WGBH : George Antheil's Ballet mécanique
"Composed in 1924 while Antheil lived in Paris, "Ballet mécanique" calls for three xylophones, four bass drums, a tamtam (gong), two pianos, a siren, three airplane propellers, seven electric bells, and 16 synchronized player pianos." Live webcast, beginnning 21h15 EST.
National Post : Bladder defence urged for drunk driving suspects
"It's a well-known fact that when we've had something alcoholic to drink we need to go to the bathroom and if the machine claims that someone has a blood-alcohol level of 0.17, these tests show that if that person has gone 2.5 hours without peeing, that can't be right." So, if you have a small bladder you must be drunk, right?
View Source : The JavaScript Tree Component
"The free-to-the-public JavaScript Tree component enables you to build customized tree hierarchies made up of pure cross-browser Dynamic HTML (DHTML) using object-oriented JavaScript. By providing the tree hierarchy that's common in most graphical user interfaces (GUIs), this component can improve both the navigation and the real estate of your web pages." It looks pretty cool, although it requires that Java be enabled, which seems like a sure-fire way to make JavaScript even more annoying than it already is.
Vicky Southard
"The Guinness people have been trying for a long time to find a way to show the world’s biggest breasts on their TV show. Now that we’ll be making a bra to fit them, Guinness will be able to show them on TV."
David Keirsey
"There is some social bias toward expressiveness in American social life, but Reserved persons have no reason to feel that there is anything wrong with them, and should be sure to provide adequately for their legitimate desire for quiet time to themselves." Well, that's a relief since I managed to score a perfect 10 for reservedness and a 0 for expressiveness on the
Keirsey Character Sorter. via
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