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Can Your Monkey Do The Dog? An Evergreen Rhetorical Question from the gang at Stax... Rufus Thomas-Can Your Monkey Do The Dog? (1963): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gywtl5gVAZg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gywtl5gVAZg

Hand Waving Woo Woo I don't have a lot of respect for anyone who makes a product of any degree of complexity, and fails to put significant effort into a manual. As in, RTFM. The revolutionary, paradigm breaking parts will be very hard to explain without demonstrations. But the parts that aren't? They should be explained, clearly and concisely. And they shouldn't lie, by commission, or omission. Unfortunately, that is the single greatest flaw in every software product that I've ever used. And the current emphasis on paradigm shattering whizz bangery, and rapid, iterative development, makes a virtue out of that very sin. But it's lazy, and contemptuous of a user's time and energy. I've enjoyed meeting some folks on Google+, and seeing what they've shared. But for me, G+ is getting worse, and not better, and I think it's because G+, like Facebook, only views me as an adjunct to advertising revenue, and not really as a customer. I pay for webhos...

Number Nine Bonnie Raitt-Storm Warning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAGXPKNPK_M Feels like a heavy rain... Winds on the coast tonight... The 33rd Oar Race, a distance race to Oriental in honor of the Evacuation of Dunkirk, to Oriental will not be boring. Or dry. http://towndock.net/news/2010-michelob-cup-and-oar-race

Off To See The Lizard "What I learned with the movie—and what I am learning, again, as Netflix films its first season of Unfortunate Events—is that watching an adaptation is like finding an enormous lizard in your back yard. You don’t have to believe that it’s yours, but it’s still entertaining to watch it crawl around. And if the lizard buys you a house, well, isn’t it really your favorite lizard?" https://www.nypl.org/blog/2016/08/08/what-are-you-reading-lemony-snicket

Temporary Repair Set (Of The Future) Bubble Gum, Baling Wire, Duct Tape. Present, Same. Originally shared by David McKeever

Fight The Honkypox! When You Get The Notion, Tower's Got The Potion... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46hd6DZS0ww

LCS-Literal Crap Shoot A Naval version of the infamous Mazda FD RX-7? Guaranteed to start 50% of the time, all the time? http://www.oldsaltblog.com/2016/08/freedom-class-lcs-service-100-failure-rate-last-year/ Forbes thought it was a good idea: http://www.forbes.com/sites/lorenthompson/2016/02/11/size-matters-five-reasons-the-littoral-combat-ship-is-crucial-to-future-naval-operations/ http://www.oldsaltblog.com/2016/08/freedom-class-lcs-service-100-failure-rate-last-year/

#NotRightFoods   Now with more Strawberry Playdoh Type Flavor! These were spotted in Louisville, Cara Evangelista ...

Needed More Yodeling "The Mexicans sang folksongs, the blacks sang the blues and spirituals, and the whites sang country gospel and Jimmie Rodgers' songs." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEIBmGZxAhg Originally shared by Randy Culler The Death of Country Music: Natural Cause or Homicide While most people agree that it was pressure from New York record label executives on Nashville producers in the '60s to sweeten up traditional country songs with syrupy orchestrations and arrangements that could appeal to a suburban audience, that's just one of the theories about what went wrong with country music. Another finger points at the 1980 film Urban Cowboy, which re-calibrated the story from Saturday Night Fever and changed up the music. #countrymusic   http://nodepression.com/article/death-country-music-natural-cause-or-homicide?mc_cid=d0657934d4&mc_eid=df81d66c7e

Unit (Un)Cohesion Originally shared by Damn interesting http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/abandoned-in-iraq-inside-us-soldiers-harrowing-ambush-w436245

Left Behind Nick Ward talks about being left for dead during the 1979 Fastnet race, on Grimalkin: "I don't know what I'd do in that situation," he says. "I'd like to think that I would do something different. But until you are put in that situation you can't judge anybody." http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/features/3632708/Horror-on-the-high-seas.html

Exercising Judgement With Science! http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/parenting-regions

