http://www.manisfam.com Manis family news Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:58:32 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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. http://www.manisfam.com/2008/08/24/jamaican-sprinting-dominance-isnt-genetic/ 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. http://www.manisfam.com/2008/08/22/wget-on-os-x/ 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 ... http://www.manisfam.com/2008/08/16/rolling-stone-review-of-q-are-we-not-men-a-we-are-devo/ 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 ... http://www.manisfam.com/2008/08/15/wing-sings-acdc/ 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. Buy Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984 http://www.manisfam.com/2008/08/14/rip-it-up-and-start-again-postpunk-1978-1984/ 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 ... http://www.manisfam.com/2008/08/05/vidro-designated-for-assignment/ 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'. I've got all the Joy Division and Throbbing Gristle(!) I can handle (though of anyone has a copy of 'The Second Annual Report' I can borrow, ... http://www.manisfam.com/2008/07/31/scritti-politti/ 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 ... http://www.manisfam.com/2008/07/31/water-on-mars/ Buy Whatever Happened to the Hall of Fame! More than you ever wanted to know, or knew could be known, about the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame (and museum!). http://www.manisfam.com/2008/05/31/whatever-happened-to-the-hall-of-fame/ Buy I Am America (And So Can You!) -Steven Colbert http://www.manisfam.com/2008/05/19/i-am-america-and-so-can-you/ GET MORE AT ManBabies.com! http://www.manisfam.com/2008/05/17/man-baby/ Buy Joan of Arc: Her Story! by Régine Pernoud http://www.manisfam.com/2008/05/14/joan-of-arc-her-story/ Mariners blog Lookout Landing thinks that King Felix might have made "The Leap" from a very good starter to a great one. The difference? An excellent changeup against left-handed hitters: For much of 2006 and 2007, Felix was dogged by an inability to consistently retire lefties, a function of (not exclusively, ... http://www.manisfam.com/2008/04/23/king-felix-makes-the-leap/ I know it's lame to complain about the weather, but I just need to say that it is April 18th and I can see snow falling outside my window. I have fond memories from years past of pulling out spring and summer wear in March and storing the winter wear ... http://www.manisfam.com/2008/04/18/snowing-in-april/ Buy The Oxford History of Byzantium! Cyril Mango http://www.manisfam.com/2008/03/29/the-oxford-history-of-byzantium/ Abby and Wilson at the Aquarium. Spring 2007? http://www.manisfam.com/2008/03/29/abby-and-wilson-at-the-aquarium/ Abby and Mamma enjoy a Mariners game. This is from 2006 I think. http://www.manisfam.com/2008/03/29/abby-at-the-mariners/ Wilson is so enamored with crocodiles that he sees them in everything. He can find crocodiles in the clouds, in his Cheetos and Pirate Booty. He can nibble them out of his toast and his crackers. The bottom line is that we are surrounded by crocodiles. Earlier this week, a package ... http://www.manisfam.com/2008/03/22/grandmama-sends-an-easter-crocodile/ Amazon.com Widgets Abby has a copy of The Daring Book for Girls by Miriam Peskowitz (in addition to her copy of The Dangerous Book for Boys). On page 82 she finds "The Daring Girls Guide to Danger" which gives a list of things that any daring girl should do ... http://www.manisfam.com/2008/03/12/abby-is-daring/ When I was in high school Judas Priest was at the peak of their musical and commercial power and between my friends and I we had copies of almost all of their albums. But there was a legendary long out-of-print album called 'Sad Wings of Destiny' that was told to ... http://www.manisfam.com/2008/02/27/the-quest-for-sad-wings-of-destiny/