Bird Feeder-8

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A cardinal waits while her mate feeds at our bird feeder during Washington DC’s Snowmaggedon 2010.

Every year the Sharks make a hard run for the Summer Of Fear title, with breathless stories about the latest attacks. Why should 2010 be any different? In an interesting human perseverance note, the first rescuer on the scene had been attacked by a shark himself, but still came on and brought the victim in.

Boing Boing just ran an excellent series on cultural roots of music and how blind most are to them. It runs fifteen parts, each illustrated by a video and covers country, soul, blues, bluegrass, classical and each is worth watching. I love following the roots of music, as a society we ignore so much excellent music, it is nice to see some really great music highlighted. This is the first one, I think they are all worth watching.

Singer Kate McGarrigle has died, she is well known to folk fans, but less known to the general public. Her Matapedia album, done with her sister Anna, is in my top five folk albums of all time.

Alma from Rodrigo Blaas on Vimeo.

Via Tor

Jeremy Clarkson goes to see Mama Mia at the theater. I did this once as well. Once.

Via The Flibbergibbet

Apparently gamblers in Africa have come to believe that if you smoke a vulture brain you will get a glimpse at the future. The result of this superstition is the likely extinction of vultures in Africa. What a lovely world. What would be nice is if people thought you could see the future from smoking the brains of dictators or gangsters, but I guess that is too much to ask.