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 Saturday, September 3, 2005
started 9/3/2005; 7:57:41 AM - last post 9/5/2005; 9:03:14 PM
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Doc Searls - Saturday, September 3, 2005 
9/3/2005; 11:57:41 AM (reads: 5567, responses: 3)
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Live Memory Aid 
| | KCRW (out of Los Angeles) is playing Louisiana 1927, by Randy Newman. Then Lipstick Traces, Tuba Fats' Brass Band, Louis Armstrong... The Meters... this is GREAT vintage Nawlins' music, music about New Orleans, the Mississippi, the Gulf Coast... On live radio. They're live on the Web in .mp3, Real and Windows media. Also on iTunes' radio directory. |
| | Note: KCRW isn't podcasting this, although I'm sure they'd like to, because the music isn't podsafe. For more about why (and it truly sucks), go here. Meanwhile, dig some great radio, and dig deep to support the relief effort. |
While we're not at it
| | Julian Bond on California and earthquakes: Feels like borrowed time to me. It is. Earthquake plans for California, I suspect, are far more advanced than they were for hurricane flooding in New Orleans. But earthquakes are no less inevitable and potentially far more damaging. Living here is a bet that our lives will not coincide with massively fatal earthquakes that occur at average intervals that exceed average human lifetimes. (Or at least, not right now.) |
| | To check our collective sobriety out here, follow the link behind the map above. The colors indicate motion force as percentages of gravity. Meaning: "down" for your house shifts from Earth to sideways. And back again. In 1906 this lasted for more than a minute in San Francisco, as well as the 220 miles of the San Andreas fault that shifted as much as a couple dozen feet. That was when the population and property values were a tiny percentage of what they are today. |
| | The 1989 Loma Prieta quake happened along a 10-mile stretch of the same fault and lasted 15 seconds. It was not The Big One. It was not our Katrina. That one is still coming. And others after that. |
| | Earthquakes made California. And they'll keep making it, too. |
Just podding around.
| | Requiem for Kool 99.3 is my latest podcast. It went from ATRAC to analog audio to 56kb .mp3 to .aup to 56kb .mp3 again, and lost some 'fi a bit along the way. Still, not too bad, considering. |
| | Anyway, it was a welcome break to mix parenting with a nonserious podcast subject and some laughs along the way. |
| | One of these days I'll produce a podcast that's an actual show. Meanwhile, fun goofs like this will have to do. |
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Scott Westerman - Re: Saturday, September 3, 2005
9/3/2005; 7:41:08 PM (reads: 747, responses: 0)
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For the last three years, I've had the pleasure of moderating www.keener13.com, a website that celebrates Detroit 60s radio station WKNR. Keener passed on in 1972, but the continued popularity of the music and culture of that era is almost overwhelming. Since October of last year, we've done a weekly podcast featuring music, air checks and interviews and as the oldies stations continue to fall by the wayside, listeners of -all- ages have written us to mourn the change. Back then, these stations were part of our collective consciousness. The DJs were our best friends and they worked hard to make a lasting connection with the community. The artists were also more accessable, and those of us who played in garage bands believed that anybody could be a star. In today's world of homogenized formats, plastic artists and ever tighter playlists, it's not surprising that people are turning to satellite radio and MP3s. Successful radio, like a popular weblog is about developing an ongoing, one-on-one relationship with the audience. Oldies radio done right is just as compelling and relevant today as it was when the format was being born.
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Trudy W. Schuett - Disasters, God, and earthquake readiness
9/5/2005; 11:31:37 PM (reads: 670, responses: 1)
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Although it's usually God getting the blame for natural disasters, we tend to forget the other guy. Minister Trudy Mackay at The God Blog explains in a post written after the tsunami disaster.
I'm pretty sure we are prepared for the Big Earthquake here in Yuma AZ. We have a recent disaster plan which also takes into account refugees in six figures coming from SoCal.
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adamsj - Lisbon, 1755: The beginning of the Enlightenment
9/6/2005; 1:03:14 AM (reads: 897, responses: 0)
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It was the death of so many innocent people in the Lisbon earthquake of 1755 that triggered the Enlightenment. People asked, sensibly, what sort of God would slaughter so many, and for what reason.
The end result of this line of thought was the remark attributed to Mark Twain, who said:
If one truly believes in an all-powerful deity, and one looks around at the condition of the universe, one is drawn inescapably to the conclusion that God is a malign thug.
or, in some versions,
If there is a god, then he is a malign thug
There are arguments against this quote (1), but many of us find them unconvincing at best and sophistic at worst.
(1) Which, incidentally, I'm having a devil of a time sourcing. If anyone can help, I'd appreciate it. It's not in Gutenberg, so if it is truly a Twain quote (it's not in Snopes, either, so I'm guessing it's real) it must be in some of the letters or in some of the posthumously published work which, I believe, is still under copyright.
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