Put Your Game Face On “Personally, I felt that this one actually had a good chance to work,” he said. How good a chance? “I gave it a 30-percent shot.” In a sense, he was being optimistic. Replication projects have had a way of turning into train wrecks. When researchers tried to replicate 100 psychology experiments from 2008, they interpreted just 39 of the attempts as successful. That’s the crux of the replication crisis. No one knows precisely how to calibrate their level of disquiet. via Noah Friedman  Originally shared by Susan Jahn http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/cover_story/2016/08/can_smiling_make_you_happier_maybe_maybe_not_we_have_no_idea.html

Vespers for Vespers I've used Simplenote/Notational Velocity for a long time. I wanted to like Vespers, but lacking functionality and premium pricing kept me away. Apparently I was not the only one. In other news, Apple still hasn't FTFF, iCloud still doesn't do all the things that MobileMe was supposed to (and didn't) and Chandler is still dead. On the upside, LibreOffice is now capable enough to replace most of what I did with Appleworks 5. Mostly. http://daringfireball.net/2016/08/vesper_adieu

War By Other Means "Like politics, parenting can be understood as war by other means." Take a kid to Boot Camp. Also, #NotJustBoys. Originally shared by Robert Rambusch Puppy dog's tails http://www.weeklystandard.com/safety-not-guaranteed/article/2003988 http://www.weeklystandard.com/safety-not-guaranteed/article/2003988

Ireland's Tear In stormy winter weather, the “big seas would come sailing up over the entire building like the field of horses in the Grand National,” as one former Fastnet keeper put it. Sometimes, there were almost disastrous consequences; Mr O'Driscoll remembers a storm in 1985 when a wave reached as high as the light and came crashing through the glass, overturning the vat of mercury and sending the poisonous liquid pouring down the stairs. He doubts the tower would have withstood another wallop as great as that, but it never came. Suddenly, there was a great calmness. There were moments of deep sadness, too. Missing children's birthdays, for example, because the weather turned and the ship could not get close enough to the rock to take him ashore. What do you do at those times? “There's nothing you can do,” he says. “You slowly climb back upstairs and bake more bread.” The Fastnet light stands about 49m above mean sea level. http://www.economist.com/node/12792727

Seasoned With Salt "Bad cooking is responsible for more trouble at sea than all other things put together." Thomas Fleming Day I just finished re-reading John Rousmaniere's Fastnet Force 10, a recounting of the adventures and tragedies of the 1979 Fastnet Race, and was struck by a number of quotations about food, mentioned in the book, and in other tales of the sea. "The sea drives truth into a man like salt. A coward cannot long pretend to be brave at sea, nor a fool to be wise, nor a prig to be a good companion, and any venture connected with the sea is full of venture and can pretend to be nothing more." Hilaire Belloc "When the mast was jammed into the trough [of a forty foot wave] we stopped like we had hit a brick wall. Food exploded out of the refrigerator and flew into the navigation station. Cottage cheese had become a lethal weapon." John Tuttle-Desperado-Fastnet 1979 "During the afternoon we ate some muesli with hot milk and about ten...

Visionary "When you really think about Choco Tacos, they actually don't taste like chocolate all that much," he continues. "But it's one of those things where you kind of don’t want it to be as good." Originally shared by **** "I was on an expedition in Mexico and got separated from my party," Drazen says. "It was hot. I hadn't had anything to drink. And then I saw a mirage. An ice cream taco, rising out of the distance. That's how I got the idea." This is the story the inventor of the Choco Taco tells when people beg him to embellish. Because yes, way back in 1983, Alan Drazen really did invent the Choco Taco. Not in Mexico. Not even in Texas or California. But it was along the border, where a mighty river separates two interdependent yet often hostile lands: Pennsylvania and New Jersey. http://www.eater.com/2016/8/26/12636162/choco-taco-klondike-ice-cream-chocolate

Hip To Be Square Originally shared by Robert Rambusch Proud to be an orange square that melts easily http://www.seriouseats.com/2016/07/whats-really-in-american-cheese.html ? http://www.seriouseats.com/2016/07/whats-really-in-american-cheese.html

