Saturday 21 April 2012

Tony Clifton on The Dinah Shore Show

Bonus:

Andy Kaufman's first TV appearance as Tony Clifton (1977)

The TSA's mission creep is making the US a police state

Jacob Appelbaum on Being Target of Widespread Gov’t Surveillance - 'We Don’t Live in a Free Country'

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A flower that smells like shit and resembles vagina dentata

♪♫ Lyle Lovett - Nobody Knows Me

And I like cream in my coffee
And I like to sleep late on Sunday
And nobody knows me like my baby
And I like eggs over easy
With flour tortillas
And nobody knows me like my baby

And nobody holds me
And nobody knows me
Nobody knows me like my baby

But it was a dream made to order
South of the border
And nobody knows me like my baby
And she cried man how could you do it
And I swore that there weren't nothing to it
But nobody knows me like my baby

original version appeared on the album "Lyle Lovett and His Large Band" (1989)

Friday 20 April 2012

Tasting The Rainbow

Ring of colour: An ant’s transparent abdomen shows the colour of the food they have eaten. (Mohamed Babu / Solent News & Photo Agency)
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Just me?

Or is there something wrong with this sentence -
'The restriction on voting rights will remain in place ''for as long as the company deems it necessary to maintain compliance with US law'', News Corp said.'

Cherry blossom watching in Fukushima Prefecture

今年も桜は精一杯咲いている。

いわき市久ノ浜にあった自宅から車ですぐ、
お隣さんの町、福島県富岡町の夜ノ森公園。
浜通りでも有数の桜の名所。
立ち入りができない、人のいない夜ノ森公園で
今年も桜たちは思いっきり咲いてくれている。
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(Thanx Katherine!)

Anthony Atala: Printing a human kidney

http://www.ted.com Surgeon Anthony Atala demonstrates an early-stage experiment that could someday solve the organ-donor problem: a 3D printer that uses living cells to output a transplantable kidney. Using similar technology, Dr. Atala's young patient Luke Massella received an engineered bladder 10 years ago; we meet him onstage.
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Lucinda on Levon

A little over a year ago, Levon Helm invited me to open two shows for him in Toronto.
Well aware of my Louisiana heritage, he enthusiastically let it be known that he and his band had worked up a version of "Crescent City" and asked if I would sing that song with them and also sit in on "Evangeline". I'll never forget Levon's ear to ear grin as we played those songs.The short time I spent with him over those two nights left a deep and lasting impression on me.
I heard the sad news today and I am in tears as I write this. I lost a hero and a friend. His music inspired and influenced me during my early years and still does, to this day. And now that I've been honored to have spent some time with Levon, I have to say that I will always remember him with a twinkle in his eyes, a smile as warm and friendly as his native Arkansas land and an endearing and infectious spirit that will live on forever.
Thank you for your musical lessons, Levon. Rave on, brother.
- Lucinda Williams