I've received 8 similar messages since Saturday. Any ideas?
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The Mars Rover Mission Blog includes a detailed time-line of the latest Mars rover landing sequence. (The images were taken from this amazing digital animation. The complexity of this mission is a true testament to the art of Engineering. For all you conspiracy theorists, NASA is *not* altering the colour of Mars.)
The ESP game is a playful study of PSI and collective intelligence.
Making the Mind - Why we've misunderstood the nature-nurture debate.
Musicplasma - The music visual search engine. (wicked.)
Quoted from boom selection: "[F]using together what seems like thousands of tracks with his inevitable talent, strictly kev has pulled what i think is one of the finest, cleverest examples of mixing i have ever heard. if bootlegs are dead, this is it's eulogy." Hop on your favourite p2p and search for: "Strictly Kev History Of The Cutup". The track-listing.
Captain Kangaroo dies at 76. A quote: "Play is the work of children. It's very serious stuff. And if it's properly structured in a developmental program, children can blossom."