Greatest Albums of All Time?

The following link is what the people who listen to WTMD (Baltimore-area) think are the 897 greatest:

WTMDs Radio For Music People Blog: WTMDs 897 Greatest Albums of All Time Countdown

I do wonder about people who put 2 Radiohead albums in the top 40, however.

Report: 32% Of Prayers Deflected Off Passing Satellites

Report: 32% Of Prayers Deflected Off Passing Satellites | The Onion - Americas Finest News Source. ‘Nuff said.

Another one bites the dust….

Athur C. Clark, RIP.

Read it and weep

NSA shifts to e-mail, Web, data-mining dragnet | The Iconoclast - politics, law, and technology.

More reading goodness

How did I miss the start of L. Neil Smith’s new story? I must be slipping…..

Bit of humor

From Ernie The Attorney:

“The word politics is derived from the word ‘poly’ meaning ‘many’, and the word ‘ticks’ meaning ‘blood-sucking parasites.’” —Larry Hardiman

And the word ‘media’? Perhaps, it’s short for ‘mediocre.’

Springtime reading

Last Night As I Was Sleeping by Antonio Machado
Last night as I was sleeping,
I dreamt—marvelous error—
that a spring was breaking
out in my heart.
I said: Along which secret aqueduct,
Oh water, are you coming to me,
water of a new life
that I have never drunk?

Last night as I was sleeping,
I dreamt—marvelous error—
that I had a beehive
here inside my heart.
And the golden bees
were making white combs
and sweet honey
from my old failures.

Last night as I was sleeping,
I dreamt—marvelous error—
that a fiery sun was giving
light inside my heart.
It was fiery because I felt
warmth as from a hearth,
and sun because it gave light
and brought tears to my eyes.

Translated by Robert Bly

Reading goodness

Flipping through the mail after my trip to Germany, I was happy to see the latest issue of Prometheus, which is again chock full of stimulating book reviews.  The interview with Terry Goodkind was pretty darn good, also.   This is probably old hat to most of you, but the Wild Cards books edited by George R.R. Martin, are really fun.  One of my blogrollees had a hand in writing some of these books.

Hello?

Anybody still out there?  Sorry I haven’t written in awhile - I’ve been out of the country attending the funeral of a close relative.  Things should get back to normal fairly soon.

C’mon PZ, tell us what you really think…

Can you tell he’s mad? He’s also right. And Saudi Arabia is our ‘friend?’  What did my mother always say?  “Show me who your friends are and I’ll show you who you are.”