Some links to watch while waiting for CBS to announce when The Amazing Race 5 will begin (rumored to be sometime after Survivor: All Stars finishes). TARflies Times Josh’s site Amander ‘n Chris’ site Television Without Pity | Amazing Race Forum Google “The Amazing Race” sorted by date Arghhh. And no, I didn’t fill out the application, which for some reason is already for TAR 6. There is much speculage on the TWOP boards about why they posted the new application before the 5th installment even airs.
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I wish I’d seen this siteMedieval and Renaissance Instruments back in November when I was promoting the Renaissance Christmas concert we hosted at church with Phoenix Camerata. That was a fun concert – we’ll have them back again, but they’d like to do a springtime/courtly love type of program. Among the instruments they played were hurdy-gurdy, a variety of recorders, and they made quite a rackett, too. The Phoenix Consort was a great group to work with and if you live in northern Illinois, they’re available to book by contacting Kim Katulka.
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Woops, here’s a cool thing or three: MAJORITY REPORT RADIO, the night show on Air America with Janeane Garofalo and Sam Seder, has its own blog. They mentioned Atrios by name, but there was some confusion over whether Atrios or someone else was interviewed. More radio news – hey, WXRT has a live feed now!! I’ve been looking for this for a while – the last time I checked was a few months back. Maybe I missed it, buried as it was in the lower left corner under all the screen chaff. But they’re an AOL broadband partner, and I…
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Google’s at it again… Search is Number Two Online Activity – Email is Number One; “Heck, Yeah,” Say Google Founders MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – April 1, 2004 UTC – Amidst rampant media speculation, Google Inc. today announced it is testing a preview release of Gmail – a free search-based webmail service with a storage capacity of up to eight billion bits of information, the equivalent of 500,000 pages of email. Per user. The New York Times has it, so it must be true… heck, yeah! Check that dateline, NYT?
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Tonight there was a Taize’ service at Holy Moly, preceded by a simple potluck dinner that included soup, bread, and salads. I contributed an Asian salad thingy that turned out pretty well, and I’ll forget what I did (and what I could do better for the next time) if I don’t get it down. I took it in a large covered salad bowl, which worked out great for mixing, transporting AND serving.
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In honor of the last day of March, it’s time for a little poetry. This seems to scan if sung to The Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star” o franken factor on the internet !pleh !pleh, airborne adventure wales, tarkett tap tight, porque? westminster abbey photo newton s tomb, it snew tricky woo… tricky woo… rasa, computers picture room full of monkeys newton s first law and marble maze, saltwaterchimp. newton law falling apple animated gif bucky katt, spork bucky katt tricky woo, bucky katt monkeys? harris-tarkett tap tight, o franken harris-tarkett tap tight, o franken show me yours and…
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I’ve enjoyed listening to Air America/Al Franken et. al. today… that is, when I can pull in a decent signal on my crappy AM radio upstairs, or when the streaming audio happens to be working, but for the most part it’s been fun listening to it (especially today, when they’ve had some high-powered guests lined up). Most of the callers sound extremely surprised to find themselves on the air (and sound like they’re talk-radio call-in newbies). They’re not quite up to the calibre of, say, callers to :NPR’s “Wait, Wait! Don’t Tell Me.” Maybe it’ll improve. On a quick survey,…
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Well, the link is live at AirAmericaRadio.Com, but they’re apparently operating under radio silence. However, it requires RealPlayer (rats!1) and of course it’s nagging me to update my version of same. Ugh. And it’s NOT going to be the default player for anything. So now after updating my apparently totally useless former version of Real Player, I can hear commercials, but no talk once they’re finished. This is probably not a good sign. Somebody’s head will be rolling merrily along soon. Edited to add:It seems to be working now. Okay. Maybe I’ll listen now and then at work… but I’ll…
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Air America Radio goes live tomorrow at noon, according to their website – and they’ll be streaming audio, so I’ll be able to listen at work… but tomorrow I’m home, so I’ll give it a try and see if it’s awful, good, or awful good. That is, if this crazy experiment to bring liberal/left of center views to talk radio takes off, eh? It’s certainly gotten plenty of press. And if it doesn’t work, I’ll go on being one of 3 people in America that listens occasionally to “Le Show.” Although when we were in Utah, it was pledge week…
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With limited ability to stay current with some of the blogs I read, I had to content myself with scanning headlines in Bloglines a time or two. But not all of the blogs I read have RSS feeds, and my connection was so slow using dialup at Mom’s house on the laptop that I just had to bide my time and wonder what people were doing. For example, Ben Saunders is still on the ice. A couple of new entries at “Learning Moveable Type” – thanks, Elise! Clack is gloating over AOL’s new anti-spam tactic – raffle off the spammer’s…