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Check out these hilarious YouTube videos of guitar greats playing with atrocious overdubbed music from Finnish media artist Santeri Ojala.
Its hilarious watching these awesome guitarists “play” so badly. I was laughing so hard I was crying!
(via BoingBoing)
Ten years ago, neuroanatomist Dr. Jill Bolte Taylor suffered a stroke in her brain’s left hemisphere. As someone who studies the brain, she found herself in a unique position to experience and describe what she’d only studied before. Her story is fascinating, compelling, and deeply moving.
Take 18 minutes today to listen to her talk about her stroke at last month’s TED conference [self-playing Flash video]. You’ll be glad you did.
(hat tip, O’Donnellweb)
(I note Dr. Taylor sells her book on Lulu.)
Jeff’s new, clean face certainly changes his appearance.
I was poking around Wikipedia when I found a nice page for Raleigh’s historic Briggs Hardware Building on Fayetteville Street. Then I noticed that many other cities have entries in the Buildings and structures in the United States by city page, but Raleigh didn’t.
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Just found out that legendary blind Canadian guitarist Jeff Healey died Sunday. He was just 41 years old. The retinoblastoma cancer that robbed him of his eyesight as an infant finally took his life.
I think Healey’s performance in Road House was the highlight of the whole cheesy film, but opinions vary.
He leaves behind a wife, 13-year-old daughter and 3-year-old son. Sad to hear he’s gone.
Here he is performing Angel Eyes (Rickroll-safe YouTube video). He had amazing talent.
WRAL Weathercenter’s Nate Johnson posted about daylight savings time, which goes into effect this Sunday. Ah, daylight savings time: one of my favorite whipping boys. If there’s one thing that raises my government-as-nanny hackles, daylight savings time is it.
Benjamin Franklin is credited with conceiving daylight savings time (DST) as a way to save on candles. While candles may have been all the rage in Poor Richard’s day, it may be safe to say that we use energy quite differently nowadays. The energy required to shift one’s biological clock to match clock time is quite expensive, too, but not so easily measured.
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Craigslist frowns upon simply reposting one’s ad, so I had to get a little creative this morning.
Behold my new ad. Can you tell this whole moving business is making me a little punchy?
Naming rights to Raleigh’s Memorial Auditorium, the RBC Center, and Walnut Creek Amiptheatre have sold in the millions! Why break the bank when your name can be on your very own “lake” for a mere $229,900 – and get a charming house and a huge yard thrown in for free! It’s an unbeatable deal!!!!!11!!!1!
My brother Allen just alerted me to a promotion by Levolor blinds. In an effort to raise awareness of their online store, Levolor is offering a Friends and Family discount of 50% off the regular online price of Levolor blinds. The offer ends March 17th.
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We just got word from the local Honda dealership that our 2002 Honda Odyssey will need a new transmission. This is after a mere 120,000 miles have been put on it. Alas, a new transmission is $5,000: about half the van’s current value. I’m of the mindset that it may be time to put the old girl down.
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