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20. DJ Shadow "Midnight in a Perfect World" [Mo Wax/FFRR; 1996] 19. Mazzy Star "Fade Into You" [Capitol; 1994] 17. Belle and Sebastian "The State I Am In" [Electric Honey; 1996]16. OutKast "Spottieottedopalicious" [LaFace; 1998] 15. Depeche Mode "Enjoy the Silence" [Mute/Sire; 1990] 14. The Notorious B.I.G. "Juicy" [Bad Boy; 1994] 13. Nirvana "Smells Like Teen Spirit" [DGC; 1991] 12. Aphex Twin "Windowlicker" [Warp/Sire; 1999] 11. Björk "Hyperballad" [One Little Indian; 1995] 10. Weezer "Say It Ain't So" [DGC; 1994] 9. Beck "Loser" [Bong Load/DGC; 1993] 8. Aaliyah "Are You That Somebody?" [Atlantic; 1998] 7. Neutral Milk Hotel "Holland, 1945" [Merge; 1998] 6. My Bloody Valentine "Only Shallow" [Creation; 1991] 5. Wu-Tang Clan "Protect Ya Neck" [Loud; 1993] 4. Radiohead "Paranoid Android" [Capitol; 1997] 3. Dr. Dre [ft. Snoop Doggy Dogg] "Nuthin' But a 'G' Thang" [Death Row; 1992] 2. Pulp "Common People" [Island; 1995] 1. Pavement "Gold Soundz" [Matador; 1994] - RAPatton

I need to remember who Pitchfork caters to. The lack of punk, real punk, is a big sad spot. - MustacheK

"Wolf killings are set to expand despite their endangered status. There is a huge push by government agencies to ramp up killings of gray wolves in the regions of the Northern Rockies and the Great Lakes. Why are Wolf Killings going to Expand? The gray wolf has had its endangered status restored in the U.S. except for in Alaska and Minnesota. The methods of getting rid of the wolves seem incredibly extreme. There are proposals to gas pups in their dens or to surgically sterilize adult wolves according to MSNBC. Other ideas are to allow hunts for gray wolves to kill them. The gray wolves were once almost extinct in the 48 contiguous states, but they have made a huge comeback after being protected under the Endangered Species Act. Their multiplication has caused them to attack livestock and big game herds, which has caused some problems. Some states have allowed wolf hunting, but in August a court ruling has put a stop to those plans for this hunting season. Right now, wolves are often removed by shooting them from an aircraft. It seems inhuman to hunt them in such a way." - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

You remember correctly. What this situation requires is for people to sit down in the same room together, civilly, and try to come up with solutions instead of forging lawsuits against each other. In conservation, progress is only made through compromise. Everyone seems to want to get their way, though, and so these things clog up the courts. We funnel countless conservation dollars to lawsuits instead of learning more about how to properly manage wolves in areas populated with people and livestock. - Jenny R- OCP

"The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, a charity which rescues and rehabilitates orphaned African elephants, is holding an exhibition of pictures taken by three of the world's most celebrated wildlife photographers – Joachim Schmeisser, Michael Nichols and Robert Carr-Hartley. The free show will be at the Royal Geographical Society in London from 6 to 10 September 2010" - RAPatton

Love love love the b&w, but the baby in with all the legs is great too. - Heza, soon to be employed

"To the untrained eye, all evidence here in the heart of the Amazon signals virgin forest, untouched by man for time immemorial - from the ubiquitous fruit palms to the cry of howler monkeys, from the air thick with mosquitoes to the unruly tangle of jungle vines. Archaeologists, many of them Americans, say the opposite is true: This patch of forest, and many others across the Amazon, was instead home to an advanced, even spectacular civilization that managed the forest and enriched infertile soil to feed thousands. The findings are discrediting a once-bedrock theory of archaeology that long held that the Amazon, unlike much of the Americas, was a historical black hole, its environment too hostile and its earth too poor to have ever sustained big, sedentary societies. Only small and primitive hunter-gatherer tribes, the assumption went, could ever have eked out a living in an unforgiving environment. But scientists now believe that instead of stone-age tribes, like the groups that... more... - RAPatton

