Today's excursion starts with Dave Apollon (1897-1972), arguably one of the most adventurous mandolinists of the 20th century and an inspiration to this day. Here he is with with Victor Borge, playing a Chestnut (Hora Staccato, written by Grigoras Dinicu...
Stratigraphy and Sedimentology: Ron Blakey's maps (tags: geology geospatial chronology) Effect Measure on US passport production "Bush administration passport to stupidity" (tags: argybargy)...
It's too much to hope that YouTube would have footage of Elsa Lanchester (1902-1986) singing any of her Songs for a Shuttered Parlour or Songs for a Smoke-Filled Room (both longtime favorites of mine in vinyl), but this one is...
Street View Movies from CogDogBlog (and here I am with a Windows machine...) (tags: screencast mapping googlemaps)...
Upstaging Cab Calloway... be sure to be watching at 4:00:and mashedup ("cut cropped & crafted")and from Hellzapoppin' (1941):...
Here's an item, via Dreamtime, that I recollect from 50 years ago, but haven't heard since. The YouTube interface is semisuperfluous (since it's the audio that conveys the ummmm message):...
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I thought I knew a fair bit about the further fringes of hurdygurdydom, but this Field Guide from WFMU's Beware of the Blog is... well... try a few yourself...
...and Stochelo Rosenberg (et al.):...
Two versions, via McGee's Musings: N.B. we're dealing with "prefamulated amulite... hydrocoptic marsel vanes are properly fitted to the ambifacient lunar wane shaft... successfully used for operating nofer trunnions... whenever a barescent skor motion is required, it may be employed...
Backwards and in high heels:...
Entering Exotic Characters ASCII, non-ASCII, etc (tags: language geekery)...
Complete Elfquest Online Project via Cory Doctorow (tags: archive comics) new google visualization API via information aesthetics... what I said a couple of days ago about More of Same (tags: visualization data) Clarke and Dawe on munny ummm... that's...
This has been making the rounds for a few days, but I hadn't watched it myself until just now. It'll take 18 minutes of your attention to watch this, but DO IT. Just DO IT. I think I can guarantee...
I've been following the duo Vlatko Stefanovski and Miroslav Tadic for a few years, ever since encountering their Krushevo on the M.A. label (very high-end audio, unreservedly recommended). Daniel sent me a link to this: ...and I'll just bet that...
What-if documentary about catastrophic US dollar collapse via BoingBoing (tags: money economics video)...
A detail from May 25, 1925. "Winners and judges, Paramount Motion Picture School."... one hopes she (!?) is a judge, I guess:...
Painful watching, but perhaps essential (and via Juan Cole's Informed Comment ...this is Part 2):...
The real action starts (with Cab Calloway's St. James Infirmary) at about 4:00, but all 7 minutes are pretty surreal:...
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anthropologist, librarian, explorer of silicon life forms
this purports to show some of what I'm paying attention to
...and should provoke more use of del.icio.us tagging
Keeping track of stuff sent to others
Nova Scotia Faces project and wiki ...and Squidoo lens
The Home Page (so very Web 1.0)
...and the physical coordinates
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