Thursday, July 21, 2005

Comanche Code Talker On Yahoo News 9:40:18 PM

Points of Presence - Read / Write Web Points of Presence. - p.s. I'm still looking for a good name for this list of links. Points of Presence - what do you think? I figure I need a name without the term "Web 2.0" in it, but which nevertheless indicates that Web 2.0 is what these links are about. New suggestions welcome :-) [Read/Write Web] 9:14:18 PM

Golden Pharaoh $36m returns of Tut's tour of four American states. Dr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Supreme Council for Antiquities said that Egypt would harvest $36 million from the tour of Tutankhamun's exhibition in four American States. He said that the golden pharaoh managed to fascinate the American people again 26 years after the first exhibition. This came in a symposium titled "Tutankhamun invaded America" organized by Mubarak's Public Library in Giza. He said that the number of the exhibition visitors in Los Angles reached 10,000 a day while the price of a ticket jumped to $30 in the weekend. $36m returns of Tut's tour of four American states, State Information Service, Egypt, July 19, 2005. By Mark Morgan. [Egyptology Blog] 9:05:35 PM

Canton Becker Gourd MP3 canton-ambient-gourd.mp3. 1996 Ambient. First in a series of five "gourd transmissions" inspired by a special gourd-gift from a special friend. Chimes accidentally supplied during recording by a lucky gust of wind. [Mediaburn Podstation 2408 on GigaDial Public] 8:14:54 AM

Open Space Plan would save state's wide open spaces. Arizonans could set aside nearly 700,000 acres of open space on the undeveloped edges of the state's growing cities and clear the way for more parks within new neighborhoods under a plan released Tuesday and likely headed for the 2006 ballot.{b} Proposal would add to Scottsdale preserve [azcentral.com | Arizona Republic Front Page] 8:11:14 AM

speak / shakespeare Shakespeare in Original Pronunciation. Interesting NPR segment on a Shakespeare production at The Globe done in the Original Pronunciation. Apparently, this makes it easier to understand. I don't know. To me, it sounds like a combination of Welsh and something else - and it's not even September 19... [MetaFilter] 8:05:00 AM