If you are mononymous, you have become well known by one name only, like Napoleon, Shakespeare, Einstein, Morrissey, Pelé or Cher.
via World Wide Words E-magazine: 13 Mar 2010.
I’ve been mononymous since 1970
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Make the River see something new.
The internet did not replace television, which did not replace cinema, which did not replace books. E-books aren’t going to replace books either. E-books are books, merely with a different form.
In a sense, Americans seem to have done with mysticism what we’ve done with every other kind of human experience: We’ve democratized it, diversified it, and taken it mass market. No previous society has offered seekers so many different ways to chase after nirvana, so many different paths to unity with God or Gaia or Whomever. A would-be mystic can attend a Pentecostal healing service one day and a class on Buddhism the next, dabble in Kabbalah in February and experiment with crystals in March, practice yoga every morning and spend weekends at an Eastern Orthodox retreat center. Sufi prayer techniques, Eucharistic adoration, peyote, tantric sex — name your preferred path to spiritual epiphany, and it’s probably on the table.
After three decades of ?guring how out the spine works, Stuart McGill has come to loathe sit-ups. It doesn’t matter whether they are the full sit-ups beloved by military trainers or the crunch versions so ubiquitous in gyms. “What happens when you perform a sit-up?” he asks. “The spine is ?exed into the position at which it damages sooner.”
via The man who wants to kill crunches – Health – Macleans.ca.
Interesting points. The comments on the article go both ways.
This website offers free downloads of the complete extant organ works of Johann Sebastian Bach, recorded by Dr. James Kibbie from 2007 to 2009 on original baroque organs in Germany.
When composers wrote for these instruments they sometimes loved them and sometimes chafed at their limitations, but in any case they wrote for those sounds, that touch, those bells and whistles. From old instruments, performers on modern pianos can get important insights into the sound image that Mozart, Schubert, et al., were aiming for. But music from the 18th and 19th centuries doesnt just sound different now than on the original instruments; some of it cant even be played as written on modern pianos.
via Why you’ve never really heard the “Moonlight” Sonata. – By Jan Swafford – Slate Magazine.
As new digital book tools and services roll out, we need to be able to evaluate not only the cool features they offer, but also whether they extend (or hamper) our rights and expectations.
The over-arching question: are digital books as good or better than physical books at protecting you and your rights as a reader?
via Digital Books and Your Rights: A Checklist for Readers | Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Columbia Crest Two Vines Vineyard 10 Red Washington 2007 88 points, $8
Plush and polished, not a big wine but it applies pillowy tannins around a core of dark berry and sassafras flavors. Syrah, Cabernet Franc, Sangiovese, Grenache and Mourvèdre. Drink now. 50,000 cases made. From Washington.-Harvey Steiman
via Wine of the Week for January 11, 2010 | Wine of the Week | News & Features | Wine Spectator.
Albertson’s has this for $6-$7 per bottle. First few I found were 2006, which I think is actually better than the 2007 – what a little age can do.
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