Service With(out) A Smile "It’s no secret that the Social Security Administration is understaffed. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities said in a report that the administration’s budget has shrunk by 10 percent since 2010, while aging baby boomers have swollen its workload. Last year the administration got 37 million phone calls for help and 41 million office visits. The average appointment wait time was three weeks while more than a million cases for disability payments were backlogged, according to the report." via George Station Originally shared by Andrew Pam It's easy to believe that the homeless person is crazy.  But as Kafka pointed out, often it's the system that's crazy.  And this story is eminently Kafkaesque.  It's great that she finally got a good outcome (after 16 years!) but what about all the other people in similar situations? http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/i-wasnt-crazy-homeless-woman-proves-the-u-s-government-owes-her-100000

Safe Zones Almost every group you can imagine wants a clubhouse for themselves, with no one else allowed. Arguably, this concept applies to HBCUs, many of which are facing financial difficulties. Forced desegregation is awkward, and hard, but sometimes necessary. Originally shared by **** A recent white graduate argued that everyone needed a safe space and that for her, as a Jew, it had been the Hillel house. She knew that when she was there, she could relax and not worry about being interrogated by non-Jews about Israeli politics or other concerns. So why is the Black House an issue in the eyes of some alumni who write saying that we should integrate all of our students into a single community rather than isolate them into groups? I have never gotten a single note questioning the presence of Hillel, of our Catholic Center, or any of the other safe spaces on campus. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/how-to-create-inclusive-campus-communities-first-create-safe-places/2016/01/15/06...

Alcohol Involved The story of the Little Girl Buried In A Rum Keg: http://www.charlotteobserver.com/living/travel/article9084170.html The gravesite was recently vandalized: http://www.witn.com/content/news/Teen-charged-with-desecrating-historic-grave-in-Beaufort-383669911.html http://www.wcti12.com/news/suspect-in-girl-in-barrel-of-rum-fire-goes-to-court_20160803030017415/42477851

Joe Bells http://www.villagecraftsmen.com/news012112.htm

National Waffle Day Even at the Beach. A Beach with no Waffle House, even.

#WordlessWednesday #wordlessonwednesday

Another Death By Drones No health risks associated with Banjos or Accordions... unless you play them where people can hear you. Originally shared by Jennifer Ouellette How Playing the Bagpipes Can Kill You http://gizmodo.com/how-playing-the-bagpipes-can-kill-you-1785531987  … http://gizmodo.com/how-playing-the-bagpipes-can-kill-you-1785531987

La Bohème Originally shared by Al Tlön "The neighborhood teemed with "temperamental intellectuals."" http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/this-cartoonist-unveiled-the-tumultuous-world-of-1920s-greenwich-village

The View From The Other Side Of The Pool http://qz.com/762868/giving-up-alcohol-opened-my-eyes-to-the-infuriating-truth-about-why-women-drink/ Enjoli: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UIktO4Pnlw http://qz.com/762868/giving-up-alcohol-opened-my-eyes-to-the-infuriating-truth-about-why-women-drink/

Shouting "Security Theater" In A Crowded Fire via Alex Scrivener and Abbie Hoffman http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/08/the-terrifying-jfk-airport-shooting-that-wasnt.html

À Tout À L'heure, Toots "I feel best in that little space between a smile and a tear." Toots Thielemans Toots Thielemans and the Shirley Horn Trio-For My Lady: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j2j17fU1uM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9j2j17fU1uM

Postage Due Originally shared by Kam-Yung Soh "WASHINGTON — Nearly 50 years to the day of its original airing, the U.S. Postal Service will celebrate the iconic 1960s television show Star Trek by dedicating the Star Trek Forever stamps in New York City’s Jacob K. Javits Convention Center. The first-day-of-issue ceremony will take place at noon on Friday Sept. 2, and will officially launch Star Trek: Mission New York, a three-day celebration that is expected to draw thousands of Star Trek fans. For tickets to Star Trek: Mission New York go to startrekmissions.com . The stamps will be available for pre-order the first week of August at usps.com/shop for delivery shortly after Sept. 2." https://about.usps.com/news/national-releases/2016/pr16_050.htm

Rock'N'Roll While on the hunt for Frozen Coke, I found these... You might be Old, and Southern, if you remember these... #NotRightFoods

