Yet more keen links one might want to share

[xoxoxoBruce]

Watch Bears fishing for Salmon in Alaska, live.

[Lamplighter]

This was new to me... it starts very slowly but that just helps set the mood.
Or, you can jump over to almost the 2 minute mark...

You do need to click the button for viewing on VIMEO

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Whoa.

[glatt]

Yeah! I want to go there someday to see that. But then I realized it will never happen. You would only want to go on a solstice or something like that, and you know if they open it to me, they will be opening it up to throngs of people. And who wants to be crammed in there with 100 people?

[glatt]

Originally Posted by Carruthers

http://touchpianist.com/

I am no more than a casual listener, but I'm reasonably familiar with a couple of the pieces featured and found it an interesting exercise.

However, I have no musical ability whatsoever, so the purist might well frown upon this site.

This is even more fun on a phone. The tapping is easier and you can increase volume by tapping on different parts of the screen.

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Congratulations Philly!!

You made the top ten!

[xoxoxoBruce]

It's the city of brotherly love.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Nuclear power, the basics in cartoons.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Notes you can download.

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25 Unexpected Celebrity Voice Actors

Ok, some of them are unexpected...

Like these three, for instance:







Isn't there a thread somewhere here about the voice over/voice acting movie "In A World"? I was gonna put this there, but, damned if I can find it.

[xoxoxoBruce]

The Really Big One

An earthquake will destroy a sizable portion of the coastal Northwest. The question is when.

Just north of the San Andreas, however, lies another fault line. Known as the Cascadia subduction zone, it runs for seven hundred miles off the coast of the Pacific Northwest, beginning near Cape Mendocino, California, continuing along Oregon and Washington, and terminating around Vancouver Island, Canada. The “Cascadia” part of its name comes from the Cascade Range, a chain of volcanic mountains that follow the same course a hundred or so miles inland. The “subduction zone” part refers to a region of the planet where one tectonic plate is sliding underneath (subducting) another. Tectonic plates are those slabs of mantle and crust that, in their epochs-long drift, rearrange the earth’s continents and oceans. Most of the time, their movement is slow, harmless, and all but undetectable. Occasionally, at the borders where they meet, it is not.
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Under pressure from Juan de Fuca, the stuck edge of North America is bulging upward and compressing eastward, at the rate of, respectively, three to four millimetres and thirty to forty millimetres a year. It can do so for quite some time, because, as continent stuff goes, it is young, made of rock that is still relatively elastic. (Rocks, like us, get stiffer as they age.) But it cannot do so indefinitely. There is a backstop—the craton, that ancient unbudgeable mass at the center of the continent—and, sooner or later, North America will rebound like a spring. If, on that occasion, only the southern part of the Cascadia subduction zone gives way—your first two fingers, say—the magnitude of the resulting quake will be somewhere between 8.0 and 8.6. That’s the big one. If the entire zone gives way at once, an event that seismologists call a full-margin rupture, the magnitude will be somewhere between 8.7 and 9.2. That’s the very big one.
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When the next very big earthquake hits, the northwest edge of the continent, from California to Canada and the continental shelf to the Cascades, will drop by as much as six feet and rebound thirty to a hundred feet to the west—losing, within minutes, all the elevation and compression it has gained over centuries. Some of that shift will take place beneath the ocean, displacing a colossal quantity of seawater. The water will surge upward into a huge hill, then promptly collapse. One side will rush west, toward Japan. The other side will rush east, in a seven-hundred-mile liquid wall that will reach the Northwest coast, on average, fifteen minutes after the earthquake begins. By the time the shaking has ceased and the tsunami has receded, the region will be unrecognizable. Kenneth Murphy, who directs FEMA’s Region X, the division responsible for Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Alaska, says, “Our operating assumption is that everything west of Interstate 5 will be toast.”

Toast? Like Rocky horror Picture Toast?
link

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Dear xoB,

Thank you for that lovely bedtime story.
We hope you sleep well and have good dreams too.

Your friends,
The Jelly Family on Toast Ave

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James Gelet tracks down and photographs various set locations from "Breaking Bad".

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A Complete Ranking Of (Almost) Every Single Mitch Hedberg Joke

[Happy Monkey]

Kickstart a city! (not technically kickstart, but indiegogo doesn't verb well).