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Croatoan Roanoke_John White.

Q. What is it about eyeglasses that makes people who wear them get higher IQ scores?

A. It's not the glasses. Studies show nearsighted do better on IQ tests also before they start to wear glasses. The linkage remains unexplained.

LMBoyd

And to a stranger seated in the wrong place: "I believe you're occupewing my pie. May I sew you to another sheet?"

Mooner, the span. at Albinism in Popular Culture

There is a great deal of nonsense that has been written about the Mayan long count. It has been claimed (most egregiously, in a Discovery Channel TV series) that it will 'come to an end' in the near future, and along with it will arrive a Mayan apocalypse, a pole shift, earth change, cosmic convergence, whatever. Given the completely cyclic nature of the long count, this is an idiotic characterization. Once any given cycle ends, another begins, endlessly. The full long count is currently only at baktun 12; there are still 8 baktuns (or about three thousand years) before it turns over. The current Katun will increment about ten years from now (13.0.0.0.0 will be on December 21st, 2012). However, there is no reason that date should be any more cosmologically significant than the end of the common era millenium was!

Mayan Calendar at Sacred Texts

There, too, Giselle provided one of his outstanding roles, and he played Albrecht more often than any of the other leading dancers. He also added several other classics to his repertoire, including The Sleeping Beauty, in which he not only took turns to play Prince Florimund but relished the chance to partner Margot Fonteyn in the Rose Adagio.

Alexander Bennett July 27, 1929 - February 15, 2003

APOD-european sunset (digital)

Yair Dalal, born in Iraq, raised in Israel

"What you do with it will be your own responsibility."

Beatriz Pichi Malen

Washington State Univ. world civ. online resources and course materials

John Sumsion

First registrar of the system that pays authors when their books are borrowed from public libraries

THE battle for the Public Lending Right was a particularly bitter one, but thanks not least to the parliamentary expertise of Michael Foot and Hugh Jenkins (Lord Jenkins of Putney), it was placed on the statute book in 1979, with many MPs who should have known better trying to sabotage it.

rights management? intellectual property? timely, in an ex-bellum way, obituary in the Times Online March 22, 2003

Museum of American Poetics

When were you born?

On a Friday, which is a payday - p; the money day. And the date was two zero, 20th of the third, 1.9.3.6. So because I was born on the 20th of the third 1.9.3.6., I know that three six are out there making trouble. So I demand the power of the three six, take away the three six, have the three six tricked, trick the three six, wrap up the three six, have it well mixed in my master mix. And take away the power of the arch-bishop and the pope's, and the council of the churches and the heads of government. And take away the power of the International Monetary Foundation, take silver from Wall Street and Capitol Hill as the Mental Doctor of the People. The Peoples' Doctor. Heh, heh. And the people actor. The People's Inheritance.

Lee 'Scratch' Perry: Return of The Upsetter by Doug Wendt. Midnight Dread Interview with Lee 'Scratch' Perry for High Times. This is the unedited version.

{healing waters on the revelation voodoo by virtue of gmtPlus9 birthday wishing Lee "Scratch" Perry}

The small tv picks up
half-shadows of life,
like game shows and
shopping channels.

The night clerk looks so much
like Lao-tzu, I know...

from Motel Night
Ron Houchin at Verse Daily March 21, 2003

Bruce Langhorne inspired me more than any single other guitar player to make some kind of sound come out of that thing.
he makes hot sauce too

Karen Dalton, Bob Dylan, Fred Neil

Haiti
Project Teach-Konbit Pwof

Tequila Minsky!
Amber Munger!
Windows on Haiti!

Do you know anybody with a "quiet mind"? I mean of the sort Robert Louis Stevenson described: "Quiet minds cannot be perplexed or frightened, but go on in fortune or misfortune at their own private pace, like a clock during a thunderstorm."

LMBoyd March 17 2003

Big Head Todd and the Monsters

Celtic musicians and a history of recorded Celtic music from an Italian doctor