Kori Gardner Babbles
Mates of State’s Kori Gardner has been writing a regular column for Babble about touring with kids and being a parent in a band.
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The Best Of Artifacts: 2006
If you like beer and you like maps, then you may have found the right place. Beermapping.com is a project for someone who likes knowing exactly where he is and how far he needs to go for good beer. The map shows location of brewerys, brewpubs, beer stores.
If you’re like most people, you’ve probably heard of the French New Wave or Dogme95, but when asked at a party to explain what they are or to name more than a couple of films, you may struggle a little bit. Well, not anymore.
LED Throwies are an inexpensive way to add color to any ferromagnetic surface in your neighborhood. A Throwie consists of a lithium battery, a 10mm diffused LED and a rare-earth magnet taped together. Throw it up high and in quantity to impress your friends.
This has got to one of the funniest comic strips out there.
Loretta Lux takes photographs of children that are almost as charming as they are creepy. Her site is worth a look.
Have you been searching for just the right cliché to use? Are you searching for a cliché using the word “cat” or “day” but haven’t been able to come up with one? Just enter any words into this search engine.
20 Lessons To Kick Start Your Cooking Skills – Lesson number 20 is a test so be sure you’re paying close attention
This amazing timeline, of nearly everthing, includes such factors as sunspots, population, popular music, major human events, epochs, war, and politcs among many others. It’s a visual representation of humanity that fits on one page. I’d love to have a poster of this in my office.
In the “Disembodied Cuisine†art project, they attempt to grow frog skeletal muscle over biopolymer for potential food consumption. A biopsy is be taken from an animal which will continue to live and be displayed in the gallery along side the growing “steakâ€. This installation will culminate in a “feastâ€. The idea and research into this project began in Harvard in 2000. The first steak they have grown was made out of pre-natal sheep cells (skeletal muscle). We used cells harvested as part of research into tissue engineering techniques in utero. The steak was grown from an animal that was not yet born.
Medianeras (party walls) is the Spanish word for the wall that separates two buildings regardless of whether one of them has been knocked down or not. Medianeras are quite haunting, like the ghost of a room, leaving behind the sings of life now moved on.
If your as tired as I am of corporate computer answering services, use this database to find out how to get a human.
Being poor is knowing exactly how much everything costs. If you’re ever find yourself at the grocery store complaining because the guy in front of you at the “15 item” cash register line has 17 items, come home and read this so that you can at least be glad you were in line with a 1/2 gallon of milk and a hershey bar.
Many of you already know Bukowski is one of my favorites. In celebration of his birthday today, I’m linking to a James P Johnson’s astonishing mix of Charles Bukowski’s “Genius Of The Crowd” with Gwyneth Walker’s “An American Concerto: A Burst of Energy”. This is the best thing I’ve seen all day James, and I’ve seen a lot.
10,000 reasons civilization is doomed. A work in progress. I agree with a lot of these.
Despite being neither hip nor erotic I still have a soft spot (probably right near the funny bone) for hipsterotica.
Making the streets of NYC more interesting by turning #2s into perfect 10s.
During spring in Denmark, at approximately one half an hour before sunset, flocks of more than a million European starlings (sturnus vulgaris) join in the incredible formations that look like flying schools of fish. This phenomenon is called Black Sun (in Denmark), and can be witnessed in early spring throughout the marshlands of western Denmark.
There were Orgasmatrons in Woddy Allen’s terrrible movie “Sleeper” and on Motorhead albums, but i think the best one (a probably most likely to actually induce an orgasm) has to be Dominic Wilcox’s Orgasmatron 3000
Wordless pancake recipe.
Joe Mathlete of The Mathletes (sort of like a nerdy low-fi Postal Service) takes the time to Explain Today’s Marmaduke
Eye Heart Brains: The first annual Denver Zombie Crawl
Because ugly animals are animals too.
The secret ordeal of Miranda Piker:
Before Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was published in 1964 Roald Dahl pared down his cast of characters. Last to go was Miranda Piker and her chapter has appeared only once — in mirror script. Here, for the first time, we publish her comeuppance the right way round.
Is it time to sass up your Sally Struthers? Is your Betty ready? per sotto, per farli combaciare!
The Knuckle Tattoo Project is a collection of pictures of knuckle tattoos and the stories behind them. I Always thought knuckle tatoos were some of the coolest, and there are some real good ones here.
