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Vormittagsspuk

flapjax at midnite — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 08:18:08 -0800

Flying derbys! Revolving revolvers! Ladders to nowhere! It's Hans Richter's wonderful Vormittagsspuk (or, Ghosts Before Breakfast), certainly one of the most playful and entertaining of all the Dada film experiments of the 1920s. Presented here with a nicely done soundtrack by Donald Sosin. . Over at UbuWeb, you can see Vormittagsspuk with another soundtrack. Don't know where this soundtrack is from, and for me, it's not as much fun as the Donald Sosin soundtrack, but I thought I should include it here anyway. Also, I happened upon this curious bit of film/music oddness, and this seems like a good place to link to it: "Psychedelic 1930s BING CROSBY video". Be sure to read the YouTube poster's description of the clip. Very unexpected little piece of film art there, and really quite lovely.

Article from BBC News about Quake in the UK

bobbyone — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 04:15:14 -0800

Earthquake? So it's 1am and Your room starts to shake. That's fine. But in Liverpool?

Richter calls it a 3.2, but I just call it shaky.

crankydoodle — Fri, 16 Jan 2004 01:07:01 -0800

Minor Washington state quake. It's been a while since I've experienced and earthquake, so when tonight's little one hit my hometown (a mere 3.2) I was a little shocked (and a little excited). I was also really impressed with the seemingly instantaneous response by the USGS and the University of Washington's GeoPhysics Dept. on their websites classifying it.

In the olden-days (eg- pre-Internet) I'd have to wait for the early morning news to find out any information about it, but through the miracle of HTTP I have all the info I want mere seconds after the event. In fact, less than 15 minutes after the quake the USGS site had over 260 responses on their website about the quake from people who felt it and left comments on their site.

I wonder if there are other sites that help classify and/or disseminate information about other naturally occurring phenomenon (hurricanes, tornadoes, etc.)... anyone, anyone?