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There are some great Charlie Rose interviews on CharlieRose.com. Here are two recent interviews with tech heavyweights: • Esther Dyson (talking about making her genome public, Google, YouTube and more) • Craig Newmark

I figured out how to embed the 1pixelout open-source music player in my blog (it's hosted on Ourmedia -- woo hoo, I'm a DJ!). So check out Bruce Springsteen's "Radio Nowhere" (hosted on the Guardian UK site), from his new album. As Stereogum says, "The Boss man's back indeed. 'Radio Nowhere' is the lead single from this fall's Magic LP, and it's a dusty, Zevon-shaded guitar burner, one of those top-down-and-the-stereo-blarin' types, fit for night drives with your gotta-get-outta-this-town friends. Is there anybody out there? ... I just wanna hear some rhythm ... This is radio nowhere. ..."

In It came from outer space, the Los Angeles Times has the lowdown on how a couple of YouTube videos that purportedly captured videos of UFOs in Haiti and the Dominican Republic were concocted and quickly had Internet users watching and debating. Here's the original UFO Haiti video: There's also UFO Dominican Republic. God, people are credulous. Here's the proof of how these hoaxes were fabricated (see top video):