There Are Two Ten O'Clocks? Originally shared by Meg L Oh to have stood in the presence of so many jazz greats! The "Click on each musician to watch a performance clip" feature is fabulous. I doff my cap to Lamont Doss for this gem. http://interactive.nydailynews.com/2016/08/story-behind-great-day-in-harlem-photo/#shape28

I'm A Believer The Last Ride Of The Infinite Rider On The Big Dogma Michael Nesmith-Cruisin': https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9TsAJt72t4 Originally shared by Randy Culler The Monkees' Mike Nesmith announced Aug. 19 on his Facebook page that he'll do one more show with fellow Monkees Micky Dolenz and Peter Tork on their 50th anniversary tour -- this time at the Pantages Theater in Los Angeles on Sept. 16. http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7480159/mike-nesmith-monkees-one-final-50th-anniversary-show

Sunset From The Barnacle

Discrete, Reet Petite Jackie Wilson-Reet Petite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tE46zm4yjhA Originally shared by **** As it turns out, old technology scales pretty well. http://www.megaprocessor.com/

Castaways Ransomed from the local used bookstore. Topical, because I just finished watching Dark Water, an account of the first Golden Globe race...

Break In The Clouds

Scattered Showers

Blossom

Fetch #FidoFriday

Parity Check I might have seen this posted before... Originally shared by Damn interesting Brain scans hint at an explanation for the phenomenon of déjà vu https://www.newscientist.com/article/2101089-mystery-of-deja-vu-explained-its-how-we-check-our-memories/

Boogity, Boogity Now with Frickin' Lasers! Ray Stevens-The Streak: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtzoUu7w-YM Originally shared by Noah Friedman Now, see, this is how you write a headline. Take that, Buzzfeed! Also, I wonder if my friend Ben was somehow involved. h/t J Merry​ http://www.thelocal.se/20160816/pig-mask-pair-enjoy-waterwheel-sex-after-pokmon-hunter-attack

Nom de Guerre Contre la Terreur Michael Caine Mutiny https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/07/22/actor-michael-caine-says-he-changed-his-name-to-michael-caine-because-of-isis/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/07/22/actor-michael-caine-says-he-changed-his-name-to-michael-caine-because-of-isis/

Pay To Play At this point, I'm getting pretty firmly convinced that Police Unions are all about guild protectionism, and not about safer working conditions and professional standards. Would be happy to see examples that prove me wrong, because I think that unions have been, and could be, powerful organizations for fixing workplace dangers and inequalities. http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crime/in-tongue-lashing-federal-judge-wont-let-guild-hold-police-reform-hostage/ http://www.thestranger.com/slog/2016/08/16/24464795/federal-judge-says-police-reforms-must-take-hold-because-black-lives-matter http://www.thestranger.com/news/2016/06/22/24243759/inside-the-citys-negotiations-with-the-police-union Originally shared by **** The union had overwhelmingly rejected the contract on the grounds that it did not sufficiently reward officers with more money and benefits in exchange for engaging in constitutional policing. “The court and the citizens of Seattle will not be held hostage...

Echoes of 3Com http://wraltechwire.com/cisco-to-lay-off-5-500-workers/15936565/

#WordlessWednesday #wordlessonwednesday

Intermezzo Originally shared by **** A rhizome has no beginning or end; it is always in the middle, between things, interbeing, intermezzo . The tree is filiation, but the rhizome is alliance uniquely alliance. The tree imposes the verb “to be,” but the fabric of the rhizome is the conjunction, “and...and...and...” This conjunction carries enough force to shake and uproot the verb “to be.” Where are you going? Where are you coming from? What are you heading for? These are totally useless questions. Making a clean slate, starting or beginning again from ground zero, seeking a beginning or a foundation—all imply a false conception of voyage and movement (a conception that is methodical, pedagogical, initiatory, symbolic...). But Kleist, Lenz and Büchner have another way of traveling and moving: proceeding from the middle, through the middle, coming and going rather than starting and finishing. Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari. A Thousand Plateaus. Capitalism and Schizophrenia II , ...

