Amazing talent
Wasted in this conference room
On status updates

Meeting Haiku

This is the web site for a trip that actors Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman took around the world on motorcycles. It's a documentary miniseries, airing on Bravo in the US. They have also published a travelogue of their trip, available in bookstores.

::..:. Long Way Round .:..::

20,000 insurgents in Iraq,
20,000 hardened insurgents,
take 1,000 down,
move to another town,
22,000 insurgents in Iraq.

"It is pretty clear that the coalition can win in Afghanistan and Iraq in one way or another, but it will be a long, hard slog."

So if Bush is following the One Way, what's that "another way", again?

I believe all code is dead unless executing within the computer. For this reason I distribute the source code of my programs in modifiable form to encourage life and spread love. Opening one's code is a beneficial practice that both helps the community and grows the strength of the programmer.

Gallery of Computation | generative artifacts

A quick, entertaining piece. What M.C. Escher would do with flash.

The Zoom Quilt: A collaborative art project

The works draw from ancient anatomy and from modern imaging technology. Individually fascinating, they are yet more powerful as a collection, demanding repeatedly that we take a fresh look at ourselves, our inner being, and our place in the world.

Visionary Anatomies

The inspired brainchild of the songwriters Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx, this canny toy chest of a musical takes its stylistic cues from "Sesame Street," from its cheery urban set to its singing puppets of assorted colors and dispositions. And in doing so it becomes the first mainstream musical since "Rent" to coo with such seductive directness to theatergoers on the fair side of 40 in their own language, in which irony is less a mind-set than a loosely worn style. Directed by Jason Moore, with a book by Jeff Whitty, the show applies the coaxing, learning-is-fun attitude of children's educational television to the R-rated situations of postcollegiate life in the big city. Featuring a pitch-perfect ensemble of live performers and oversize hand puppets, "Avenue Q" is to "Sesame Street" what Mel Brooks's "Producers" is to vintage Broadway musicals: a connoisseur's tribute to what it only seems to send up.

Avenue Q

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Brent Allison just posted this URL to se2600. The song is from Avenue Q, the 2004 Tony award winner for best broadway musical.

I mentioned this particular song during dinner at ToorCon last weekend.

You can buy the entire soundtrack on iTunes at

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playlistId=2899519

This song in particular is at

http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewAlbum?playlistId=2899519&selectedItemId=2899478

The entire album is also available to Rhapsody subscribers. Join Rhapsody today at

http://www.real.com/rhapsody/

Update: Mike found a Flash animation of the song.

Funniest Song from 'Avenue Q'

Generals and presidents approach war as a vast struggle. But war, at its most achingly real, happens not to armies, but to individuals.

Nicholas Kristof shares the best of war poetry from his readers. I don't often read poetry, but these poems are heartfelt.

I stood, dumb as a cow, and watched two choppers
Collide like fists and spin across the sky.

My heart swells in my chest and while I laugh,
I feel fear, smell a faint stench of insanity.

I beg you, as you begged me,
Tell me what I can do
To make you forget
That my people never remember.

The Art of War