October 2, 2022
Shiny and Tiny: 40 years of the CD
The first commercially-available CD (Billy Joel's 52nd Street) was released forty years ago yesterday. Steve Knopper at Billboard relates "How the ‘Shiny, Tiny’ Discs Took Over" [archive.org link]. Daryl Worthington at The Quietus explores "the unique experimental potential of the format". At DW, Silke Wünsch ponders the medium's rise & fall. And Adam Aziz at grammy.com asks "Can CDs Make A Comeback?". [more inside]
tubby teddy time
Yes, my fellow bear lovers, it's that wonderful time of year! Welcome to Fat Bear Week 2022, organised by the ever educational team at Katmai National Park. [more inside]
Our Cancers are Filled with Fungi
The Mothership Landed in Houston, October 31st, 1976
"It was Halloween night and Parliament Funkadelic was about to tear the roof off the Houston Summit, ready to bless the crowd with their cosmic brew of interplanetary funk." Enjoy the concert and spend 1h22m blowing the cobwebs out of your mind, this fine fall Sunday. [more inside]
"Don't camp outdoors, or the cows will trample you."
The trip to Rose Cottage is Cal Flyn's account of a trip to Swona, a remote Scottish island that was abandoned in 1974. A herd of cattle has been running wild there for decades. [more inside]
Kerchunk kerchunk kerchunk... Ding!
The Process by which an Epidemic becomes Endemic in a Social Sense
How to Hide a Plague: How Elite Capture and Individualism Made Covid Normal How large right wing business interests co-opted science to hamstring public health response and pull the classic capitalism move of individualizing risks, while convincing the public it was their idea. [more inside]
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