We Went To The Mountaintop, But It Wasn't There Wendell Berry will not be leaving his papers to the University of Kentucky. http://www.kentucky.com/news/local/education/article44037549.html via Eric Hansen Originally shared by Kristin Moran Rar! http://www.utne.com/environment/wendell-berry-takes-his-papers-and-leaves.aspx?fb=1

A New Sheriff In Town Originally shared by **** By one count more than 600 people have died since Rodrigo Duterte was elected president on May 9th; another puts the total at nearly 1,000. Inaugurated on June 30th, Mr Duterte has taken to naming senior officials publicly as suspected narcos: generals, policemen and judges have been told to resign and submit to investigation. Or else? The kill list speaks for itself. Mr Duterte is unabashed at international criticism, boasting that he does not care about human rights or due process. He was elected on a promise to eradicate crime, even by killing 100,000 gangsters and dumping their bodies in Manila Bay. More worrying still is that the bloodletting is popular with Filipinos, many of whose lives are blighted by poverty and crime. #Philippines http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21704793-rodrigo-duterte-living-up-his-promise-fight-crime-shooting-first-and-asking-questions?fsrc=scn/fb/te/pe/ed/aharvestoflead

Only A Dream Away George Harrison told Terry Gilliam: "You remind me of John Lennon, you’re so difficult, so bolshie. Can’t you just compromise?" George Harrison-Dream Away: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2wrte1ijlY Originally shared by Richard Bensam "Fidget was Kenny Baker, we made him the cute one, the one that everybody liked, but in a sense that’s the way he is, so we were definitely using their real characters in some sense." http://io9.gizmodo.com/its-a-miracle-that-terry-gilliams-time-bandits-even-g-1332560707

Habitat Loss Originally shared by Chris Clarke I want to go back to this little place I know, on the east side of Route 14 in Mojave, California called Reno’s Coffee Shop. I had homemade turkey soup there once two days after Thanksgiving. The waitress apologized. It would be turkey soup for days, she… http://coyot.es/crossing/2016/08/13/habitat-loss/

Ride 'Em High https://www.theguardian.com/sport/picture/2016/aug/13/sport-picture-of-the-day-laurine-van-riessens-spectacular-evasive-action https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FOOU8WNxi8 Brooks & Dunn-Ride 'Em High, Ride 'Em Low: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OPRuk6JrLc http://velonews.competitor.com/2016/08/news/van-riessen-rides-barrier-avoid-keirin-crash_418033

All About The Vig Originally shared by **** "If you eliminate payday loans, you still have to answer the question, 'Where will consumers go with their short-term credit needs?' Those needs don’t just go away." http://abcnews.go.com/Business/missouri-man-paid-50000-interest-taking-2500-payday/story?id=39253982

Finally! It's good to be on the winning side, for a change. N.B.- No female examples. Originally shared by Al Tlön "Being bad-tempered and pessimistic helps you to earn more, live longer and enjoy a healthier marriage. It’s almost enough to put a smile on the dourest of faces." http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160809-why-it-pays-to-be-grumpy-and-bad-tempered

The Old Home Place Since 1935. If you haven't ever been to the Galax Old Fiddler's Convention at least once, you owe it to yourself to go. You stand a good chance of hearing better music in the camps, than on the stage. Originally shared by Randy Culler Galax Jam with The Marshall Brothers and myself http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4fHGzwzxn0&sns=gp

How To Stuff A Wild Burkini http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37056742

Whattsamatta You? You not eatta your meatballs!?! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQhwNtY3N2k Originally shared by **** In Italy, five children have been hospitalized within the last 18 months because of their vegan diets. [But] critics of the proposed law say that there needs to be more effort put into tackling childhood obesity rather than punishing vegetarian or vegan parents. http://distractify.com/news/2016/08/09/vegan-parents-go-to-jail

Version Control “It’s a lot of faff – you have to keep track of your changes and send them along to whichever side is currently behind – and as I have a low faff-tolerance threshold, I’m still not very conscientious about it..." https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/aug/10/cloud-atlas-astonishingly-different-in-us-and-uk-editions-study-finds

Call Maury! "The baby doesn't look like me!" "They're just after the money!" ... "We'll be glad to help you find the father!" Originally shared by Al Tlön What an odd story. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/09/arts/design/artist-accused-of-disowning-a-painting-testifies.html?_r=0

Rogue Male via Robert Rambusch https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/mar/15/robert-macfarlane-household-rogue-male

