She began walking only after she began hopping.

There was a divorce. There was a kidnapping. But they used their church to help them.

They are the Diggers

Deep beneath the Moscow streets Vadim Mikhailov "the Digger Chieftan" is in a world of his own.

An article about Mayhem, the originators of Norwegian Black Metal

Lineup:
Drummer - Hellhammer
Bassist - Necro Butcher
Singer - Dead (committed suicide) replaced by Maniac, replaced by Attila Csihar
Guitarist - Euronymous (brutally murdered by session bassist Count Grishnackh with second guitarist, Snorre Ruch, acting as his accomplice) replaced by Blasphemer

The Wilhelm Scream

The Wilhelm Scream is the most popular scream in Hollywood. A sound effect featured in dozens of movies whenever and wherever a painful scream is needed.

The story of the Wilhelm

Another scream compilation

"Super Sweet" Apartment Vacated

Providence artist Michael Townsend was forced out of his secret clubhouse inside the local mall, which he had been occupying for over 2 years.

Pitchman

Malcolm Gladwell's portrait of the greatest TV salesman ever- Ron Popeil

Balls Out

"Ellis remained calm. The game would start late. Ample time for the acid to wear off. Then it struck him: doubleheader. The Pirates had a doubleheader. And he was pitching the first game."

Everything can be negotiated

An Esquire article about the art of negotiation. When it comes to buying everything from candy to tailored shirts, its always possible to get a better deal.

Concerts we missed

High energy Stevie Wonder drum solo


James Brown concert- Michael Jackson and Prince improvisation. (James wearing his best Planet of the Apes garb, Prince bare chested with leather jacket)

Wild Eyes

A Radiolab story about a stuttering boy whose childhood problem led him to save jaguars in Belize.

Superpowers

Another great audio episode from This American Life. Four chapters of stories related to Superpowers

Jumpers

A fascinating article about the most popular place in the world to take your own life, from the October 2003 New Yorker.

“I instantly realized that everything in my life that I’d thought was unfixable was totally fixable—except for having just jumped.”

Bad Astronomy

Super massive star Eta Car is about to blow. Will we live?

Good Copy Bad Copy

A Danish documentary on the current state of copyright and culture

The Science of Gayness

A New York Magazine article on the physical similarities in gays and lesbians

The Men Who Live Forever

In the hills of Mexico, a tribe of Indians carries an ancient secret: a diet and fitness regimen that has allowed them to outrun death and disease. We set out to discover how the rest of us can catch up.
By: Christopher McDougall

To read about the Tarahumara tribe read until page 3. To read about the less interesting attempts of the author to become a Tarahumaran read on.

Amateur Footage of Epic Battle

Don't underestimate a herd of buffalo.
This is totally hypnotizing... aided by commentary from tourists on safari.
Also.. CROCODILES?!

The Strangest Disaster of the 20th Century

A 'bad lake' takes 'terrible toll on the people of Cameroon. 1,800 people never saw or smelled it coming.

Species unknown

“It was stranger than any imagination could have conceived.”-William Beebe
Pokemon, Jim Henson and Fangoria all robbed creature ideas from the deep. Ariticle features excellent photos of life found at the bottom of the ocean, in some cases as far down as four and a half miles.

Scissors beat paper

It may have been the most expensive game of rock, paper, scissors ever played - several million dollars in profits at stake.

Ghetto Life 101

Class is in session.
One of the most acclaimed programs in public radio history.
LeAlan Jones,(13) and Lloyd Newman (14) lead a tour through their life on Chicago's South Side.

Somewhere in the Arabian Sea

An audio episode of This American Life from 2003. Life aboard the USS John C. Stennis, an aircraft carrier in the Arabian Sea that's supporting bombing missions over Afghanistan as part of Operation Enduring Freedom. Only a few dozen people on board actually fly F-18s and F-14s. It takes the rest of the crew — over 5,000 people — to keep them in the air. One person stocks vending machines, twelve hours a day. Hundreds prepare food and do laundry. There are several different garage bands, each with its own following

"I love you," he says with feeling.

Bots on The Ground
In the Field of Battle (Or Even Above It), Robots Are a Soldier's Best Friend
By Joel Garreau

One song a week x 52 weeks

An interesting and thought provoking article about the present/future of music and much more.

Coyotes vs. Coyotes

Straight from the pages of Customs and Border Protection TODAY. Revenge in Arizona.

Stephen Wiltshire Draws Rome

The amazing thing is that Stephen starts the drawing as we would...

72 Hour Party People

The Plan: Have some friends over, buy some food and drinks, smoke some pharmaceutical grade meth, stay up for three days and try not to go werewolf.

The selling of the the last savage

For a fee this adventure outfit will provide you a first contact experience with a native tribe that has never seen outsiders. The author is still undecided about whether this is fact or fiction.

Escape of the Argo

The true story of a CIA mission to rescue embassy workers from Iran in 1980, using a defunct Sci-fi movie as cover.

Nikola Tesla

A half hour documentary on Nikola Tesla

Gonzovision

BBC Documentary with Hunter S. Thompson. A British journalist tours the country with him.

The Cut

Here's a ten minute documentary on film editing

From Compton with Love

A 2002 LA Times article on the birth of N.W.A. and the release of Straight Outta Compton. Without radio airplay the album sells 3 million records.

Two club DJs, one 18 year old architectural drafting student, one dope man first time rapper, Lorenzo Patterson & Tray Curry.

http://www.daveyd.com/nwalatimespt1.html

Amen- the world's most important drum loop

An 18 minute video that tracks the birth and life of the Amen break.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=5SaFTm2bcac&mode=related&search=

This boy insurgent just needs a big hug.

I remember being stupefied when I first read about the Htoos. They are long past newsworthy but this blog is not a hot of the press affair. This is the kind of story line that Hollywood would turn down as a script for being way to preposterous.

http://www.hartford-hwp.com/archives/54/170.html

The Super

Two great audio segments on supers from This American Life- 1/11/07.

Stories of the mysterious hold supers have on their buildings, or their buildings have on them.

I'm no kingpin

Kid Cannabis
One of the articles that inspired Cale to create this blog- story of a small town drug dealer with big aspirations. Written by Mark Binelli

Power of Nightmares

Power of Nightmares- Great BBC documentary about the simultaneous rise of militant islam and neoconservatism.

BBC program: TETRIS

Goes back behind the iron curtain to where it all began and takes you all the way from its viral floppy to floppy spread across the soviet block and then through a nintendo atari battle to the death before it arrived with every gameboy.

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