Time		Artist		Song		Album		Label
8:55		Calexico		Yours And Mine		Garden Ruin		Quarterstick
		DJ Comments: live on KEXP Fri. 4/14 at 11am
8:55		Band Of Horses		I Go To The Barn Because I Like The		Everything All The Time		Sub Pop
8:51		Drive-By Truckers		Little Bonnie		A Blessing And A Curse		New West
		DJ Comments: new release
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8:43		Black Rebel Motorcycle Club		Restless Sinner		Howl		Red / Echo
		DJ Comments: live on KEXP Sun. 3/19 at 4:30pm, live @Showbox Mon 3/20
8:41		Devendra Banhart		Queen Bee		Cripple Crow		XL
8:37		John Prine		Pretty Good		John Prine		Atlantic
8:32		The Be Good Tanyas		Waiting Around To Die		Chinatown		EMI
8:27		Freakwater		Annabelle Lee		Dancing Underwater		Thrill Jockey
8:23		The Crooked Jades		Fly Around		The Unfortunate Rake Vol. 1		Copper Creek
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8:17		Muddy Waters		Honey Bee		The Chess Box		Chess

RIP MIX BURN: BOOT LIQUOR RADIO

"Progress and love have got nothin' in common; Jesus healed the blind man's eyes with mud" - Peter Case from Poor Old Tom

"With the blood from my body I could start my own still." - George Jones

"Maybe the moonshine was used for communion wine" - Julie Lee from Stillhouse Road

National Geographic: "Stitched together from 21 images captured by NASA's Cassini spacecraft, this enhanced-color picture of Saturn's moon Enceladus shows the south pole region rife with fractures that hint at mysterious turbulence below the surface. Tectonic forces may be driving the liquid-water geysers that scientists say are spraying from the icy crust. "

this is another day

GIANT SQUID WATCH: The Mad Scientist

City Pages - The Mad Scientist PZ Meyers: As befits a biologist's journal, Pharyngula follows assiduously the latest scientific findings regarding the sexual habits of creatures such as the giant squid. (As it turns out, giant squid mate by firing bulletlike globs of sperm at anything that resembles another squid, male or female, often leaving the paramour injured). Myers is prone to lengthy scientific tangents on such matters, and occasional unscientific ones: 'Just imagine it—great pelagic orgies, the males thrusting wantonly with their massive penile arms, promiscuously inseminating any nearby slickly molluscan body. Perhaps they end up sated and exhausted from their frenzied exertions and, oblivious and insensate, drift ashore to die content. Forget March of the Penguins. There's a great documentary to be made here: Squid Gone Wild. Cephalopod Sex Party. I want to see Michael Medved review it.'

Pharyngula

"Once more into the breach, dear friends, once more;
Or close the wall up with our English dead!"

"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers."

Shakespeare - Henry V

this is the day

falling back to earh

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Ballardian: The World of J.G. Ballard » Myths of the Space Age: Joe Kittinger

I’m sure you can read Ballardian imagery into this if you want…the world’s forgotten ‘astronaut’, he was to all intents and purposes the first man in space, only to be completely overshadowed by Yuri Gargarin and Neil Armstrong.

As BLDGBLOG says: “In 1960, U.S. Air Force pilot Joe Kittinger flew 30km straight up into the sky using a pressurized, high-altitude balloon. This very nearly made him the first man in space.

He then jumped.


Kittinger free-fell for over twenty kilometers – at which point he was moving so fast he broke the sound barrier. He had all but left the earth’s atmosphere; the sky around him was pitch black; he could see the outlines of entire continents; and the haiku-like abstraction of his available reference points – earth, balloon, space – made it impossible to tell if he was really falling. Luckily, there’s a film”.

Indeed. Kittinger carried a camera with him, and you can see the film here.

Mind blowing.



