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Led Zepper

Just listened to Terry Gross’s interview of Robert Plant on NPR’s Fresh Air:

Robert Plant. The former lead singer of Led Zeppelin has a new CD that includes tracks he recorded before ‘Zeppelin. On the next Fresh Air, Terry Gross talks to Plant about his life and listens to recordings that span his career.

The show focused on a recently released record of pre- and post-zep Plant recordings but also had great moments of Plant being asked about the sexuality of his Zep lyrics – he sounded a little embarassed in his fifties to explain himself in his twenties.

Say Hello to the Consultant!

Here is what I mean. Via Dave3, The New York Times reports that someone has been funded masses to study how links and bookmarks die:

The project, which is being paid for by a three-year $378,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, is intended to shed light on the best tools for the job. So far, observation of a few dozen people in their work environments has revealed a hodgepodge of approaches to organizing pages, and bookmarking them is not at the top of the list.

Half a million Canadian to confirm link rot. Good Lord.

Iowa

Not my country but what the hell. Ian’s comments as a Iowa leftie lad in NYC are interesting as are Michael’s, the Newf of Atlanta. Michael has pointed out the angry-man thing about Dean while Ian speaks of electability. I cannot for the life of me ever imagine an NDPer as US president – that is really what Dean is: early against the war, early pro civil unions for homosexual couples. Like Hollywood, Vermont is a foothold of Canadian infiltration of the USA. Good for us. Bad for Dean. Plus he looks like a Muppet extra, the guy at the other table not given interesting features, the guy with the fly in his soup.

Compare Edwards. No gaggle of techie dreamers around him either as “journalists” or groupies. He points out that he is electable in the southern states (key #1) and he speaks well (key #2) and he stands for being nice (…hmm…). The trouble with Democrats outside of the Brooklyn bench is that they do not know how to put the boot in because they stand for not putting the boot in. Edwards strikes me as a guy who can’t put the boot in.

Kerry won but he won’t win. Too many Kennedys.

So on to New Hampshire. For a election junkie such as me, the USA and its absolutely nutty voting system is a gold mine for graphical analysis of statistics which really come to nothing in themselves. Charts. Charts and talking heads. Wolf Blitzer saying things like “I don’t know anything about that, Phil, but I can confirm that CNN is predicting Dean will finish third. Dean will finish third” about 45 minutes after Dean confirmed he was finishing third.