"Along the Xingu, an Amazon tributary in Brazil, Michael Heckenberger of the University of Florida has found moats, causeways, canals, the networks of a stratified civilization that, he says, existed as early as A.D. 800. In Bolivia, American, German and Finnish archaeologists have been studying how pre-Columbian Indians moved tons of soil and diverted rivers, major projects of a... more... - RAPatton

"In some ways, the theory that the Amazon may have been a wellspring of civilization should come as no surprise in the 21st century. In a long perilous journey along Ecuador's Napo River in 1541, Spanish friar Gaspar de Carvajal, a chronicler of the European conquest, wrote of "cities that gleamed white," canoes that carried dozens of Indian warriors, "fine highways" and "very fruitful... more... - RAPatton

My youngest now wants to be The Greatest American Hero for halloween. - RAPatton

As soon as the premiere aired, I wrote into the local TV Times praising the show. A friend in high school ended up telling me she'd seen it in print. - Spidra Webster

"After reading through the comments below, it seems we have a consensus view that cider has the least environmental impact of all the alcoholic drinks, and spirits the worst. This stance is largely based on the proposition that the most significant impact - in terms of energy use, at least - is caused by the manufacturing stage, as opposed to the packaging or transportation phase of a drink's lifecycle. I would agree with this argument in most cases, but it does seem there are some massive variables between the various types of alcoholic drinks. For example, beer seems to get a fairly bad rap from readers because its production requires plenty of heating, cooling and water, not to forget the often agriculturally intensive ingredients." - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

"It does seem to be a rather sensible conclusion that importing fewer liquids around the world wherever possible is a good thing from an environmental point of view. The same argument applies to bottled water, but I suppose many people in the world would be deprived of wine, for example, if you didn't allow the odd shipment of wine to leave the regions where vines can be commercially... more... - RAPatton

"The obvious alternative to all this, though, is producing your own alcohol at home. As roolbg and rashomonuk state, homebrewing can be a rewarding hobby. What's more, you can control exactly what goes into your brew as well as greatly minimising the packaging and transportation required. I'll certainly drink to that." - RAPatton

:) - Melissa

""Radioactive," the gospel-tinged first single from Kings of Leon's forthcoming album, Come Around Sundown, might slow down the band's decent into Hell, says drummer Nathan Followill. "I think after my grandma sees this video, she definitely doesn't think we're going to Hell as fast as she did think we were going," Nathan quips in a just-released teaser for the single, filmed on the set of their music video. The "Radioactive" clip, which premieres Sept. 8, finds band hanging around a Southern barn, and backed vocally by a cute gospel choir of little kids in white shirts and black ties. "Lyrically, the chorus started out being kind of spiritual, but the verses never matched up to it at all," bassist Jared Followill says of the song's roots. "We went into the studio, we tried it, and it wasn't really working, and we were going to scrap the whole song. Then Caleb went back to an old spiritual song that we all sang growing up, and it matched up with the chorus so nice." "Gospel music was... more... - RAPatton

10. Tell Her She Looks (and Tastes) Great 9. Use Your Ears 8 Touch Her Everywhere (with Oil). 7. Bring the Kitchen into the Bedroom 6.Take Your Time Undressing 5. Take a Shower 4.Create a Mood — Turn the Lights Down 3. Sit Back and Relax 2. Don't Worry So Much — Intercourse Isn't Everything 1. Get Her Pregnant (On Purpose) - RAPatton

