|
|
|
|
|
| |
Light Pollution In last night's Simpsons, Lisa can't use her telescope because the night sky's too bright. Did they really base a Simpsons on the problem of light pollution? Yes! Bart and Lisa end up sabotaging the nuclear plant so people can watch a meteor shower. Though I wouldn't recommend that approach, what a way to raise awareness of the problem! Good work, Simpsons!
Monday, March 31, 2003
2:35 PM
| Link
Gulf War Drinking Game Mostly funny observations about the media, but pretty funny...
Thanks to John Dunn for the link!
11:18 AM
| Link
Color The Presidents Download drawings of all our Presidents. Make em cool colors!
Friday, March 28, 2003
1:03 PM
| Link
Drink For Freedom! Off French wine this week? Who can blame you. Cross-reference this chart of the world's top wine producing countries against that last link, of our coalition allies. Among the top 10 wine producers, Italy, Spain, Australia and Romania join the USA on the good guys/good wine side.
Friday, March 21, 2003
3:46 PM
| Link
Going it Alone? Our 45 coalition partners.
3:33 PM
| Link
My Friday Column Up on ChannelWeb.
3:31 PM
| Link
Mutual Incomprehension: This John Derbyshire column spells out just how great the gap is between America's world-view and that of everyone else--even folks even in other modern democratic countries. It's sorta depressing, but you can't solve a problem until you understand it.
Wednesday, March 19, 2003
12:38 PM
| Link
The new column.
Friday, March 14, 2003
2:58 PM
| Link
A cool Powers of 10 demonstration of the scale of the universe, centered on the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, FL.
10:29 AM
| Link
The Dylan song in the Victoria's Secret commercial is "Love Sick." Thanks to the great Dylan site Expecting Rain for the info, though they don't explain this odd coupling either.
Friday, March 07, 2003
4:56 PM
| Link
Busy week at ChannelWeb. Here's What's Happening
4:48 PM
| Link
Seasonals at Black Forest
Had lunch over the weekend at the Black Forest Brew House. Along with their Pilsner and Amber, the seasonals on tap wrere "Blue Star," a steam-style amber, and a Schwarzbier Black Beer. Both were good!
Wednesday, March 05, 2003
3:42 PM
| Link
This Note's For You
Last night's 24 (which was very good, by the way) included commercials featuring songs by Bob Dylan and Van Morrison. I can't remember hearing either of their songs in commercials before.
In fact, one of my favorite concert memories was seeing John Mellencamp at the Meadowlands around 1990. He came out for his encore and said, "For our encores we've usually done some Motown songs, but so many of those great old songs are commercials now. So we're going to do a song by a man who's never sold his songs for commercials." And the band played "Like a Rolling Stone."
Now I don't really have a problem with artists licensing songs for commercials. And I'm not even sure what the Dylan song was, though it was unmistakably Bob-- probably from 'Time Out Of Mind." Van Morrison's 'Moondance' in an Infiniti commercial was pleasant enough, to be sure, but Bob grousing though a Victoria's Secret commercial was positively jarring. Just guessing, but I bet somewhere Bob's laughing.
3:41 PM
| Link
How To Kill A Radio Station This article about the woes of WNEW FM gets my experience with the station exactly right: their programming after John Lennon's death made me a loyal fan; then 15 years later, Jerry Garcia died, and to NEW it was as if he never existed. Meanwhile, KROCK played Grateful Dead songs for three solid days. I quit being an NEW fan and never went back. Apparently I wasn't alone.
Monday, March 03, 2003
4:02 PM
| Link
|
|
| |
|
|
|
