The weather remains unsettled and nicely not too hot.
Here is some of the rain that we had on the weekend. And quite the lightning also in the sky and saw some incredible bolts.
Click here to see a Quicktime movie of the rain pouring down in front of our place. And how do you like the pink place across the way! And our little garden.
Man races world’s fastest cat – CNN.com
Healthful Chocolate – washingtonpost.com
German scientists reviewed a number of studies on different substances containing polyphenols, compounds that seem to have salubrious effects on the human cardiovascular system. They found that, contrary to some assertions, black and green tea appear to have no marked effect on blood pressure. Cocoa-rich diets, on the other hand, had lowered both systolic and diastolic blood pressure in study subjects after only two weeks.
Pearls Before Breakfast
Can one of the nation’s great musicians, Joshua Bell, cut through the fog of a D.C. rush hour?
It was captured by hidden cameras and microphones. You can see it and hear it on the Washington Post site.
No one knew it, but the fiddler standing against a bare wall outside the Metro in an indoor arcade at the top of the escalators was one of the finest classical musicians in the world, playing some of the most elegant music ever written on one of the most valuable violins ever made.
Click here for the full article.
And the article’s author responds here to readers responses, where over one hundred said the article made them cry!
Language Log: The Dan Brown code
I don’t think I’d want to say these things about a first-time novelist, it would seem a cruel blow to a budding career. But Dan Brown is all over the best-seller lists now. In paperback and hardback, and in many languages, he is a phenomenon. He is up there with the Stephen Kings and the John Grishams and nothing I say can conceivably harm him. He is a huge, blockbuster, worldwide success who can go anywhere he wants and need never work again. And he writes like the kind of freshman student who makes you want to give up the whole idea of teaching. Never mind the ridiculous plot and the stupid anagrams and puzzle clues as the book proceeds, this is a terrible, terrible example of the thriller-writer’s craft.
I think I also read it on an airplane and wasn’t impressed. And the movie wasn’t great also. Well so much for taste.
Indialucia is a musical project, which fuses two fascinating styles of music: Indian and Flamenco music. The album expresses both the human and musical fusion of these cultures, which could have had a common ancestor. Improvisation and rhythm are the common elements in both styles and are essential to the continued existence of this music. The recordings were made between 1999 and 2004 mostly in India and Spain. Many great artists from the two continents performed. This album is the result of the years of work, which for the first time demonstrates the common elements of flamenco and its Indian roots fused into one art form.
The album was distinguished with the 1st prize “Best Album of the Year 2005″ Wirtualne Gesle and 2nd music critics’ prize at the New Tradition competition for the “Folk Phonogram of 2005″ award.
And there is a Myspace page here.
Cool, well, now I need to get the CD! You can download some movie clips of them on their site.
This is a panoramic photograph of three images stitched together taken from across the valley of the school. Click on the image above (or here) to go to a page which uses Zoomify to allow you to pan and zoom in to the image. It will work best with a decently fast Internet connection. You’ll need Macromedia Flash, which most people have, to use Zoomify.
Above is from a new website for panoramas called Clevr that even will stitch the panoramas together for you. So then you can look at this or see the one below.
This is interesting. And Telus isn’t great also. They don’t have open connections, you need to specially configure your PC and only allow two PCs from what I’ve seen.
Rogers: the worst Canadian ISP – scruffydan.com/blog -not associated with reality
Here is a slideshow with audio. It is about 12 minutes long. It will take a minute or two to load and you may have to click in your browser to allow it to load the Java Script.
If you have a slow Internet connection or just want to see the photos click here for a basic layout.
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