(Telltale Weekly): “Telltale Weekly seeks to record, produce, and sell performances of at least 50 public domain texts a year, with the intention of releasing them under the Creative Commons Attribution License five years or a hundred thousand sales after their first appearance here, whichever comes first. Your purchases help us to build and/or contribute to a free audio equivalent of Project Gutenberg.”
Thanks to my mother-in-law for the musical stylings of Alaskan transient Ethan Daniel Davidson (website): “Picture a guitar-playing Peire Vidal — trust us on this one — complete with escondigs, pastorelas and joc-partits (look ‘em up), who learned to play by imitating Johnny Ramone and Joe Strummer.”
This takes a bit to load, but it is amazing (otherthings.com).
(BBC): “Astronomers have revealed how they came within minutes of alerting the world to a potential asteroid strike last month.”
This sounds suspiciously like a barroom brag: “You know, with the asteroid coming and all, I was wondering if I could buy you a drink?”
(NikonImaging.com): “The COOLPIX 2100 comes in Pearl Silver (top), Silky Blue (bottom left; available only in Japan) and Fairy Pink (bottom right; available only in Japan).”
The UPS lady should be bringing one of these today. It’s a replacement for our beloved Coolpix 800, which bit the dust after I dropped it. Is two megapixels enough? You betcha (Google Search)!
Some of you out there will identify with this:
(WSJ.com) : “As megamall parking lots stretch toward the horizon, and baby boomers struggle with age-induced forgetfulness, the burden has fallen on theme parks, malls and garage designers to mount increasingly creative efforts to get an absent-minded nation to its cars.”
(helpinghandsmonkeys.org): “Helping Hands is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for quadriplegic individuals by training capuchin monkeys to assist them with daily activities.”