Jamaican Sprinting Dominance Isn’t Genetic
Jamaican Sprinting Dominance Isn’t Genetic:
Jamaica’s success isn’t merely genetic; it’s cultural, institutional and individual. Pointing to genes is intellectually and scientifically sloppy.
wget on OS X
Mac OS 10.5 includes curl, but not wget for some reason. Obviously, you want wget. Quentin Stafford has put together a binary for you.
Rolling Stone review of ‘Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo’
Rolling Stone’s Nov 30, 1978 review of Devo’s ‘Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo’.
Reviewer Tom Carson concludes:
Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! is a brittle, small masterpiece of Seventies pop irony, but its shriveling, icecold absurdism might not define the Seventies as much as jump the gun on the Eighties.
That sounds about right.
Wing sings AC/DC
Some of you have asked me what a Hong Kong-born New Zealander with a mono-syllabic name singing ‘Highway to Hell’ sounds like. It took some time, but I’ve found your answer.
Wing is a singer from New Zealand who fearlessly tackles pop material from AC/DC to the Beegees. And Elvis of course.
Wilson and Alroy have reviewed most of her body of work and found it to their liking.
Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984
Postpunk is the Byzantine Empire of popular music. Everyone recalls it being really big once, but no one remembers much about it. Fill the void in your rock knowledge with Simon Reynolds’ Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984
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Vidro designated for assignment
Our long hitting nightmare is over!:
Vidro designated for assignment: “
The Jose Vidro era ended today when the Mariners designated him for assingment. I just drove by him in the Safeco Field parking lot. I was headed in, he was leaving. The Mariners have 10 days to release, trade or demote Vidro to the minors — a move he could refuse. Anyhow, he’s gone.
Wladimir Balentien is back up.
(Via Mariners Blog.)
Scritti Politti
I’m going through a big post-punk phase right now, set off by Simon Reynolds’ exhaustively researched ‘Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984
Does anyone know if the following singles are still in print?:
‘Skank Bloc Bologna’ (1978)
‘2nd Peel Session’ (1979)
‘4 A-Sides’ (1979)
Water on mars!
NASA - NASA Spacecraft Confirms Martian Water, Mission Extended:
“We have water,” said William Boynton of the University of Arizona, lead scientist for the Thermal and Evolved-Gas Analyzer, or TEGA. “We’ve seen evidence for this water ice before in observations by the Mars Odyssey orbiter and in disappearing chunks observed by Phoenix last month, but this is the first time Martian water has been touched and tasted.”
Whatever Happened to the Hall of Fame
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More than you ever wanted to know, or knew could be known, about the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame (and museum!).
I Am America (And So Can You!)
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-Steven Colbert