Wednesday, May 7, 2003

Audio from Salon.com: Califone: "Quicksand/Cradlesnakes". Early American folk and blues merge intriguingly with off-kilter electronic sounds. [Salon.com] 10:28:51 PM

Salam Pax, our blogger in Baghdad is back!. Salam Pax from Baghdad is back! via Nick Denton By Joichi Ito jito@neoteny.com. [Joi Ito's Web] 8:23:35 PM

Berkeley Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL):  Dan Kammen's group, with a weekly seminar program.  "At one level, the goal for RAEL is to update, integrate and nurture a collaborative synthesis of E. F. Schumacher's Small is Beautiful appropriate technology and development philosophy with the energy industry as it exists today. On another level, it is to promote sustainable development that includes deep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions and resource consumption. " [Ken Novak: Future energy] 3:22:56 PM

Statement from the Gary Hart News Blog: Thank you all - I intend to keep fighting. It has been one of the truly great blessings of my life to have had the finest people one can imagine as friends and supporters in many public causes. I don't know of any candidate for any public office... [Gary Hart News Blog] 2:04:07 PM

Pete Townshend cautioned about viewing child porn site What Pete Townshend did was illegal and wrong. Personally, I do not think that Pete Townshend is a pedophile. Just my opinion. Judging from his musical works, I would believe the story that he was abused as a child. I'm certainly not an expert on this matter. I hope this is the last we hear of the subject. When it comes to his life as a composer, musician, writer and thinker, I also believe the man is a genius. He even forecasted the widespread adoption of the internet and electronic communications in his 1971 song, The Relay (Album: Who's Next): From tree to tree From you to me Traveling twice as fast as on any freeway Every single dream Wrapped up in the scheme They all get carried on The Relay Sounds like blogging to me! In addition, there's a telecom protocol for transmitting digital information known as Frame Relay. 11:44:29 AM

Local TV stations are going digital. The digital television revolution has finally reached Tucson, but there's no need to chuck your old TV set quite yet. [Arizona Daily Star: Front Page] 1:13:23 AM

Tommy Cooper. "Last night I dreamed I ate a ten-pound marshmallow, and when I woke up the pillow was gone." [Quotes of the Day] 12:39:14 AM