Bleeps, bloops, mission control soundbites and historic astronaut audio – all nicely packaged up for your Android/iPhone/mp3 message-alert and ringtone delectation.

NASA sez:

Here’s a collection of NASA sounds from historic spaceflights and current missions. You can hear the roar of a space shuttle launch or Neil Armstrong’s “One small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind” every time you get a phone call. Or, you can hear the memorable words “Houston, we’ve had a problem,” every time you make an error on your computer.

Sound of satellite debris crashing through the roof of a community centre not included.

Download your spacetones here.

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As an alternate to the rather disturbing official poster for Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) – the *retch* eagerly-awaited follow-up to one of the grossest films ever made – Detroit’s Main Art Theatre came up with this.

It’s worse, isn’t it?

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Kidding.

Performance artist and Bodger-a-like Rob Bannon (in spacesuit) and  furry mouse at the Gallery of Photography in Temple Bar today with presidential candidates, from left: Mary Davis, Gay Mitchell, Michael ‘Squee’ Higgins and Sean Gallagher.

Later…

(Leon farrell/Photocall Ireland)

 

…Seeing some growth in Ireland, then, is not at all a refutation of Keynesian economics — it’s exactly what you’d expect, given that Ireland is in fact gradually achieving an “internal devaluation” via relative deflation. What would have posed an intellectual puzzle would have been a rapid bounceback to full employment. And that isn’t happening.

Dude, it’s Friday.

Irish Confusion (Paul Krugman, New York Times)

Context

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