The first thing was, I tried to cut off my ear. Well, sort of. Don’t try this at home, but if you do trim the hair around your sideburns, be very careful where you put the tip of the scissors. I actually felt the blades cut into my ear and wondered, “What the hell am [...]
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This is TBS via UStream. We’ll try this for a while to catch up on some earthquake and Fukushima nuke news. A telephone-like chime means a special news bulletin. If you hear a buzzer, that indicates another earthquake, and they’ll flash the magnitude up on the screen. Live streaming video by Ustream Interesting alternative—and in [...]
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The last five days of FotoFeed are now uploaded. Here’s a preview of what’s coming later this week: Grateful for the wildness And to my dear old friends in Maryland, I miss you very much. It doesn’t DO that [above] on the Eastern Shore, though, and I need the drama like I need air and [...]
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Not advocating anything in particular here, just pointing out that a good truth is hard to find. Under the headline “Marijuana May Fight Lung Tumors,” CBS News goes on to say: Cannabis may be bad for the lungs, but the active ingredient in marijuana may help combat lung cancer, new research suggests. In lab and [...]
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I can’t vouch for the accuracy of the claims in this video, nor do I know who produced it. My intuition is that it’s pretty much on the mark, however. See what you think… Just click on the triangle to start the download. Click on the image itself to go to the sponsoring site. UPDATE: [...]
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Er, yes. That’s the government’s suggestion for solving global warming. From an article in the Sydney Morning Herald. There’s a whole lot more, but isn’t this enough? The US wants the world’s scientists to develop technology to block sunlight as a last-ditch way to halt global warming. It says research into techniques such as giant [...]
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Just a heads-up on a fascinating article in the LA Weekly about an American doctor, Nayer Khazeni, returning to Iran after leaving to come to America 28 years ago. I used to teach Iranian graduate students English at the University of Texas (petroleum engineering majors, mostly). The little I know of Iranian culture and attitudes [...]
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Arianna Huffington reports from the third annual DLD Conference in Munich. Very interesting, with some cool links. Here’s the key ‘graf: The first thing that struck me was that, although the United States may have invented the internet, now it’s anybody’s — and everybody’s — game, and there are a lot of incredible ideas about [...]
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That’s the title of a column I just finished for Horse Fly. I probably never should have written it and wouldn’t have, if I hadn’t been temporarily insane. I doubt they’ll even publish it, but if they do, you can read it in the ‘Fly, published and distributed here in northern New Mexico around the [...]
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If you haven’t read this account of how James Brown made it from Atlanta to Harlem, go read it right now. I read this out loud to my honey and cried all the way through. There’s just something about the common humanity of it all that transcends the usual crap.
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