Wednesday, November 29, 2006

Andrew Bird Tour Dates Andrew Bird Tour Dates. DECEMBER 1 // Middlebury, VT (solo) Sepomania Festival @ Middlebury College DECEMBER 30 & 31 // Denver, CO Ogden Theater JANUARY 13 // Chicago, IL The Hideout JANUARY 14// Indianapolis, IN The Music Mill JANUARY 15 // Cleveland, OH Beachland Ballroom JANUARY 17 // New York, NY The Bowery Ballroom JANUARY 24 // Melbourne, Australia Northcote Social Club JANUARY 27 // Sydney, Australia The Basement MARCH 22 // London, England Bush Hall MARCH 23 // Brussels, Belgium Botanique MARCH 29 // Paris, France La Maroquinerie MARCH 30 // Amiens, France Musique de Jazz et d'Ailleurs Festival BONUS: Andrew Bird Photo Gallery on donewaiting.com [donewaiting.com] 6:54:34 PM

discuss King Tutankhamen's curse. Is King Tut's tomb cursed? On February 16, 1923, Egyptologist Howard Carter, his financier George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, and Herbert's daughter Lady Evelyn Herbert entered the just-discovered tomb of the Egyptian boy-king Tutankhamen. Newspapers sensationalized the discovery, and told of a curse. Herbert dies in a Cairo hospital at 2 AM on April 5, 1923, only several months later. Supposedly, right at that moment, lights in Cairo go dark, and his dog at his estate back home in England howls and also drops dead. However, Carter and Lady Evelyn contine living healthy lives, and examination shows that on average, everyone associated with the discovery lived normal-length lives. Herbert was not in good health even before the discovery, and died of blood poisoning from an infected mosquito bite. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, among others, thought it was fungus. So now, when scientists perform a CT scan of the body, strange stuff happens: ?one researcher's vehicle nearly hit a child. Then a huge storm hit. The CT machine, usually reliable, wouldn't work at first. And when researchers finally began the CT scan, one scientist came down with such a violent coughing attack he had to leave.? Discoveries made? King Tut was 5'10' an 18-20 years old when he died. He probably died of gangrene from a broken femur, not with a blow to the head as previously thought. His head is cut off, his body is cut in two, and his wrist, shoulder, and elbow joints are disconnected. Oh, and his penis is missing. [MetaFilter] 6:49:27 PM

Chemical Treating Key to Stradivarius lies in chemicals used on wood. Answering a question that has lingered for centuries, a team of scientists has proved that chemicals used to treat the wood used in Stradivarius and Guarneri violins are the reasons for the distinct sound produced by the world-famous instruments. The conclusions, published in the current issue of Nature magazine, have confirmed 30 years of work into the subject by Joseph Nagyvary, professor emeritus of biochemistry at Texas A&M University, who was the first to theorize that chemicals, "not necessarily the wood" created the unique sound of the two violins. Nagyvary teamed with collaborators Joseph DiVerdi of Colorado State University and Noel Owen of Brigham Young University on the project. read more [Science Blog - Think. It's not illegal yet.] 6:46:13 PM

mc Miles Copeland. Miles Copeland has made a career of doing what others felt was crazy. In the process, he changed the music and entertainment business with acts such as The Police and The Bellydance Superstars. Show ID and Intro Interview with Miles Copeland Electric Sky [...] [Mediaburn Podstation 2408 on GigaDial Public] 5:54:42 PM