August 2011
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“And they do it in FZ’s name. Exactly unlike him, they have zero humor, zero...”
– Gail Zappa
WatchGlobe exhibit at Melbourne Museum (taken with DoodleCam)
The infinity of the very small - Carl Sagan | Meme... →
The infinity of the very small.
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Backmasking: Here's to my sweet Satan →
I found myself reading up on the strange paranoid conspiracy that is/was backmasking. Apparently, a number of rock artists began including backward Satanic messages on their records in the 70s, and if you played your record backwards you could hear things such as, “There was a little tool shed where he made us suffer, sad Satan” (Led Zeppelin, ‘Stairway to Heaven’) and...
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I Love Books, So There.
It’s Book Week soon. These books make me happy just thinking about them:
The Folk of the Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton: Going up the Ladder With No Top. Wow.
Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak. I can feel the sunshine in that book. I cried when Zhivago died.
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf.
Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks. My favourite space opera.
The Magician’s Nephew by C....
“The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody...”
– Frank Zappa 1940 - 1993
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Launch of the Juno spacecraft: Mission to Jupiter! →
And now you must all watch the launch of Juno. This spacecraft will take 5 years to travel to its destination, Jupiter. The separation of the solid booster rockets in this video is most exciting.
