Friday, March 19, 2010

WEB BOHEMIAN (Friday, March 19, 2010)
(1)- NEW MUSIC – There’s a new music system, called Bohlen-Pierce, invented in the 1970s and 1980s by two engineers and a computer scientist as an alternative to traditional music. Initially it was a mixture of math, music, and theory. Now…

(2)- NINA --While Nina Simone was an original, gifted, sometimes magical performer and an outspoken champion of civil rights, she was also a maddening, egomaniacal, deeply disturbed, rude, abusive, colossal pain in the, er, neck.

(3)- SEXIST OSCARS? -- Since the Academy takes no account of sex in designating best art direction or best editing, the question comes up every year: Why differentiate between actor and actress in awarding Oscars?

(3)- BYE BYE EURO -- The euro is under fierce attack, as the promises on which it was based turn out to be lies. Hedge funds are speculating against Greek debt, while euro-zone politicians work behind the scenes to cobble together rescue packages.

(4)- FASCINATING WEED TRUTHS -- Let’s talk about weed. A real talk, not one of those weed-is-evil-and-no-one you-know-has-ever-used and if you do it’s soon before you’re living under a bridge pushing a shopping cart talks.

(5)- PROGRESS – Retailers target individual shoppers with digital billboards like those in the hit Tom Cruise film Minority Report. Cameras in the advert hoardings identify the age and sex of passers-by then display relevant products.

(6)- DOGS AGE -- While every dog is different, most canines enter their geriatric phase at 7 to 8 years of age. An expert from my pooch’s veterinary clinic offers the following tips to help embrace your dog’s inner puppy as the years go by.

(7)- LOST PLAY -- It has thrills, sword fights, violent sexual assault and a terrible ending, but the little-known 18th century play Double Falsehood is in the literary limelight amid claims as a lost Shakespeare.

(8)- MORGAN’S RESCUE -- On February 5, 1895, the Jupiter of American banking, J. P. Morgan, took the train from New York to Washington to see the president. He had no appointment but came to discuss matters of grave national interest.

(9)- STARBUCKS ANGST -- Starbucks is 39 years old and like a lot of 39-year-olds, especially those who’ve experienced great success in their salad years but wonder if they’ve lost their touch, it’s having a bit of an identity crisis.

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