Here, read this description of the visit to Graceland by President Bush and Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi… I wish I was there. Remember, Graceland is managed by Robert FX Sillerman, the guy who bought most of the concert business and sold it to Clear Channel (now Live Nation) for about a 2 billion dollar profit and now owns rights to Elvis and American Idol…
from Boing Boing and YouTube:
This posting is for Art, Clark and Bob Weber… you may have seen this coming.
original post from Boing Boing…
from Boing Boing and Cory Doctorow:
Those crafty Canadians… the picture you see below is an electrical substation disguised as a home… and they have been doing it for decades! Follow the link to Boing Boing and read the entire story…
Electrical substations disguised as houses.
If string breakage wasn’t enough of a problem, these guys want to split the strings in different directions… please leave the math rock to those guys who like to count to 23 over and over again… techs, there is a reason this was forwarded to me by GG around 6/6/06…
from Music thing and YouTube:
A video of a surface being subjected to audio frequencies with dry rice put on top and as the frequencies change, so does the patterns of the rice. It’s both beautiful and one of those things that lets you see the basic building blocks of life, very much like crystals growing.
Please be cautious with you volume as they go through the frequency range, some of the notes are somewhat piercing…
Incredible spooky video about resonance (and rice).
from the BBC:
It wasn’t Ireland this time…
Finland celebrates Eurovision win.
Uh, it wasn’t human this time….
