November 27, 2022

Food experiments from 1994 & 1998

Some gems of the Old Web (note, posts do not link to video):
June 1994: And, if you take a grape, cut it in half but leave the sides attached by a piece of skin, and then microwave it. Sparks!
August 1994: If you leave a pop-tart in a toaster too long, the results are... incendiary.
And from 1998: Marshmallow Peep research [more inside]
posted by JHarris at 9:40 PM PST - 26 comments

Bach two basics

Bach: 15 Two-Part Inventions, BWV 772-786....is a Youtube playlist that presents the score of each Invention as the piano music plays. Additionally, each link contains two further links. One shows in color a musical analysis of the Invention, and another has fingering for the piano student.
posted by storybored at 9:37 PM PST - 4 comments

The Reasonably Accurate Melodeonist

Lester's Tune-a-Day Lester Bailey plays and repairs melodeons. In 2013 he finished his project of recording and posting a tune every day for a year - but then he kept going (at a lower frequency) and is still going today.
posted by moonmilk at 7:40 PM PST - 1 comments

“It wasn’t that I had left the plane it was that the plane left me.”

Wings of Hope [more inside]
posted by bendy at 6:40 PM PST - 2 comments

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