"The North and South magnetic poles swap places every 300,000 years, in a process that takes as much as 5,000 years. But evidence from an ancient lava flow suggests the poles were once moving 53 degrees per year. We're currently overdue for a pole reversal, and a particularly rapid shift could cause chaos for birds' migration patterns and human navigational instruments. One reassuring thing is that, in general, pole shifts are very, very gradual, and a 5,000 year flip would be disruptive but not catastrophic for Earth with a little sensible planning. However, we've found bits and pieces of evidence that suggests the Earth's magnetic field can move way, way more quickly. In 1995, an ancient lava flow in Oregon held a magnetic pattern that suggested the poles had once been moving six degrees a day, which is about 10,000 times faster than normal and quick enough to completely reverse the Earth's magnetic field in just about one month. A lot of scientists dismissed that as utterly... more... - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

"This reflects an inconvenient truth about science that religion would prefer to ignore. For although it is true that science doesn't rule out a role for religion in providing meaning, or a God who kick-started the whole universe off in the first place, it does leave presumed dead in the water anything like the God most people over history have believed in: one who is closely involved in his creation, who intervenes in our lives, and with whom we can have a personal relationship. In short, there is no room in the universe of Hawking or most other scientists for the activist God of the Bible." - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

What is funny to me here is the amount of things we keep discovering in science, especially astrophysics, which goes against previous models. Also, how much of science is still /theory/ taken as fact. Too much of human thought starts with the belief we know anything. - Michael W. May

"If you want to tell whether your baby is in pain, looking at its face may not be enough, researchers have found. Generations of mothers have depended on their baby's facial expressions to tell them what they are feeling. But a study has found that giving a baby a spoonful of sugar before an injection or blood test may alter its expression without lessening its pain. The finding casts doubt on whether we can really know what a baby is feeling from observing its responses – and on the decade-old practice of using sugar as a pain reliever for infants." - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

Pfft. My baby is happy! So there! - Jenny R- OCP

"Forbush-Man is all about THINKING — but any mind control requires at least some raw material:" - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

Michael has always been a bit of a daredevil - RAPatton

cool kid! - esther ♥ ♫

"The re-introduction of wolves in a US National Park has not helped re-establish quaking aspens, as many researchers had hoped. Writing in the journal Ecology, a team of scientists found that wolves in Yellowstone Park were not deterring elk from eating young trees. It had been assumed that the presence of wolves would create a "landscape of fear" and no-go areas for elk. The team says more work must be done if the park's aspens are to be protected. Writing in the Ecological Society of America's journal, the researchers added that conventional wisdom suggested that as the wolves were predators of the elk, the elk would eventually learn to avoid the high-risk areas in which wolves were found. This would then allow plants in those areas - such as aspen - to grow without being eaten and, over the long-term, the habitat would be be able to regenerate. "Predators indirectly influence plants in two main ways," the team wrote. "By altering either the density or the foraging behaviour of the herbivores."" - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

I think the main idea is that restoring their natural predators will get elk to change back to their typical behavior instead of clumping up in huge groups. In small numbers, they can eat aspen without denuding the area of vegetation. In larger numbers, they completely strip an area of aspen. Thanks, RAP, for getting my synapses firing this morning. This subject is my bread and butter. - Jenny R- OCP

This always makes me think of Catechism on Wednesday nights when I would miss most of the episode (then they moved it to Friday, but it wasn't as good then). - Michael W. May

"An Roman lantern made of bronze, believed by experts to be the only one of its kind in Britain, has been unearthed in a field by a metal-detecting enthusiast. Although rather battered on discovery it has been painstakingly restored and is now on display in Ipswich Museum. The unique artefact, which dates from between the 1st and 3rd century AD, was discovered by 21-year-old Danny Mills at a detecting rally near Sudbury, Suffolk. Mills reported the find to local archaeologists and the landowner later donated it to the regional museum." - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

At first, I read that as someone had found an ancient Roman metal detector. lol - Tad, Not Constantinople

