The other night i watched the documentary about Huey Long done by Ken Burns.
During the end credits, you hear Randy Newman's Louisiana 1927, one of my favorite songs of his. Wanted to to here it again this a.m., and found this. From the BBC Four Sessions (2008).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQ9HgMo-Pdg
Enjoy.
Saturday, August 7, 2010
Friday, August 6, 2010
The Muffs
Thank you for pointing them out Joel.
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=%22the+muffs%22&aq=f
Top This, "Onion"
From an AP story 08/05/2010
"Intoxicated and pregnant, a La Crosse woman is accused of trying to hold up a Taco John's with a hammer. Police say the 38-year-old woman told the cashier Tuesday night -- "I want a soft shell and this is a stickup..."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-wi-intoxicatedtacost,0,2981626.story
"Intoxicated and pregnant, a La Crosse woman is accused of trying to hold up a Taco John's with a hammer. Police say the 38-year-old woman told the cashier Tuesday night -- "I want a soft shell and this is a stickup..."
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-wi-intoxicatedtacost,0,2981626.story
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Thursday, July 29, 2010
"Culture is humankind’s biological strategy"
Quite right...
Edge.org conference, posted today.
THE NEW SCIENCE OF MORALITY http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge323.html
Edge.org conference, posted today.
THE NEW SCIENCE OF MORALITY http://www.edge.org/documents/archive/edge323.html
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
Baba Brinkman
Thanks for the video link Brandon.
Brinkman's site;
http://www.babasword.com/
Video example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM9nNa84U24&feature=related
Friday, July 23, 2010
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Thursday, July 15, 2010
Finally found a copy of January...
"angered by your words
But suffering to you cause
Elected men are reminding me
Of your obvious flaws"
From the song If its in your mind
But suffering to you cause
Elected men are reminding me
Of your obvious flaws"
From the song If its in your mind
Video clip of the title cut, but performed recently by Bill:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10YpklICbx4
Thursday, July 8, 2010
A New Twist on the Quest for Eternal Life
Terasem Movement Foundation, Inc.
From it's website:
"The common purpose of all of the Terasem Movement Foundation’s (TMF) projects is to investigate the Terasem Hypotheses which state that -
(1) a conscious analog of a person may be created by combining sufficiently detailed data about the person (a "mindfile") using future consciousness software ("mindware"),
and
(2) that such a conscious analog can be downloaded into a biological or nanotechnological body to provide life experiences comparable to those of a typically birthed human.
We call this event Transferred Consciousness (TC). If even the first part of the two Terasem Hypotheses is shown to be true, the conscious analogs will be independent persons with rights and obligations dependent upon their capabilities."
http://www.terasemmovementfoundation.com/index.php
LifeNaut "...allows anyone to create an avatar and a rich digital backup of their life - a web-based storage space for organizing and preserving critical info. http://lifenaut.com/
And,
check this out;
Interview with Bina 48 about, what is like to be a robot? http://video.nytimes.com/video/2010/06/24/science/1247468035233/interview-with-a-robot.html
From it's website:
"The common purpose of all of the Terasem Movement Foundation’s (TMF) projects is to investigate the Terasem Hypotheses which state that -
(1) a conscious analog of a person may be created by combining sufficiently detailed data about the person (a "mindfile") using future consciousness software ("mindware"),
and
(2) that such a conscious analog can be downloaded into a biological or nanotechnological body to provide life experiences comparable to those of a typically birthed human.
