BurningbirdDare Obasanjo posted music videos and photos from his recent trip home to Nigeria. The music is both English and Yoruba, the language of the Yoruba people, and one of the languages spoken in Nigeria. English is the official language. Dare referred to the music as Nigerian hip-hop and R&B. The first video definitely has a hip-hop feel, including […]
I prefer the preface in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: NOTICE PERSONS attempting to find a motive in this narra- tive will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR, Per G.G., Chief of Ordnance. […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Really nice writeup on the conflict between Microformats use of abbr with hCalendar and accessibility: The datetime-design-pattern is a way to show a readable date (such as “March 12, 2007 at 5 PM, Central Standard Time”) to humans and a machine-readable date (such as the ISO 8601 formatted “20070312T1700-06”) to the Microformat […]
Here’s a great rumor to start: too much cellphone use makes one think and act like Tiny Tim: Tiptoe through the window By the window, that is where I’ll be Come tiptoe through the tulips with me. Oh, tiptoe from the garden By the garden of the willow tree And tiptoe through the tulips with […]
I went to the Mingo National Reserve this week–the last bit of bottomland left in the delta region of Missouri’s boot heel. It’s full of cypress swamps, marshes, a river and a lake, and is an important breeding ground for migratory birds. If the sounds I heard were any indication, the number of species that […]