Music must read 1): Tom Waits interviews... Tom Waits

Music Must read 2): An excerpt from Grumpy Old Rock Star by Rick Wakeman, formerly of the band "Yes". Seriously- if you loved This is Spinal Tap- you will dig this!

Not music: "Selections from H.P. Lovecraft's brief tenure as a Whitman's (chocolate) sampler copywriter". (From tyellasWould ( Read more... )

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I have added a feed for that mighty cheeseblog 365_cheeses.

Really today that is all I've got.

Unless you are USian and care that That Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are using your federal bailout money to pay a shareholder dividend.

Ah... the Free Market.

Oh yeah- the big flavour hit at the Yokohama Ice Cream Festival is... this.

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For my other horse people friends:

Conversations with an equine.

For people who think an author stalking her fans for leaving a 3-star review on Amazon is interesting. Or creepy enough to read about.

First off, This from the New York Times. Excerpt:
"Like energy, bandwidth is an essential economic input. You can’t run an engine without gas, or a cellphone without bandwidth. Both are also resources controlled by a tight group of producers, whether oil companies and Middle Eastern nations or communications companies like AT&T, Comcast and ( Read more... )

"Now physicists have created a rudimentary prototype of a machine that simulates quantum phenomena using quantum physics, rather than using data kept in a classical computer....(Details)

Both the above and immediate below cause me to think of happyinmotion's mitochondrian project.

With pinkiepoopoo in mind, a well written review of the hypnotic MonkeyLectric LED Light ( Read more... )

A: Stylish, designer home wind turbine. (Interesting if it works well and hits market at the price.)

B: The Rave-UniMog has been one-upped by a (Corporate- Bah!) Ural 375d with more bass.

C: I fell in love with a female assassin. Sometimes a new lover telling you their secrets is not what you expected ( Read more... )