Thanks, RAP! - Spidra Webster

no problem! - RAPatton

"Travel is sometimes a curse, and often a blessing. Just occasionally, it’s like a trip through a children’s story. Earlier this year, we found ourselves in a fable. For a week, we lived next to a little girl who shared her cave with 300 sheep. Over the centuries, her ancestors had hollowed out a pinnacle of rock. It now had so many windows it looked like a multi-storey shortbread. Through the main door I could see a donkey, and then – higher up – stovepipes, light bulbs and a Turkish flag. Here was a warren for human beings. Our own cave was more elegant but with much the same view. It looked out over a huge swathe of Cappadocia; a swirling landscape the colour of oatmeal and peaches; gorges full of pinnacles like clusters of spears; the distant cone of Mount Erciyes, lightly powdered in snow. This being a fable, the pinnacles were known as “fairy chimneys” and every morning the sky was full of hot-air balloons (it’s a long-established tradition for visitors to drift over Cappadocia... more... - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

"Unfortunately, the next wave of violence was predictably human. With so much ash and sediment, Cappadocia had become famously productive. At a time when the world’s population was 23 million, it had a city of 17,000 souls. Naturally, it was soon attracting unsavoury visitors. Among them were Hittites, Tabals, Persians, Romans (in AD17), Byzantines, Seljuks and Ottomans. The history of... more... - RAPatton

"Using a revolutionary new microscope, scientists can now peer into embryos and watch, in one of the world's smallest 3-D movies, as brains, eyes and other organs form. A team at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) in Heidelberg, Germany, watched zebra fish and fruit fly embryos develop under the scope for as long as 58 hours, charting the location of every cell as it danced around the embryo. This experiment would have been impossible a mere two years ago before a recent spate of innovations advanced microscopy years into the future. When it comes to watching the inner workings of cells, fluorescence microscopy is second to none. In this technique, scientists attach fluorescent tags to cellular proteins and, by shining a laser on the cells, cause them to light up. But placing cells under a standard fluorescent microscope essentially sentences them to death. Damaged by the scope's powerful laser, many perish before a few hours pass, so watching any extended process is... more... - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

"Suddenly, scientists could make movies that lasted for days. The cells under their microscopes, hit with only one five-thousandth of the energy used in traditional fluorescence microscopy, kept on dividing. The EMBL team took a record 24-hour-long movie of a developing zebra fish embryo. When one of the members presented the data at a conference, he was received like a rock star. " - RAPatton

"On October 19th, Apocalypse Now makes its debut appearance on Blu-ray, and will be seen in its original 2.35:1 aspect ratio for the first time outside of cinemas. The following trailer showcases some of the shots with this framing. This goes against the original wishes of cinematographer Vittorio Storaro who decided the film should be transfered in something like 2:1 for DVD and video, as well as any widescreen TV broadcasts. Maybe he’s changed his mind due to the size of modern TV sets and the quality of Blu-ray, or maybe he’s just been ignored." - RAPatton

"They aren't so much smashing through the glass ceiling as sweeping aside layers of dusty parchment; but it is progress. As the first play penned by a woman opens at Shakespeare's Globe today – breaking a 411-year tradition – top theatre directors report a surge in prominent female playwrights, with a wave of talented women coming to the fore in Britain's male-dominated theatres. Nell Leyshon will make history at the Globe in central London with her new play Bedlam, which chronicles the goings on at London's notorious Bethlem psychiatric hospital in the 18th century. Following the story of a young country girl admitted to the asylum, the dark comedy looks at the terrible treatments administered to unfortunate inhabitants, and the gin craze that was sweeping London. That the 48-year-old Leyshon, who is also a successful radio playwright and novelist, has cracked the Globe is seen as a symbolic breakthrough for women theatre writers. "The Globe is the home of Shakespeare and at the... more... - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

""They say you have to act like a man to succeed, and you do have to project confidence," said Leyshon. "We women do have a lot to learn, especially when it comes to expressing self-doubt. Playwriting is quite gladiatorial. The success or failure is public, and you can't turn away from that." She also believes that women are benefiting from the "snowball" effect, and are being spurred on by each other's success: "When you have women who do it, you get a build-up of self-belief."" - RAPatton