We call this event Transferred Consciousness (TC). If even the first part of the two Terasem Hypotheses is shown to be true, the conscious analogs will be independent persons with rights and obligations dependent upon their capabilities."
http://www.terasemmovementfoundation.com/index.php
LifeNaut "...allows anyone to create an avatar and a rich digital backup of their life - a web-based storage space for organizing and preserving critical info. http://lifenaut.com/
And,
check this out;
Interview with Bina 48 about, what is like to be a robot? http://video.nytimes.com/video/2010/06/24/science/1247468035233/interview-with-a-robot.html
Friday, July 2, 2010
Thomas Jefferson's Last Letter
Thomas Jefferson to Roger C. Weightman
Monticello, June 24, 1826
"Respected Sir,
The kind invitation I receive from you, on the part of the citizens of the city of Washington, to be present with them at their celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of American Independence, as one of the surviving signers of an instrument pregnant with our own, and the fate of the world, is most flattering to myself, and heightened by the honorable accompaniment proposed for the comfort of such a journey. It adds sensibly to the sufferings of sickness, to be deprived by it of a personal participation in the rejoicings of that day. But acquiescence is a duty, under circumstances not placed among those we are permitted to control. I should, indeed, with peculiar delight, have met and exchanged there congratulations personally with the small band, the remnant of that host of worthies, who joined with us on that day, in the bold and doubtful election we were to make for our country, between submission or the sword; and to have enjoyed with them the consolatory fact, that our fellow citizens, after half a century of experience and prosperity, continue to approve the choice we made. May it be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all,) the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings and security of self-government. That form which we have substituted, restores the free right to the unbounded exercise of reason and freedom of opinion. All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God. These are grounds of hope for others. For ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollections of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them.
I will ask permission here to express the pleasure with which I should have met my ancient neighbors of the city of Washington and its vicinities, with whom I passed so many years of a pleasing social intercourse; an intercourse which so much relieved the anxieties of the public cares, and left impressions so deeply engraved in my affections, as never to be forgotten. With my regret that ill health forbids me the gratification of an acceptance, be pleased to receive for yourself, and those for whom you write, the assurance of my highest respect and friendly attachments."
Th. Jefferson
Monticello, June 24, 1826
"Respected Sir,
The kind invitation I receive from you, on the part of the citizens of the city of Washington, to be present with them at their celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of American Independence, as one of the surviving signers of an instrument pregnant with our own, and the fate of the world, is most flattering to myself, and heightened by the honorable accompaniment proposed for the comfort of such a journey. It adds sensibly to the sufferings of sickness, to be deprived by it of a personal participation in the rejoicings of that day. But acquiescence is a duty, under circumstances not placed among those we are permitted to control. I should, indeed, with peculiar delight, have met and exchanged there congratulations personally with the small band, the remnant of that host of worthies, who joined with us on that day, in the bold and doubtful election we were to make for our country, between submission or the sword; and to have enjoyed with them the consolatory fact, that our fellow citizens, after half a century of experience and prosperity, continue to approve the choice we made. May it be to the world, what I believe it will be, (to some parts sooner, to others later, but finally to all,) the signal of arousing men to burst the chains under which monkish ignorance and superstition had persuaded them to bind themselves, and to assume the blessings and security of self-government. That form which we have substituted, restores the free right to the unbounded exercise of reason and freedom of opinion. All eyes are opened, or opening, to the rights of man. The general spread of the light of science has already laid open to every view the palpable truth, that the mass of mankind has not been born with saddles on their backs, nor a favored few booted and spurred, ready to ride them legitimately, by the grace of God. These are grounds of hope for others. For ourselves, let the annual return of this day forever refresh our recollections of these rights, and an undiminished devotion to them.
I will ask permission here to express the pleasure with which I should have met my ancient neighbors of the city of Washington and its vicinities, with whom I passed so many years of a pleasing social intercourse; an intercourse which so much relieved the anxieties of the public cares, and left impressions so deeply engraved in my affections, as never to be forgotten. With my regret that ill health forbids me the gratification of an acceptance, be pleased to receive for yourself, and those for whom you write, the assurance of my highest respect and friendly attachments."
