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Sound: http://www.wonderlandrecords.com/ex/hobs-gad.mp3

Swedish indie label Wonderland Records present electronic indie rock act Hearts of Black Science and offers free listening to the full album as well as free download of the single Gold & Dust.

Hearts of Black Science, based in Swedish Stenungsund (just outside Gothenburg) is Daniel Anghede and Tomas Almgren and they bring you powerful, suggestive indie rock with electronic influences. Think Danish Mew mixed with Keane and Depeche Mode but with a distinct personal touch.

Their new material is released on Swedish Wonderland Records, home of acts like Emmon, Convoj and Universal Poplab.

You can listen to the full album, read press text in English, German and Swedish and download high resolution photo and the album cover all on one page here:

http://www.wonderlandrecords.com/hobspress/

See the video for upcoming sinle Giving In To Anger here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq1XB1FG32A

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[RTSW10] V/A "Strategic Reserves"

Tracks:
01. Naj – Ex-P [6:04]
02. Naj – Black Dress [5:47]
03. Rubetz – Razor [4:55]
04. Rubetz – Resistance Is Useless [6:04]
05. Vadz – Mechanoid [5:10]
06. Vadz – Crusher [5:40]
07. Postapocalyps Pop – Electro Stuff (Live) [2:12]
08. Postapocalyps Pop – Teely [4:27]
09. Sub – Biolight [6:30]
10. Sub – Alien [6:25]

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This is our tenth release, a kind of a small anniversary one and a cause for rejoicing. 5 artists, 10 tracks. All of the techno is different here, and every track has a character. Netlabel celebrates it’s “2 years online” holiday with this release. Think of us when you drink vodka next time. Enjoy proper Russian Techno style!

this is such a good record.

Kevin, why did you have to get all Indie-OK on us?

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From a Facebook announcement:
Broadway.com: SPIDER-MAN found it's Spidey!

All right, I understand that "It's just Facebook" but when you're a professional, representing a company, shouldn't you know your grammar?!

I'm reading a book about the practice of English language teaching. The author is convinced that "expensive" and "costly" have two different meanings....without explaining which ones! Could you enlighten me?
Thank you.

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but it drives me insane when people spell the electrical storm phenomenon "lightening" instead of "lightning". Skies generally lighten *after* storms, folks, not during.

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great someone else is pissed at me.

that take felt good enough i'm going to have a smoke.

OK yeah so this is just as hard as i thought it would be.

i've been working on this since noon, and it's getting near done.

i'm playing 5 synthesisers, 2 drum machines, and the x0xb0x on it.

by the time i'm done with this i'll be ready to score this movie if they hire me. and they should.

As a medical student, I encounter the word "apoptosis" often. How would you pronounce it? It's not strictly a grammar question and apoptosis (programmed cell death) is not exactly a commonly-used word, but I thought I might as well ask.

The debate is a-pop-to-sis vs. a-poh-to-sis. (Possible precedent: you pronounce "ptosis," drooping of the eyelids, with out an "a.")

I'm asking just to get a feel of this group's preferences. I like to pronounce it "apohtosis," myself, because it sounds cooler.

ETA: Here are some copy-pasted passages from Wikipedia. I would have liked not to use it as a source but I think it gives a good idea of the debate, and I was too lazy to make my own (I want to see your responses faster :D).

Debate continues over the correct pronunciation, with opinion divided between a pronunciation with the second p silent (pronounced /æpəˈtoʊsɨs/ "ap-a-tow'-sis") and the second p pronounced (pronounced /æpəpˈtoʊsɨs/), as in the original Greek. In English, the p of the Greek -pt- consonant cluster is typically silent at the beginning of a word (e.g. pterodactyl, Ptolemy), but articulated when used in combining forms preceded by a vowel, as in helicopter or the orders of insects: diptera, lepidoptera, etc.

It should be noted that in the original Kerr Wyllie and Currie paper, British Journal of Cancer, 1972 Aug;26(4):239-57, there is a footnote regarding the pronunciation.

"We are most grateful to Professor James Cormack of the Department of Greek, University of Aberdeen, for suggesting this term. The word "apoptosis" (Greek spelling of apoptosis) is used in Greek to describe the "dropping off" or "falling off" of petals from flowers, or leaves from trees. To show the derivation clearly, we propose that the stress should be on the penultimate syllable, the second half of the word being pronounced like "ptosis" (with the "p" silent), which comes from the same root "to fall", and is already used to describe the drooping of the upper eyelid."

I say "sasami", even though I know it's spelt "sesame".
My husband says "emzymes", even though he knows it's spelt "enzymes".

We can't seem to help it. It has become a little in-joke. Does anyone else have this problem, despite their grammatical strictness?

i am being haunted by the columbine high school massacre.
the other day, i was innocently browsing wikipedia, and before i knew it, i had read the entire article on the columbine shootings. then i went on to watch every youtube video i could find. images filled my head. images of patrick ireland staggering out the library window and dylan klebold and eric harris sprawled in pools of their own blood after swallowing bullets. i wanted to stop. i needed to stop reading and watching and searching. i was horrified. but i kept going. i combed through every inch of acolumbinesite.com. i watched every television special and read about the victims. the tragedy created in me a feeling that i can't explain, an emotion that i can't quite name. horror. fear. my senses are filled with columbine. that doesn't even make sense, but i can't explain it otherwise. i get flashes in my head of dylan's face or of the bloodstained library.
i went to bed frightened by the dark corners of my house. i repeated a mantra in my head, "do not think about columbine. do not have nightmares." it worked, i fell asleep.
i woke up and sternly told myself that the columbine nonsense was to stop. i vowed not to type "columbine" into a single search bar, and spend my time on the internet doing simple, lighthearted things.
after checking my email, i once again wandered to acolumbinesite.com. i read the police reports and witness accounts. i was chilled, but still ventured to youtube to watch a special called "the columbine killers" as well as a SWAT video tour of the library, post-massacre. the video was soundless, but the images of the bloodstained rug and police evidence markers bearing the names of the murdered were loud enough.
that was all i watched. that's when i quit. that was early in the day, but images keep flashing into my mind. columbine is lurking in the back of my mind.
i told my parents about how horrified i was. my mom told me to write my feelings down.
i'm scared of the world. that is what i'm feeling.
i'm terrified that something like this could happen, that it continues to happen, and that i may one day be a teacher that has to face the reality of a school shooting.
i cannot believe that people did not look at these boys and read the warning signs, but then again, nothing like this had ever happened before. scratch that, it had, sort of, but not like this. this was our nation's wake up call. i keep imagining what it would be like to be a parent receiving a phone call informing me that my child has been shot at school. school. one of the places where parents trust their children will be taken care of. the place where i always felt the safest.
nowhere is safe.

i think i'm going insane.

Is it:

1) That's a hilarious video.

or

2) That's an hilarious video.

Thanks!

"Thankyou", "Thank you" or context dependent? I like to joint them together, but spellcheck doesn't.

I have a question. I was reading through the Wikipedia entry on Nathan Fillion (yes, I know. Wikipedia.) and I found this sentence.

As well, he was listed as one of Entertainment Weekly's "50 Actors We'd Watch in Anything".

Is this a common usage of "as well"? Can you use it to begin a sentence rather than end one?