Archive for December, 2003
The Great Barrier
A new arm of the Milky Way galaxy has been discovered, which the quoted scientist says is a “gas border,” 60,000 light years out from the center, “at the furthest reaches of the galaxy.” Sounds to me like they’ve found the Great Barrier at the edge of the galaxy. Better not steer too close.
Munch on some Quadrotriticale
The Particles of Star Trek. Also covers minerals, energy fields, waves, grains, and other oddities in the Star Trek space-time continuum. (Found via Veer: Ideas.) More on Quadrotriticale at Memory Alpha.
American Pig Dog!
“… and the events between the two events will fill up a paragraph at best.” I’m glad Lileks deigned to let the web permalink that one. “A Mass Grave of One!” Hee hee.
Ugliest. Building. Evar.
Hey, MICA students, if you thought the Brown Center “Iceberg” was unattractive, get a load of the Ontario Academy of Design’s up and coming horror. (And here’s an even bigger projection.) It’s like a UFO from a Hallucinogenic Bizarro World. And they’ve already started building. Oh, the humanity. (Links via Coudal, who will soon be [...]
Take That, Satan!
Apparently Time was just about ready to launch a big cover story on “Lost Gospels”… when suddenly Saddam was caught and the covers had to be changed. Ha! Get lost, noncanonical Mary Sue Gospels, and take your Da Vinci Code with you!
Kapital Krispy Kreme is Koming
Krispy Kreme to open its first DC store. Right outside the Dupont Circle Metro station. OH YES. I can already see the average weight and body fat percentage at Dupont Circle skyrocketing. And those Krispy Kremes get as much news coverage as Apple stores. Update, 03/2004: I’m writing this six months later and the “Coming [...]
Saddam Photoshop Roundup
Homeless Saddam. Turkey Saddam. Santa Saddam. Saddam Nolte. Close Shave Saddam. Yankee Saddam. Carbonite Saddam. Rallying Homeless Saddam. ZZaddam Top. Big Saddam collection by Michael Totten. Noogie. Queer Eye for the Saddam Guy. Myself, I have no time for any visual antics today. But let me just say that shaving off the beard was a [...]
Called To Be
I’m not normally a fan of Ralph Vaughan Williams, him being one of those notoriously blaring, dissonant, Romantic-Modern transition composers; but I find that some of his work can be wondrous, especially where the English background shines through. Today we sang Today We Are Called To Be Disciples of the Lord, a hymn based on [...]
Got Saddam
Saddam caught. Yay.
La Prima Vez
“Start focused, then spiral out madly.” My advice on Ask.MeFi for starting a classical music collection. Note: Title of this post is a reference to a song from Songs of the Sephardim, “La Prima Vez,” or “The First Time.” I highly recommend the album.