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Ska Cubano: A Parallel Musical Universe
Courtesy Cumbancha
Singers Natty Bo, left, and Beny Billy of Ska Cubano help merge Jamaican ska and Cuban mambo and son.
Three from the CD
Weekend Edition Sunday, August 6, 2006 · Once upon a time, musical traditions mingled freely in the Caribbean. But after the Cuban revolution in 1959, Cuba’s music became more isolated. The band Ska Cubano creates one kind of music that might have been if the revolution had never happened.
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I know I like Bruce Hornsby, give it a listen.
Bruce Hornsby, Mixing Pop and Improvisation
Jacques Coughlin, NPR
Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Bruce Hornsby and his band perform live at NPR.
Songs from the Performance
Talk of the Nation, August 8, 2006 · Bruce Hornsby plays everything from bluegrass to jazz. But one thing he avoids is playing the same song, the same way, twice. He improvises on even his best-known songs like “The Way it Is,” “Mandolin Rain” and “The End of the Innocence.”
“What we really do is way more interesting, way more adventurous, and just frankly better than just being a group that just regurgitates the hits faithfully,” Hornsy says. “I was always terrible at being a Top 40 musician, playing the same arrangement just like the record every time.”
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One of my favorite poems, and certainly my favorite poet. For more Robert Service go here.
‘The Cremation of Sam McGee’
Ted Harrison
Sam and friend set off. Kids Can Press
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May 9, 2006
A map of the Yukon graces the back cover. Kids Can Press
Weekend Edition Saturday, August 19, 2006 · Robert Service’s poem, “The Cremation of Sam McGee,” tells the tale of two gold miners in the Yukon and one man’s “last request.”
The poem, which was originally published in 1907, was later transformed into a children’s book with colorful illustrations by Ted Harrison, in 1986.
Now, a 20th-anniversary edition has been released by Kids Can Press, with new cover art and heavy paper stock. The tale is bookended by the following verse:
There are strange things done in the midnight sun
By the men who toil for gold;
The Arctic trails have their secret tales
That would make your blood run cold;
The Northern Lights have seen queer sights,
But the queerest they ever did see
Was that night on the marge of Lake Laberge
I cremated Sam McGee.
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The buzzphraze generator is especially useful. Invented by my buddy Doc Searls.
bullshitr Is Good For a Laugh
Michael Arrington
We see a lot of startups here at TechCrunch, and sometimes we read an entire company submission without getting the slightest clue of what the heck the company does. So today when I saw bullshitr on the Digg home page, I had a “so funny because it’s true” moment.
The “Web 2.0 Bullshit Generator” will generate “bullshit-compliant products and services” with the click of a button. I also appreciate that the creator has included links to related services to give the budding entrepreneur all of the tools they need to “sell your company to Yahoo”.
- Use Bullshitr to define your product
- Use Buzzphrase Generator for your marketing materials
- Name your company with Andrew Woolridge’s Web 2.0 Company Name Generator
- Create your logo with the Web 2.0 Logo Generator
- Sell your company to Yahoo
- Repeat
Source: Techcrunch » Blog Archive » bullshitr Is Good For a Laugh
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