Th. Jefferson
Thursday, July 1, 2010
Independence Day
America’s First Patriotic Song
The Liberty Song is an American Revolutionary War song composed by patriot John Dickinson, the author of famous political tract, Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania. The song is set to the tune of "Heart of Oak," the anthem of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom, and was first published in the Boston Gazette in July 1768. Dickinson's fourth verse is the first appearance of the phrase, "united we stand, divided we fall." This was sung at public gatherings from its time of publication into the early 19th century.
Lyrics:
Come, join hand in hand, brave Americans all,
And rouse your bold hearts at fair Liberty's call;
No tyrannous acts shall suppress your just claim,
Or stain with dishonor America's name.
Chorus:
In Freedom we're born
and in Freedom we'll live.
Our purses are ready. Steady, friends, steady;
Not as slaves, but as Freemen our money we'll give.
Our worthy forefathers, let's give them a cheer,
To climates unknown did courageously steer;
Thro' oceans to deserts for Freedom they came,
And dying, bequeath'd us their freedom and fame.
(Chorus)
The tree their own hands had to Liberty rear'd,
They lived to behold growing strong and revered;
With transport they cried, Now our wishes we gain,
For our children shall gather the fruits of our pain.
(Chorus)
Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all,
By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall;
In so righteous a cause let us hope to succeed
For heaven approves of each generous deed.
Definitions
Word use changes over time.
Liberty: The right(s) of citizens in a republic.
Tyrannous: An act of the sovereign outside the bounds of law, both statutory and natural.
Freedom: The Enlightenment view of “natural rights”, those rights in the very laws of nature, discernable by the application of reason and science.
Purse: Personal funds “Give”: to “pay” a tax properly made law. It is considered a voluntary, patriotic act in a republic.
Slave: A person who pays a tax imposed by a legislative body they could not vote for a representative in.”
Freemen: Not an indentured servant, and also able to vote for a representative in the body that taxes you.
Transport: A criminal sentence in British law. Sent to the colonies (how many British colonist first got here). When we revolted, they started sentencing them to Australia.
heaven: (uncapitalized) See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deism
Fort Moultrie Flag
The Declaration of Independence
Video. Read by some folks you may recognize: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYyttEu_NLU
National Public Radio's reading on Morning Edition. An July 4th tradition: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106168024
Full text:
http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/charters/declaration_transcript.html
And, last but certainly not least...To be sung with mug of Pusser's Rum Grog, and a glass of Maderia
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Cultural Universals
Fun area of study.
If a behavior is present across a whole specie, it is probably safe to assume its origin (but not the expression) is in the genotype?
I am currently reading The Evolution of Childhood by Melvin Connor, which has some cool lists of these universals.
Overview:
Cultural Universals:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_universal
Behavioral Modernity:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_modernity
If a behavior is present across a whole specie, it is probably safe to assume its origin (but not the expression) is in the genotype?
I am currently reading The Evolution of Childhood by Melvin Connor, which has some cool lists of these universals.
Overview:
Cultural Universals:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_universal
Behavioral Modernity:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavioral_modernity
Tuesday, June 8, 2010
Frank Sinatra would be proud...
I watched Michael Moore's latest, "Capitalism: A Love Story" this last weekend.
For me, the neatest thing in it was at the beginning of the credits. There you will hear Tony Babino's lounge style rendition of L' Internationale
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP4l_PeBMyk
For me, the neatest thing in it was at the beginning of the credits. There you will hear Tony Babino's lounge style rendition of L' Internationale
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QP4l_PeBMyk
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Happy Towel Day
“Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with."
Douglas Adams
Douglas Adams
Saturday, May 15, 2010
Some music
I am impressed by two musical artist that are new to me. One is hardly known, the other is a megastar currently that i finally got around to listening to.
The hardly known one (at least in the U.S.) is Florence & The Machine (aka Florence Welch & her collaborators). She strikes me as kind of like Kate Bush meets Sinead O' Conner meets Grace Slick, (with just a dash of Chrissy Hyde).
I CD out; Lungs.
