If you haven’t heard the news, the Big Daddy of exercise podcasts, DJ Steve Boyett, has gotten a new sponsor. That’s great, but the downside is that his old, un-sponsored mixes are going offline.
So get over to his site or to the iTunes podcast directory before November 1 and download anything you haven’t already downloaded.
Former Vice President Al Gore and the U.N.’s climate change panel won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for spreading awareness of man-made climate change and laying the foundations for counteracting it.
Although it will undoubtedly make the wingnuts’ heads explode, and give even more fodder to the UN conspiracy theorists (like Ron Paul).
This caught my eye tonight: the backstory of the Sputnik launch that kicked off the “space race” between the US and the USSR is finally coming out. Here’s a snippet, click through for the rest (it’s worth a read):
When Sputnik took off 50 years ago, the world gazed at the heavens in awe and apprehension, watching what seemed like the unveiling of a sustained Soviet effort to conquer space and score a stunning Cold War triumph.
But 50 years later, it emerges that the momentous launch was far from being part of a well-planned strategy to demonstrate communist superiority over the West. Instead, the first artificial satellite in space was a spur-of-the-moment gamble driven by the dream of one scientist, whose team scrounged a rocket, slapped together a satellite and persuaded a dubious Kremlin to open the space age.
And that winking light that crowds around the globe gathered to watch in the night sky? Not Sputnik at all, as it turns out, but just the second stage of its booster rocket.
This sounds like a joke, but I found it on cbs5.com, so I’m assuming it’s legit.
A California judge says an Oakland carpenter caught hammering nails and sawing wood in the nude can legally work without wearing any clothes.
Alameda County Superior Court Judge Julie Conger found Percy Honniball not guilty of indecent exposure Thursday. The 51-year-old was arrested last year after the he was spotted building cabinets in the buff at a home where he had been hired to work .
Conger ruled that although Honniball was indeed naked he was not acting lewdly or seeking sexual gratification.
The carpenter has said he likes to work in the nude because it’s more comfortable and helps him keep his clothes clean.
Oy.
Well, at least I’m less addicted than Jeremiah Owyang is…..
Another week, another random mix.
1) Lohengrin Prelude – Wagner
2) Shape of My Heart – Backstreet Boys
3) Beat Box – Matisyahu
4) Blood Of Eden – Peter Gabriel
5) My Hometown – Bruce Springsteen
6) It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine) – REM
7) Not A Day Goes By – Mandy Patinkin
8) Say It Isn’t So – Hall & Oates
9) Still Take You Home – Arctic Monkeys
10) my funny valentine – Sting
#2 is a little embarrassing. At least it’s the only song of theirs in my collection.