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. But …
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!
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.
NickD is blogging from the Supreme Court of the United States, covering the MGM v. Grokster case. Read his journal here.
