Peter NixonI'm involved in music and multimedia.C&L's Late Nite Music Club with John Scofield- November 17, 2006 Crooks and Liarshttp://radio.weblogs.com/0111207/2006/11/17.html#a2105 Dictionary.com Word of the Day- November 15, 2006 inexorable:unyielding; relentless.Like ageing.Dictionary.com Word of the Dayhttp://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/archive/2006/11/15.html The Class Sketch- November 14, 2006 I found this clip by accident while looking for an old Terry Gilliam cartoon I saw on The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine in the 70s. If you remember the cartoon where the king assembles his top scientists to make them learn how man can fly ... I'd love to get a copy of that somehow. I just 1-Clicked The Best of Marty Feldman from Amazon UK because I figure if it's not on there, I'll still enjoy it. 35 years ago, my twin brother Dan and I rolled on the floor together laughing at stuff like the.http://paulboutin.weblogger.com/2006/11/11#a1620 Vietnam Gives Light Sentences to American Terrorists- November 13, 2006 See, when other countries hold prisoners for long periods without trials, it's bad. When we do it, it's protecting America. Yahoo News: Vietnam defused a political storm Friday by issuing light sentences to three Vietnamese-Americans convicted of terrorism, preventing the closely watched case from clouding President Bush's visit next week. The defendants had been held since September 2005 without charges after being accused of plotting to take over radio airwaves in their native country to...http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/11/11/vietnam-gives-light-sentences-to-american-terrori... Dictionary.com Word of the Day- November 13, 2006 ab ovo:from the beginningDictionary.com Word of the Dayhttp://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/archive/2006/11/13.html Dictionary.com Word of the Day- November 9, 2006 congeries:a collection; an aggregation.Here's a word I have to use!Dictionary.com Word of the Dayhttp://radio.weblogs.com/0111207/2006/11/09.html#a2099 Aussie Institute of Criminology calls piracy losses "self-serving hyperbole"- November 8, 2006 Cory Doctorow: The Australian Institute of Criminology analyzed the music and software piracy loss-figures for the the Attorney General, and drafted a report that found them to be errant nonsense The report calls the losses cited by software and music industry lobbyists "self-serving hyperbole," "epistemologically unreliable," and "absurd." The Institute of Criminology promises to tone down the language in the final report. You can feel the outrage of some poor economist who found herself...http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/46180770/aussie_institute_of_.html Doctor of the Future- November 8, 2006 "The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest her or his patients in the care of the human frame, in proper diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease." Thomas EdisonI love this. My daughter often says that people of the future will look at drug therapy and surgery in much the same way as we regard bleeding and the use of leeches. They may have worked, but they were definitely crude.And Edison's advice, at least for people in reasonable health to begin with, is so...http://www.thrivingnow.com/for/Quotes/doctor-of-the-future/ Dictionary.com Word of the Day- November 7, 2006 obfuscateto darken or obscure.One of my favourite occupations.Dictionary.com Word of the Dayhttp://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/archive/2006/11/07.html |