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Ernst Toch, "Geographical Fugue" (orig. "Fuge aus der Geographie," first perf. Berlin, 1930), translated by John Cage and William Cowell, perf. by the Lycoming College Chorus
This is an amazing piece of music, under three minutes long, consisting of a fugal recitation of geographical place-names by a four-part chorus using speaking tones rather than singing. Y...
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http://www.lycoming.edu/choir/mp3s/1993choircd/geographicalfugue.mp3
What is a Flowgram?
This is a really well-made short demonstration video. It shows off the value and power of the Flowgram tool nicely and effectively.
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http://beta.flowgram.com/f/p.html#130
Doug E. Fresh and Slick Rick, "La-Di-Da-Di" (1985)
Warning: highly obscene and offensive lyrics.
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http://skreemr.com/link.jsp?id=6452435C535F66
Doug E. Fresh and Slick Rick, "La-Di-Da-Di" (single b/w "The Show", Reality, 1985)
Warning: obscene lyrics.
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http://passionweiss.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/la-di-da-di2.mp3
William T. Cavanaugh, "Does Religion Cause Violence?," Harvard Divinity Bulletin 35/2-3 (Spring/Summer 2007)
Very incisive commentary from William Cavanaugh attacking the common thesis that religion is somehow magically inclined toward violence. Cavanaugh is a Catholic theologian who also posses...
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http://www.hds.harvard.edu/news/bulletin_mag/articles/35-23_cavanaugh.html
Argument to Beethoven's Fifth
Sid Caesar and Nanette Fabray doing classic live comedy. Five minutes. No cursing, no bodily functions, no cynicism, no humiliation... Amazingly, it's brilliantly funny anyway!
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEhF-7suDsM
Li-Young Lee, "The Hour and What Is Dead," from Rose (1986), read by the author | Poets.org
Li-Young Lee is not only an extraordinary poet, but he's a great reader as well. This poem is not my absolute favorite but hearing it read aloud still gets me a little shaky.
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http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16636
Plain text to OPML Generator
In case you often have to turn lists of feeds into OPML files (say, a list of class blogs). Simple cut-and-paste tool. I knew it had to exist somewhere. Via Grazr's list of OPML tools (ht...
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http://www.unold.dk/code/opmlgen
eHub: roundup of web-based blbiographic research tools
Good overview of some of the best available tools for doing academic and bibliographic research online. Features LibraryThing, Zotero, and BibMe.
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http://www.emilychang.com/go/ehub/app/tools-for-researchers-and-book-lovers
Non-caustic drain openers -- anyone have recommendations?
I'd like to figure out a way to deal with organic clogs in my drains without using Drano, Liquid Plumr, etc. My pipes are old and made of copper. Will enzymatic cleaners actually break up...
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http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20070720080701AAvSkTy
Now, you can make everything taste like bacon!
Bacon-flavored salt. What genius dreamed this up? I'm getting hungry just thinking about the possibilities.
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http://www.baconsalt.com/buy
SignificantLearning.org: integrated course design resources
Information from Dee Fink, the author of "Creating Significant Learning Experiences," one of the better books for faculty on how to reorient one's teaching towards more effective and sati...
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http://www.ou.edu/pii/significant/index.htm
Philadelphia lolcat
Haha. Sort of funny ... sort of not.
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http://www.flickr.com/photos/nbr/1105617882
Monitor Flickr with a Yahoo! Pipe (esp. for Twitter users)
When someone comments on one of my Flickr photos or responds to a comment I made, a new item is posted to this Pipes feed, which I then route through Twitter. Your own comments are filter...
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http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_id=ME_jsKRG3BGB0z3fX0sBXw
Nathan Rein's Superhero Kit!
Fear the mutant guinea pig!
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http://www.beasuperhero.com.au/herokit/nathan9523.pdf
DJ Rekha, Basement Banghra micromix
Like music? Like really good music? You have got to listen to this mix. It's the most incredible thing I've heard in a while. The page doesn't seem to work well in Firefox by the way. Try...
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http://www.zshare.net/audio/439883546eda10
Tariq Ali on Bhutto's killing and the PPP
Ali, who was both a friend and critic of Bhutto, argues that the time has come for the People's Party to recreate itself as a genuinely democratic alternative. Sounds like wishful thinkin...
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2232632,00.html