Saturday, December 2, 2006
Not All Is Lost for USC
USC will be in the championship game after all. The Trojans face California Sunday.
It’s the NCAA water polo championship game, but whatever.
Archive for December 2, 2006
The Cutest Image
TheCutest.info is a project to try to find the cutest image in the world, using voting and some algorithms.
TheFairest.info is a project to try to find the prettiest image in the world, using voting and some algorithms.
And if you just wish to see some pretty photos.
Speaking of ‘grace’
At dangerousmeta!, Garret tells a wonderful story — and MildChild makes an apt observation.
Go read. No really, go read it now.
Fighting DWI with a Song
The Soul Deacons, a Santa Fe-based band, will soon get the most radio play in their six-year history— but it will only be 30 seconds at a time.
The band has recorded its version of an old R&B song, “Christmas in Jail,” and a 30-second piece of that recording is the centerpiece of the state Department of Transportation’s anti-DWI messages for the holiday season.
The Albuquerque Journal has a player with the song currently on its free, public main page.
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Filed under Albuquerque & New Mexico and Automobiles on December 2, 2006
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The 10 Best Books of 2006
The editors of The New York Times Book Review chose books by Gary Shteyngart, Amy Hempel, Claire Messud, Richard Ford, Marisha Pessl, Danielle Trussoni, Lawrence Wright, Nathaniel Philbrick, Michael Pollan and Rory Stewart.
Why is Music Legal?
Scott Adams asks:
Sometimes I wonder why music is legal. Music can alter your mood and your body chemistry just like any illegal drug. The fact that it goes into your body through your ear shouldn’t make a difference. We take drugs via practically every other hole in our body – mouth, butt, eyeballs, nose – you name it. Ain’t nothing special about an ear.
Music is clearly unsafe. Suppose you’re in a perfectly good mood and a depressing song comes on. That could make you sad and break down your body’s natural defenses. You could get sick and die. Thank you very much Tori Amos.
As the Expression Goes
… pardon our dust.
Something had been amiss with either NewMexiKen’s code or the hosting service’s servers. In an attempt to eliminate the possibility that it is the site’s code, I became rebuilding it last night from the default.
Please bear with the cosmetic changes while I fiddle. The content is otherwise unchanged.
Update Saturday Morning: Since I’ve switched to the default format (and posted a variation of the above at 11:12 last night), things seem to be working much, much better. The format will change gradually as I implement changes a little at a time, find what works and get back to a look I want.
Hey, Santa
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Only $289.99 at Costco.com.
The Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act
…became law on this date in 1980, more than doubling the size of the national park system.
According to America’s National Park System: The Critical Documents edited by Lary M. Dilsaver:
In the waning days of the Carter Democratic administration, Congress acted to further protect and expand preserved areas in Alaska, many rescued from exploitation two years earlier by presidential proclamation. This complex and lengthy act defines preserved parks, forests, wilderness areas, wildlife refuges, wild and scenic rivers, and Native American corporation lands and the degrees of preservation and usage for each. It prescribes timber, fish, and wildlife protection and use by Native Americans and other citizens.
New areas for the national park system included Aniakchak National Preserve, Cape Krusenstern National Monument, Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve, Kenai Fjords National Park, Kobuk Valley National Park, Lake Clark National Park and Preserve, Noatak National Preserve, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, and Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve. The act also added new lands to Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, Katmai National Monument and Preserve, and Denali National Park and Preserve (renamed from Mount McKinley National Park).
New wild and scenic rivers under Park Service administration included Alagnak, Alatna, Aniakchak, Charley, Chilikadrotna, John, Kobuk, Mulchatna, Noatak, North Fork of the Koyukuk, Salmon, Tinayguk, and Tlikakila rivers. Other wild and scenic rivers are designated or expanded in wildlife refuges and in other areas.
The vast majority of acreage in the Denali, Gates of the Arctic, Glacier Bay, Katmai, Kobuk Valley, Lake Clark, Noatak, and Wrangell-St. Elias units is designated wilderness.
