About two weeks ago, when some of my roommates' friends were in town staying with us, I was dabbling with the turntables and came to the kind of realization that happens occasionally at such times. This particular instance was me noticing that track 2 on David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust album, Soul Love, sounds a lot like Wake Up on the debut album ( Read more... )

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So, hooray once again for the Kansas State School Board. They are to be applauded for boldly flying in the face of accepted science by allowing the teaching of Intelligent Design and redefining science. I kid you not:
... the board rewrote the definition of science, so that it is no longer limited to the search for natural explanations of phenomena.

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By now I'm sure that you've seen mention of the scurvy pirate attack of a cruise liner off the coast of Somalia. Since I've been sent several a link to articles about the story, I thought I'd provide comment on a couple of them. First of all, we have the report from The [London] Sunday Times, which gives some detail about just how rich these ( Read more... )

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Leave it to the BBC to spend half an hour taking apart Queen's rock opus in Rhapsody in Bohemia. This is quite amazing. Especially if you love this song like a geek, as I do.

(stolen from imomus)

Happy birthday Merle! I made you a picture (best experienced at full size):


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Yesterday was the day I went to examine the oft-fabled collection of records previously alluded to here. It was in the tiny town of Ridge Spring, South Carolina in a house that is largely full of junk. Most of the items of junk are LPs from a collection that was given to the house's owner (let's call him Charlie, because that's his name ( Read more... )

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