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Finestkind Clinic and fish market » Stuff below the fold

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 13:55:12 +0000

Studying ancient Egypt, one always wondered why those cities were in the south, surrounded by desert. Of course, 4000 years ago, there was a lot more rain in the Sahara, but one clue was that a nice road led to the east and the Red Sea.

Now, a NYTimes article discusses how archeologists are following the roads and discovering more ...

Finestkind Clinic and fish market » Musical interlude of the day

Wed, 08 Sep 2010 02:06:00 +0000

News continues to be filled with fake controversies, Islamophobia, Catholic bashing, and toxic politics.

So remember: This too will pass: but the Lord is in charge in the long run.

So turn up speakers and dance!

Finestkind Clinic and fish market » Musical interlude of the day

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:44:00 +0000

The news is full of nonsense and politics, so here is another Musical interlude...brought to you via Gizmodo.

Finestkind Clinic and fish market » Watermusic

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:40:00 +0000

Suite For The Hydraulophone
By Ryan Janzen

Finestkind Clinic and fish market » Stuff below the fold

Tue, 07 Sep 2010 00:30:00 +0000

Three shifts in Manila schools, a lack of teachers and textbooks, but pressure and money from the US is pushing the Philippines to offer a politically correct UNFPA sex ed program.

In contrast, China is pushing abstinence via Focus on the Family as being more consistent with their Confucian values.
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StrategyPage has some good news about the Philippines:

In power only two months, ...

Finestkind Clinic and fish market » Musical interlude of the day

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 23:37:00 +0000

(housecleaning day)...

Finestkind Clinic and fish market » Gift item of the day

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:38:00 +0000

The latest for your collection: StarWars/SarmuraiWars action figures.
the link includes a discussion on which Japanese actors would star in this drama...which is funny, since it was actually inspired party by Kurosawa's the Hidden Fortress.

headsup TokyoMango

Finestkind Clinic and fish market » Just for nice

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 12:05:00 +0000

Finestkind Clinic and fish market » Myrtis and the Plague of Athens

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 07:57:00 +0000

For years it has been debated what was the plague that killed Pericles and caused Athens to lose the Pelopenesian war.

They now know it was typhoid, and HeritageKey Blog has a photo of Myrtis, a girl who died in the plague and whose face was reconstructed by modern artists.

Finestkind Clinic and fish market » Ecology links for today

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:43:00 +0000

Terraforming the Amazon? They already have...

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ChickenManure! my latest rant on BNN...

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Need a job? There is a worldwide shortage of chicken sexers...

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Brother Sun, Sister Moon, the Zefferelli film about Francis of Assisi, is on youtube, at least until the copyright police find out.

Finestkind Clinic and fish market » Musical Interlude of the day

Mon, 06 Sep 2010 03:07:00 +0000

Finestkind Clinic and fish market » Lesson for today

Sun, 05 Sep 2010 07:19:00 +0000

Economics for Dummies, in five minutes:

and check out these videos too:

Finestkind Clinic and fish market » Musical interlude of the day

Sat, 04 Sep 2010 13:11:00 +0000

St Gregory the Great's liturgical reform led to using plainsong, aka Gregorian chant, being used in the church...
Personally, I hate Gregorian chant, probably because we learned to sing it as kids.

So instead, I'm posting Hovharness's lovey song "The Prayer of St Gregory", written in honor of a different Gregory, St Gregory the Illuminator, the patron saint of Armenia...Hovharness describes it as ...

Finestkind Clinic and fish market » Historical stuff below the fold

Sat, 04 Sep 2010 12:12:00 +0000

Tehran24 has a bunch of photos from an exhibit of modern art inspired by Ramadan...

explanation HERE.

PersianParadox reports the riot police are already in the streets, just in case.
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Should we name St Gregory the Great: patron saint of bureaucrats?

In 590, Gregory could wait for Constantinople no longer. He organized the resources of the church into an administration for general ...

Finestkind Clinic and fish market » Modem working again

Sat, 04 Sep 2010 10:41:00 +0000

every time the modem gets old, it stops working after it's on awhile...overheats a chip I think.

Well, it's evening and cool out, and we turned it off for a couple hours and now it's on again...or rather going on and off again...

No real news here though.

Finestkind Clinic and fish market » Family news

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 06:37:00 +0000

I'm better but internet modem completely dead.

Will post later if fixed. I'm at a cafe with 20 High School students talking on skype to friends or playing games

Finestkind Clinic and fish market » What's wrong with this photo?

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:40:00 +0000

What's the matter with this cluster of galaxies? To find out what forms matter takes in the Abell 1689 cluster requires not only deep images from telescopes like the Hubble Space Telescope, but detailed computer modeling as well. To start, almost every fuzzy yellow patch in the above image is an entire galaxy. A close inspection, however, shows that many ...

