he SHOULD be. This is real Americana (and starting with number 2 is no crazier than anything else you can imagine):
links for 2009-02-10
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proof that we really ARE the Crown of Creation
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yeah, watch this one… IS this what happened in mid-September?
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(don't miss this one, foodies)
Bartok
Piano isn’t something I do, but it’s fascinating to watch those who can:
(this via Echidne of the Snakes)
links for 2009-02-08
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Flee As A Bird: Lucas Gonze picks it, and picks it well
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Alan Levine is ALWAYS worth reading. This posting provokes all sorts of dreams of glory, and I mean to mess about with the technology myself, real soon now
links for 2009-02-07
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and here I was thinking I knew a little something about the far fringes…
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gulp…
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from well-formed.eigenfactor.org and a step back in time (five years ago I'd have been utterly fascinated… now it's mildly interesting)
links for 2009-02-04
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from BibliOdyssey
links for 2009-02-03
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pretty cool
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from ResourceShelf: LOTS of feeds in the health realm
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via BoingBoing "I wrote these principles after reflecting on the content of contemporary newspapers and broadcast media and why that content disquieted me. I saw that I was not disturbed so much by what was written or said as I was by what is not. The tacit assumptions underlying most popular content reflect a worldview that is orthogonal to reality in many ways…"
Geography lives
I’ve been saying so for years, and here’s a lovely example:
links for 2009-02-02
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from Strange Maps: "There is no satisfactory explanation, at least not to my knowledge, for the higher than average incidence of lame word-play in the names of hair salons.."
addendum
…and on another page in the same NYTimes, see Dumb and Dumber 2.0: iFart application for a not-unrelated bit of Nacirema consumer lore, somehow especially appropriate for SuperBowlSunday