Click World News (Free subscription) | yesterday
UPDATE: After reading some of the comments below, I'm inclined to think this guy is trying to pull a fast one. Swan Fungus of WFMU's Beware of The Blog writes about a strange CD-r he found while hiking in Joshua Tree a couple of years ago. He writes, "I have played this CD for record scum collector friends and pop culture junkies in the hopes that someone might recognize something...
Boing Boing (Free subscription) | yesterday
Swan Fungus of WFMU's Beware of The Blog writes about a strange CD-r he found while hiking in Joshua Tree a couple of years ago. He writes, "I have played this CD for record scum collector friends and pop culture junkies in the hopes that someone might recognize something about it, from a riff to a clip from some television show or movie. The only constant is that no one knows what...
Blog Absolute Point (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
The National Tree Movie Artist and sculptor Colleen Rochette prepares caricatures of “Saturday Night Live” characters performed by female actors for Barneys’ SNL theme holiday windows display, New York. This photo taken Oct. 27, 2009 shows artist Ryan Piguet creating … see more. See also: the national tree hallmark | andrew mccarthy | the national tree...
Coyote Crossing (Free subscription) | yesterday
... Valley National Park. The Mojave National Preserve covers very nearly as much land as Yosemite and Joshua Tree national parks put together. And yet the Preserve’s budget, in FY 2007, was less than $6 million. That comes out to a little less than four bucks to manage each acre for a year. That land is not exactly easy to manage. It includes 695,000 acres of designated wilderness,...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | yesterday
... from San Clemente Island to near the Arizona border and vertically, from the Mexican border to the Joshua Tree National Park, with its longest link spanning 72 miles."It's a network of backbone nodes using Internet routers that happen to be on mountain tops, interconnected via wireless links, and from there, connected to user sites," said Braun. "Eventually, traffic...
Compass Points (Free subscription) | 11/29/2009
... Let’s say you wanted to test the Hypothesis: “Increased temperature will cause Joshua trees to grow more robustly as measured by the thickness of the rings in the trunk at chest height.” First you must control for all the things that might affect the growth of the tree: water, amount of sunlight, gases in the air, nutrients in the ground, organisms...
Lend Me Your Ears (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
... air condition systems and turbines in Las Vegas, Frankfurt and Tokyo, walking on rocks in Joshua Tree National Park, wind from the Grand Canyon, a friends answering machine, a printer, conversations via mobile phones, typing on an old Macintosh keyboard and recordings from tunnel works in Switzerland") into a spare, vital whole - in which whirring zither & click-drum make...
The Guardian Music blog (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
Wrestling with post-millennial tension, Kid A was a musical meditation on paranoia, premonitions and profound beauty More top 10 albums of the decade If Achtung Baby was the sound of U2 chopping down The Joshua Tree, Kid A saw Radiohead ripping the wires from OK Computer, setting fire to the motherboard and throwing the wreckage from a tenth floor window. The sound of a stadium-rock...
