The New York Times is carrying a story (Lowering Flag for War’s Dead Brings a New Rift) about how different jurisdictions follow different policies regarding the lowering of the US flag when a US serviceperson is killed in action. It seems no one can agree as to when, or even whether or not to lower [...]
To hear what I’ve been listening to on Pandora, visit this link. Mostly Prog and rock, but some jazz, fusion, classical thrown in.
I updated the Places of Interest page. I finally gave up on classifying musicians by musical style, so classical, jazz, world, fusion, neo-goth world-electronica, Minimalist metal and Dadaist baroque are all in the same basket, alphabetized by name. I’ve also added a large set of links I’ve been farming for a while now, pertaining to [...]
There’s a region of the Pacific Ocean that’s larger than the state of Texas that seems to have collected much of the unwanted plastic our society discards. So much plastic has accumulated there, that it has been named the “Eastern Garbage Patch.†This aquatic circle of Hell has been found to contain “six times as [...]