A a staple part of the “Mediterranean Diet”, the listed health benefits of olive oil are many. From its high antioxidant count to its ability to protect against heart disease, aid in the prevention of many types of cancers and lower blood pressure, this oil – actually more of a fruit juice than an [...]
The unexpected success of the WordPress to Myspace Crossposter has left me delighted and happy that, when I have downtime, I still have a fun little pet project to work on that is actually of some use. Of course, the continued development of the plugin wouldn’t happen if it weren’t for the many people [...]
The Summer 2007 issue of Cabinet Magazine features an article by two London-based authors, Sally O’Reilly and Ian Saville, entitled I Can See Your Ideology Moving. From the start it grabs the reader with its droll humour, setting the scene as follows:
The scene: A windy seaside town in England. An arts festival (entitled, perhaps [...]
“In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.”
-Mark Twain
There is a struggle inside me each and every day. On the one hand, I feel that I should continuously dumb-down my performance material so as to appeal to the masses – an artist has to make a [...]
Appearing in the Boston Globe on Sunday (link via boston.com) was a wonderful article by Anthony Kronman, Sterling Professor of Law at Yale and author of Education’s End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life.
The article explored – as presumably does the book – the reasons for which exploration [...]
Coffee makes us severe, and grave, and philosophical.
-Jonathan Swift
Coffee has been a love interest of mine for many, many years, but it wasn’t until my first trip to Italy that I truly discovered how rich and divine a beverage these beans can yield.
Upon waking for breakfast my first day in Venice, I [...]
Version 2.0a of the surprisingly popular WordPress to MySpace Auto Crossposter plugin is now released.
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The old project page for all 1.x versions is located here.
What It Does
The WordPress to MySpace Auto Crossposter is a WordPress plugin that publishes all of your WordPress blog entries to your MySpace blog at the [...]
The 18th and 19th centuries saw a huge surge in the popularity of safety coffins – coffins designed to allow the interred to alert the living in the event of a premature burial – and so great is the fear of being buried alive that even today, with all of our medical technology, patents are [...]
Casey just recently (re)posted his decade-old skydiving video on Maison Bisson, Cliff beautifully chronicled his own first jump at Z-Hills (Skydive City) over on Spiralbound, so I figure, as I was third to jump, it would only be fitting if I were third to post as well. So here you go!
Each of the [...]
What better way to kick off the new semester than to tie a guy up, light him on fire and shove swords down his throat? That’s exactly what the students at Juniata College in Huntingdon, PA did last Friday with me, and what a show it was!
An amazingly interactive, fun and outgoing group they [...]
“We’re just in a band. That dude swallows swords!”
listen to the audio clip
I’m a very far cry from what you’d call a country music aficionado – I don’t think that Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsodies count – but for various reasons I can sometimes be found associating with people affiliated with the industry, and as a [...]
My dear friend Melissa sent along a link to this article:
Coney Island ‘geek’ aspires to be ‘freak lawyer’
‘It was just time to go,’ tattoo-covered performer says of his sideshow days
which is a short AP article about another friend, Eak the Geek (aka Eduardo Arrocha) who until recently was a performer at Coney Island’s Sideshows by [...]
The public outrage regarding high gasoline prices may have died down some since the initial push past $3.00 a gallon that consumers saw two seasons ago, but there is no doubt that drivers still grimace and curse the oil companies as they march to the pump to fill up their cars, trucks and SUVs.
While there [...]
Following up the recent story on mechanical arms, I bring you the Vanderbilt Arm, the DARPA-funded, Vanderbilt University-developed prosthetic arm that is powered by rocket fuel, steam, valves and springs.
From the Vanderbilt project page:
…[the] power source is about the size of a pencil and contains a special catalyst that causes hydrogen peroxide to burn. When [...]