So I wanted to listen to The Planets by Gustav Holst. My favourite recording is Karajan leading the Berliner Philharmoniker in 1981, but my copy is missing. I did, however, find the CD I bought at a used store featuring Karajan, leading the Wiener Philharmoniker, back in 1961. My curiousity piqued, I promptly started listening ( Read more... )

NY Times has an article on penmanship. I mean, really? Is our penmanship that bad? I can write legibly. I worked hard at making my writing legible, if not always full of content. I know I continually work on it, because typing has deteriorated my handwriting, but is it something that a publication with NY Times' stature needs to tackle?

crack.

( kinda long )

http://www.nada.kth.se/~hjorth/krasse/english.html

Just FYI: If you're flying internationally from Heathrow this holiday season, forget the 2-hour minimum that the airlines quote you. Unless you're flying Business or First, budget a minimum of 3.5-4 hours.

Friend of a friend of ttocs has Hodgkin's Disease. Please help her by clicking here, and purchasing a NSFW calendar.

Thanks.

Anyone else notice that the language used by Islamic fundamentalists and the Conservative talk-show hosts in this country are very much similar? Sean Hannity's book title Deliver Us From Evil just slapped me across the face with it.

Flames, of course, will be used solely to toast marshmallows.

lizardling posted Hapland 3.

( work-in-progress walkthrough )

I found this article on WSJ.com. They used "it's" as a posessive (see their second to last paragraph). Gah!