pimg src="http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/lifehacker/2008/12/timesextra.jpg" width="495" height="200" align="right"/The New York Times launched a new version of their front page today, "Times Extra," that incorporates up to eight related or supporting blog posts and news articles from outside sources, including news firms the Times could be seen as in direct competition with. The Grey Lady is only lightly treading in the content-aggregation/link-friendly waters, thoughmdash;you have to click the "Extra" button in the upper right to get the extra sources, and the cookie switches back to a standard view after 24 hours. Still, it's an intriguing step forward by an old media company looking to what's newmdash;new in the last decade, at least. div class="related"a href="http://nytimes.com"New York Times/a [a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/readwriteweb/~3/NvZ5YGhaybc/times_extra_the_new_york_times.php"ReadWriteWeb/a]/div /p br style="clear: both;"/ a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=63a03b5aaecf218ffb20da579350d09ap=1"img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=63a03b5aaecf218ffb20da579350d09ap=1"//a img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=63a03b5aaecf218ffb20da579350d09a" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=jV1FjvwJ"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?d=120" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=E60a0q7T"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=r4bz5RXN"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?i=r4bz5RXN" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.gawker.com/~f/lifehacker/full?a=Zth7fXCZ"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/lifehacker/full?i=Zth7fXCZ" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/lifehacker/full/~4/89GXHvLVNYA" height="1" width="1"/

On StoriesofApple.net there's an exclusive interview with John T. Draper, better known as Captain Crunch, speaking about blue boxes, meeting and working with Wozniak and Jobs, the Charlie board and all of his business with Apple throughout the years. Related to this article, the latest addition to the OSNews team (who will step forward soon enough) supplied us with an interesting link to a story that shines a different light on John T. Draper.

Here's an interesting article on Nanowerk about coating cotton yarn in carbon nanotubes (CNT) to make it conductive. While still a ways off from DIY use, this is an intriguing step forward for wearables! Looks like they could learn a thing or two about making a sewable LED, though. (Thanks, Sean!)

From the Maker Shed:

Lilypad E-Sewing Kit

The LilyPad e-sewing kit contains the bits to sew LEDs into any piece of clothing. Add turn signals to a jacket, accentuate a t-shirt, or light-up your favorite pair of jeans with this simple to use kit. This kit contains the very basics to the LilyPad system. It's a great entry-level kit for people who want to experiment with wearable electronics. Consider adding the LilyPad Pro Kit to extend control and use of the LilyPad system.

Features:

• 5 LilyPad Bright White LEDs
• 3 LilyPad Button Boards
  
• 2 Coin Cell Batteries 20mm
  
• 1 Coin Cell Holder
• 1 Spool 4Ply Conductive Thread

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Since slowly getting back into the record game a couple years ago, Slumberland seems to have been loading up for a huge display of fireworks in 2008. The years spent in inactivity haven’t dulled their knack for finding great pop bands and putting out great records, one after another.

The Lodger - Life is Sweet
The Lodger’s debut album, Grown-Ups, was a fine slice of indie pop that called to mind stellar groups like Orange Juice, the Wedding Present, and Heavenly, while making a case that they might someday be mentioned in that same class. Life Is Sweet is a step forward in both sound and song, and goes a long way toward making this thought a reality. (Read full review and hear samples here)

Crystal Stilts - Alight of Night
……a perfect blend of psychedelic gloom and garage rock punch, of indie pop hooks and girl group drama, of noise and candy. It’s obvious from the first few seconds of Alight of Night that Crystal Stilts aren’t doing anything shockingly new or innovative, and that’s alright. They give the old noise pop formula enough of a kick to make this a very worthwhile addition to any noise pop fan’s collection. (Read full review and hear samples here.)

Cause Co-Motion! - It’s Time! Singles & EPs 2005-08
The tinny, live-wire sound the quartet sends shooting through the wires is reminiscent of the clatter and hiss of Henry’s Dress, the strutting songcraft calls to mind Jane Pow, and the reverb-soaked recording style is a hallmark of the label’s approach from Black Tambourine to Aislers Set to now. (Read full review and hear samples here.)