Finestkind Clinic and fish market » Good news below the fold

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:59:00 +0000

no Vuvuzelals allowed when the Pope visits England.

Finestkind Clinic and fish market » Family news

Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:58:00 +0000

I'm under the weather again from a stomach virus...blogging will be light

Finestkind Clinic and fish market » Robin

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:29:14 +0000

Robin and cousin in Chicago

Finestkind Clinic and fish market » National Heroes Day

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:29:13 +0000

Sunday was National Heroes Day here in the Philippines.

On this occasion every Filipino commemorates the "Cry of Pugad Lawin" which marks the beginning for the fight for independence from Spain by revolutionaries led by Andres Bonifacio Andres Bonifacio.

But it includes a "Thank you" for every Filipino who worked to make his or her country better.

Although it is not necessarily ...

Finestkind Clinic and fish market » Stuff below the fold

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 03:17:00 +0000

A call to protest on Quds Day:

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TeaAtTrianon discusses "Los Patricios", the Irish deserters who joined with the Mexicans to stop America from stealing their land.

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Sister Mary Martha discusses the Devil..

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More on the Maya from USAToday: the question on why they abandoned their cities remains unsolved...

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The ProtestantWork Ethic is spreading in China...
here in the Philippines, a committed Protestant is a ...

Finestkind Clinic and fish market » The really important news of the day

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:52:00 +0000

From Dustbury: Best Historical marker ever:

And second best historical marker:

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And the "there's a monster in my cupcake" post of the day:
see more EpiCute

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and finally, from Dave Barry, a robot we all can use:

Finestkind Clinic and fish market » Why I hate politics rants of the day

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:36:00 +0000

The press, who never blinked when Obama claimed to be a miracle worker ("This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal.") is telling us that the rally in Washington last weekend was full of bigoted white people;
the blogosphere says nah, just ordinary folks...
and points out the "fake teaparty" Democrat ...

Finestkind Clinic and fish market » The Abilene Paradox

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 04:09:00 +0000

Years ago, I used to go to business lectures at George Washington University, just for the heck of it, and we heard this speaker give a great talk.

A family is hungry, so someone says: Let's drive to Abilene and eat. Another person suggests a restaurant that he hates, because he thinks the others want to go there (but he's wrong) ...

Finestkind Clinic and fish market » Dog photo of the day

Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:39:00 +0000

Baxter wearing one of Robin's hat designs.

Finestkind Clinic and fish market » Craft item of the day

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 06:45:00 +0000

Homemade Hovercraft from Michelle Mitton at Scribbit on Vimeo.

wondering what to do with all those spoiled CD's?

via Scribbitblog:

Finestkind Clinic and fish market » Caesar's Comet

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 04:54:00 +0000

Hmm...there actually was a comet so bright that you could see it during the daytime, appearing during Julius Caesar's funeral Games.
(no, Augustus didn't make it up: the Chinese saw it too).

LINK and Book

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Pliny's history is on line at Perseus. Wikipedia summary...
and trivia: Pliny the elder died when he went to investigate and also rescue folks in the eruption of ...

Finestkind Clinic and fish market » Lolo's new kitten

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 02:54:00 +0000

we got homes for the four who wandered into our garage last week, and then this one came in.

Lolo wants to keep her.

Finestkind Clinic and fish market » Happy photo of the day

Sun, 29 Aug 2010 02:36:00 +0000

see more Lolcats and funny pictures

Finestkind Clinic and fish market » The Dummies guide to Afghanistan

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 06:01:00 +0000

If you haven't read it yet, check out PJ O'Rourke's article "The 72 hour expert", in which he becomes an expert at Afghanistan in 72 hours.

Finestkind Clinic and fish market » Insomnia downloads of the day

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 04:49:00 +0000

Need something boring to put you to sleep?
How about TristamShandy, volume 4?

Or how about the Institutes of Christian Religion by John Calvin?

On the other hand, if you need practical "how to" advice, you can always download the Kama Sutra......

Finestkind Clinic and fish market » Musical interlude of the day

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 02:36:00 +0000

Heh. Jumping roap and double dutch rope jumping, so popular when Granmom was young, seems to be making a comeback.

So turn up speakers and get out and jump:

Finestkind Clinic and fish market » Science news below the fold

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 02:03:00 +0000

The BRAF gene mutation is associated with some cancers, including melanoma.
Now, a drug that targets the gene is in stage 3 trials.
..like antibiotics that target just germs, this will target the gene expression in the cancer cells, not all the body.
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Thirty awesome college labs

(Headsup Instapundit)
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Your days seem longer than before? blame sunspots.
Now it seems that sunspots - dark ...

Finestkind Clinic and fish market » Your Inspirational message of the day

Sat, 28 Aug 2010 00:58:00 +0000

A married couple in their early 60’s was celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary at a romantic little restaurant.

Suddenly, a tiny yet beautiful fairy appeared on their table. She said, “for being such an exemplary married couple and for being loving to each other for all this time, I will grant you each a wish”.

