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personal timeline toolkit, with links and tags
Monthly Archives: July 2006
links for 2006-07-16
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still alpha, but promising
Balm in troubled times
WFMU’s Beware of the Blog links to a performance of the Finnish Complaints Choir: “Finnish artists Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen collected the pet peeves and angst-ridden pleas of people in Helsinki and then composed this choral work around the list of complaints…”, a 24MB download and I swear, worth every minute of the wait.
Appallingly clever
Many of us know about these excruciations on “That’s amore”…
Somehow this one fell into my ummmm mind as I was shopping yesterday (no apologies for some relaxation of the algorithmical constraints):
When a third of your herd
Hits the dust all at once [well, all at oncet]
That’s a murrain
I sent that to my friend Ken, who was able to retrieve (from his email archive) a set constructed a few years ago:
When your chicken is tossed
in a chocolate sauce
that’s a mole
At the bris there’s the trick
when the guy trims your dick
that’s a mohel
Take 2 cups Bechamel
add some cheese you can’t smell
that’s Sauce Mornay
(and this one is only locally comprehensible, being about the river that flows by Lexington VA):
Float from Goshen to James
with Confederate Dames
that’s the Maury
a refinement to the Maury one:
It has Matthew Fontaine’s
name from Goshen to James
that’s the Maury
(Matthew Fontaine Maury –19th century Father of Naval Oceanography)
another culinary one:
A chestnut glacée
if you say en Français
that’s a marron
and for the ornithologist:
Auk! it’s no puffin I know
Can’t pronounce ‘guillemot’
it’s a murre
and today Ken contributes:
When a native you see
On the coast of New Z
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links for 2006-07-14
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Alex Halavais performs a mitzvah for all humanity
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Nutrition Facts & Calorie Counter
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mapping fuggeddaboudit
links for 2006-07-13
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“judge your current line throughput or internet connection speed”
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tag clouds for any RSS feed
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“a list of 794 … of the form “Language X is essentially language Y under conditions Z”.
Empires of the Word
I happened upon Nicholas Ostler’s Empires of the Word: a language history of the world (Amazon link, and try some of the Explore and Browse options) in a Brattleboro bookstore and I’m gobsmacked again. In Bill Thompson’s 9-minute interview with Ostler you’ll get a running start at the flavor of the book. Just buy it –at less than $12, what do you have to lose?
links for 2006-07-12
Glorious hike
Skookumchuck-AT junction
Betsy drove up from VA for the weekend, we met in Plymouth NH, and on Saturday we hiked up the Skookumchuck Trail to the AT, then up the north side of Mt. Lafayette and back down the Greenleaf Trail –about 9 miles, our first above-treeline hike since finishing the AT in 2003.
links for 2006-07-11
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from Lifehacker: why didn’t I know about this already?