On August 29, Nonesuch Records gave its first donation of $1 million to Habitat for Humanity International. The funds, raised in only eight months through sales of 150,000 copies of Nonesuch's superb benefit album <I>Our New Orleans 2005</I>, will be used to build homes for displaced musicians and others in the New Orleans Habitat Musicians' Village, whose centerpiece will be the Ellis Marsalis Center for Music.
Nice essay on Gödel's place in mathematical logic.
Bagheera, gazing down on Huckleberry, can't believe he's too lazy to wake up for breakfast (and she's the svelte one).
Says Huckleberry: "I don't care what the ASPCA says, I am <I>not</I> diurnal—and even if I were, I definitely wouldn't be a morning kitty!"
A film critical of the MPAA get rated NC-17. What are the chances?
Photographer David Burnett has posted his series of photographs of the Gulf coast, taken last January and published in the new <I>National Geographic</I>. It's stunning stuff. Burnett has the eye for both the big picture and the telling detail—his photo of the refrigerator-magnet–covered car of a worker at the garbage dump where they destroyed "white goods" is surprisingly touching and human, even though no people are shown.
Learn the Northern Jersey dialect of Italian. Think <I>The Sopranos</I>. Racy language alert—or is that redundant after mentioning Tony's gang?
RadioShack, the second-rate phone store that used to sell electronics, just fired 400 employees by email. Classy, no? But here's my question: Considering that the last five times I tried to buy basic computer supplies at RadioShack (yes, I'm a slow learner, but it <I>is</I> just around the corner), the employees treated me as if I were asking for unobtainium, are the 400 people who've been let go capable of accessing an email account to find out they've been made redundant?
Don't laugh until you see the pictures.
