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Pjotro – The man with the musical suit
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McRorie – One Man Band – Live
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ELP for your old ELP LPs
ELP Laser Turntable: Plays Vinyl Records without a Needle
For about the price of a new Ford Focus, you can dig out your old copy of Brain Salad Surgery and enjoy it anew, knowing that (thanks to the magic of 21st Century Laser Beams) you’re not causing any additional wear and tear on the vinyl. Or you could just play the CD.
Silver woofs it up
Another fine canine flick.
Velvet Underground on Lawrence Welk Show
Al Gore on Saturday Night Live
Taking the “Global Warming is Bad” position in the Point – Counter Point portion of SNL’s Weekend Update, former US VP Al Gore. He also opened the show.
(more on Flickr)
Pavement magic, no David Blaine required
“Julian Beever has made pavement drawings for over ten years. He has worked in the U.K., Belgium, France, The Netherlands, Germany, the USA and Australia.” Among the pavement drawings displayed on his site are these “anamorphic illusions drawn in a special distortion in order to create an impression of 3 dimensions when seen from one particular viewpoint.”
Raccoon in the blue spruce
This morning, without even having to get out of bed, we were treated to the sight of this raccoon, scrambling up the blue spruce that fills the view from our window. He may have been after the nest the mourning doves have made, but if so he was going in the wrong direction.
Click picture for large sizes(Flickr.com)
Red Wigglers, The Cadillac of Worms
Lynda just came home with this moist newspaper-wrapped bundle of composting specialists. Genuine Red Wigglers, made famous by WKRP.
Click picture for large version on Flickr.
More info on Lynda Sez.
The trouble with normal
This from “Joel on Software“:
“One of the hallmarks of a broken system is when there’s just no possible way that the programmer who is writing code that talks to customers can ever get feedback from those customers about bugs, because the call center is outsourced to a different company than the software development project is outsourced to. Everyone is trying their hardest to do their job but management has set it up so that it’s impossible.”
This is more and more normal these days, and we all know the trouble with normal…