November 18, 2004

Rolling Stone Magazine - Top 500 Rock Songs of all time

Some interesting choices, and as with any list, mucho room for argument.

I put their top 50 in the extended entry (still looking for a link to the whole thing). more...

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November 12, 2004

It Came, It Thawed, It Conquered

TV Dinners celebrate their 50th anniversary.

Thanks to Rand Simberg at Transterrestrial Musings for the pointer.

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November 09, 2004

An amazing thing happened at the Spider Pool

In September I posted here about a search for the mysterious Spider Pool. Seen in numerous vintage nude photo sets, some members of the newsgroup alt.binaries.pictures.erotica.vintage have been piecing together clues and photographs like a long-forgotten puzzle. Photo archives have been searched and sets identified, sometimes with little more than the pattern on a ladies skirt in two different photos. The fact that the pool may be dated from the 1930's or even earlier only added to the challenge.

Slowly, the pieces started to fit, and then last weekend, the Spider Pool was found.

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November 05, 2004

T+ 25 years and counting

Twenty five years ago today, radical Islam declared war on America by attacking the US Embassy in Tehran, Iran. Sixty six Americans were taken hostage and held for more than a year.

We didn't start this war, and it took a while for most of us to actually believe it was happening, despite the evidence right in front of our eyes. Beruit, USS Cole, Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, the bomb in the parking garage beneath the World Trade Center, Khobar towers bombing and many many more. 9/11 was the date of their most successful attack, not their first.

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