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LibraryThing is an online service to help people catalog their books easily. Because everyone catalogs together, you can also use LibraryThing to find people with similar libraries, get suggestions from people with your tastes and so forth.
3:00 AM - Ken Burns Presents: Professional Wrestling (part 10) Nothing really expresses the repressed homosexual longing at the heart of the American experience quite like the sight of beefy men in mustaches and tights groaning and grimacing as they gallop and heave against each other for an audience of young men who put their posters on their walls. How many professional wrestling characters would look out of place in the Village People? (Answer: zero.) Ken Burns brings this uniquely American activity to life in his own inimitable style. Today’s episode: Koko B. Ware breaks the parrot barrier, and ushers in a new era in wrestling pets.
9:00 PM - Ken Burns Presents: Strat-O-Matic Baseball (Episode 4) Perhaps nothing expresses the repetitive, soulless horror of the American experience quite like Strat-O-Matic Baseball, which is a baseball game you can play with dice, a crap load of cards and pieces of paper, and a rule book the size of Detroit. Big big nerds like George Will relive their favorite Strat-O-Matic memories, like that one time the bases were loaded with two out in the ninth and Gary Carter was up against Bob Stanley, and he rolled a 6-2-3 and hit a homerun and it was awesome! Peter Gammons lives in a baseball-shaped house, his bed is shaped like home plate, and he has a scrapbook of his most memorable Strat-O-Matic box scores. You think I’m kidding, but if you think about it for a minute and you’ll know it’s true. In tonight’s episode, the lefty vs. righty advantage is factored in to the rules. But will switch hitting be properly balanced?
"say, [fill in secretaries name here] does our HR have a bloging policy?"
OV-105 Launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour from Pad 39B on mission STS-97. This is a five minute exposure taken from the Causeway (about 7 miles away from the pad). Taken with a borrowed all-manual Nikomat camera, 24 mm lens, f/16, Kodak Royal Gold 100 film. When the exposure was stopped in this shot, the shuttle was approximately 229 statute miles downrange.
something weird going on with the crooksandliars home page.
malcolm gladwell has a blog. does that mean weve reached a tipping point?
lance mannion thinks lost in the city by edward p jones is the best work of american fiction written in the past quarter century. what say you, bibliophiles?
never heard of a furniture librarian before
the allergy alerts have been at "High - Very High" since mid april. anyone else getting hammered extra special this year? every one i talk to is. i hear its cause the decorative cherry, apple and pear trees are all male now. so instead of 50/50 m to f its almost all male pollen pumpers in urban settings.
Interactive map of NYC (made with google satellite maps) that allows you to see the flooding that would result from a sea level rise between 0 and 14 meters. The LES (and Manhattan in general as opposed to Brooklyn / Queens and the Jersey waterfront) is actually a little higher than I thought.
What's up with blogspot.com? Under attack or just straining under the load? Or maybe it's just me? I can occasionally load a page, but most of the time it times out.
penn & teller do ground zero
Gorgeous HDR images of Manhattan. (What's an HDR image?) Probably this is the one if you only have time for one click.
this may already have made the rounds / if not, microsoft i-pod vid is here.
new level of mobile geekdom -- Yesterday I received a Verizon wireless broadband PCMCIA card for my laptop. It was sustaining a few hundred kpbs and hitting peaks of 1.2 Mbps in my initial tests last night.
is it considered good luck to have a pigeon build a nest and roost on your windowsill? ive got one about two feet from here with two eggs unhatched. guess thats a little more than roosting. whats the word for that? incubating? nesting?
Final death knell of the Lone Star Cafe: the good old "mysterious fire."
just clicking through the firefox extension and i found this multiplayer online pong. ive got winners.
> > Arthur Lee from Love has recently been
> > diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
> > (ALL) and has undergone 3 weeks of aggressive
> > chemotherapy. Doctors are hopeful for a full
> > recovery, but Arthur still faces more chemo,
> > extensive hospital stays, and a possible bone
> > marrow transplant. Arthur Lee has no health
> > insurance to cover his growing (over
> > $100,000+) medical bills.
> >
> > Arthur Lee (Love) is a man larger than life.
> > A flamboyant artist with a trail of myth and
> > mythology that follows him like a purple
> > feathered boa. His band Love was the first
> > rock band signed to Electra, and Arthur is
> > responsible for talking Jac Holtzman into
> > signing the Doors. Before all this, in 1964,
> > Arthur gave his friend, an unknown Jimi
> > Hendrix, his first appearance on record (the
> > Arthur penned My Diary, by Rosa Lee Brooks).
> > Love's third recording, "Forever Changes", is
> > still widely considered to be one of the great
> > rock n roll discs of all time. Love were true
> > artists, but not "careerist". They preferred
> > living together in "the castle" near Griffith
> > Park, to life on the road. Arthur even turned
> > down invitations to perform at the Monterrey
> > Pop Festival and Woodstock.
> >
> > In the 90's Arthur spent eight years behind
> > bars for "allegedly" shooting off a gun in
> > his apartment. When he was released, he
> > wasted no time getting back to the road and
> > his music. During the past four years, Arthur
> > has performed "Forever Changes" to sold out
> > audiences and fantastic reviews throughout
> > Europe and the United States, backed by the
> > local group Baby Lemonade, and a string and
> > horn section. Just when he thought his bad
> > times were finally over, he learned he was
> > sick.
> >
> > To help cover his medical expenses, Spaceland
> > Productions, Bruce Solar from The Agency
> > Group, and Mark Linn from Delmore Recording
> > Society are producing a benefit concert /
> > tribute for Arthur. We would like to extend a
> > warm invitation to those bands and performers
> > who want to be part of this benefit to honor
> > one of the greatest singer / songwriters of
> > our time.
> >
> > The concert will be held in late May / early
> > June; we are looking at venues of all sizes:
> > The Avalon, El Rey, Disney Hall, or Greek
> > Theatre with the line up determining the
> > location. Artists we are currently speaking
> > with include X, Calexico, and Cake. Baby
> > Lemonade is available to back up any singer
> > and there will be a string section as well.
> >
> > We are looking for artists to perform a few
> > of Arthur's songs that capture the spirit and
> > magic of Arthur Lee & Love. All proceeds will
> > go to Arthur's medical expenses.
> >
> > For further information please contact:
> >
> > Mitchell Frank or Liz Garo: 323 662 7728
> > Bruce Solar: 310 385 2800
> > Mark Linn: 615 480 6923
> >
> >
> > Thank you.
found this electronics outlet through some price searching site. looks to be only a couple of blocks away. i doubt its a user friendly store but looks better than wholesale liquidators on broadway.
snow?!
Any advice on things to do, places to eat in Puerto Rico? We're staying east of San Juan, near El Yunque National Park, but I want to get into San Juan.
going to see john waters perfom a one-man show tonight. no word yet if foam dispensers will be part of the act.