RELEVANCE!!!

also, this article (http://www.livescience.com/strangenews/ap_050418_einstein.html)is pretty common-sense information, but the following quote seems relevant, if'n you know what i mean...

"Today, universities have produced millions of physicists. There aren't many jobs in science for them, so they go to Wall Street and Silicon Valley to apply their analytical skills to more practical -- and rewarding -- efforts."

i'm not going to become a stock broker.

EAR THEATER

one of my audio pieces will be presented tonight at the "ear theater."
here's the full info:




and here are some links:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081206/ap_on_re_us/secret_santa

vietnamese jesuit wins NOLA congressional seat
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/08/us/politics/08cao.html?_r=1

report on how bad charred meat is for you
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E04EEDB1039F936A35754C0A9669C8B63&sec=&spon=&partner=permalink&exprod=permalink

oh, blago...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081209/ap_on_re_us/blagojevich_corruption_probe

ODETTA

i've never been a big fan of odetta's music, but i really appreciate the things she's done for music, civil rights, and the U.S. She died yesterday.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081203/ap_en_ot/obit_odetta
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odetta

i decided to look for some of her songs that i would like and instantly found these excellent examples of her versatility.

hit or miss




What a Friend We Have in Jesus with Tennessee Ernie Ford

chupaqueso

i'm vjing again at burlington. tomorrow.
check it out.
also, i've been slacking on posting articles and links.
here are some:

New way to deal with eternal problem of teenage rebellion! Legal abandonment! Huzzah!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081113/ap_on_re_us/safe_haven

Has this guy been cured of AIDS?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081113/ap_on_he_me/eu_med_aids_treatment

Speaking of kids...this is awesome:
http://brutesforce.com/clothing.html

pete seeger interview with pitchfork magazine
http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/feature/146734-interview-pete-seeger

negative bullsh*t:
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/10/sacramento-gop.html

chupaqueso, i.e. jay maynard has done something awesome other than the tron suit
http://www.chupaqueso.com/basic-howto-with-pictures/

we're djing the day after halloween @ burlington

protman's going to play most of the music styles listed above, i'll probably play some of that, plus old soul music, exotica, mambos, and some more contemporary dance music. maybe some aquabats :)

also, this is pretty funny:

See more Ron Howard videos at Funny or Die

an event i'm vjing at on monday

also, here's some links:

weird stalker story http://www.advocate.com/issue_story_ektid42749.asp

samuel "joe" "six pack" "the plumber" wurzelbacher http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/16/joe-in-the-spotlight/?hp

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081014/ap_on_bi_ge/financial_meltdown

USA! USA! USA! http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20081015/sc_livescience/americansflunksimple3questionpoliticalsurvey#full

brief essay about this situation we're in: http://lumpentimes.blogspot.com/2008/10/now-get-ready-for-recession.html

posting before midnight so that the blog doesn't turn into a gourd

Wow. I've neglected to post many links. Many have expired. These haven't.

horrible stories about itches http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/06/30/080630fa_fact_gawande?currentPage=all

prescient info www.ratethedebates.org

apple and the royalty increase http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/10/thursdays-copyr.html

oct.9 dowdrop http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081009/ap_on_bi_ge/financial_meltdown

http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/murderonthebase/

eerily realistic

this coming friday in chicago

here's a flier i made for a show i'm playing at. hopefully someone reads this, sees it, and decides to go. we'll see.



also, here's some stuff about the current economic situation i forgot to post:

your money, OWNeD http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080926/ap_on_bi_ge/washington_mutual_future

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/wall_street
BANKFRAUD! http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080924/ap_on_bi_ge/financial_meltdown_investigation
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE48N03X20080924
a bunch of words on recent actions, spilled on the page for dramatic effect: http://finance.yahoo.com/banking-budgeting/article/105807/Shock-Forced-Paulson%27s-Hand

lecture on the link between animal-based food and cancer, other diseases

this is a 90-minute long video, but it's worth watching the entire thing

another week goes by

here's another event:



also, here's some links:

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/08/army-funds-synt.html

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/11/video-fix-super.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Pachomius

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Koestler

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bowdlerise

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamarckism

today, tonight, last week

i have been pretty busy recently, mostly with cleaning things, so i haven't put anything up here in a week. if anybody is reading this in chicago, this is happening tonight. check it out:



fairly certain that the text on the graphic above is difficult to read.
here's the info:
tonight @ rodan
10pm-2am
1530 Milwaukee ave.

free

MUSIC:
Ed Vertov
Slava
Lokua
Garo
Slow Children

VIDEO:
Spiderback
the machinist

reasonably priced good beer, delicious food

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also, here's some links:

http://www.snopes.com/pregnant/rabbit.asp

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steampunk

i bought a couple of this group's bizarre records in an elgin thrift store a couple years ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astara,_Inc.

i've never seen this movie, but it looks interesting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ginger_Snaps_(film)

no work

click on the image above for larger view


i forgot about these during the week:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natasha_Demkina

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Museum_of_Hoaxes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayesian_inference

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Simon_Laplace

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSICOP

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmine

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transderivational_search

just wikipedia today. more links tomorrow.

