May 4, 2006
Aria database
The Aria Database is a diverse collection of information on over 1000 operatic arias.
Thermite and other memorable experiments
Unsafe-science-experiments-you-did-in-class-Friday: an advisory on dangerous chemistry experiments (they mention Nitrogen Triiodide, Chromate Volcanos, Whoosh Bottles, and Potassium Chlorate and Sugar), unwise microwave oven experiments, and, of course, thermite (and a great thermite video). I am amazed anyone survives high school, what other dubious but educational experiments did you do?
Note: all pages are science education sites. Read the warnings. The awesome Chemistry Comes Alive site mentioned prev.
Flea muses on leaked RHCP album
MusicFilter: You supposedly can't buy it yet. Well, you actually can get it other ways. Flea isn't that pleased about it either.
The Photography of Ahmed Zahid
Propelling under iridescence of the influential weather. Selfish Reflector basks on vastness of the faded blue pastels. Army of the inauspicious Barrel riders. Participating amongst the lines of expected anticipation. Journeying within the parallex Worlds of soaring heights. The greedy feeder treats the drifting creepy sleepers. Chain gang Members hang-in the dignity of thriving redundancy. And much, much, much more. Now everything is illuminated.
Arthur Magazine interviews the lead singer of Godsmack
Arthur Magazine interviews the lead singer of Godsmack. In 2003, the US Navy used a song by rock band Godsmack as a part of an updated and more TOTALLY ROCKIN' recruitment campaign. Arthur Magazine asks how the band feels about this, in light of recent events war. Not very Wiccan of them indeed. via.
Claudia Emerson wins pulitzer for poetry
Claudia Emerson, a Virginian poet and English professor, has won the 2006 Pulitzer prize for poetry for her book The Late Wife. Here is an interview from 2002, and here is a podcast of Professor Emerson reading from The Late Wife in 2005. Some of her poems: "Bone," "The Bat," more.
"Let him stay one second."
Han shoots first.
I want to play that game.
The Day the Lawn Wasn't Mowed
As Slow As Possible.
Don't they use bombs anyway?
Al-Zarqawi can't shoot. Lynch said the images he showed indicate that al-Zarqawi "tends to have a problem" with mastering his own weapons system and with finding capable and competent aides.
"Why he's their leader, I don't know."
hookworm cure asthma?
The Lost Experience
The Hanso Foundation -- Reaching Out For A Better Tomorrow. Call 1-800-HANSORG for more information.
Also, the late Gary Troup's last book has finally been published. There's an interview here.
The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth
1000 Angry Monkeys, Blogging About Politics... The partisan political blogosphere has been humming along nicely for the last several years. But where the progressive and conservative ideologies intersect, at technology, they can possibly be best categorized as libertarian, particularly if limited to the development, growth, corporatization, regulation, and taxation of the internet. As such, there's much news worthy of our attention. More inside...
Kent State
Kent State, May 4, 1970 Today is the 35th anniversary of the Kent State shootings
(via Wood s Lot)
Alan Canfora who faced the troops, eyewitness photographs
the search for historical accuracy and the legacy
They don't make them like that any more.
This light bulb has been burning continuously for 104 years. Watch it live for limitless entertainment!
CCTV Nightvision phone
A nightvision camera you phone up This seems to be a wireless CCTV camera that you phone up with your mobile and watch what is going on. It says it works in the dark. Now what would anybody use that for? As you dial it I guess it has it's own sim. "Pupillo", err horrid name.
foxxy!
Fox pussies out. Recently a bill passed in mexico legalizing all drugs under certain specified quantities. The bill was promoted By Vincente Fox's party, and came from his offices. However he decided not to sign it under U.S. pressure.
There go my vacation plans.
There go my vacation plans.
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