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Steve Wozniak, RU Sirius, Pranks and me. (sort of)

Well worth reading.

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Cool or cruel? Video on whales and humans joining flippers/hands in synchronized swim.

Don't miss this video.

Is it cruel to force highly-intelligent mammals to perform dance routines in small tanks? Is it cool?

Is it amazing? Is it something PETA should get on right away?

I am reserving comment, but I welcome yours. The video is visually amazing.

gs

The earthquake in the Bay Area last night. 4.2

It was 4.2, everyone I know is asking if we were okay, but we were awake and didn't even notice it. We have a big old sprawling house that's built on a sand dune. We usually feel everything. Guess we were too tired to miss last night's. Did you feel it? Let me know what I missed!

You've got to do this if you do weird eclectic things on your iPod.

Ignore this posting if you don't like eclectlic music, but I recommend you download every version of Begin the Beguin (by Cole Porter) you can find on iTunes from every possible artist. In every style, every decade. Download, then play them in order. It will blow your mind.

Let me know what you think. I think it's amazing. Maybe you have another suggestion.

You may know Begin the Beguin it was voted in the Top 5 songs and lyrics of the entire 20th century. Popular for more than 40 years. Amazing more people don't remake it now.

Begin the Beguine (Cole Porter)

When they begin the beguine
It brings back the sound of music so tender
It brings back a night of tropical splendor
It brings back a memory ever green

I'm with you once more under the stars
And down by the shore an orchestra's playing
Even the palms seem to be swaying
When they begin the beguine

To live it again is past all endeavor
Except when that tune clutches my heart
And there we are swearing to love forever
And promising never, never to part

What moments divine, what rapture serene
Till clouds come along to disperse the joys we had tasted,
And now when I hear people curse the chance that was wasted,
I know but too well what they mean.

So don't let them begin the beguine,
Let the love that was once a fire remain an ember
Let it sleep like the dead desire I only remember
When they begin the beguine

Oh yes, let them begin the beguine, make them play
Till the stars that were there before return above you
Till you whisper to me once more, Darling, I love you
And we suddenly know what heaven we're in
When they begin the beguine
When they begin the beguine

Jeb Bush suspends Florida death penalty for all the wrong reasons

Yes, a good thing that FL Governor Bush suspended the death penalty. Seems that of the 60 plus executions in Florida, it's been botch after botch. See the NYT story here. (registrations is free).

But the real reason to suspend the death penalty is why the Illiinios government did it three years ago: Too many death rown inmates, through DNA evidence were found innocent. See this link to see just how many. It will stun you.

Can you imagine being poor and framed and lethally injected? What happened to us?

Transcript of Washington Post online chat with Woz

Steve Wozniak did a great job talking about his inventions and our book (iWOZ) on a Washington Post chat yesterday. He really rocked.

Click here to check out the transcript.

Sex, TV or the Net. You choose.

Anyone out there want to vote?

TORONTO (Reuters) - When it comes to sex and romance, aging Canadian baby boomers spend a lot more time watching television or surfing the net, according to a new study.

The survey by pollsters Ipsos Reid, commissioned by Pfizer Inc., the maker of Viagra, found that Canadians between the ages of 40 and 64 spend an average of 15 minutes a day on sex and romance, but can spend as much as five hours a day watching TV or surfing the Internet.

"Later in life, you have a different perspective of what sex is all about," John Wright, an Ipsos Reid spokesman, said on Thursday.

Of 2,500 people surveyed, more than half said they were often too tired to have sex, while 42 percent said they were too stressed out and 40 percent said they did not have time.

Around half of the respondents said when they do have sex it is intimate and tender.

Wright said another yet-to-be released study found that 37 percent of Canadians over 55 prefer a good night of sex to a good night of sleep, indicating that sex is still important to that age group.

"I think the last two decades have opened up sexuality as far as (older) couples engaging in a variety of sexual activities," he said. "There's been much more openness about this... sex shops abound."

Linda Proulx, owner of Winnipeg, Manitoba's Love Nest boutiques, said the boomers' preference for watching TV is not such a bad thing. She said many of her customers are baby boomers and senior citizens who have taken a cue from television and decided to rejuvenate their sex life.

"People are spending time watching TV, but it is bringing them into our stores," she said, noting that more television shows have sexual themes. "They're buying the products to maybe help them engage in a more intimate or longer sex act because of something they've seen on TV."

The Ipsos Reid survey found that even though boomers are having less sex, only 28 percent say it is less enjoyable now than it was in their 20s, and more than 80 percent say sex makes them feel loved and appreciated.

A little quiz.

Who can tell me what this is from -- and why is it significant to know it and tell other people about it? I am curious if you all have heard what I have.

"All composed things are like a dream,

a phantom, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

That is how to meditate on them,

that is how to observe them."

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gs