Wednesday, April 11, 2007

Bruce Springsteen Performing On A Street In Copenhagen

Here's a video of Bruce Springsteen performing "The River" in Copenhagen, Denmark.
According to this site, this occurred in 1988.

Pearls Before Breakfast

Can one of the nation's great musicians cut through the fog of a D.C. rush hour? Let's find out.

By Gene Weingarten
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, April 8, 2007; Page W10

"HE EMERGED FROM THE METRO AT THE L'ENFANT PLAZA STATION AND POSITIONED HIMSELF AGAINST A WALL BESIDE A TRASH BASKET. By most measures, he was nondescript: a youngish white man in jeans, a long-sleeved T-shirt and a Washington Nationals baseball cap. From a small case, he removed a violin. Placing the open case at his feet, he shrewdly threw in a few dollars and pocket change as seed money, swiveled it to face pedestrian traffic, and began to play."

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Thursday, February 09, 2006

The 46 Best-ever Freeware Utilities

"There are a lot of great freeware products out there. Many are as good or even better than their commercial alternatives. This list features my personal pick of the 'best of the best.'

All the utilities in this list have featured in past issues of my free monthly newsletter 'Support Alert' More freebies are published in each new issue. If you are interested in great utilities and freeware you really should consider subscribing. It's free.

Listed below are 46 different freeware categories with my selection of the best products in each category. The list is ordered by program function rather than merit so you'll get the most out of it by browsing it at leisure. The pathologically impatient can consult the index."

Friday, December 02, 2005

Wizards Of Winter Video on Metacafe


Metacafe has a video of this amazing Christmas light display in Mason, OH. It is synchronized to the music of Trans-Siberian Orchestra's "Wizard in Winter".

Snopes.com says "This display was the work of Carson Williams, a Mason, Ohio, electrical engineer who spent about three hours sequencing the 88 Light-O-Rama channels that controlled the 16,000 Christmas lights in his annual holiday lighting spectacular (from Christmas 2004). His 2005 display includes over 25,000 lights that he spent nearly two months hooking up."

Click here to view.

Thursday, December 01, 2005

BostonHerald.com - Local / Regional News: Reading mom charged with hosting underage beer bash

"A Reading mother, apparently trying to help her son make friends, is accused of throwing a rowdy keg party where she sold teens beer.
Police say Kim Caufield, 39, now faces charges of distributing alcohol to a minor and delinquency of a minor.
Caufield and her family reportedly moved to Reading about two months ago from Florida. Students speculate she threw the beer bash — complete with a keg — to help her 14-year-old son make friends. "

Wednesday, November 23, 2005

Brightridge - panoramic photography by Edward Huff

Skating Rink at Kennedy Plaza, Providence RI

Brightridge: "Brightridge is the site of the panoramic photography of Edward Huff. The images are presented using QuickTimeVR. This allows you to navigate the image by dragging your mouse left and right and up and down."

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