Young and bored in small town U.S.? Try 'looping'
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JENA, Louisiana  - If you're young and bored at night in a small town in the United States, you can always jump in the car, switch on the radio and go "looping."
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By By Isolde Raftery, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Jun. 22--To children of the 1980s, mentions of Zelda, Dark Castle or Pac-Man stir up nostalgic memories of endless afternoons spent indoors, just feet from a computer or television screen.
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If you've hummed along, tapped your  feet, or even danced in your seat while watching "Purple Rain,"  "Saturday Night Fever" or "Trainspotting," you're not alone.
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How can you spend your summer vacation, if you're 12 to 15: Go to "American Idol" camp.
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Have fun -- and learn -- with business beyond your portfolio.
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&quot;From a bird&#39;s eye view, the camera  zooms in on an ordinary American provincial town, small houses  come in closer and get bigger until we swoop into one of them,  where a girl lies on her bed.&quot;
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If you spend time looking back, you'll miss what's coming up.
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If you're sifting through all the teenage pop stars for a ringtone that really floats your boat, maybe you need to try something ... flufferer. In Sex Drive Daily.
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Your mission is to travel back to the '80s, the golden age of arcade games, and play your favorite one.
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A sparsely populated western state best known for potatoes is becoming a magnet for tech entrepreneurs. The slow pace, absence of traffic and low-rise landscape has helped lure 800 tech companies to the state.
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In this second and final part I'll demonstrate some of the loop-specific tools I've found in Ardour, Reaper, and Audacity. Tutorials and links to project demos are included, so warm up your headphones and let's get loopy. read more
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A little serendipity can take you places, including where you want to go.
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Ever wish you could traverse 42 years of pop music history in 37 minutes? R. Luke DuBois' new CD employs "time lapse phonography" to reduce hit songs to a string of tiny, amorphous sound clips that highlight big shifts in musical taste. By Alexander Gelfand.
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Kid Nation premiered last Wednesday, and the show was, for lack of  a better term, fascinating. It was formulaic and, well, just plain bad. But it was also fascinating. In case you missed it, the premise revolves around sending 40 children to a ghost town in New Mexico for 40 days. The ages of the children range from 8-15, with the majority lying somewhere in the 10-12 range. Once there, the kids will have no supervision beyond that of a couple of camera crew and the host, Jonathan Karsh, who comes and goes randomly, but always to help the kids on their path.    There's all kinds of hullabaloo about whether or not it's ethical to take kids and simply drop them off in the middle of nowhere. Though they immediately showed the largest factor in the parents' decision to let these kids on to a TV show that could do a mind job on them for years: A gold star (cute) worth $20,000. A star is handed out by the "town council" at every meeting, so presumably about 5 kids will go home with prize money. My guess is that at least one of them will also win some ridiculous prize at the end of the show...say a million bucks.    I'd like to say that's where the show gets "better", but it doesn't. On this show no one gets voted off, and everyone's going home a winner.
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More than just a hobby for teens, online video appears to be going mainstream.
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These albums for children are a good pick for car rides or bedtime.
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Erik Friedlander offers an idiosyncratic version of American roots music, with steady, folklike themes that unfold like a trip down an endless highway.