#WordlessWednesday #wordlessonwednesday

Better Than A Slater Up The Nose Originally shared by Meg L Walking home in the beautiful Lancashire dusk, an 11 year old girl (now 96) invented the word “lighty-dark” to describe the light occurring at the edge of darkness after a cold clear day. What's a 'chuggypig'? It’s just one of the regional terms for woodlouse; others being ‘sow-dug’, ‘slater’ and ‘johnny-grump’. The nature writer Robert Macfarlane reveals the language of the landscape that has been shared with him. In our family, a woodlouse is an allywomp. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/may/14/robert-macfarlane-readers-letters-words

Would You? Could You? Only authentic if it has the tiniest taste of oobleck... http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/08/09/486786702/you-can-eat-it-here-and-there-green-eggs-and-ham-are-everywhere-on-menus

Not The Tnuctipun As far as we know. Am much disappoint. Originally shared by Damn interesting http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/08/05/488891151/the-mystery-of-why-sunflowers-turn-to-follow-the-sun-solved

Say Anything Except No to Ads. Facebook will now block ad blockers. Also, this comment, from another article about security: "Re: third party cookies... there's amazing overlap between things used by advertisers and things used by would-be hackers." http://arstechnica.com/security/2016/08/new-attack-steals-ssns-e-mail-addresses-and-more-from-https-pages/ http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/10/technology/facebook-ad-blockers.html

Brain and Brain! What Is Brain!?! Stomps foot, attractively... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzuXqzdYmTQ Originally shared by Tim O'Brien

Breaking Away 2 Just do it... http://redkiteprayer.com/2016/08/behind-the-scenes-dennis-christopher-talks-breaking-away-part-ii/

Swearing Is Sharing Originally shared by **** Good-natured swearing has a way of bonding people together. "Motherfucker," I thought to myself. "You’re goddamn right. " http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/08/if-you-want-to-bond-with-someone-swear-at-them.html http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/08/if-you-want-to-bond-with-someone-swear-at-them.html

Breaking Away Drafting a truck in the little ring, stunt calves, and the end of Bambino... http://redkiteprayer.com/2016/08/behind-the-scenes-dennis-christopher-talks-breaking-away-part-i/

Waffles! It's important to set priorities... http://thedevilspanties.com/archives/11443 Don't miss the message, Cara Evangelista. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uxmAk0IqZ4U http://thedevilspanties.com/archives/11443

Taking A Short Walk On A Long Pier Back to the daily grind...

Better Call Saul Shameless Apologists Don't Come Cheap... http://www.wral.com/legislature-s-legal-bills-top-9m-in-defense-of-state-laws/15905135/

Brought To You By The Letter... http://www.gocomics.com/9chickweedlane/2016/08/07

In Fine Spirits Despite a broken halyard, a fouled halyard, an unsuccessful attempt to gybe the jib over me while I was entangled with a botched spinnaker takedown, and a episode that involved unintentional seining using the blooper, we won three out of the four races. Lost that one by one second, corrected time. Time was quite good compared to the A boats, but it's hard to beat an Etchells sportboat that planes and weighs less than your keel.

Oh, Chute

Exalted Leader Pretty good guy, even if he is a Boat Owner...

Young Apprentice Has learned from the Old Master...

Oriental View The formerly formidable Blue Bayou... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTCyO9MpGUM

Dodged That Bullet Originally shared by Julie Bee

Originally shared by Richard Bensam The man responsible for "I'm A Lumberjack" and "Spam" passed away on July 17, but the obituary is only appearing now. I assume it was delayed by the lengthy introductory section of the All-England Summarize Proust Competition. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2016/08/02/fred-tomlinson-singer-on-monty-python--obituary

Look For The Helpers via Cara Evangelista Originally shared by Matthew Inman http://theoatmeal.com/comics/manbun http://theoatmeal.com/comics/manbun

Letter Perfect Originally shared by K.B. Burnfield The Typography of ‘Stranger Things’ How one designer got hooked to a TV show in 52 seconds #strangerthings   https://blog.nelsoncash.com/the-typography-of-stranger-things-e35771f40d31#.s87brhmml

Liar, Liar http://www.wral.com/mccrory-administration-wages-war-of-words-over-scientist-s-coal-ash-deposition/15898490/