Three videos:
Dog Days Are Over http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWOyfLBYtuU
Two versions of Kiss with a Fist
"Official"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SmxVCM39j4
An acoustic/bar version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENvihwd2bLs&feature=fvst
About two months ago i was prompted by an interview piece on TV to go on YouTube to see Lady Gaga. If you are an oldster like I, you probably heard some of "political" music back in the 1960's through the Punk and then Springsteen and the new "Americana" artists of the present.
Well, in a genre not known for political insight, (Post-rap/post-hiphop/Commercial electro-dance) you find Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, better known as Lady GaGa.
Her "personna" is kind of like Martha Stewart (re business/branding accume) David Bowie meets Madonna, meets Michael Jackson (when at his peak). And then, have that personna attack modern consumer/fame/cult of the celebrity culture. The attack is so complete, that many may not see it as an attack. Talk about laughing all the way to the bank... Think of a 24 year old musical version of a mean Andy Warhol.
I also think she may be the first pop artist, that the best way to experience them, is via the heavily produced, controlled "music video".
First example is the video of Telephone. She says it is about the social & electronic communication pressures on the youth now, expressed in an overall look at American culture. All three are from the CD, Fame Monster.
This ain't your dad's Woody Guthrie...and yes, that is the truck from Kill Bill.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ95z6ywcBY
Two previous salvos:
Bad Romance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrO4YZeyl0I
Paparazzi: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgKrzdaDQMw&feature=fvsr
The hardly known one (at least in the U.S.) is Florence & The Machine (aka Florence Welch & her collaborators). She strikes me as kind of like Kate Bush meets Sinead O' Conner meets Grace Slick, (with just a dash of Chrissy Hyde).
I CD out; Lungs.
Three videos:
Dog Days Are Over http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWOyfLBYtuU
Two versions of Kiss with a Fist
"Official"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1SmxVCM39j4
An acoustic/bar version: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENvihwd2bLs&feature=fvst
About two months ago i was prompted by an interview piece on TV to go on YouTube to see Lady Gaga. If you are an oldster like I, you probably heard some of "political" music back in the 1960's through the Punk and then Springsteen and the new "Americana" artists of the present.
Well, in a genre not known for political insight, (Post-rap/post-hiphop/Commercial electro-dance) you find Stefani Joanne Angelina Germanotta, better known as Lady GaGa.
Her "personna" is kind of like Martha Stewart (re business/branding accume) David Bowie meets Madonna, meets Michael Jackson (when at his peak). And then, have that personna attack modern consumer/fame/cult of the celebrity culture. The attack is so complete, that many may not see it as an attack. Talk about laughing all the way to the bank... Think of a 24 year old musical version of a mean Andy Warhol.
I also think she may be the first pop artist, that the best way to experience them, is via the heavily produced, controlled "music video".
First example is the video of Telephone. She says it is about the social & electronic communication pressures on the youth now, expressed in an overall look at American culture. All three are from the CD, Fame Monster.
This ain't your dad's Woody Guthrie...and yes, that is the truck from Kill Bill.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQ95z6ywcBY
Two previous salvos:
Bad Romance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrO4YZeyl0I
Paparazzi: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgKrzdaDQMw&feature=fvsr
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
New Arizona Immigration Law
Interesting.
"Sinclair Lewis aptly predicted in It Can't Happen Here that if fascism came to America it would come wrapped in the flag and whistling The Star Spangled Banner." Harrison Evans Salisbury
Full text:
http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/49leg/2r/bills/sb1070s.pdf
The comparison to the Nuremberg Laws http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Laws by its opponents is hyperbole. But it is in their "spirit".
Nativism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nativism_(politics)
Producerism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Producerism
It will be interesting to see if the producerist view turns into our own version of fascism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism or not.
Oh yah, online copy of Sinclair Lewis's It Can't Happen Here (1935)
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0301001h.html Not to be confused with the Frank Zappa song of the same name.
