Helen Sventitsky A New View on Haiku -- John S. O'Connor
Like many people, I was taught that haiku were poems that followed a 5-7-5 syllable count. In fact, I taught haiku that way for years myself. I’ll even own up to the fact that I used haiku as my “sp ... Read More on Singing in a Restaurant at the End of the Universe... http://post.ly/C6HJ
Helen Sventitsky Van Gogh's Letters
You could read all of Vincent van Gogh's letters in the new 6-volume edition which retails at $600. ...or you could read them all for free online at vangoghletters.org. There's even a free iPhone a ... Read More on Singing in a Restaurant at the End of the Universe... http://post.ly/BylV
Helen Sventitsky Losing Things
LOSING THINGS Flaming Lips - "Watching the Planets". Sometimes you reach for that crystal bottle because you want it to shatter. You want to grab it with your pink pretty hand and pour a dollop ... Read More on Singing in a Restaurant at the End of the Universe... http://post.ly/Bycv
Helen Sventitsky Fort Hood has enough victims already | Wajahat Ali | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
via guardian.co.uk After an American soldier's tragic outburst of violence at Fort Hood, Texas – the army's largest US post, with some 40,000 troops – dominates the headlines, a fear-mongering hys ... Read More on Singing in a Restaurant at the End of the Universe... http://post.ly/ByLb
Helen Sventitsky Atheism itself isn't a movement | Ophelia Benson | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
The question: Is there an atheist schism?Atheism itself, atheism as such, isn't and can't be a movement, because atheism is, at a minimum, simply non-theism: non-belief in any god. Mere non-belief in ... Read More on Singing in a Restaurant at the End of the Universe... http://post.ly/ByKb
Helen Sventitsky Cosmos: The Shores of the Cosmic Ocean: Happy Birthday, Carl Sagan!
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Helen Sventitsky Untitled
testing, yet again via Ping.fm ... Read More on Singing in a Restaurant at the End of the Universe... http://post.ly/BumZ
Helen Sventitsky said: testing, yet again
Helen Sventitsky Portraits Of A Blended Nation - The Picture Show Blog : NPR
via npr.org This weekend, Liane Hansen, host of Weekend Edition Sunday, will interview the authors of a new book: Blended Nation: Portraits and Interviews of Mixed-Race America. It's part of a new ... Read More on Singing in a Restaurant at the End of the Universe... http://post.ly/BtJh
Helen Sventitsky Squee!!!! I'm A Fan Time: Undisclosed Desires Video by MUSE - MySpace Video
MUSE | MySpace Video via vids.myspace.com I don't really commiserate with a lot of other Muse fans (save for my fellow Muse-heads on FriendFeed, - Hi Carmen and RAP!! *waves*). For obvious rea ... Read More on Singing in a Restaurant at the End of the Universe... http://post.ly/Bn1R
Helen Sventitsky Thank God I still have Lists: A few Tweets I liked regarding today
@farwyde Guy Falkes Day: when Brits teach their kids how to set things on fire. Lucky wankers... Remember, remember, the kids are flammable..@may_gun Happy Bonfire Night to my UK friends.@fakeca ... Read More on Singing in a Restaurant at the End of the Universe... http://post.ly/Bm15
Helen Sventitsky New Delhi | Commonwealth Games means booting both the donkeys and the poor owners who love them. Isn't government charity grand?
via globalpost.com There are as many as 150 donkeys here and Delhi’s builders still find them useful for ferrying bricks and concrete from demolished building sites. But if New Delhi's plans come ... Read More on Singing in a Restaurant at the End of the Universe... http://post.ly/Bllp
Helen Sventitsky #unibrennt V is for Vendetta!!
