Better Late Than Never
I've just recently discovered the blog <I>We Are All Mozart</I>, billed as "A project to create new works and change the perception of the music of our time."
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Boom, Pow! Right in the Kisser!
<I>Dial "M" for Musicology</I> recounts the confrontation between champion of the world Mike Tyson and 77-year-old philosopher A. J. Ayer.
Al Yankovic A Genius?
Maybe so, says <I>The Village Voice</I>'s Ben Zwickel. Perhaps a better theory is that he's "a canary in the coal mine of pop music, and when pop music's good—or interesting, at least—Yankovic has more to sing about."
You Do What You Eat?
Have the changes in our diet in the past century constituted "a very large uncontrolled experiment that may have contributed to the societal burden of aggression, depression and cardiovascular death"?
On the TV/Autism Link
<A HREF="http://www.slate.com/id/2151538/"><I>Slate</I></A> published a short piece on a <A HREF="http://www.johnson.cornell.edu/faculty/profiles/waldman/autpaper.html">… academic paper</A> that suggested several possible correlations between the increase of autism and television watching.
Do We Own Our Own Bodies?
<I>The New England Journal of Medicine</I> weighs in on an increasingly pertinent question: Does a cell-based breakthrough belong to the cell donor or the people who harvested and developed it?
Forcefield On!
Here's a Fox News segment on the Trophy Active Defense Systems, a division of General Dynamics. Although the video makes it look like it's all but installed on IDF vehicles, <A HREF="http://www.defense-update.com/products/t/trophy.htm"><I>Defense Update</I></A> throws some cold water on the rosy predictions, quoting US Army deputy for acquisition and systems management, Maj. Gen. Jeffrey A, Sorenson, who said the project is obviously not good to go. "If this thing was ready to go, my question would be, why wasn’t it on the particular tanks that went into Lebanon?" he said, noting that no Israeli Merkava tanks carried the Trophy system.
Hergé's Auto Erotica
Tintin's cars and the vehicles that inspired them.
Speed the Day!
I was walking down Fifth Ave. a few days ago, when a woman striding down the sidewalk behind me gave off such antagonistic vibes that I scurried out of her path. As she passed by, I thought <I>There's someone just waiting to explode</I>.
The Deep Story
One of the most popular URLs I ever linked to was <A HREF="http://www.wesjones.com/shipbreakers.htm">"The Shipbreakers"</A>. Here's more, including pictures of many of the treasures that have been "liberated" from the ships.