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I see this day the People beginning their landmarks, (all others give way;) —Never were such sharp questions ask’d as this day; Never was average man, his soul, more energetic, more like a God; 15 Lo! how he urges and urges, leaving the masses no rest; His daring foot is on land and sea everywhere—he colonizes the Pacific, the archipelagoes; With the steam-ship, the electric telegraph, the newspaper, the wholesale engines of war, With these, and the world-spreading factories, he interlinks all geography, all lands; —What whispers are these, O lands, running ahead of you, passing under the seas? 20 Are all nations communing? is there going to be but one heart to the globe? From Years of the Modern

Now to our story. Jim Haas sent out a CD of punk music and called for comment. I am finally posting that comment more than a year later. Jim is working on a response as I write this, and we will post that when we get it. I sort of took the opportunity to wax poetic about things I like… Jim told me his intention in the Punk Favoritos CD was to just share his enjoyment of the types of things he had discovered for the first time through throught eMusic. An accompanying podcast or two is in the works for this. I have discovered these things eat up my server space and that I have to remove one before I post another. Listen to the accompanying podcast, while you can. Available during July. [NOTE: For now, Podcasts will post and then remove in 1 month. If you access this page one month after publication, the podcast link will have expired .. sorry. ] Jim Haas sent out a haunting punk compilation for comment. My world blew up settled, blew up, settled, and on Memorial Day weekend I got around...

Jeff Hull came by recently to check Jake’s portfolio. And we kind of looked at some of Jeff's own more recent stuff together. Which is on the Web via some shows he’s had in recent years. Now I am stuck as anyone reading this will agree with words. Which provide a poor translation of what goes on in true visual art. Here goes. Jeff Hull’s paintings transcend a life time; they cut through blue paradises of art think and explode, exotic, rich and watery. The ordinary world is here, and is seen in a universe of visual indications. Cells of modern mind float on the canvas, and one painting enters another. Images flop along side stones emanating molecular progressions. Color is all over the place, and you are on a magical ride. This art is feedback music in the domain of the eyeball. The sky, the ferns the beat. I see stories. I apply cut-up technique. The stuff pops up at you in spectral neural displays. Jeff’s objects comet forth. You attach what you bring. Ferns,...

Dylan has a satellite radio show... and the playlists for three have been published. No flies on Bob. It all sounds like a party [maybe even one you and I have been too.. Wine by Electric Flag; Momma Told Me Not to Come by Randy Newmann; Sloppy Drunk by Jimmie Rogers; Mother in Law — Ernie K Doe; Pontiac Blues — Sonny Boy Williamson (II); Mama Talk to Your Daughter by J.B. Lenoir; Jimmy McCracklin shows up! wild-cool stuff. First Playlist. Theme is weather. Blow, Wind Blow — Muddy Waters You Are my Sunshine — Jimmy DavisCalifornia Sun — Joe Jones Just Walking in the Rain — The Prisonaires After the Clouds Roll Away — The Consolers Let the 4 Winds Blow — Fats Domino Raining in my Heart — Slim Harpo Summer Wind — Frank Sinatra The Wind Cries Mary — Jimi Hendrix Come Rain or Come Shine — Judy Garland It's Raining — Irma Thomas Stormy Weather — The Spaniels Jamaica Hurricane — Lord Beginer A Place in the Sun — Stevie Wonder Uncloudy Day — The Staple Singers I Don't Care if the Sun...

Last week I sat down and recorded a podcast in my living room that was sort of my impersonation of a radio show. First show is called Overhaul Junction after an Albert King song. [NOTE: Our first experience is in. For now, Podcasts will post and then remove in 1 month. If you access this page one month after publication, the podcast link will have expired..sorry. Get it while you can.] I spin a few disks, various media really, and mutter a bit. This is experimental, hopefully the mix will improve. The show lasts 15 minutes, and it is a big 10 Meg download. This took virtually no time to download on a corporate network, although, if you were to do it when the corporate network was busy .. say noon time, it might take 5 or 10 minutes. If you have DSL or cable modem, it should work okay at home .. but if you have dial-up, probably not. I think over the next few years, if the Good Lord is willing and the creek don’t rise, this podcasting will be easy to do, and we can all spin our disks in...

At a keynote at Usenix a few years ago I heard Rob Pike describe the Google app dev environment. He gleefully described the cheapness of the hardware Google used, at least to get going, complete with photos of loose, stacked commodity disk drives held to racks with good old Velcro. Google, the killer app, uses cheap disks that are expected to fail. The company has been able to fashion Linux to make up the difference, creating a self-healing system, although day by day, individual humans - you might call them "Healers" - must go down the racks swapping-in good disk drives for bad, using velcro. The biggest stories in recent application development history -- Amazon.com and Google -- are so big that they are pretty much hidden. Both applications required a big helping of chutzpah to happen at all. And both disrupted existing industries, creating whole new ones.Amazon.com's and Google's development managers stuck their necks out and trusted clusters of cheap computers to...

“The Lord is subtle, but malicious he is not.” This inscription is ascribed to Einstein, said to bedeck a portal in his Princeton offices. It seems like a play on the quandary koan of whether or not God plays dice with the universe. Looking at this week’s news I would say, yes, the Creator has ceded to us a subtly mixed-up crazy world. But not a bad place. It was however a bad week for U. of Mich style Intelligent Design. On the other hand, Mr. Bad of All Time, Judas, is making a comeback. Page One, New York Times, Friday April 7 . The existence of a Gospel of Judas was known. I found reference to it in Beyond Belief, Elaine Pagels’ learned and popular book of 2003. Discovered near El Minya in Egypt, it is here now on Page One after a 30 or 40 year journey [including 16 years in a Long Island safe deposit box]. In Pagel’s book, the reference to Judas Gospel is per Irraneus, the Father of the Church who cut off the Catholic gospel project at Four. He referred to this gospel to indicate ...