Tag: entertainment
Comets Elenin & Garradd Now Showing in Night Sky
Get out those binoculars! Two comets, Elenin and Garradd, are now showing in the night sky.
Get out those binoculars! Two comets, Elenin and Garradd, are now showing in the night sky.
William Butler Yeats – Sailing to Byzantium
An evening pause: Read by Bosco Hogan, as Yeats.
An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing
For every tatter in its mortal dress,
Nor is there singing school but studying
Monuments of its own magnificence.
Top 10 Most Wonderful Canyons in the World
The ten most wonderful canyons in the world. With pictures.
These canyons are beautiful, but I am baffled that the list excludes the Grand Canyon, even though they repeatedly compare these ten canyons to it.
The ten most wonderful canyons in the world. With pictures.
These canyons are beautiful, but I am baffled that the list excludes the Grand Canyon, even though they repeatedly compare these ten canyons to it.
Another IPCC prediction fails
In a paper published in Geophysical Research Letters of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) earlier this month, climate researchers have found that another prediction in the UN’s IPCC reports — what Al Gore likes to call “settled science” — is simply wrong, and that IPCC’s predicted rise in sea level over the next century is likely not going to happen.
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2010 Hostile Winds
Frank Sinatra – High Hopes
Hugh Jackman – O what a beautiful morning
Angst
Hope and Crosby – The Road to Morocco
Quadriga Consort – Pulling the sea-dulse
Linda Ronstadt – Long long time
St. Olaf Chapel Choir – John Rutter’s What Sweeter Music
A living room electon microscope
Ray Lynch – The True Spirit of Mom and Dad
Danielle “ate the sandwich” Anderson – Things we have in common
An evening pause: Danielle “Ate the Sandwich” Anderson.
Bonnie Raitt – Angel from Montgomery
John Sebastian – Darling be home soon
An evening pause: As performed at Woodstock, 1969.
Go, and beat your crazy heads against the sky.
Try, and see beyond the houses in your eyes.
It’s okay to shoot the moon.
Battle over naming a Colorado mountain for John Denver
A battle builds over naming a Colorado mountain for John Denver.
Sadly, everything is politics today.
A battle builds over naming a Colorado mountain for John Denver.
Sadly, everything is politics today.
Danny Kaye and Beverly Sills – Opera parody
John Cleese – How to irritate people by being considerate
A Bell for Adano
An evening pause: This lovely and poignant scene from the 1945 film, A Bell for Adano, showcases the superb acting of Gene Tierney and John Hodiak. He is an American commander of Italian descent put in charge of an Italian village now under U.S. rule near the end of World War II. She is a local Italian girl longing to find her sweetheart who went off to fight for Italy and is now missing.
The movie was based on a short but profound book by John Hersey. And what I remember most from that book is this speech by the Hodiak character in trying to explain to the Italians the right way for government officials to act:
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Downhill mountain biking in southern Utah
Moody Blues – Your Wildest Dreams
An evening pause:
And when the music plays
And when the words are
Touched with sorrow
When the music plays
I hear the sound
I had to follow
Once upon a time
Once beneath the stars
The universe was ours
Love was all we knew
And all I knew was you
I wonder if you know
I wonder if you think about it
Once upon a time
In your wildest dreams
Judy Garland – Pretty girl milking her cow
Catherine Destivelle – solo climb in Mali
The story of Hayabusa inspires three major movie releases
The story of Hayabusa, the Japanese space probe that was the first to successfully return material from an asteroid despite serious technical failures, has now inspired three major movies.
The story of Hayabusa, the Japanese space probe that was the first to successfully return material from an asteroid despite serious technical failures, has now inspired three major movies.
Simon & Garfunkel – The Boxer live in Central Park
Moving Graffiti
An evening pause: from blublu.org.