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Haunted Lawrence in area magazine
An article on favorite haunted places in the Fox Valley includes the annual Haunted Lawrence tour and some of Lawrence’s haunted places in the August 2008 issue of New North Business to Business magazine. The article is available at the following link.
We’re Never Using Cell Phones Again
Just like you, we love multi-function appliances. If you have bored kids, or if you are amazed by unexplainable science, try this at home.
Sidney D. Gamble Photographs
“Duke University Libraries has launched an online digital collection of about 5,000 photographs shot primarily in China between 1917 and 1932. The photographs were taken by Sidney Gamble, the grandson of Procter and Gamble co-founder James Gamble, and provide a glimpse into daily life unlike any other photographs from this period. A sociologist, China scholar, and avid amateur photographer, Gamble travelled extensively in China from Liaoning province in the northeast to Guangdong province in the south and to the western edge of Sichuan province along the border of Tibet. The photographs came to light when Gamble’s daughter, Catherine Curran, discovered the collection at the family’s home. She gave the entire collection to Duke in 2006, just before her death.”
Handel Chrysander Edition Online!
The Chrysander edition of George Frideric Handel’s complete works is available online from the Münchener Digitalisierungszentrum (the Munich Digitisation Centre) of the Digital Library Department of the Bavarian State Library. The Library has a nice English language interface, but searching is a little odd. And it helps to know some German. The digital collection “comprises manuscripts, early prints, modern books, maps and photographic collections as well as journals and newspapers.” The access is free, but the images are not downloadable or printable. Still, it’s one-stop-viewing if you’re looking for a picture of Jimi Hendrix AND images of every book published in German-speaking areas in the 16th century.
IMSLP is Back!
The International Music Score Library Project is back in business after overcoming financial and legal assaults. “IMSLP attempts to create a virtual library containing all public domain musical scores, as well as scores from composers who are willing to share their music with the world without charge,” in other words, a boatload of free scores. This is a wiki, however, so edit if you must, but try to stifle your inner imp.
Buried [Music] Treasure
Does trying to find music-related materials on the Web make you crazy? Try this guide to finding scores recordings, lyrics and other musical mayhem in no particular order, just to make the hunt all the more thrilling. It’s mostly free and mostly legal.
Someone’s Taking This “Mudd” Thing Too Literally
There is a new entry in the continuing saga of The Mudd’s battle with the elements. Like Joe Btfsplk, we literally have a cloud hanging over our heads. In an ironic twist, the roof guys were making great progress in trying to eliminate our seasonal interior downpours when it, what?, downpoured. As luck would have it, the roof had been replace with a tarp just hours before deluge began. Return with us now to those soggy, squishy days of yesterday.
And You Thought Paul Was Old
Today Ringo Starr is 68. Yes, 68. Those of you mature enough to know his real name will be feeling extremely ancient and those who have never heard of him will be asking, “Whose grandpappy is that?”
In a dastardly bit of birthday irony, it was reported yesterday that his birthplace is certain to be demolished after English Heritage decided not to list it on its register. But Pete Best’s home will be preserved only because it was the location of the original Cavern Club, and…, oh, just read the article.
Do what Richard requests today: “…everyone, everywhere, wherever they are, at noon on July 7 make the peace sign and say ‘Peace & Love.'” And listen to some tunes.
Wiki-tannica
If ever the Apocalypse was in sight, it’s now. That most scholarly of encyclopedias, The Encyclopedia Britannica, is going wiki. But the editors have taken a lot of the fun and adventure out of the wiki experience by only allowing readers to suggest revisions, not make them themselves. So you merry pranksters may not change Winston Churchill’s middle name to Bassingbourne or make Inigo Jones the love-child of Elizabeth I and the Sir Walter Raleigh.
If you’re in the Mudd you can search the Encyclopedia Britannica and even suggest changes.
Listen to the report on NPR.