"The date that turned John Owens' girlfriend into his wife didn't cost much. He filled a cooler full of beer and sandwiches and took her on a night-fishing trip with another couple. "It was a great night and it cost me a couple of bucks for bait and that was it," said Owens, now head of marketing for ING Direct USA in Wilmington, Del. In a still-dragging economy, Owens thinks more people should follow that example. But a new study by his company indicates that cheap dates might be dicey for guys. The reason: When asked what words they associate with a frugal blind date, women said a guy would be stingy and boring, while men thought a frugal girl would be smart and sexy. The tough news for guys is that this smart and sexy girl is probably going to expect her male counterpart to pick up the check, said Evan Marc Katz, a Los Angeles dating coach and author of "Why You're Still Single." That used to be because women earned considerably less than men, if they worked at all; now it's because women find a generous man nurturing." - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

"Owens also recommends taking a picnic to the park or beach or using the downloadable FourSquare application on your phone to find local happy hours and other restaurant deals that you can "accidentally" stumble onto without looking like you're trying to be cheap." - RAPatton

"If your date is active, the possibilities are endless, Katz added. It could be rollerblading or bike riding in the mountains or at a lake. You could go hiking, and if you don't know the local trails, search the Web. Local Sierra Clubs sponsor night hikes all over the country. You could also play one-on-one basketball or go fishing, Katz suggested. Museums and botanical gardens are also a deal. Some are free. Others charge a small entrance fee. If you go frequently, an annual pass can save a few bucks." - RAPatton

"DESCRIBING a walk through the garden outside her home in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, after a rainstorm, Joyce Brabner said she was looking for a dry place to sit and talk about how things have been going since the death of her husband, Harvey Pekar, the comic-book writer. “He’s still dead,” Ms. Brabner said over the phone, in a characteristic display of resilience through black comedy. “When he comes back, rolls away the rock, I’ll let you know.” It was the sort of unromanticized scene, mundane with an edge of mordancy, that Mr. Pekar might have liked to preserve in his long-running series of autobiographical comics, American Splendor, or in one of his many graphic novels. But when Mr. Pekar died at 70 on July 12 — suddenly it seemed to some, but in painful stages as those closest to him knew — it brought an end to his compulsive chronicling of Cleveland’s commonplace lives, including, most frequently, his own. Known for the irascible, self-doubting persona he cultivated in American... more... - RAPatton

"As Dean Haspiel, an artist who worked with Mr. Pekar in his final years, said in an interview, “There was never one version of Harvey.” “Put it this way,” he added. “Nobody owns Harvey Pekar. Not even Harvey Pekar.”" - RAPatton

"In the final months of his life, Ms. Brabner said, her strategy was to “let Harvey be Harvey.” She allowed him to lapse on his diet of organic foods and go back to keeping Beefaroni in the house and, she said, “Little Debbies and potato chips hidden in linen cupboards and underneath sofas.” Ms. Brabner was long accustomed to her husband’s irrational fears, screaming nightmares and... more... - RAPatton

Cute! - Jenny R- OCP

She was super giggly dancing with me before this, but I couldn't dance and record at the same time - RAPatton from iPhone

aw, sweetness! - esther ♥ ♫

"Tree Jewelry probably seems much more offbeat in parts of the country where beaded necklaces and trees don't commonly mix. Here, though, they're just an upscale, upsize take on Mardi Gras throws that's designed to stay in place year-round. Made of stainless steel beads threaded on marine line and finished with marine hardware, they're made to hold up even in our damp climes. Choose between long and short beads -- just like at Mardi Gras -- to fit your favorite tree. Send its diameter measurement to the Tree Jewelry folks, and then choose from the styles offered on their website, www.treejewelry.net. They'll create a one-of-a-kind bangle in the right dimensions to fit your needs. The California company also offers some styles that feature faux jewels handcrafted from high-density sculpting foam, hand-tinted with all-weather paints and then given a protective coating. Prices range from $295 to $2,000. Allow six to eight weeks for delivery." - RAPatton from Bookmarklet

There's some beads on the tree in front of my new place. - Derrick from iPhone