Birthday Song
What song was top o' the charts when you were born? (Or, if you're older than the pop charts like me, on your 18th birthday?)
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The Curious Incident of the Book Club in Texas
One of the best reads I've had in the last few years was Mark Haddon's <I>The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time</I>, a story written in the first-person voice of Christopher Boone, an autistic 15-year-old.
Amusia
To some people, music doesn't make any sense. There's a name for that: amusia. Auntie Beeb 'splains it to us.
Words Words Words
Jeremy Clarkson gives good rant on over-used words that really ought to be considered offensive.
Productivity Enhancer
Hours of mindless fun drawing and watching your own flipbooks. If I can do it, you can do it.
Clive James Has a Posse
<A HREF="http://www.clivejames.com/index.cfm">Clive James</A> has a website, which is full of stuff that'll keep you riveted to your chair.
Poetry as a Symptom of Epilepsy
You didn't think people did it for the money, did you?
A Scanner Darkly
In <I>FilmMaker</I>, Scott Macauley has written a spirited preview/interview of Richard Linklater's <I>A Scanner Darkly</I>, which he says is the first faithful film based on a Philip K. Dick novel. I hope so, because the early trailer I saw had an overly-rotoscoped look that I didn't simply hate, I detested. Macauley makes me want to see the movie anyway.
Was Krazy Kat Really Shrodinger's Cat?
Chet Raymo argues that George Herriman's love struck cat and brick-tossing mouse "turned the deterministic world of Newtonian physics upside down."
Why I Love the Web, #4327
Because you get websites like <I>Paul's Boutique Samples and References List</I>, which, of course, attempts to codify every sample, quote, and homage from the Beastie Boys album <I>Paul's Boutique</I>. Probably more than you ever wanted to know, but (IMO) that's what makes it so cool: It was done out of love, pure and simple.