The week of April 24 – May 1, I’ll be in Granada Spain for the Louis Round Wilson Knowledge Trust meetings. I knew that Andalusia was famous for gazpacho, but I didn’t know of the renowned speciality in Granada, the Sacromonte omelette “a dish that is not recommended for the delicate palate and prepared with bone marrow, brains, calf testicles and egg.”
Yikes! Set me up for a British fry up of Egg, Bacon, Chips and Beans!
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Goth is good for you. (Unless you read the BBC version of the New Scientist story). Compare the headlines: NS reads Goth subculture may protect vulnerable children whilst BBC says fearfully Goths ‘more likely to self-harm’. From Boing Boing.
Kristina alerts us to another Goth Success thread based on a German dissertation reported in The Independent as Don’t mock goths: future’s bright for the men and women in black (Note that this is in the Enjoyment Section, but is Marilyn Mason really too mainstream for Goths?) and The Guardian as I have seen the future – and it’s goth (includes the funny 10 telltale signs that your boss is a Goth).

Just off the phone with Jon Kabira of J-WAVE‘s morning show in Tokyo about the Blooker, blogs and publishing. It was more than a bit odd to hear the Japanese translation and recap each time I paused. I should have learned from my experiences giving talks in Siberia and in Taiwan that very short answers with long pauses help the translator, but on the phone without physical cues that’s harder to pull off. I hope the listeners weren’t too distracted on their drives into work by my unusual, for them, accent.
There was a lot of fascination about the newness of the blook and of the Blooker. Listening I could hear how the very words, blook and Blooker, are difficult for non-English speakers even if they are extremely clear talking radio professionals.
There was enthusiasm for Julie and Julia and the story told there beyond the cooking and for the interactive nature of blogs and blooks. As near as I can tell, this part was of great interest.
I wish I could speak/understand Japanese; Jon was one of the better interviewers I’ve worked with (in part because of the good advance work by Kanae Hasegawa).
Piracy! Capt. Horatio Sinbad, North Carolina’s only licensed Privateer, will be bringing tall ships to Morehead City for the Amercias’ Sail 06 in June 30 – July 5.
Proceeds from Pepsi Americas’ Sail will benefit the development of Olde Beaufort Seaport, a turn-of-the-century maritime village being developed along Gallants Channel as a project of the N.C. Maritime Museum. The N.C. Maritime Museum interprets the state’s maritime history and celebrates the natural beauty, precious resources and rich cultural heritage of coastal North Carolina. It is part of the Division of State History Museums, Office of Archives and History, N.C. Department of Cultural Resources.
Marcy Smith Rice is a featured poet on the NC Arts Council website represented by her poem “Bynum” in which she describes the building of a stone house in old Bynum.
It loves me not. Google Calendar is live and that’s nice. But getting it loaded with my agenda is not working that great. I’m using Oracle Calendar and PalmDeskTop synced. I try to export from Oracle and although I get several formats out, none will go into Gcalendar. However I can get them to just drag and drop into Palm. So I try exporting from there. No luck. Gcalendar hates the formats. No matter which ones I try. Then I try putting the exported file into iCal. Hey it works! For iCal. Not Gcalendar. So I export from iCal in .ics format (as described by Gcalendar as the thing to do). I can preview the text in FireFox. It looks just right. I try to upload to Gcalendar. I get “Failed to import events: Failed to upload ical/csv file.” Sometimes I get a timeout message instead. I could be hitting a load problem on Gcalendar and will try again later. But YIKES this is frustrating. But hey I now have iCal, PalmDeskTop, my Treo and Oracle Calendar all in sync.
UPDATE: Somehow the iCal formated file finally made a successful upload and I now have a GooCal in operation. Now to learn more about it. SMS for verification of the alerts was so slow getting here that I’m lead to believe that the SMS alert will be next to useless. I haven’t tested to see if the slowdown is at Google or at Cingular tho.
Documenting the American South (hosted at ibiblio.org) was just named winner of the 2006 Electronic Lincoln Prize from Gettysburg College.
The $10,000 award is given for significant contribution in new media to scholarship about Abraham Lincoln, the American Civil War soldier, or a subject relating to the Civil War era.
“The winner of the Electronic Lincoln Prize proves that the historian’s work can be immensely improved if scholars move fully into the 21st Century,” said Gettysburg College Fluhrer Professor of Civil War Studies Gabor Boritt, who serves as chair of the Electronic Lincoln Prize.
iCommons.org (hosted by ibiblio.org) will be putting on iSummit in Rio on June 23 – 25. The conference gets lots of Lessig love on his blog.
I have to agree with my poet-twinning by the little quiz:

