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wonderful, and Escape Pod has it in mp3 format ( here )
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(via ResourceShelf –alas, New England isn't very well represented)
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(if you HAVEN'T seen it, use 20 minutes… you surely won't regret the investment, and it's simply magnificent teaching. Hang on to 18:00 to learn about Konzo, which will surely be new to you as it was to me)
links for 2009-09-15
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good old Shorpy
Talk about powerful
Jacob Bronowski, via ZeFrank, and Warren Ellis too (a strange pair, perhaps, but the clip is all the more essential in light of their shared interest):
links for 2009-09-08
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Ben Fry: "The idea that we can actually see change over time in a person’s thinking is fascinating…"
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Ben Fry's marvelous and innovative presentation, several Educations (and 6 editions) with a single URL
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"…Reagan-Cheney between 1980 and 2008 created a new American aristocracy, a small sliver of super-rich, who buy and sell legislators, create whole "news networks" to present far rightwing fantasies as "news," have their lackeys invade and occupy whole countries, hold themselves above the law, falsify financial statements, and suffer little or no punishment for stealing billions from the pensions of "working families" (i.e. those of us about whom P.T. Barnum remarked, "one is born every minute".)…
links for 2009-09-07
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oh my… many thousands, and clearly this is just a glimpse of the tips of the Ears of the Hippopotamus
A favorite tune
Black Bottom Strut:
(versions by Three Stripped Gears and New Lost City Ramblers have brightened my days for years. One of the highlights of MY musical life was playing it with Mike Seeger at his house. You might also enjoy this version
from Technologists Notes.)
links for 2009-09-06
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via ZeFrank, a fascinating gem of archival sound
links for 2009-09-05
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…amazing… (via BoingBoing)
links for 2009-09-01
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as apt a use of the phrase as you'll find
links for 2009-08-31
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lots of fun to try out, and I'm tolerably pleased with my first attempt