85 – Inside the Hollow Earth « strange maps That’s just plain beautiful. This is a summary map of the Hollow Earth, with all its different entry points and layers, including a small floating sun in the middle. So this is what people reverted to after the flat earth was discredited. Strange maps has the
Pandora Internet Radio – Find New Music, Listen to Free Web Radio We’re playing this track because it features electronica influences, a subtle use of vocal harmony, major key tonality, prominent use of synth, acoustic sonority, folk roots, dynamic vocalists, acoustic instruments. After months of listening to Pandora, it seems to have calmed down and
On 2 Mar ’07, 8.08am GMT flyerjimmy said: HI I wonder if i can use this picture (see link) On my cat-ladder site – a site about Cat-Ladders 🙂 Here’s the address to the site: http://katt-trappa.blogspot.com/ PLEASE! Where is the picture taken? Which town/country. Yours sincerely / Jimmy Robertson – Stockholm/Sweden Uh, yeah. Sure. Cool
BF Skinner was a world famous psychologist who did experiments on conditioning, following Pavlov, where he showed you could get anyone to do anything with enough positive reinforcement (negative reinforcement isn’t as effective, oddly). Humph. Lauren Slater has written a very personal book Opening Skinner’s Box: Great Psychological Experiments of the Twentieth Century all about
I’m all preregistered. Now to decide whether I actually want to go.
Enough. Everyone seems to think I will write one day, why I don’t know. Damn the premonitory bullying. I will start now. Here’s my portent. Here’s my book. So Judas is crying. He cries a lot at the moment. Perhaps he always was a weeper, a grabber of momma’s shawl, a chaser of comforting skirts.
Penny Arcade! – The Home Of The Gods, Part One The thing that really gets me with this whole thing is that the kid knows full well that by equating what he’s done to a video game, that he will generate controversy and media coverage. It makes me sick that the media is jumping all
Via Boing Boing. Groucho’s obsession with Shakespeare and Nabokov’s concerns over (the American) Dennis the Menace’s bastardy cracked me right up. powered by performancing firefox
“Last week, a critic at the Gramophone magazine got surprise when he put a Hatto recording of Lizt’s 12 Transcendental Studies into his computer. The iTunes player identified the disc as being recorded by another pianist, Lászlo Simon. He dug out the Simon album and found it sounded exactly the same as the Hatto one.
Ugh. Remind me never to eat part-cooked, part-burnt, but definitely inedible batter again. Even with lemon juice and salt. It just smelt so tasty!