2007_03_01_archive

Dorothy Parker

Dorthy Parker - she sounds not a bit like what I expected yet ... she

does. Can an unfamiliar voice sound familiar?

Dorothy Parker made two full-length LP recordings of her work in

1964. A record company, Verve, asked her to read her poems and

stories for a record called The World of Dorothy Parker (Verve

V-15029). Her other LP is from Spoken Arts called An Informal Hour

with Dorothy Parker (Spoken Arts 726). It is the best of the two:

Parker reads more than two dozen of her favorite poems. It is from

the latter that most of these audio clips are taken.

At the time of the recording sessions, Mrs. Parker was approaching

age 71. Her voice ravaged by years of Chesterfields and Johnny

Walker, this offers a peek at the real Mrs. Parker. She died three

years after recording her work.

# posted by Brian Dunbar : 4:31 PM

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Was the attack an inside job?

An inquiry by a skeptical citizen

Like many Americans, I was fed this story when I was growing up.

But as I watched the video, I began to realize that all was not as

it seemed. And the more I questioned the official story, the deeper

into the rabbit hole I went.

Yes, the rebel destruction of the Death Star was an inside job. Hit

the link for more.

# posted by Brian Dunbar : 5:11 AM

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Congressional hearings ripped to the internet

Carl Malamud writes to the IP list

Hi Dave -

Many congressional committees provide webcasts of their hearings.

In all cases, the streams are based on a proprietary streaming

format, with no download. In many cases, the streams are only

available "live" and no archive is maintained as a matter of

policy. In some cases, the committees even put copyright "all

rights reserved" stamps on their data (even though there is no

copyright in the hearings, therefore no rights to reserve).

As a service to the committees, I've started ripping all the

streams and placing them on both Google Video and the Internet

Archive:

http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=malamud%20behalf%20house

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=malamud+behalf+house

On these sites, you can tag, annotate, and review the hearings.

Hopefully, the congress will see what great fun this is and start

providing a permanent archive in a nonproprietary format with much

better resolution. Until then, if you're looking for congressional