Lost: insurance, houses, liberty

definitely not the tasty kind, but still unhealthy
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080821/ap_on_he_me/medicare_drugs_doughnut_hole

John McCain has 7 houses
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080821/ap_on_el_pr/mccain_houses

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aztec_codices

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080820/ap_on_re_us/pilot_watch_list_2

chipped http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080822/tc_nm/mexico_crime_chips_dc

weirdos and famous people

high schol dork becomes psychic spy!
http://www.philipchabot.com
i watched Chabot's weird videos and heard of the topics below and decided to look them up:
Masters and Johnson
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masters_and_Johnson
Thorazine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thorazine
........................................................................................................................

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposable_Heroes_of_Hiphoprisy

Stephen King rails against the douchebags who televise baseball
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,20218931,00.html

Canadian pr0n channel http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSPAT84665620080818

more economic crisis stuff http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idINSP21695020080819

Brian Eno and David Byrne have a new album http://blog.wired.com/music/2008/08/david-byrne-and.html

Bernie Mac funeral
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-bernie-mac-funeral-080817-ht,0,169178.story

SONIC is coming to Aurora
http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/dining/chi-sonic-maniaaug18,0,5715865.story

ant social level determination http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080819/sc_livescience/keystoantsocialstatusfound

inflation and wholesale prices http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080819/ap_on_bi_go_ec_fi/economy

free vsti's here http://rekkerd.org

sound designer for David Lynch movies is releasing a sound fx cd collection http://www.sonicstate.com/news/shownews.cfm?newsid=7067&CFID=59349473&CFTOKEN=79184054

this is an awesome song by south african dj mujava:



meet yip-yip

brains, food, recovery, money

brain fitness
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/09/AR2008080901279.html?g=1

clean/dirty produce
http://health.yahoo.com/experts/nutrition/13728/produce-the-dirtiest-and-the-cleanest

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioshock

Gordon again


autographs
http://news.zdnet.com/2424-9595_22-216370.html

UK NASA hacker http://www.scmagazineuk.com/Nasa-hacker-wins-two-week-reprieve/article/115446/
more background on this guy http://www.scmagazineuk.com/Profile-Gary-McKinnon/article/105897/

Pakistani burn victims/survivors
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080817/ap_on_re_as/pakistan_burned_beauticians

i have no idea how they earned $31 million with a plot like this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Love_Guru

inflation
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/aug2008/db20080815_021990.htm

www.stephansmith.com

mp3 blog recordrobot.blogspot.com

erroll morris has a blog at the new york times website.
these are interesting and important discussions:
http://morris.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/11/photography-as-a-weapon/
http://morris.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/19/the-most-curious-thing/

semantics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jam_band

mp3 blog somevelvetblog.blogspot.com

Spain says OOPS!! http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing/blog/fourth_place_medal/post/Spanish-basketball-team-poses-for-offensive-pict?urn=oly,100152
http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing/basketball/news?slug=ro-spain081308&prov=yhoo&type=lgns

jellyfish problems http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/08/080811-jellyfish-swarms.html
fallen arches
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/08/080811-arch-photo.html

bizarre http://www.iloveegg.com/egg_english.htm

telemegaphone http://www.unsworn.org/telemegaphone/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Schmeiser

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lee_Kyung_Hae

arctic problems http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/aug/10/climatechange.arctic

cyberspace
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/05/pentagon-define.html
http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/08/air-force-suspe.html

iPod http://www.peteykins.com/Bolton/AppleStore.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychoacoustics

rubbery conductor http://news.zdnet.com/2424-9595_22-215039.html

RSS hijacking
http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blogs/vogele/archives/003636.shtml

I, Gordon http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/08/13/frankenrobot-brain.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerboa

Sierra Leone
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSL828130220080811

a shark may have eaten a bear
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSLB66891920080812

michael phelps eats food http://www.thatsfit.com/2008/08/14/12-000-calories-a-day/

spore http://www.wired.com/gaming/gamingreviews/magazine/16-08/pl_games_spore

YOU DOWN WITH LHC?

