Given that a new stadium will be built for the Washington Nationals, a lot of people are speculating about the design. Andrew Clem, a big-time baseball fan, has come up with his own proposal for a D.C. stadium. His design is quite interesting: unique, not a cookie-cutter “neo-retro” stadium that was the [...]
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Interesting tactic for noise abatement: a “silent disco” will be tried at this year’s Glastonbury Festival. In response to complaints from neighbors, festival attendees will listen to late night music on wireless headphones (each with individual volume controls).
For some reason, I don’t think this idea will work at my usual summer music festival. [...]
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My DC friend, Sam (a.k.a. “DC Sam”), works for a great organization that aims to keep church and state separate: Americans United for Separation of Church and State. Their blog is always worth a read, as is the rest of their site.
Keep up the good work, Sam!
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As a (lapsed) music theory junkie, I love that somebody has started a thread to analyze song lyrics in list form. To quote Zaphod Beeblebrox, “it’s better than good, it’s better than amazing - it’s amazingly amazing!”
Link courtesy of MeFi.
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NickD is blogging from the Supreme Court of the United States, covering the MGM v. Grokster case. Read his journal here.
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My boss just walked up to me and asked: “why do the two men in this shot look like me? Was I cloned?”
Whoever says that human cloning hasn’t hit the big time - well, it’s here!
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