J.D. Roth, over at folded space.com, has uploaded 20 songs from 1901 to 1920, in MP3 format. Even better, he has links to further info about some of the artists.

Dear Santa,

When christmas comes around this year, I want one of these. You can skip me for the next years, but having a jet powered VW Beetle would be worth it.

I missed the oscars, which Jon Stewart was hosting. Too tired from moving and insane work week. I had briefly turned it on, but it was in the middle of one of their navel gazing, cheesy, filler pieces, so I cut it off and went bed. It’s been much of the same since. A special insert, logo, a large paper with an even larger one on the way while buying a house and training someone from scratch, switching computers and software and trying to find the damn tv remote. By August things should calm down.

This is so amazing! Twins were born of mixed parents and one is black, while the other white! But they’re twins!

That last post contained a lot of material originally written in the comments section of buzzmachone.com. Co.ments is an attempt to keep track of any comments across the web.

A group of seventh graders describe and draw scientists before and after visting with actual scientists. The before and after is striking.

Web suicide pacts surge in Japan
The number of Japanese who killed themselves in suicide pacts made over the internet rose sharply last year.


Transforming Robot, via the Japanese.

Yes, the second most powerful man in the world accidently shot someone. Now there’s questions about how long it took for the story to become public.

via boingboing

This is one the best written, best told, most entertaining and moving stories I’ve ever read. It’s the story of Eric Knaus, aka, The Great Zucchini, child entertainer. It’s full of wonder and mystery and beauty about being so scarily, bizarrly human. It’s one of those stories that makes you stop and notice life.

Read it. And then read the online followup with the writer.

The Washington Post has put together a site on every congressional vote back to 1991. Hot damn, this could be useful.

Pitting two hands against thousands of stinging tentacles, a diver attaches a tracking device to a giant Nomura’s jellyfish off the coast of Japan on October 4, 2005.


See CNN link also.