via flickr.com Per ★ Esther Rudolph @ FriendFeed... ... Read More on Singing in a Restaurant at the End of the Universe... http://post.ly/Bl1t
Helen Sventitsky Carl Sagan - 'A Glorious Dawn' ft Stephen Hawking (Cosmos Remixed)
via youtube.com Now this is pretty damn cool. Click image to play video ... Read More on Singing in a Restaurant at the End of the Universe... http://post.ly/Bcl7
Helen Sventitsky Rare yellow spider named after David Bowie - Telegraph
via telegraph.co.uk Isn't it cute...NOT!!!!! A newly-discovered spider has been named after rock star David Bowie, in an effort to raise awareness about the number of arachnid species threatened ... Read More on Singing in a Restaurant at the End of the Universe... http://post.ly/BVKz
Helen Sventitsky Judge OKs Challenge to Human-Gene Patents | Threat Level
via wired.com A federal judge ruled Monday that a lawsuit can move forward against the Patent and Trademark Office and the research company that was awarded exclusive rights to human genes known t ... Read More on Singing in a Restaurant at the End of the Universe... http://post.ly/BVKF
Helen Sventitsky The sex life of seahorses | Environment | The Guardian
via guardian.co.uk Peer at a seahorse, briefly hold one up to the light, and you will see a most unlikely creature; something you would hardly believe was real were it not lying there in the palm ... Read More on Singing in a Restaurant at the End of the Universe... http://post.ly/BVJp
Helen Sventitsky EXCLUSIVE: Hugh Grant is drunk - Celebslam: They're Better Than Us
via celebslam.celebuzz.com I think I'm gonna be sick: "Here's some pics I took of Hugh Grant and Matar Cohen (Israeli model from Project Runway) from Halloween at the Standard Hotel in New York. H ... Read More on Singing in a Restaurant at the End of the Universe... http://post.ly/BVID
Helen Sventitsky GaneshteachinginChina.jpg (JPEG Image, 1184x888 pixels) - Scaled (60%)
via vvrganesh.com ... Read More on Singing in a Restaurant at the End of the Universe... http://post.ly/BVHH
Helen Sventitsky Discovery Blog: Archives
via discovery.org Catholics and other Christians probably don't care what anyone says about them anymore, given the relative lack of outrage over Richard Dawkins' comments in The Washington Post t ... Read More on Singing in a Restaurant at the End of the Universe... http://post.ly/BVEn
Helen Sventitsky 22841727.jpg (JPEG Image, 3072x2304 pixels) - Scaled (23%)
via static.panoramio.com Random weird picture I found via Fark.com ... Read More on Singing in a Restaurant at the End of the Universe... http://post.ly/BVDj
Helen Sventitsky NASA - Operation Ice Bridge Studies Antarctic Sea Ice
via nasa.gov ... Read More on Singing in a Restaurant at the End of the Universe... http://post.ly/BUR1
Helen Sventitsky Untitled
Noting that MSNBC employees are Oingo Boingo fans. :D via Ping.fm ... Read More on Singing in a Restaurant at the End of the Universe... http://post.ly/BRR5
Helen Sventitsky said: Noting that MSNBC employees are Oingo Boingo fans. :D
Helen Sventitsky Musings and Wankery: Early November, 2009: My Twitter account issue update (*sigh* and *yawn*) and the Twitter vs. FriendFeed "debate"
So, here's the scoop on the "my account was suspended" SOS I posted on Sunday. I was playing around on Twitter at my husband's place Sunday morning when, at 9:00 AM on the DOT, I couldn't use my Echo ... Read More on Singing in a Restaurant at the End of the Universe... http://post.ly/BNzf
Helen Sventitsky Free Music Monday: Singer-Songwriter Edition
via mashable.com One more place you submit your music to for broadcast - MASHABLE!! WooHoo! Actually, I may submit for this thing... Click image to play video ... Read More on Singing in a Restaurant at the End of the Universe... http://post.ly/BNQx
Helen Sventitsky BBC NEWS | Europe | Ex-KGB spy gunned down in Moscow
via news.bbc.co.uk A Russian businessman who was convicted in Israel as a KGB spy has been shot dead in Moscow, police say. Investigators said Shabattai Kalmanovich, 60, was killed by gunmen who f ... Read More on Singing in a Restaurant at the End of the Universe... http://post.ly/BNP7
Helen Sventitsky Michael Phelps - Speed Putting
via youtube.com Love the mustache, dude. WHOA! Click image to play video ... Read More on Singing in a Restaurant at the End of the Universe... http://post.ly/BMv3
Helen Sventitsky P2P users may be music industry's best friend after all - Ars Technica
via arstechnica.com I haven't been a P2P user for nearly a decade now, but there was a shining moment back in graduate school when Napster's bounty of music looked shiny and irresistible. Though d ... Read More on Singing in a Restaurant at the End of the Universe... http://post.ly/BMuP
Helen Sventitsky Time-travel doesn't imbue quantum computers with superpowers - Ars Technica
via arstechnica.com After spending the past two months on sabbatical, I've returned to a deluge of science that I had missed out on. Almost three years ago, a company called D-Wave made waves by a ... Read More on Singing in a Restaurant at the End of the Universe... http://post.ly/BMu7