First man In Space - Skydiving from the edge of the world - Google Video

Nabeel's Cosmos

BLDGBLOG: Falling back to earth, alone

the sound of the tv after sign-off

with these hands block and receive

into the blur looking back tripping

40,000 horse power cant be wrong

over my head it's loud and clear

no maps for this place

just yellow tape

“It is a vulgar and barbarous drama, which would not be tolerated by the vilest populace of France, or Italy …one would imagine this piece to be the work of a drunken savage.” —Voltaire on Shakespeare's "Hamlet"

Like a mute without a voice
With a bottle in my hand, make some noise
...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead "All Saints Day"

Zeus most glorious and most great, Thundercloud, throned in the heavens! Let not the sun go down and the darkness come, until I cast down headlong the citadel of Priam in flames, and burn his gates with blazing fire, and tear to rags the shirt upon Hectors breast! May many of his men fall about him prone in the dust and bite the earth!
- Homer - The Iliad

Je suis marxiste tendance Groucho.
I am a Marxist of the Groucho tendency.

Le patron a besoin de toi, tu n'as pas besoin de lui.
The boss needs you, you don’t need the boss.

Nous ne voulons pas d’un monde où la certitude de ne pas mourir de faim s'échange contre le risque de mourir d’ennui.
We don't want a world where the guarantee of not dying of starvation brings the risk of dying of boredom.

I had gotten to the point where I was either going to play the violin much better or I was going to break it over my knee.
- Ellen Taaffe Zwilich

Don't do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your soul. When you go to work, work your ass off. When you hate someone, hate them until it hurts.
- Henry Rollins

Sous les pavés, la plage!
Beneath the pavement, the beach!

Banging your head against a wall can burn up to 150 calories per hour

“Burnout is nature's way of telling you, you've been going through the motions your soul has departed; you're a zombie, a member of the walking dead, a sleepwalker. False optimism is like administrating stimulants to an exhausted nervous system.”
- Sam Keen

There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or burn it.
- Carl Sandburg

Sir Bedevere: There are ways of telling whether she is a witch.
Peasant 1: Are there? Oh well, tell us.
Sir Bedevere: Tell me. What do you do with witches?
Peasant 1: Burn them.
Sir Bedevere: And what do you burn, apart from witches?
Peasant 1: More witches.
Peasant 2: Wood.
Sir Bedevere: Good. Now, why do witches burn?
Peasant 3: ...because they're made of... wood?
Sir Bedevere: Good. So how do you tell whether she is made of wood?
Peasant 1: Build a bridge out of her.
Sir Bedevere: But can you not also build bridges out of stone?
Peasant 1: Oh yeah.
Sir Bedevere: Does wood sink in water?
Peasant 1: No, no, it floats!... It floats! Throw her into the pond!
Sir Bedevere: No, no. What else floats in water?
Peasant 1: Bread.
Peasant 2: Apples.
Peasant 3: Very small rocks.
Peasant 1: Cider.
Peasant 2: Gravy.
Peasant 3: Cherries.
Peasant 1: Mud.
Peasant 2: Churches.
Peasant 3: Lead! Lead!
King Arthur: A Duck.
Sir Bedevere: ...Exactly. So, logically...
Peasant 1: If she weighed the same as a duck... she's made of wood.
Sir Bedevere: And therefore...
Peasant 2: ...A witch!
- Monty Python

"Have you got any soul?" a woman asks the next afternoon. That depends, I feel like saying; some days yes, some days no. A few days ago I was right out; now I've got loads, too much, more than I can handle. I wish I could spread it a bit more evenly, I want to tell her, get a better balance, but I can't seem to get it sorted. I can see she wouldn't be interested in my internal stock control problems though, so I simply point to where I keep the soul I have, right by the exit, just next to the blues.
- Nick Hornby, "High Fidelity"

One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
- Bob Marley

“You’re through. Finished. Burned out. Used up. You’ve been replaced. . . forgotten. That’s a lie!”
- Charles R. Swindoll

