The Kaye Effect
Observations:
a heap is formed
a streamer ejects
the outgoing jet rises
hits the incoming jet
ends the Kaye effect
a heap is formed
a streamer ejects
the outgoing jet rises
hits the incoming jet
ends the Kaye effect
The Lambrett Twist
Via BoingBoing, the greatest Scooter ad ever.
The Language of Homer
How The Simpsons has embiggened the English language.
The Last Antiwar Poem?
Rolf Potts argues that Ginsberg's "Wichita Vortex Sutra" is more timeless than Howl.
The Last Delta Bluesman
Garth Cartwright profiles David "Honeyboy" Edwards on the eve of his European tour. He heard Charley Patton and Tommy Johnson, the musicians regarded as Delta blues founders, play when he worked on a plantation. Big Joe Williams taught him music and how to hobo. He busked with the Memphis Jug Band, hung out with a teenaged Howlin' Wolf, and recorded for Alan Lomax. And in 1945 he took Little Walter to Chicago.
The Little Blue Pill
Panexa: Ask your doctor for a reason to take it.
The Lonesome Death of Florence Thompson
Living In Stereo posts Dave Marsh's 1983 must-read about Florence Thompson, the subject of Dorothea Lange's harrowing FSA photo portrait. It's a great read—and add LIS to my daily rounds of the 'Net.
The Lost Legion?
It reads like the plot of an Edgar Rice Burroughs novel: 145 Roman soldiers survive the death of their general, Marcus Crassus, and, as mercenaries, fight their way across the ancient world, winding up in China.
The Loudness War, Chapter 1139
Today's chapter: Seeing is believing.
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The Loudness War, Part 1172
Suhas Sreedhar writes about CD over-compression in IEEE Spectrum. It's a good 'un that goes beyond the usual hand-wringing to the real danger it poses.