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“A Russian man trying to sleep off a night of after-work drinking failed to notice a six-inch (15-cm) knife in his back – until his wife woke him up.”
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Monthly Archives: April 2008
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“The spacecraft will be encountered and the record played only if there are advanced spacefaring civilizations in interstellar space. But the launching of this bottle into the cosmic ocean says something very hopeful about life on this planet.”
WNUR “Jazz” Show, 2008-04-15
I had a lot of fun with today’s show. I’ll be off next week, but tune in again on the 29th. Actually, tune in next week, because Andy will probably do a pretty great show.
artist: “track” – album (label)
David Holland: “Conference of the Birds” – Conference of the Birds (ECM)
Fred Anderson & Hamid Drake: “For Brother Thompson” – From the River to the Ocean (Thrill Jockey)
Kahil El’Zabar’s The Ritual: “Day of the Celestials” – Kahil El’Zabar’s The Ritual (Sound Aspects)
Nicole Mitchell Indigo Trio: “Stand Strong” – Live in Montreal (Greenleaf Records)
DKV Trio: “Elephantasy” – Trigonometry (Okkadisk)
David Holland: “Four Winds” – Conference of the Birds (ECM)
Jimmy Smith: “Back at the Chicken Shack” – Back at the Chicken Shack (Blue Note)
Leo Smith: “Who Killed David Walker?” – Procession of the Great Ancestry (Chief)
Philip Cohran and the Artistic Heritage Ensemble: “Malcolm Little” – The Malcolm X Memorial (Katalyst)
His Name is Alive: “Juba Lee Brown” – Sweet Earth Flower: a Tribute to Marion Brown (High Two)
Popular Cooper and his All Beats Band: “Arraino” – Nigeria Special (Soundway)
Bholen et l’Orchestre Negro Success: “Pacha-Pachanga” – Congo Fiesta Compilation (Sea Never Dry)
Sam Rivers Rivbea Orchestra: “Spots” – Aurora (Rivbea Sound Company)
Roscoe Mitchell: “You Wastin’ My Tyme” – and the Sound and Space Ensemble (Black Saint)
Roy Campbell Ensemble: “Pharoah’s Revenge Part 1” – Akhenaten Suite (AUM Fidelity)
Rabih Abou-Khalil: “Morton’s Foot” – Morton’s Foot (Enja)
Ernest Dawkins’ New Horizons Ensemble: “Fat City” – After the Dawn Has Risen (Open Minds)
Paul Steinbeck: “Miss MS” – Three Fifths (Engine)
Muhal Richard Abrams Orchestra: “Bloodline (dedicated to Fletcher Henderson – Don Redman – Benny Carter)” – Rejoicing with the Light (Black Saint)
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58 photos of neon signs
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Keep an eye out for the second cat at the end.
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“[Lewis’s book goes deeper into the formation and development of the AACM than any previous history, and as a formal acknowledgement of the group’s enormous importance and influence it’s long overdue.”
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Donna’s Aquatic Pet Shop and Lee’s Seafood Co. share a storefront and a phone number!
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“They adapted to that weakness by focusing their energy on fewer stories but covering them well. I long for those days. Now, when they have reporters all over the place they have become sound bite bogus journalism just like that of every other form…”
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“We collect personal messages written in ink (or pen or marker or crayon or grape jelly) inside books.
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“Python 2.3 introduced the logging module to the Python standard library.”
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“With all these terms about, inventing a new one, especially such an odd-ball one as octothorpe, would seem to serve no practical purpose. The evidence suggests that it was originally a jokey term among engineers at Bell Labs in the USA.”
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As Jim Coudal described it, this could be thought of as the “Laptop Kama Sutra” but less salacious. A catalog of various poses in which one might use a laptop.
links for 2008-04-11
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“Saying that the Web amplifies deception is like saying that New York is more dangerous than Baltimore because it has more murders. Yes, there are more untruths on the Web than we had in the heyday of print or mass media, but there are also more truths.”
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Gerard DeGroot sets out to demolish once and for all the cant, hyperbole, romanticism, wishful thinking and just plain stupidity that continue to swirl around that era like a giant light-show blob
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“Iron Man! He’s not just the kinda guy who saves the world from supervillains and Jeff Bridges with a shaved head anymore! No, now he’s the kind of guy who’s off crusading against… Linux?”
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Finally, transit planning integrated with Google Maps
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“Of culinary unions, few are met with more exhilaration and skepticism than the pairing of chicken and waffles. On the same plate.”
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“No one can predict what bridge, levee or water main will fail next. But some problems are widely known, and work is long overdue. As PM’s new special report makes blatantly clear, we need to begin rebuilding the nation’s infrastructure somewhere.”
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“Subscribe to First Slice’s shareholder program. Not only will you receive convenient, home-cooked, restaurant-quality meals weekly, but your subscription will also directly contribute to funding the same high-quality meals for people in need.”
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“Northwestern University and Inspire Films’ Symposium on Social Issue Media will provide a two-day forum to critically examine the interconnectedness of Film and Television with shaping social policy and social issues.”
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“As websites mature and the demand for geographic applications grow, the old mashup arrangement is starting to chafe. Mapping components are more and more vital, and so we demand greater control, expressiveness, and functionality from them.”
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“the Republican arguments against I.R.V. in Vermont (where Democrats have a Green problem) sound an awful lot like the Democratic arguments against I.R.V. in Alaska (where the Republicans have a Libertarian problem).”
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“But what the context shows, I think, is that yanking that sound bite out of context isn’t really all that unfair. McCain’s wants to stay in Iraq until no more Americans are getting killed, no matter how long it takes.”
WNUR “Jazz” Show, 2008-04-08
Back to a more familiar sound after last week’s very fun diversion. What say you? Should I do a thematic show next week for “tax day”?
artist: “track” – album (label)
Sun Ra: “Island in the Sun” – The Invisible Shield (Saturn)
Chico Freeman & Arthur Blythe: “Luminous” – Luminous (Ronnie Scott’s Jazz House)
Freddie Hubbard: “Backlash” – Echoes of Blue (Collectables)
Brother Jack McDuff: “Sanctified Waltz” – Goodnight, it’s Time to Go (Prestige)
Charles Mingus: “Side 1” – The Black Saint and the Sinner Lady (Impulse)
Chico Freeman: “Two Over One” – Beyond the Rain (Contemporary)
Dave Douglas: “LOCO MADI” – Parallel Worlds (Soul Note)
Johnny Dyani: “Angolian Cry” – Angolian Cry (Steeplechase)
Karl Berger and Dave Holland: “Simplicity” – All Kinds of Time (Sackville)
Kahil El’Zabar’s Ritual Trio: “Autumn Leaves” – Ooh Live! (Katalyst)
The Harlem Experiment: “Mambo a la Savoy” – The Harlem Experiment (Ropeadope)
Afro Blues Quintet Plus One: “Let My People Go” – New Directions in Sound (BGP/Ace)
Steven Bernstein: “Let My People Go” – Diaspora Soul (Tzadik)
The Vandermark Five: “Burn Nostalgia (for Art Pepper)” – The Color of Memory (Atavistic)
School Days: “Elephantasy” – In Our Times (Okkadisk)
Clusone 3: “Medley 1: Pippistrello/Rollo II/Tlingit/I Am An Indian Too” – An Hour With… (Hatology)