Pigs and chickens revisted
My blog group is not getting off the ground. That’s got me back to thinking about projects. As we learned when reading about Scrum last summer, there are various degrees of involvement in any project. There’s that nice story: A pig and a chicken are walking down a road. The chicken looks at the pig […]
Michael Franti and Spearhead: Say hey
Everything is broken, from Iran … to my bank account … to our family summer plans … to my teeth … to my brain … to the weather. Do you have days when you wish you hadn’t gotten out of bed? Well, this is some sweet barefoot sing-and-dance-along music by Michael Franti to get my […]
Wailin Jennys
The angelic Wailin Jennys from Canada are the darlings of the roots music scene. Their name is a play on Waylon Jennings, an influential country musician. Here is an capella song of parting. Poor Neda Agha-Soltan studied philosophy and took singing lessons; a bold thing to do, because officially Iranian women are not permitted to […]
10 things you didn’t know about…
Mary Roach takes the cake with her TED presentation on “10 things you didn’t know about orgasm”. Did you know that paraplegics can have orgasms by stimulating parts of their body not typically connected with sexuality, just above their sense-deprived bodyparts? That embryos masturbate? Or that there is a woman who can have an orgasm […]
Question: Which thinker taught you to think?
http://annehodgson.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/thinker.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadOut on the streets of Tehran the opposition is protesting, disputing the June 12 election. The brutality being used against them by the riot police is just horrible. I’ve read that this election and the US election of 2000 are both being discussed as “stolen elections” and being compared, […]
BossHoss/Elvis: Wolf Call
The Boss Hoss, the great Berlin band that reinterprets classic American rock, country and blues tunes with more than a touch of zany humor and energy, all decked out in cowboy gear and playing under names like Hoss Power (lead singer and guitarist), Russ T. Rocket (one of the guitarists) and Hank Williamson (mandolin, banjo […]
Rachel Goodrich’s sublime shake-a-billy
She might become “your new favorite singer“: From Miami Beach, Florida, Rachel Goodrich has been playing music and writing songs since age 12. Her instruments include the guitar, the ukulele, the piano, the xylophone, the kazoo … and spoons. Her MySpace page says her influences include Joni Mitchell, the Grateful Dead, Tiny Tim, Bob Dylan […]
