Friday, January 3, 2003

Happy Eleventy-First Professor Tolkein! Today marks the 111th birthday of JRR Tolkein - a rather curious number, and a very respectable age for a hobbit... 12:32:32 PM     Check out Jim's notes on holiday music that appeared in yesterday's blog. Comments are appreciated as this is a direction the blog may be taking. 8:27:18 AM     Probably more than you care to know about January as Scott Simon chats with Elaine Fantham on NPR's Saturday Morning. 8:27:03 AM     Views of what is medically dangerous change with time. Around the turn of the century we had cocaine in products like toothache drops for children. The site concentrates on psychotropic substances, but it should be noted that tobacco was considered beneficial by some (a great way for women to keep their figures:). Of course there are revelations from the future in Woody Allen's Sleeper. 8:24:54 AM     From Google Labs another interesting tool - the Google Viewer shows the pages produced by the search rather than summaries. I remember talking about this with Will, Loren and others several years ago with the consensus being that it wasn't that useful. Sukie and I really like Vivisimo as a document clustering search engine. It is minimal and powerful. Give them both a try! 8:24:35 AM     I've been on something of a crusade looking for interesting classical webcasters. They seem to be in decline quantity and quality (at least by the kbps metric), but for many parts of the world the Internet is the best way to find programming. My latest find is from Hong Kong. Of course there are other types of music that are even more difficult to find .. Celtic for example. Try their mp3 stream. A bit more unusual is a real Irish Gaelic site. Music, the spoken word and (I guess) news. Or for some real obscurity how about Tolkein reading parts of the Lord of the Rings? Some is in Elvish. 8:24:15 AM     I worry that a closed America is really Amerika. Citizens deserve much more. 8:23:54 AM

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