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Friday, 26 August 2005
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Mark Frauenfelder:
Larry Jens Anderson is selling great embroidered "Gay Merit Badges" for $20. Shown here: "Flaming Faggot."
The thing I really love about this
badge is that it illustrates exactly why gay men are called faggots. In
earlier times they were burnt at the stake with faggots of wood by
loving christian people concerned with their eternal souls. Ho, ho.
In Italian there is a term for gay men, finocchio, which literally means fennel, for the same reason. Dry fennel stalks are excellent for setting fire to homosexuals.
Oh, the humanity!
Link (thanks, Garth!)
[Boing Boing]
12:43:37 AM 
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I know this is a little late, but it can't go without mention.
One of the most important things he did was tie the synthesiser to a
keyboard interface. Earlier synths had punched paper tape for
programming. On the advice of a friend, Bob Moog (rhymes with "vogue")
decided to use an interface that most musicians were already familiar
with. The rest is history.
Robert Moog, whose name became synonymous with electronic music
in the 1960s and 1970s through the invention of his self-named
synthesisers, has died in in the US, aged 71.
[ABC News: Entertainment (with Mpeg1)]
12:23:53 AM
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The National Campus Band competition heats for TAFESA North were held on Monday and Tuesday nights at Jack's Bar at the Salisbury Hotel.
I was exhausted after the Robe trip so I didn't go, but some of my
multimedia students went, and used our new digital field recorder to
record (they filmed too) the Tuesday night. The recordings were
excellent. It was particularly pleasing that any band that had any of
our music students in it got through to the final. Not only that, but
the only band that was made entirely of our music students, Zenyth of Absence, got the best reaction of the night. The other finalists were Ventolin, Torniket, The Battery Kids and Mr Fiction.
The finals for TAFESA North
are next Tuesday at the Governor Hindmarsh Hotel. I will go to that. In
the five or so years we have been entering this competition, one of our
bands has won the state final all but once, has come second once, and
has once won the national final once. It is a strong validation, in most
cases, that we are doing something right.
12:04:09 AM
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