Sounds for the season

It's October! The most wonderful time of the year!

And to help get you in the mood, here are a couple of chill-filled CDs to liven up the dark with terrifying tunes and scarey noises...

1. "The Sound Of Horror", a 3-hour radio program on sound design in modern psychological horror films edited by Brian Carpenter. The program is now remixed and re-edited and available for purchase here via PayPal or major credit card:
http://www.briancarpenter.net/content/buy.html
More information about the show:
http://briancarpenter.net/content/radio-webcasts-the-sound-of-horror.html

2. Posted to Hellnotes
http://hellnotes.com/
(warning: movie trailers will automatically load when you go to this site)

Simon & Schuster has announced a new online audio excerpt is available for Stephen King’s Blood And Smoke.
Description: In Blood And Smoke, Stephen King reads three of his classic short stories including “1408,” which was made into a Dimension Films motion picture starring John Cusack and Samuel L. Jackson.
Also inside are “In the Deathroom” and “Lunch at the Gotham Café,” both horrific tales of withdrawl, desperation, and unfiltered suspense. Enter a nightmarish mindscape of unrelenting horror and shocking revelations as the greatest storyteller of our time takes us inside a world of yearning and paranoia, isolation and addiction. It is the world of the smoker.
This edition includes three CDs and ships on or around October 5, 2010. The suggested retail price is $14.99.
As for the free online excerpt?
You can catch it here: Blood And Smoke
http://books.simonandschuster.com/Blood-And-Smoke/Stephen-King/9781442336216?custd=333073&mcd=ea&view_pc_site=1

Whale snot, peripatetic slime mold, pain management through swearing, and wearing your socks outside

Yup, this must be MIT.

Though really, MIT is merely hosting the Ignoble Awards

My favorite is the study demonstrating that companies can become more efficient by promoting people at random--it's like Coyote's business management plan .

Saturday, Oct 2, 2010 at 1:00 pm.
MIT Bldg. 10, Room 250, 222 Memorial Drive, Cambridge
map: http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg?mapterms=10-250

This event is FREE, and no advance tickets are required. Seating is limited, so please get there early. The Ig Nobel Prizes honor people whose achievements have made people LAUGH, and then made them THINK. For more information on the 2010 Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony, including (soon) video of the event, please visit: http://www.improbable.com/
All Ig Nobel Prize activities are organized by the Annals of Improbable Research. This free event is organized in cooperation with the MIT Press Bookstore.

The 2010 Ig Nobel Prize Winners http://improbable.com/ig/winners/