The wife answered, “Oh, I want to ...

Finestkind Clinic and fish market » Musical Interlude of the day

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 07:47:00 +0000

Put down coffee, fast forward to 1:30, turn up speakers and enjoy!

Singin In The Rain Donald O'connor Lyrics, Make Em Laugh
Uploaded by musical-films. - Watch more comedy videos and sitcoms.

Finestkind Clinic and fish market » Headlines below the fold

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 02:06:00 +0000

Lots of fingerpointing over the failed hostage rescue that left nine Chinese tourists dead.

StrategyPage summarizes it this way:The police commandos screwed up big time and this has triggered more calls for reform in the National Police. The police have long been criticized for being corrupt and inept.

This ManilaBulletin article, however, quotes a British expert as saying it really ...

Finestkind Clinic and fish market » Gift item of the day

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 01:44:00 +0000

From ThinkGeek:

some Abby Normal soap.

for non-geeks, it refers to this:

Finestkind Clinic and fish market » Hello Cthulhu

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 07:03:00 +0000

headsup PurplePawn

Finestkind Clinic and fish market » Stuff below the fold

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 14:26:08 +0000

ThinkGeek Reminds us:
Have a moment of silence for dear Pluto, whose planetary club membership card was revoked today in 2006.

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Hitler might have had a Jewish Ancestor? Who wudda thot?

Actually, that's been known for years.
Before SouthPark, there was Spike Jones...

But today few would allow Osama and friends to be portrayed as monkeys...
Ah, for the good old days when ...

Finestkind Clinic and fish market » Stuff below the fold

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 08:24:00 +0000

At the British Museum

The world's weirdest necklace: of hummingbird heads.
Emanuel took out a patent for the use of hummingbirds' heads in 1865, a method which involved removing the feathers from the birds' heads, and attaching them to gold mounts for use in jewellery. Here he has used emerald green and scarlet hummingbirds

headsup Fed By Birds

and don't tell Birdfeeder Father Z: ...

Finestkind Clinic and fish market » We're number...Five

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 08:04:00 +0000

A hearty contratulations to Miss Philippines...
Yes, Miss Mexico won, but the lovely Maria Venus Beyonito Raj of Bicol came in as number five.

Since she was born in Doha and her father was from India, some contested her representing the country, but a public outcry got her reinstated. The problem? Her birth certificate showed she was born in the Philippines, ...

Finestkind Clinic and fish market » War! What's it good for?

Wed, 25 Aug 2010 06:28:00 +0000

One of the problems of studying ancient history is that one keeps running into war...or perhaps I should say the four horsemen of war, anarchy, disease, and famine, since these things seem to go together.

What got me started on this rant was the podcasts on population growth that I am listening to...lots of history here, at least in the earlier podcasts, ...

Finestkind Clinic and fish market » Your Inspirational Message of the Day

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 22:55:00 +0000

The Window Through Which We Look

A young couple moved into a new neighborhood
The next morning while they were eating breakfast,
The young woman saw her neighbor hanging the wash outside.
'That laundry is not very clean,' she said.
'She doesn't know how to wash correctly.
Perhaps she needs better laundry soap.'

Her husband looked on, but remained silent.

Every time her neighbor would hang her wash ...

Finestkind Clinic and fish market » History video on line

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 06:05:00 +0000

Dr. Nieman's lectures can be found on youtube and Amazon, but some of the lectures can be watched at YOUTUBE.
A good teacher on early civilization in the Middle East.

Finestkind Clinic and fish market » Audio stuff below the fold

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 03:33:00 +0000

Mother Deloris Hart is interviewed on EWTN NEWS.

What, you don't remember Delores? Elvis fans know she was the first actress to kiss "the King" and then left Hollywood to serve THE KING.

So, here is the musical interlude for today.

Finestkind Clinic and fish market » Grannies versus the Bikers

Tue, 24 Aug 2010 03:12:00 +0000

Another day, another Granny mowed down by a cyclist in New York City.
and the grannies are protesting:

Call it Grandma Justice. Victimized by kamikaze cyclists who see old folks as speed bumps, and stop lights as suggestions, aged Manhattan residents are taking the law into their wrinkled hands. They're using canes to halt speed-demon cyclists.

Congregating near Stuyvesant Town, ...

Finestkind Clinic and fish market » Gift item of the day

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 01:13:00 +0000

Got left over balloons after your last party?

Well, just recycle them into a dress.
Headsup TokyoMango

Finestkind Clinic and fish market » Musical interlude of the day

Mon, 23 Aug 2010 00:27:00 +0000

By John Cardinal Newman.

One of Gandhi's favorite hymns.

Finestkind Clinic and fish market » Cat item of the day

Sun, 22 Aug 2010 22:53:00 +0000

TRIBBLE CAT IS WATCHING YOU