Glu-Tang Clan - Synaptic Cleft (via Warren)

Absolutely hilarious(ly nerdy) - The Glu-Tang Clan's Synaptic Cleft
featuring Gift of GABA, Methyl Man, Dope A. Mean, Sarah Tonin, Bobby Voltage, Nitrous Pop'n'loxide, Checkinephrine

Found by Warren on SciVee

Michael Jackson Mix by DJ Ayres (via Ink)

An extraordinary memorial mix for the the King of Pop by DJ Ayres (link by ink).

Ballade vom Brieftraeger William L. Moore

German singer-songwriter and former East German dissident Wolf Biermann wrote a beautiful song called The Ballad of Postman William L. Moore. The narrative poem tells the story of postal worker William L. Moore who held his individual protest against racial segregation in the USA in 1963. In the song he is claimed to march southwards with a sign saying "Black and White - Unite! Unite!" before he is murdered after seven days.

Wikipedia entries on William L. Moore (in German and English)

A part of Manfred Krug's interpretation of this song can be found on youtube:



Addendum 02/07/09: The full lyrics can be found here (in German)

Canario Cordillera - Javi on the Blogroll

"...el camino es la vida misma"
A new member on the blogroll is Javi's Canario Cordillera, which tells you in textually (Spanish) and visually of his travels along the Andes. Great guy, great photos, great adventures!

What's Currently Freezing my Scientist Heart

Chapter 12, The Barbarism of "Specialisation", in José Ortega y Gasset's The Revolt of the Masses (or: Der Aufstand der Massen) .
Check out the (ugly) pdf version (p. 56 ff).

Addendum 24/06/09: Or read here a nicer .pdf version.

Pfingstochse

A quick and funny German custom:
Whoever sleeps in the longest on today's Whit Sunday is called the "Pfingstochse" ("Whit Ox")

Väterchen Timofej, Munich's Hermit

Born on the same day as me but almost a hundred years earlier, Timofei Wassilijeitsch Prochorow, called Väterchen Timofei, emigrated to Munich in the 1950s in order to build his home in what was later to become the territory of the Olympic Games of 1972. After the "Olympic Hermit" did not agree on moving his garden, house and church and with the public behind him, he forced the organizers to change their plans.

I remember having visited him at least once in the 1990s and I completely forgot about this "Methusalem of Munich". I am sad to read that he died in 2004 (allegedly) at the age of 110.