For National Poetry Month:
Calmly We Walk Through This April's Day
by Delmore Schwartz

( Click to read this poem )

Poll It's not just a job, it's an adventure.

I really do love it when the National Weather Service gets poetic and playful with the language in their Area Forecast Discussion: this afternoon and evening will be the proverbial calm before the storm starting late tonight ( Read more... )

The government of Egypt has cut off all access to the Internet. Sites in Egypt are unreachable, and people in Egypt cannot use the Internet to communicate with the outside world -- at all.

If you suddenly had no DSL, no fiber, no cable, no dialup, no wifi, no smartphone data service, and in short NO Internet access at all, what's the very first ( Read more... )

Imagine that you have these Swedish song lyrics (below), and you wanted them translated into English, and you had a nagging sensation that the last line is not "magic property damages eliminate". (Sorry Google, but thank you for playing.)

Original lyrics ( Read more... )

Name a song with one or more        pauses        in the middle: sonic negative space, silence.

First, before you read any further, you should know that all of this music is FREE, released under a Creative Commons license; WAV, FLAC, and MP3 versions are all freely available. It is also awesome. Prepare to download. OK, now:

If you like psytrance, and like drumming/percussion/'tribal' music, you might really like Etnoscope's new release ( Read more... )

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A Martian makes an emergency landing in Brooklyn and finds that a key part of his saucer has been damaged - the all important troover. He goes into a deli and asks the counter man if he knows where he can find a troover. The man asks, "What's it look like ( Read more... )

Dear Helpfulnet-
If you have a few minutes to help out, could you see if you can find a place either in San Francisco or along the way from SFO to Black Rock City that
- sells dry ice
- will be open when we get there. We're leaving SFO around 10am.
- actually HAS dry ice to sell us (40-50 lbs) !

Any help appreciated, and thank you!