Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Sunday night classical music show, here are the Canadian Brass performing Johann Sebastian Bach‘s Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, BWV 538 (8:14).
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Barack Obama has only four years to save the world.
That is the stark assessment of Nasa scientist and leading climate expert Jim Hansen who last week warned only urgent action by the new president could halt the devastating climate change that now threatens Earth. Crucially, that action will have to be taken within Obama’s first administration, he added.
And he’ll get on that first thing Wednesday morning…
Using data from the EPA, environmentalist organizations, and various news accounts, the [Institute for Liberty] estimates more than 500 million pounds of CO2 will be released during the four-day inaugural festivities. Among the offenders:
– The 600 private jets expected to fly visitors to and from the event will produce 25,320,000 pounds of CO2.
– Personal vehicles could account for 262,483,200 pounds of CO2.
– The horses in the parade will produce more than 400 pounds of CO2.
And if you don’t have an idea what a pound of CO2 really means, consider this: The average household would take 57,598 years to produce as much CO2 as Obama’s inauguration
Carbon Bigfoot (PDF)
Heh – “He created it in six days, so this shouldn’t be any problem…
Update – and just in the nicker of time!
That’s Maine, folks.
When you are able to convince oneself and others that a dead tree in a public park is “absolutely worth millions of dollars” and deserving of a $215,000 engineering plan to keep it from its destiny with gravity…
… one should not be surprised when problems on a much grander scale begin to topple one’s way.
The editors of today’s New York Times are transported back to ’43.
h/t Stephen M.
You might be from Saskatchewan.
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Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Saturday night distinguished lecture, documentary & interview series, here is Kim Greist, professor of physics at the University of California at San Diego, presenting his talk The Mystery of Empty Space (42:54, 2002 I’m guessing).
In last week’s show we started this series with a look at existence on the largest scale. On the other hand, what is the smallest scale that pervades all things, including emptiness itself? In tonight’s talk, Kim takes a look at what exists in nothing: introducing particle physics, the standard model, and the fascinating notion that the ten dimensions of string theory are related to the standard three dimensions of space, multiplied by the three generations of quarks, plus time.
And here’s a quick heads-up for those who may be concerned that the SDA LNR distinguished lecture, documentary & interview series is going to be a long sequence of (admittedly, so far) rather difficult physics professors: despair not, for next week we’ll put last week’s and this week’s shows together with a not-at-all-difficult physics professor to produce humans and epistemology, after which we can expect physics professors to show up rather more rarely. But I gotta’ start somewhere !-)
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Heaving bosoms at the Associated Press;
Washington pulsed with anticipation of Obama’s swearing in as the nation’s first black president. The city was aflutter with preparations for four days of parties and pomp, shadowed at every turn by layer upon layer of security.
To the man with the best “O” in his logo…
Barack Obama’s inaugural organizing committee has struck deals with three television networks to the tune of more than $5 million, giving the networks exclusive access to inaugural events. But the arrangement is prompting questions about the president-elect’s efforts to raise money by turning his inauguration into made-for-TV productions.
Not that it matters. After Obama becomes President, everything America needs will come from money orchards. *
A US Coast Guard camera caught it all.
via Secrets of Vancouver
 Even when Wyeth is admitted into the canon, he’s held a bit at arm’s length. The Museum of Modern Art in New York City owns his most famous canvas, Christina’s World, which it acquired in 1948, soon after it was painted, for just $1,800. But while the picture is always on display at MoMA, it’s consigned to what you might call an anteroom on the margins of the more respectably modern galleries…” |
 He argues it is difficult to judge abstract painting. “There are different approaches, there is a formal approach and then there is a free-form approach that comes off a more intuitive base. And if you’re thinking about the latter, perhaps a two-year-old can do it as well as a 30-year-old.”
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Related – The Times “art critic” cuts off Christina’s feet.
(They didn’t think much of Ken Danby, either.)
h/t Charles McDonald
And the winner is “martin”…
Jan – “I think, I can. I think, I caan. I thiiiiink, I caaaaan. I thhhh
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Irene – “Its not stalled, its just resting.”
Rich – ” I didn’t know CAA did skate-key calls.”
Fred – “Isn’t that cute. The pickup truck has deployed its spare tire vehicle.”
Less honourable mentions here.
Good evening ladies and gentlemen, welcome to SDA Late Nite Radio. Tonight, for your delectation and pursuant to our Friday night old-time radio crime-detective show, here is the Masquerade Party episode of Crime and Peter Chambers (1954, 22:23, 5.1 MB, MP3).
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Doing something once, and getting the intended result.
h/t Wayne R.
According to Barrelstrength;
At the request of the Prime Minister, the Minister of Justice has created a departmental committee to examine section 13 of the Canadian Human Rights Act. This is the section which bans hate messages distributed by the Internet. Members include lawyers from various branches of the department of Justice, including constitutional, human rights, criminal and Industry Canada branches.
(Note – still awaiting an official source for this. Will keep you posted.)
The Outdoor Wire, the nation’s largest daily electronic news service for the outdoor industry, has announced their “Gun Salesman of the Year”.
(Sorry – original link is now dead, so I’ve relinked to the Hot Air . Hoax?)
Update – Here it is at Outdoor Wire (scroll to page bottom).
Minnesota’s largest newspaper will try to use bankruptcy to restructure its debt and lower its labor costs.
Chris Harte, the paper’s publisher, said the filing would have no impact on home delivery, advertising, newsgathering or any other aspects of the paper’s operations.
No, it never does.
Holy crap. He’s made it to Kenora;
Michael Cole passed through Northwestern Ontario in -35 Celsius weather halfway through one of the most extreme cross-Canada awareness rides ever: a 1995 soft tail custom Harley Davidson motorcycle tour in January to draw attention for diabetes.
Wearing electric pants, socks, jacket, gloves and with a heater in his helmet, he began in Newfoundland on New Year’s Day and has already passed through his own backyard.
He nearly missed a ferry in Newfoundland, had to ride through three feet of snow in New Brunswick, and slipped on black ice near the Nova Scotia border when his motorcycle slid out from underneath him.
“That was a close call. It took my breath away. There’s a meaning to that.”
As he rode into Dryden, one of his electric gloves began to malfunction and he was forced to ride in his accompanying vehicle to Kenora. The feeling has yet to return to his middle finger
Somebody needs to get this guy a Skidoo suit.
Ride For Diabetes
Winter Harley ride across Canada , Diabetes the Silent Killer
… the CJC did not expose the “hatred and violence”.
For one thing, Bernie, Warren & Co didn’t bother going to the Hamas rallies. Kathy Shaidle did, and Girl on the Right did, and Point de Bascule did, and Kate McMillan and others spread the news about what they saw. Bernie Farber said nothing. Even the great Nazi Hunting Toilet Warrior lui-meme was silent.
What’s interesting about that group is how many of them – Kate, Kathy, Ezra – are being harrassed by Richard Warman, the guy Bernie Farber thinks is the greatest Nazi hunter of all time. The cardboard hero gets garlanded by the CJC, the real friends of Canadian Jews get sued.
Speaking of guitar heroes…
Once upon a time, I owned a Strat. One of the few tunes I could carry off convincingly was “Submission”, (which means I wasn’t very good).
I remember the moment I realized I was too old for punk. It happened on a dance floor, in Edmonton, as I took a long, hard look at the kids around me.
I was 23.