Saint Anger 'round my neck
Saint Anger 'round my neck
He never gets respect
Saint Anger 'round my neck



I'm madly in anger with you

And I want my anger to be healthy
And I want my anger just for me
And I need my anger not to control
And I want my anger to be me

And I need to set my anger free

Set it free

- Metallica "St. Anger"

Main Page - 43FoldersWiki:
This is the wiki web for 43 Folders, which we've conceived as a place to explore and expand on the ideas discussed on the 43F site. Popular topics on 43 Folders include:

* productivity and time management practices
* Macintosh OS X software
* Life hacks and other smart heuristics
* Cool tools and Productivity pr0n

And any cool ideas that help people to accomplish their goals, route around bad behaviors or replace them with good ones, reduce stress, find - or make - the time to do things they enjoy

RIP MIX BURN: sigur rós - takk...

sigur rós - takk...: "‘takk…’, the fourth album from sigur rós, was released by emi records on september 12. written, performed and produced by the band (along with co-producer ken thomas) at their studio in álafoss, iceland, ‘takk…’ is the record to justify every amazing claim ever laid at this exceptional band’s door.

huge and intimate, orchestral and gossamer-light, rich layered and essentially simple, ‘takk…’ is a work of a band operating at the very top of their game. it accomplishes what maybe they haven’t done since they first appeared, which is to make high-flown ideas appear to be straight ahead pop music, or, perhaps more accurately, invest pop music with a sense of magic long since lost in the mists of time and imagination (not that they sound anything like any music made back in any mythical musical heyday).

‘takk…’ seems to operate so far outside the confines of what else is going on as to make comparison redundant. that the band were not going to be held by any narrow categorisation was apparent from the off. that they might be capable of creativity at this level of freedom and imagination was more than any of us might ever have hoped for. ‘takk…’ is an instant classic, and might well turn out to be sigur rós’s masterpiece."

Fübar / Ragnarok Watch

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KILT WATCH: Denied!

Sequins and sparkle light up men's figure skating fashion parade - Yahoo! News:
The International Skating Union got rid of 'skirts only' rule - that is to say for women.

Scottish ice dancer John Kerr was thwarted in his bid to wear a kilt the represent the theme he and sister Sinead Kerr want to use for their free skate.

'There was some thought that would be a good idea. But the first page of the ISU rules states that a man must wear trousers,' he explained.

Amazon.com: Bear v. Shark: The Novel: Books: Chris Bachelder

My Beard, Reviewed

McSweeney's Internet Tendency: My Beard, Reviewed:

M Y B E A R D ,
R E V I E W E D .

BY CHRIS BACHELDER

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Average Customer Rating: *** (Based on 9 reviews)

**** Must-see beard!!!

Reviewer: A. Dawson from San Antonio, TX, USA
This is the best beard I've seen all year. It's one of those beards where you just never want it to end. If you get a chance, CHECK OUT THIS BEARD. You won't be sorry. I guarantee it.

* pathetic

Reviewer: Jennifer K. from Rochester, NY, USA
I just can't believe what passes for a good beard these days. I teach junior high English, and I've seen better beards on my eighth-graders. Don't waste your time. I'll take Hemingway's beard every time over today's beards.

McSweeney's Internet Tendency

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OFFSHOOT OF TIMOTHY MCSWEENEY'S QUARTERLY
CONCERN, A JOURNAL CREATED BY NERVOUS PEOPLE IN
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Copyright
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Length
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Design
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Links
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Hyperlinks
Are those different from regular links?
I am not sure.
Well, we'll have none of those, either.
Okay.

Archives
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Proofreading
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The CulturePulp Q&A: Joss Whedon

The CulturePulp Q&A: Joss Whedon

[Regarding Serenity/Firefly]

"Q. The show and film are also fascinating in that they have no aliens, or dorks in jumpsuits with prosthetics on their nose-ridges. Nor does the spaceship in any way resemble a flying Sheraton Hotel."