Todd Simmons

NYTimes recently ran a splashy article about Girl Talk: http://nyti.ms/gEEDrz Not used to laptop musicians getting this kind of attention.

The Thompson Twins apparently had their own video game: http://aol.it/fT4v5K Released as a vinyl disc, it required transfer to tape to play.

The iPhone’s likely coming to Verizon, but Android owned CES with new tablets: http://engt.co/eL7o07 And crazy phones: http://aol.it/dUNjCt

Best wishes for Rep Gabrielle Giffords & families of others shot in Arizona today: http://bit.ly/i7mYab Shows the dangers of heated rhetoric

Anyone know any manga-style illustrators, with a look similar to this Daniel Pink book? http://amzn.to/gHWGJV May have some work for them.

Some elementary schools are using iPads & educational apps in place of textbooks: http://nyti.ms/hxZzLS Sounds expensive but possibly cool.

Signed up for the Q&A website Quora and loving it. Where else can you get juicy inside takes on tech issues like this: http://b.qr.ae/h2VbfV

Bruce Sterling shares some deeply dark, insightful thoughts on Wikileaks and the broader “cypherpunk” movement: http://bit.ly/eIrtKO

Awesome art book — Each filled with one-of-a-kind generative digital art, featuring several previous AMODA artists: http://bit.ly/gY59fB

Wow, you know dubstep has hit the mainstream when NPR has a story about it as part of their “Year In Music” series: http://n.pr/hs5Qnv