You are Wallace Stevens. You love everything, especially the sound of things. Too bad you are so obscure that at times even you don’t understand what the hell you have written.
Take this quiz!
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Not a rich array of choices tho as about 28% of the folks who took the test also were linked to Stevens.
Rob Roberts writes to let us know of a screening of the film he made with Martha King:
What: Madison County Project: Documenting the Sound, a documentary short about ballad singing and filmmaking in Madison County, NC
When: Wednesday April 12th at 4:00 pm
Where: Murphey Hall, room 104 on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus
More: Madison County Project examines the tradition of unaccompanied ballad singing in Madison County, North Carolina and how the works of documentary filmmakers, photographers, and academics have influenced that tradition. The story unfolds through the historical works of John Cohen, Rob Amberg, and Harvey Wang as well as the voices of today’s ballad singers such as Sheila Kay Adams, Donna Ray Norton, Denise Norton O’Sullivan, and DeeDee Norton Buckner. Filmed in North Carolina, Madison County Project has been selected for multiple regional festivals and academic conferences as well as winning the Audience Choice Award at the 2005 Asheville Film Festival.
Note: Madison County Project is also featured on the ibiblio-hosted Folkstreams.net and blogged at http://www.madisoncountyproject.org/ (also ibiblio-hosted).
Dr. Fun has a Heart Like a Peep this week as we approach Easter. So far:
- The 13,000-year-old cave painting of the mysterious Peep-Man fixes us with his enigmatic gaze.
- The very secrets of the fabric of the universe come one step closer to being revealed with the discovery of Dark Peeps.
- “Go, little Peep, discover the world in your Explore-a-ball!”
- The long-sought transitional species with characteristics of both Circus Peanuts and Peeps
- Ontogeny recapitulates Peepologeny
Just got a note from Kanae Hasegawa of J-wave about setting up an on-air interview about the Blooker and Blogs with J-Wave’s Jon Kabira on Good Morning Tokyo this Thursday evening at 19:20 (US EDT time/date). We’ll do about 5 minutes.
I’ll be heading to Granada Spain for the Wilson Knowledge Trust meeting the end of April. Just learned that we’ll be staying in the Hotel Vincci which does have WiFi so I can report in when not in the meetings.
Been reading Washingon Irving’s Tales from the Alhambra to prepare myself as well as his Conquest of Granada and re-viewing Carlos Saura’s Carmen (done as a Flamenco dance production story — it’s hot).
Sally writes about the Roger Hannay Memorial Concert (I was there too, but she has a fine write up).
Karen keeps us up to date on the Ohio University Blogging Ethic Conference where she and Martin Kuhn were presenters.
Fred reports in via AIM from The International Digital Media and Arts Association and Miami University’s Center for Interactive Media Studies sponsored “< CODE > HumanSystems/DigitalBodies” Conference in Miami, Ohio.
BBC reports that a ferry tragedy occured near the city of Kagoshima on the southern island of Kyushu when “the boat collided with a whale or another large sea animal.
Just turned in answers for an email interview with Christian Hall of .Net (UK). Most were about the Blooker, but there were also a few about blogging in general. One question got me thinking (see below). What if every bit of Free Software carried the Universal Declaration of Human Rights within it? There are versions in over 300 languages so it could be truly viral in a good sense, discovered and read worldwide.
+4: How can blogger’s rights be improved?
i wish there were a way for technology to somehow embed the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights in every piece of software produced. even more
so i wish that every country might live by the principles therein.
Sally writes to remind us of our neighbor, Roger Hannay’s memorial concert tomorrow:
As announced in the Chapel Hill News on Wednesday,
“A concert celebrating the life of Roger Hannay will be presented at 2 p.m. April 9 in Hill Hall. Hannay, a composer and professor at UNC, died in January at age 75.
“The concert will be a retrospective of his compositions from 1947 to 2005. Admission will be free, and a reception will follow the concert.”
Janet’s daughter Dawn has worked hard to make this concert a reality. I’m sure it will be wonderful, and I hope to see some of you there.
As Easter approaches, I am reminded that we are in High Season for Peeps.
Dr. Fun has done a great job on Peeps humor over the years.
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This year’s (so far) Dr. Fun Peeps cartoons:
- Deep beneath the Easter Sea, the mighty Humboldt peep siezes its next meal.
- Protect your investment with the peep Lamination System.
- peep O’ My Guinness – when taste meets taste.
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My other Peeps favorites include:
- Peep Research,
- Lord of the Peeps,
- Peeps doing research in libraries,
- and of course Wikipedia on Peeps.
Found at http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4885100.stm
at 9:57 EDT (US) and still there at 10:22 pm [Note site reads: Last Updated: Friday, 7 April 2006, 02:16 GMT 03:16 UK ]
Pre-trial court papers cite Lewis “Libby” Scooter as saying he was told to tell a reporter Iraq was “vigorously trying to procure” uranium.
Mr Scooter, former chief-of-staff to Vice-President Dick Cheney, is facing trial in connection with another leak.
He is accused of lying to prosecutors probing the naming of a CIA agent.
Former diplomat Joseph Wilson – husband of the agent, Valerie Plame – wrote a high-profile article in the New York Times in July 2003 casting doubt on a key White House claim about Saddam Hussein’s pursuit of nuclear weapons.
Mr Libby reportedly says in court papers filed on Wednesday that soon afterwards, Mr Cheney told him to pass information from the classified National Intelligence Estimate to Judith Miller, a New York Times reporter.


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