"...Who could imagine
That they would freak out in the suburbs!
(No no no no no no no no no no)
Man you guys are really safe
(Everything's cool)
I remember (tu-tu)
I remember (tu-tu)
I remember (tu-tu)
They had a swimming pool
I remember (tu-tu)
I remember (tu-tu)
They had a swimming pool
I remember (tu-tu)
I remember (tu-tu)
They had a swimming pool
And they thought it couldn't happen here
(duh duh duh)..."
"Sinclair Lewis aptly predicted in It Can't Happen Here that if fascism came to America it would come wrapped in the flag and whistling The Star Spangled Banner." Harrison Evans Salisbury
Full text:
http://www.azleg.gov/legtext/49leg/2r/bills/sb1070s.pdf
The comparison to the Nuremberg Laws http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Laws by its opponents is hyperbole. But it is in their "spirit".
Nativism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nativism_(politics)
Producerism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Producerism
It will be interesting to see if the producerist view turns into our own version of fascism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism or not.
Oh yah, online copy of Sinclair Lewis's It Can't Happen Here (1935)
http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0301001h.html Not to be confused with the Frank Zappa song of the same name.
"...Who could imagine
That they would freak out in the suburbs!
(No no no no no no no no no no)
Man you guys are really safe
(Everything's cool)
I remember (tu-tu)
I remember (tu-tu)
I remember (tu-tu)
They had a swimming pool
I remember (tu-tu)
I remember (tu-tu)
They had a swimming pool
I remember (tu-tu)
I remember (tu-tu)
They had a swimming pool
And they thought it couldn't happen here
(duh duh duh)..."
Monday, May 3, 2010
Well put...
Incurious Bastards, by Andrew Cohenhttp://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/04/incurious-bastards/38745/
Thursday, April 22, 2010
Better Government?
Interesting read. From Britain.
GOOD GOVERNMENT: Reforming Parliament and the Executive
Recommendations from the Executive Committee of the Better Government Initiative (2010)
http://www.bettergovernmentinitiative.co.uk/sitedata/Misc/Good-government-17-October.pdf
GOOD GOVERNMENT: Reforming Parliament and the Executive
Recommendations from the Executive Committee of the Better Government Initiative (2010)
http://www.bettergovernmentinitiative.co.uk/sitedata/Misc/Good-government-17-October.pdf
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Probabilistic Forecast for 21st Century
Probabilistic Forecast for 21st Century Climate Based on Uncertainties in Emissions (without Policy) and Climate Parameters A.P. Sokolov, P.H. Stone, C.E. Forest, R. Prinn, M.C. Sarofim, M. Webster, S. Paltsev, C.A. Schlosser, D. Kicklighter, S. Dutkiewicz, J. Reilly, C. Wang, B. Felzer, J. Melillo, and H.D. Jacoby
Report No. 169 The MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change January 2009
http://globalchange.mit.edu/files/document/MITJPSPGC_Rpt169.pdf
Report No. 169 The MIT Joint Program on the Science and Policy of Global Change January 2009
http://globalchange.mit.edu/files/document/MITJPSPGC_Rpt169.pdf
Monday, April 12, 2010
Absence of racial bias in children with William's Syndrome
While pseudospeciation may have a cultural component in particular expression, i have always held it to be a biological/genetic characteristic/problem. Granted, since all humans exhibit psuedospeciation that alone should indicate a genetic origin. But maybe not all humans, or at least those with a genetic "defect" called Williams Syndrome. This points to pseudospeciation in humans, being in origin, biological:
http://download.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/PIIS0960982210001442.pdf?intermediate=true
http://download.cell.com/current-biology/pdf/PIIS0960982210001442.pdf?intermediate=true
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Friday, March 5, 2010
Links Page At Panda's Thumb
I for the first time, just saw the the amazing links page at Panda's Thumb. So should you.
http://pandasthumb.org/links.html
http://pandasthumb.org/links.html
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