Saturday, April 2, 2005

Lords of Dogtown Based on the true story of the legendary Z-Boys. http://www.lordsofdogtown.com 11:21:06 PM

But Beautiful But Beautiful by Geoff Dyer. Quite simply, But Beautiful is one of the most astonishing books I've ever read. An impressionistic, semi-fictionalised series of portraits of early jazz legends - Lester Young, Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell, Ben Webster, Chet Baker, Charles Mingus et al... [cityofsound] 5:21:01 PM

Poem Present New Podcast - Poem Present. Poetry readings and lectures at The University of Chicago -Subscribe here [ipodder News] 2:13:14 PM

Kosgoda Rebuilding Project, Sri Lanka In the wake of a 9.0 earthquake on the morning of December 26 and the resulting tsunami in the Indian Ocean, Sri Lanka alone is expected to have over 40,000 deaths, if you can imagine that. We can't. But hundreds of thousands are homeless and have lost everything. So instead of worrying about the dead or the perfectly safe like us, let's focus on people who need help now. We're a group of locals and friends working directly with a small part of the affected area that we're familiar with, to efficiently give assistance to people when and how it's needed, and not be overwhelmed by the sheer faceless numbers that we see in the media. Kosgoda is well-known for its sea turtle hatchery (read more about it at the bottom of this page), and like most coastal towns in Sri Lanka, it has a large population of fishermen who live close to the ocean. Though it's only 40 miles south of Colombo, it suffered the effects of the waves much worse - tourists and natives alike died, and many more lost everything they had. The hatchery, a non-profit conservation project that employed many locals and attracted tourism dollars, is a complete loss, as are homes and fishing boats and nets that are the means of support for many others. http://montessori-intl.org/tsunami 1:09:19 PM

Pre-Order Datacloud at Amazon Datacloud: Toward A New Theory Of Online Work (New Dimensions in Computers and Composition) by Johndan Johnson-Eilola. Pre-Order Datacloud at Amazon. For those of you on tenterhooks (whatever the hell "tenterhooks" are), you can pre-order Datacloud (the dead tree edition) from Amazon. Datacloud (the weblog) is actually pretty separate from the book, apart from having similar themes, a poor work ethic, and a disdain for the finer points of logic (and those are its positive points). The book, I should add, also has more big words in it.... [datacloud] 12:53:29 PM

Gas Prices in Phoenix Price of gas hits record $2.21 a gallon in the Valley. Gasoline prices in the Valley on Friday punched past records set last year. [azcentral.com | republicfront] 9:19:36 AM

The Donnas The-Donnas.com - band profile, lyrics, pics, and more .... The-Donnas.com - band profile, lyrics, pics, and more [allrecordlabels.com - Weblog: what's new in music on the web] 8:41:05 AM