CERN-O http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/08/large-hadron-co.html

montauk monster hoax? this is the first i've heard of this, and i'm on the internet all damn day. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2524385/Montauk-Monster-A-hoax-to-promote-a-film.html

imposter
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/2531090/Clark-Rockefeller-The-great-pretender.html

dumb http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSN0728479020080807

i saw this http://butterfatstudios.com/artwork/373116.html
which made me look at this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Mehretu
the external links at the bottom of the wikipedia page are much more
informative than the actual wikipedia page.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kokeshi

denmark's energy solution http://www.forbes.com/2008/08/06/denmark-energy -electricity-biz-energy-cx_wp_0807power.html

i think they mean concentric, not concentrated
http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSL623035920080806

this is also a good blog http://cakewrecks.blogspot.com

i'm very slow at down and up loading photos. this is from May. i participated in the Looptopia festival in Chicago. look at these ridiculous drink prices:

Bernie Mac

Bernie Mac has died
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080809/ap_on_en_mo/obit_bernie_mac

Russian/Georgian war
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080808/ap_on_re_eu/georgia_south_ossetia

Gingrich/oil
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/08/06/gingrich.energy/index.html

China/Darfur/activism
http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing/blog/fourth_place_medal/post/Chi?
urn=oly,98718

chess
http://www.turbulence.org/spotlight/thinking/

this is hilarious
http://blog.wired.com/underwire/2008/08/the-phantom-
edi.html

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080808/sc_afp/sciencebiologyturtles

i think this is great - www.tvbgone.com

i hate inappropriate quotation mark and apostrophe usage. this is an
awesome website: http://quotation-marks.blogspot.com/

buying pensions
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/08_33/b4096000769608.htm

cloud computing?
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/aug2008/tc2008082_445669.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Petit

some of you may be familiar with this practice, especially those of you on tour in a band...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080808/ap_on_fe_st/odd_urine_disposal;_ylt=AjwoWAm8u_TcvZ_Qq_LvCrEZ.3QA

new application for mass spectrometry
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/08/science/08finger.html

everything

Millions of people out there have blogs. now i'm one of them.
I read a lot of internet articles, Wikipedia entries, and some blogs, and i find a lot of interesting music through mp3 blogs. I often don't have time to finish reading the articles or downloading the music, so i thought i might create a blog as a public repository for these things, so i'd be able to go back to them easily, and so i could also share this information with others. I'm sure some of it will be pretty well known by the time i post links, but some of it will be obscure, interesting, and/or useful. Hopefully a lot of it will be.

Here's the first entry, containing links to things from yesterday and today:

NASA/mars http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN3136620220080805


the next few are particularly joyous:

potential bank failure
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN0344130720080803

FBI anthrax investigation
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/08/05/anthrax/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/anthrax_investigation

Chinese olympics rules for visitors
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSKUA16177220080801



Here's a good one if you're into WWE, ultimate fighting, or MMA
http://sports.yahoo.com/mma/news?slug=dm-lesnar080408&prov=yhoo&type=lgns

field hockey contact lenses aid sight in beijing smog
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/olympics/article1487300

I bought some mint at the farmers' market on sunday and made some delicious mint/blueberry tea. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mentha

I was researching various blog hosting/creation websites when i found this movie. It looks pretty interesting and fun. Those kids have put together some kickass sound systems. http://www.madeinqueensfilm.com/

Someone I barely know may have a kidney stone. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kidney_stone


I also found out about the band Corntooth today while looking at various blogs. They're a group comprised of members of various Virginia hardcore punk and metal bands, such as Lamb of God and Avail, who play great country and bluegrass tunes together. Here's some links i found related to them, including some of their songs posted on a message board.

• background info: http://www.richmond.com/music/14668
• mp3 samples (i especially like "paycheck to paycheck" and "leave a message") http://rpgva.com/index.php/forums/viewthread/8/
• myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/corntooth

gorillas: http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080805/sc_livescience/surprisingnumberoflowlandgorillasdiscoveredinafrica

This is where i found the link to the bike movie. There's also an excerpt from a 1995 interview in WIRED with Brian Eno. http://wanderlustmind.com/

I've never been to Chick Fil-A, but a name like that seems at least slightly suspect to me. I guess i shouldn't prejudge so easily: http://health.yahoo.com/experts/eatthis/11230/americas-bestand-worstrestaurants/

Have you ever played this game? You aren't the only one. Actually, i used to play Bust-a-Move, but it's basically the same thing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snood_%28video_game%29


that's it. maybe i'll add things later.