Along with these albums, Slumberland’s been crazy busy releasing singles all year. Starting with their excellent Searching for the Now 7″ series (which features songs from top poppers like Summer Cats, A Sunny Day in Glasgow and Bye!, Archie from Velocity Girl’s new project), continuing with the return of the June Brides‘ Phil Wilson with an EP of interesting covers called Industrial Strength, and finishing with a one-two knockout punch from Scotland by a couple bands formed out of the wreckage of the Royal We. Bricolage’s orange-y, juice-y single “Turn You Over” is all elbows and knees up, Sexy Kids‘ “Sisters Are Forever” is a brilliant indie rock anthem with a huge, heartwarming hook. Both leave the listener desperate for more!

All this and The Pains of Being Pure At Heart full-length coming in early 2009 too. Check the video for the first single “Everything For You” now and check back often to see what other magic tricks Mike Slumberland has up his sleeve.

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pFiled under: a href="http://www.tuaw.com/category/software/" rel="tag"Software/a, a href="http://www.tuaw.com/category/iphone/" rel="tag"iPhone/a, a href="http://www.tuaw.com/category/app-store/" rel="tag"App Store/a/pimg width="215" vspace="8" hspace="8" height="323" border="1" align="right" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tuaw.com/media/2008/12/stanza-screen-mtr.jpg" alt="" /Good news for those who like to read books on their iPhones (as opposed to a href="http://audible.com"listening to them/a read by other people). a href="http://www.jkontherun.com/2008/12/breaking-news-e.html"JKontherun reports/a that ebook seller a href="http://www.fictionwise.com/"Fictionwise/a is licensing support for the a href="http://www.tuaw.com/tag/eReader/"eReader/a format to a href="http://lexcycle.com"Lexcycle/a for use in Stanza; Fictionwise is also launching an eReader store for Stanza users. This adds more than 40,000 titles to the Stanza family, and allows multiple options for licensed book content on the iPhone family; Fictionwise will continue to offer the eReader app that's already on the App Store. For users with libraries of eReader-format content bought for previous platforms like the Palm handhelds, those books should work.br / br /The press release quotes Lexcycle COO Neelan Choksi: "Just in time for the holidays, Stanza readers are going to be able to find their favorite authors like Stephen King, Mary Higgins Clark, James Patterson, and Nora Roberts. This relationship with Fictionwise is a big step forward in our ongoing effort to expand the selection of works available to our large and growing user base."br /br /While we love the sleek UI of a href="http://www.tuaw.com/tag/Classics/"Classics/a for books on the iPhone, that app doesn't let you choose your own premium or free books to populate the shelves -- and with thousands more ebooks now available to Stanza users, filling the shelves is going to be easier.br /embr /Thanks James./emp style="padding:5px;clear:both;"a href="http://www.tuaw.com"TUAW/aa href="http://www.tuaw.com/2008/12/03/stanza-adds-licensed-ereader-content-for-iphone-booklovers/"Stanza adds licensed eReader content for iPhone booklovers/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.tuaw.com"The Unofficial Apple Weblog (TUAW)/a on Wed, 03 Dec 2008 13:00:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a.br style="clear:both;"/ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://lexcycle.com/Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2008/12/03/stanza-adds-licensed-ereader-content-for-iphone-booklovers/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.tuaw.com/forward/1390221/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2008/12/03/stanza-adds-licensed-ereader-content-for-iphone-booklovers/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/AF7JqtqF7Y3U5ahqoxr1fShkBYg/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/AF7JqtqF7Y3U5ahqoxr1fShkBYg/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/tuaw?a=Dnhb27Uc"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/tuaw?i=Dnhb27Uc" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/tuaw?a=DcQOe3x8"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/tuaw?i=DcQOe3x8" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/tuaw/~4/IQXO7UKBwWg" height="1" width="1"/

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