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>> To hell with IT -- the coolest invention of the past 100 years remains the Moog synthesizer. Sure, a personal hovercraft would be the shit -- but just think of all the cultural advances the Moog made possible:

Cautionary 1970's sci-fi yarns;
Sleep-indicing laser shows at your local planetarium;
Disneyland's Main Street Electrical Parade.

Cities should be reverse-engineered around the Moog. A giant Moog -- Big Ben-sized -- that bleats and gurgles on the hour, and doubles as a giant electronic brain to which we can sacrifice criminals of the state, suicidal goth chix, guys who like Eminem, etc.

The Synth Museum has more about the creation of the modern synthesizer than you ever wanted to know. Plus, there's an interview with Moog Cookbook -- the coolest pair of yoyos ever to don space-age fibers. The Cookbook's bleeping. buzzing covers of popular rock songs are often more hummable and flat-out cooler than the original numbers. Dig the galactic mambo of Soundgarden's Black Hole Sun, reheated on the Moog for the Youth of Tomorrow.
posted by Geoff Carter at 3:22 PM