Mates Of State (one of my favorite bands) has a few songs from the Daytrotter Studio Sessions free for the downloading. There is also a great interview with Jason posted.
Etching’s has some pretty black & white photos of the blizzard of 1913 here in Denver. It’s too bad kids can’t sled down 8th avenue by the hundreds any more.
More MOS On Artifacting
Mates Of State (one of my favorite bands) has a few songs from the Daytrotter Studio Sessions free for the downloading. There is also a great interview with Jason posted.
And The Winner Is….
After a very prolonged and heart-pounding week, the suspense is finally over. The much awaited results for the very ballyhooed cholesterol contest have finally arrived.
Before we get to the results, I would like to make a few thank-yous. First to my doctor, without whom the blood-work would never have been processed. I would also like to thank all the doctors who were involved in the process of discovering cholesterol and thus providing us with one more thing to worry about (not to mention discovering one more thing that can kill us). I can’t forget to thank my parents for providing me with the blood, and eggs for providing me with the cholesterol. Oh yeah, I’d also like to thank Jesus because somehow it seems necessary.
The contestants and their respective guesses follow:
The processing of the entries was long and arduous but a definite winner was established. Thanks to everyone who participated. This contest was a raging success and the winner will be thusly awarded. So without further ado, here are the results:
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Of Montreal
I went to see Of Montreal (one of their better songs can be found here) last night. I had to coax myself out though. It was raining like crazy and I knew I wouldn’t be home till sometime after midnight (my head ended up hitting the pillow at 1:20. ugg) and I was just feeling generally lazy. But I went and it was worth it.
The show was held at the Larimer Lounge. This is the first time I’ve been there and it was hardly a lounge, more of an ordinary dingy bar – in somebody’s basement. Something akin to the 15th Street Tavern. The stage was a smallish platform backed by black sheets nailed to the wall. It’s small and smoky and intimate and I can’t decide if I liked it or not. However the lounge does have a great schedule including Essex Green, Dressy Bessy (they were in the crowd last night) and Mates Of State in the next couple of months.
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Music 5
1. What was the first band you saw in concert?
I’m almost ashamed to admit it because it takes my cool factor go down to about two, but it was Michael Jackson during the Victory Tour. I had seen some small bands before that, but it was my first real concert.
2. Who is your favorite artist/band now?
It’s always changing, but right now its Mates Of State.
3. What’s your favorite song?
Again, it’s always changing but right now its Flicker by Calamine
4. If you could play any instrument, what would it be?
The sitar.
5. If you could meet any musical icon (past or present), who would it be and why?
Perry Ferral would be fun to party with. It would also be cool to spend a weekend with Jerry Garcia.
There Are At Least 10 Times More Galaxies In The Universe Than We Thought
The universe suddenly looks a lot more crowded.
Waaaaay back in 1995, the Hubble Deep Field images surprised the world by revealing how crammed the universe is with galaxies. At that time astronomers estimated there were about 200 billion galaxies in the universe. Recent estimates put that count closer to 2 trillion, at least 10 times as many galaxies as we thought. However, about 90% of the galaxies in the observable Universe are actually too faint and too far away to be seen or studied. Phil Plait explains:
Now, let me be clear. This doesn’t meant the Universe is ten times bigger than we thought, or there are ten times as many stars. I’ll explain — I mean, duh, it’s what I do — but to cut to the chase, what they found is that there are lots of teeny, faint galaxies very far away that have gone undetected. So instead of being in a smaller number of big galaxies, stars are divvied up into a bigger number of smaller ones.
And it doesn’t mean the Universe has 10 times more mass than we thought. The mass is the same, it’s just distributed differently than we thought. It’s like knowing there are 1 million people in a city, and finding out they live in 100,000 buildings when you thought they were only in 10,000. There are more buildings, but not more people
This discovery has also helped lead to explanations for Olbers’ paradox which states, “Why is the sky dark at night if the universe contains a multitude of stars?” NASA helps explain:
The team came to the conclusion that indeed there actually is such an abundance of galaxies that, in principle, every patch in the sky contains part of a galaxy. However, starlight from the galaxies is invisible to the human eye and most modern telescopes due to other known factors that reduce visible and ultraviolet light in the universe. Those factors are the reddening of light due to the expansion of space, the universe’s dynamic nature, and the absorption of light by intergalactic dust and gas. All combined, this keeps the night sky dark to our vision.
The sky is literally covered in galaxies! Mind boggling to be sure!