Play Songs From “Lost” in Rock Band

J. Matthew Zoss — Mon, 24 May 2010 15:21:03 +0000

What did you think of the Lost finale? Love it? Hate it? Didn’t watch it? The show is over, but that doesn’t mean that Lost doesn’t live on. Two tracks from the series are about to be added to Rock Band 2, courtesy of the Rock Band Network: Driveshaft’s “You All Everybody” and Geronimo Jackon’s “Dharma Lady.” If you’re a fan, you’ll probably recognize Driveshaft as Charlie’s band, and Geronimo Jackson is one of those “easter egg” in-jokes that appears throughout the show, a 1970s jam band with posters, shirts, and music that popped up in the background from time to time.

The Rock Band Network is a service that allows anyone to upload their own music to the Rock Band game and make it available for purchase. Anyone uploading music to Rock Band Network must have the original tracks, so you don’t have to worry that these are some fan-made covers. They’re the real-deal songs straight from the cast and crew of Lost.

Will a Rogue Satellite Disrupt the “Lost” Finale?

J. Matthew Zoss — Wed, 12 May 2010 17:00:50 +0000

How are you feeling about the final season of “Lost?” If you’re unhappy with its direction, you may not be the only one. In fact, it seems like the very universe itself is feeling unhappy with the direction of the show: an out-of-control satellite is heading straight for another satellite that controls Cable television for much of the US. Should the two satellites collide, there is likely to be a cable disruption on May 23, the very day of the “Lost” finale.

A TV communications satellite is drifting out of control miles above the Earth, threatening to wander into another satellite’s orbit and interfere with cable programming across the United States, the satellites’ owners said Tuesday.

Communications company Intelsat said it lost control of the Galaxy 15 satellite on April 8, possibly because the satellite’s systems were knocked out by a solar storm. Intelsat cannot remotely steer the satellite to remain in its orbit, so Galaxy 15 is creeping toward the adjacent path of another TV communications satellite that serves U.S. cable companies. Galaxy 15 continues to receive and transmit satellite signals, and they will probably interfere with the second satellite, known as AMC 11, if Galaxy 15 drifts into its orbit as expected around May 23, according to AMC 11’s owner, SES World Skies.

AMC 11 receives digital programming from cable television channels and transmits it to all U.S. cable networks from its orbit 22,000 miles (36,000 kilometers) above the equator, SES World Skies said. It operates on the same frequencies as Galaxy 15.

“That fact means that there is likely to be some kind of interference,” SES World Skies spokesman Yves Feltes told The Associated Press. “Our aim is to bring any interference down to zero.”

No word on what this potential outage means for those planning to watch the show on broadcast television, Hulu, or those who have other things to do with their lives.

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Play Songs From “Lost” in Rock Band

Will a Rogue Satellite Disrupt the “Lost” Finale?