- Apollo Extended Edition, a remastering of the original Apollo album plus a second album of totally new material, will be released by Brian Eno, Daniel Lanois, and Roger Eno on July 19th.
- AKKU Quintet's (founded by SONAR drummer Manuel Pasquinelli) latest album is Depart.
- Scenes from the Flood is Bryan Beller's (bassist with The Aristocrats) new double-album.
- The Aristocrats' 4th album, You Know What...?
- John Bonham's Moby Dick drum solo
Drummers may have different brains than the rest of us says science.
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| Helen Frankenthaler, For E.M., 1981 (source). Inspired by an article about a current exhibition of her paintings in Venice. |
Greg Bustin's recommended summer reading on the topic of leadership includes Victor Frankl's Man's Search for Meaning which I just finished reading. One of the book's essential philosophical or psychological points is that life is not about pursuit of pleasure or power but of meaning.
If "ablaut reduplication" is too technical for you just remember I-A-O and you'll never flop-flip your flip-flop.
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| From Present & Correct comes a collection of TV test cards. |
Hey, smart people. You choke under pressure because your mental abilities cause performance anxiety. (Instead of trying to be right, just do your best.) Also, if you believe that intelligence is a fixed trait you're likely to fail at activities you're not instantly good at.
A bit more traditional is the periodic table in pictures.
Deservedly so, the Colossal Cave Adventure was inducted this year into the World Video Game Hall of Fame.
This is from back in May but have you seen the surface of an asteroid close-up?
How about a font comprised entirely of colored dots?
Or some more traditional looking fonts by designer Clotilde Olyff?
Can you solve the secretary puzzle?
A longish and hard-to-read article on Disney animator Bill Tytla (think Chernabog).
How many mechanical movements are illustrated and animated for internet-friendly consumption? 507.
I enjoyed the Chernobyl series on HBO but what did actual Chernobyl survivors think of it?
How about the SR-71 flight manual?
Or maybe you'd prefer to fly the B-17.
The DFW Metroplex is the fastest growing metro area in the country and Fort Worth is now the 13th largest city.
At last we know: Libyan desert glass was created 29 million years ago by a meteorite impact.
Science has invented a drug that is successful against antibiotic-resistant bugs.
Thrilling to the live stream from Hungary this morning made me realize how sad it is that the Red Bull Air Race is ending this season after September's race in Japan. It "did not attract the level of outside interest as many other Red Bull events." I'm wondering if after some time off the event can be retooled and brought back.
POOP
Why does coffee make us poop? Science tells us it has nothing to do with caffeine.
If you ate rocks you'd poop sand too.
I'll take feline excretory systems, Alex. The answer is "Bacteria." The question is "what do cats farm in their butts?"
How long would it take for you to use up the forever roll of TP?
NOT POOP
And I leave you with hours of potential time wasting: this is sand.
...and to survive is to find some meaning in that suffering. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
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| I have never seen this spiral version of the periodic table before. See it and more unusual periodic table designs here. |
Deservedly so, the Colossal Cave Adventure was inducted this year into the World Video Game Hall of Fame.
This is from back in May but have you seen the surface of an asteroid close-up?
How about a font comprised entirely of colored dots?
Or some more traditional looking fonts by designer Clotilde Olyff?
Can you solve the secretary puzzle?
A longish and hard-to-read article on Disney animator Bill Tytla (think Chernabog).
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| Did you get some Ellsworth Kelly postage stamps yet? |
How many mechanical movements are illustrated and animated for internet-friendly consumption? 507.
I enjoyed the Chernobyl series on HBO but what did actual Chernobyl survivors think of it?
How about the SR-71 flight manual?
Or maybe you'd prefer to fly the B-17.
 |
| A world map showing every city with more than 500 people. |
At last we know: Libyan desert glass was created 29 million years ago by a meteorite impact.
Science has invented a drug that is successful against antibiotic-resistant bugs.
Thrilling to the live stream from Hungary this morning made me realize how sad it is that the Red Bull Air Race is ending this season after September's race in Japan. It "did not attract the level of outside interest as many other Red Bull events." I'm wondering if after some time off the event can be retooled and brought back.
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| Mark Rothko's Untitled (1961) recently sold at auction for $50.1 million. |
Why does coffee make us poop? Science tells us it has nothing to do with caffeine.
If you ate rocks you'd poop sand too.
I'll take feline excretory systems, Alex. The answer is "Bacteria." The question is "what do cats farm in their butts?"
How long would it take for you to use up the forever roll of TP?
NOT POOP
And I leave you with hours of potential time wasting: this is sand.
...and to survive is to find some meaning in that suffering. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
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