This past April, NPR's "All Things Considered" had an April Fools Joke concerning a mythical composer known as Simon Fluegel.  You can read about it here ; the point was that Fluegel was exploring a compositional style known as "subminimalism", and had just released a new CD called "B-Flat and other notes", where each composition consisted of a ( Read more... )

I watched the film Koyaanisqatsi this weekend -- it's 80+ minutes of (mostly) time-lapse photography accompanied by an original Philip ( Read more... )

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This may be old news out there, but I just ran across it for the first time.  I thought this must be fake at first, but it seems she may actually be serious...

Talk about your unfortunate choice of advertising slogans:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26057894/

It's been 18 days, and I still can't believe I have a beautiful little daughter.

That is all...

And they've got seven kids??!!

Yes, indeed...I finally got sick of wondering about the "lucky couple" used in classmates.com's ubiquitous ad. Google led me to it:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2003325519_adcouple27.html

I'm really enjoying the old BBC mini-series "I, Claudius", and in the middle of one of the episodes, THIS  appears.
I would have never thought he had curly hair originally...

subtitled: Generalized Erdos Numbers ( Read more... )

I miss a lot of things about Iowa, but the severe weather isn't one of them:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24840152/

I remember Parkersburg as a beautiful little small town a few miles away from where I lived in Iowa.  I'm glad everyone I know in Cedar Falls seems to be OK. I was a bit worried about two of my grad students who went back to visit Iowa ( Read more... )

Zip on over to youtube and watch the "Safety Dance" video, then follow it up with "Land down under ( Read more... )