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Turns out the riot kiss was real after all. The lad’s Mum says, “It is something he would do — that’s our boy,” she said. “He has always lived in his own world. He’s special like that. He doesn’t always connect with what [is] going on around him. I knew it was him because he …
Thanks to David Handelman for this: In 1987 and 1988 Paul McCartney and Elvis Costello recorded an album’s worth of collaborative material which was never released. Burning Wood has the demos for some of those songs. According to Sal Nunziato, the blog’s proprietor, some of the finished material from those sessions, “trickled out and found …
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Thanks to Stephen Rabow: ”Guys-to-Girls: Brain over Brawn most-always wins (geeks rejoice!) Girls-to-Guys: Give ’em crap (they’ll eat it up!)” http://psp.sagepub.com/content/15/1/27
This Youtube currently making the rounds in the blogosphere juxtaposes quotes from self-professed Christian elected officials about their love of Ayn Rand and quotes from Rand herself during an interview with Mike Wallace. That the religious right would embrace not just a self-avowed atheist, but one whose atheism was rooted in the notion that religion …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zqw-7Dmki1Y
UPDATE as of 4:30 pm 6/8/2011: This story has turned out to be another example of good natured viral advertising which became too successful to stand up to public scrutiny. Apparently the maple bacon talking dog is a hoax too. In fact, every talking dog video has been a hoax. Thanks to Mike Jones for …
http://youtu.be/XRwX9oCaE9Q
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Heard from former Seattleite, now a Minnesotan, John Moe, that his new show, Marketplace Tech Report, may now be heard on OPB every weekday at 8:35 am. Tune in and enjoy this man of immense comic and business analytical skills. Here’s John’s Marketplace Tech Report Blog. And here’s John with Roseanne Cash. .
http://youtu.be/FaO2W6yHQWM
My family had a vinyl record of “Wild Thing” by Illinois Senator Everett Dirksen in the 1960s. This version by a fake Bobby Kennedy should add some of that intellectual stuff I liked so much about Bobby. “Ah, I was reading, ah, Aeschylus last night, and it made me think how much Camus’ ‘The Plague’ …