Andrea Claburn sings Monk's Epistrophy, with Dan Zemelman (piano), Peter Barshay (bass), Rob Ewing (drums), and Sheldon Brown (sax).
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Climate change is causing a breed of wild sheep in Scotland to shrink, according to research.
Scientists say milder winters help smaller sheep to survive, resulting in this "paradoxical decrease in size".
Tiny lamb chops will soon be a trendy appetizer.
Source: BBC News
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No dogs or farmers allowed at the Charter Shopping Center in Changchun, China.
Source: danwei.org
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She turned 16 in January.
"Why doesn't she age?" Howard Greenberg, 52, asked of his daughter. "Is she the fountain of youth?"
Such questions are why scientists are fascinated by Brooke. Among the many documented instances of children who fail to grow or develop in some way, Brooke's case may be unique, according to her doctor, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine pediatrician Lawrence Pakula, in Baltimore.
]]> Neuticles are testicular implants for pets. Neuticles are available for canines, felines, equine, bulls or any pet which is neutered. Neuticles should be implanted when the pet is neutered - but can be implanted years afterwards in most cases.
Like TruckNutz...but for pets. Better still, Neuticles, which once were only available in small, medium, and large, now come in nine sizes.
Link, via Improbable Research
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One of the technical challenges at stake with Street View--or any service that uses image detector software --is that the software sometimes makes mistakes, labeling part of the image as containing a face or a license plate when in fact it doesn't. While we like to think we've gotten pretty good at this stuff, we still have lots of these 'false positives'.]]>
Photoshop or laziness? I prefer the latter explanation.
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The Mystery Of Time
Socrates And Plato
Into Galactic Meanders
Sideral Spaces......
Transport Of Heart
That Traces Destiny
An Ancient Emotion.....
The Power Of Sex
Ignorance And Pain
Transparency Of Being
Spiritual Matter.......
Here's an .m4r file, which is the iPhone ringtone format.
]]>The national debt has surpassed $10 trillion and the National Debt Clock in New York doesn't have enough digits to mark the occasion.
]]> Lahore, Pakistan - After the flirtation came the fatwa.
With some overly friendly comments to Gov. Sarah Palin at the United Nations, Asif Ali Zardari has succeeded in uniting one of Pakistan's hard-line mosques and its feminists after a few weeks in office.
A radical Muslim prayer leader said the president shamed the nation for "indecent gestures, filthy remarks, and repeated praise of a non-Muslim lady wearing a short skirt."
Feminists charged that once again a male Pakistani leader has embarrassed the country with sexist remarks. And across the board, the Pakistani press has shown disapproval.
What did President Zardari do to draw such scorn? It might have been the "gorgeous" compliment he gave Ms. Palin when the two met at the UN last week during her meet-and-greet with foreign leaders ahead of Thursday's vice presidential debate with opponent Sen. Joe Biden, the Democratic vice presidential nominee.
Send Palin on a diplomatic tour of the Middle East and watch the regimes crumble.
]]> Why are you bringing this case to court? Please explain the circumstances that led to the problem.
I was told and coerced by Microsofts and Blacks (the community) or I would be hurt, face slashed and set up by police officers which I have been and am on Social Security (McCarthyism).
Microsoft's lawyers probably aren't losing any sleep over this case.
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(By way of The Chronicles of Dissent.)
]]> We live in an age of forgetting. The monstrous information flow that washes over us on a hourly basis, pushes out recent events and their lessons and fills our minds with new obsessions: Spitzer, Ferraro, Spears, Market Meltdown. The fact that men and women are dying and being maimed in their loyal service to a fatally flawed policy is soon pushed off our TV screens and the front pages of our newspapers. Communications scholars have long understood the power of governments to persuade by obfuscation and fear.
An excerpt from Jon Taplin's excellent blog.
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