Whomix Radio is a podcast with a completely random update schedule; new podcast episodes are put out as people submit their own remix / re-imagination of the venerable Doctor Who theme. The music is all collected together on one archive page, with mixes going back to 2003.

Of all the mixes available there, I think my all-time favourite is “Regenerations 2006” by a user called Nick. There have been 10 different actors who have played the role of the Doctor, and corresponding changes to the theme over the years. Nick’s mix incorporates snippets of each theme into one extended mix, up to and including the latest (second season) of the new Doctor Who series being shown on the Sci-Fi channel.

Running a close second and third places are “For a Darkened People” by EverybodyelsE and “Determined Who Too” by JeX respectively. For a Darkened People has the edge in the race for it’s Danny Elfman big-movie-soundtrack styling and incorporation of a snippet of something reminiscent of the “Batman Begins” theme.

A user known as Oddsprite stands out as I think of creating Podio-Books (episodic audio books delivered as a podcast to your computer). A mix known as “Counterfeit” has both an opening and a closing track. Oddsprite also created a mix known as “Cold Blood” which too an opening and a closing track. I am torn between Counterfeit and Cold Blood as to which I would use (if I were to podcast some Doctor Who fanfic).

Comments, suggestions and feedback is welcome!

The BBC News website had a news item regarding The Creation Museum

Creation museum pushes ‘true history’

A new hi-tech temple to fundamentalist Christianity is due to open in the heart of Middle America next May, aiming to provide the grandest riposte yet to Darwinian evolutionary theory.

Staff and supporters of the Answers in Genesis organization call it the Creation Museum.

The Answers in Genesis organization is one of the more rational of the “Young-Earth” creationist organizations, displaying a high degree of scientific and rational thought. It’s interesting that even after the BBC news article wrote the “Creation Museum” off as being “just another Disney-style magic kingdom” requiring the visitor to “[reject] centuries of scientific reasoning” the Answers in Genesis blog still links to the article itself (and quotes liberally from it). The blog author maintains a measured and polite tone, merely concluding “the staff writer did a good job in the article, but of course, dismisses AiG’s efforts in the last paragraph“. Way to go guys!

If it wasn’t already obvious, the site has undergone a major overhaul! The old template was looking a little long-in-the-tooth and I decided it was time for a change. I also wanted to improve the consistency of the look and feel for non-blog pages.

This blog has been managed since its very inception using Blogger.com and I’ve looked at several blog / content management systems over the years. My goal was to (eventually) host the blog, its comments, polls and a discussion forum using a system that I’d written. Until that time, I’ve finally settled on using Wordpress as both blog and CMS for static content. Big changes indeed!

Old (Blogger) posts were imported and in the process I noticed that formatting has been approximated for a lot of them - custom PHP in the original has been stripped - so expect some of the previous 606 posts to look a little bare compared to their original incarnation. I dont plan on categorizing any of the old posts, but expect that in the future, I’ll make liberal use of both titles and categories that Blogger never used to support. While their new beta supports them, I want more control. I want my own data on my own server. Moving 606 posts out of Blogger was a pain in the ______ so I want the data where I can get to it for future moves to my own system!

Expect to see some Wordpress widgets and plugins promoted through this site too. Getting this site the way I wanted has taught me a lot about Wordpress and has forced me to create custom code for archives and how I handle the CMS side of managing pages for my writing. If you need a custom theme created, or Wordpress implemented, give me a call!