Never Give Up, Never Surrender! http://www.wral.com/mccrory-to-appeal-voter-id-ruling-after-cooper-demurs/15896986/

Post-Post Impressionism h/t to Karen Conlin  http://www.techinsider.io/pop-culture-van-gogh-mash-up-photos-2016-5

Outsider Art About 2,275 miles outside of Pasadena... Originally shared by Al Tlön "Szylak’s installation is hardly noticeable from the sidewalk in front of his former home, but if one approaches from the alley and garages of Klinger and Sobieski Streets, Hamtramck Disneyland looms like a Cubist carnival." http://hyperallergic.com/311753/the-outsider-artist-who-built-his-own-private-disneyland/

Mr. CSotD Originally shared by Jeffrey Zeldman Glenn Davis is the creator of Cool Site of the Day; cofounder of Project Cool; and cofounder, Executive Committee member, and essayist for The Web Standards Project, which he also hosted. Glenn was a leading force behind Liquid Design, an approach that predates Responsive Web Design by about 20 years. He taught everyone how to do “DHTML” via his Project Cool tutorials. In the Silicon Valley from 1994 through the early 2000s, Glenn was a huge creative force. In a lively hour, Glenn and host Jeffrey Zeldman discuss life before the animated GIF; “perceived bandwidth;” building their first websites; getting from Gopher to the web; SLIP and PPP connections; discovering UNIX; the story behind Cool Site of the Day; the battle for standards in our browsers; the web then versus the web now; and much, much more. http://5by5.tv/bigwebshow/146 http://5by5.tv/bigwebshow/146

Crack The Whip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EX19sAudmic Might as well JUMP! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EqWN4fT79s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EX19sAudmic

No Brakes One Fell Swoop... Made it home to Norfolk... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-EHwYOfY94 http://pilotonline.com/news/military/local/navy-human-error-to-blame-for-march-cable-break-aboard/article_c4675c54-6cdc-5882-867a-68f961145c9d.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-EHwYOfY94

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Integration They would come to be known as the Montford Point Marines. Camp Johnson remains the only military base named after an African American. http://www.birminghamtimes.com/2016/08/memorial-to-1st-black-marines-dedicated-at-camp-lejeune/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/08/01/honoring-the-heroic-montford-pointers-the-african-american-marines-the-corps-didnt-want

Between Two Worlds https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ishi http://history.library.ucsf.edu/ishi.html Originally shared by Damn interesting An unsolved killing has brought an isolated tribe into contact with the outside world http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/08/08/an-isolated-tribe-emerges-from-the-rain-forest

Chyron IV The People Somebody buy that PA a beer... http://www.mediaite.com/tv/cnn-chyron-smacks-eric-trump-for-saying-father-apologized-for-khan-attacks/

Don't Stop The Fabulous Knobs swam in the middle of a rich Raleigh music scene - Arrogance, the dB’s, Glass Moon, The Spongetones, playing gigs at The Pier, Free Advice or The Brewery... They tore up and down the East Coast in the days when bands played four sets a night, hauling their own gear in the back of an orange box truck nicknamed “The Big O.” Along the way, they built a collection of folklore that still delights their aging audience: paying midnight homage to Duane Allman in a Georgia graveyard until the police showed up; rolling a car onto the front porch of their house on Edenton Street so they could hear the cassette player from the living room; getting caught on the wrong side of the Wrightsville Beach drawbridge and partying in the streets until it opened again. “Nobody had as much fun as we did,” said singer Debra DeMilo. “Nobody.” Debra DeMilo was lead singer for The Fabulous Knobs, a Raleigh outfit with an attitude like The Stones before the Stones became a self-pa...

King Battle Of The Bands A long time ago, in a galaxy, far, far away... http://www.magnetmagazine.com/2009/06/01/qa-with-peter-holsapple-chris-stamey/ http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/a-visit-to-mitch-easters-very-active-studio/Content?oid=2640684 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmPRGIQUyP8

Lethargian Leader Killing time until Tock the Watchdog shows up... http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-podcast-that-tells-ingeniously-boring-bedtime-stories-to-help-you-fall-asleep?mbid=social_facebook