How about....

(1) NO anonymous access to stories;

(2) Every story has a thumbs-up / thumbs-down decided solely on basis of "this makes me nervous on a we-could-get-prosecuted level".

(2a) If there is no such marker, it's shown for no more than 1-2 weeks;

(2b) If there's more than 2 negative ...

Just saw the movie. I keep wondering if you'd be confused if you saw the movies - and only the movies. There is so much story and background that isn't in the films, and they're remarkably good movies.

They messed a bit with the pacing, in the Battle of Hogwarts. (I could give details, but it would ...

Were it not for implacable tradition, would classifying the Earth and Moon as a binary planet, based on plausible origin notions and relative mass, be another way to get back to 9 planets without including Tyche or Pluto/Charon?



It is a brilliant suggestion, but I wonder if only an astronomer ...

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Feels like being told the new kitty/puppy replaces the one lost.

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Yup. They should call it Ernie (the fourth son on My Three Sons, who replaced the one who grew up and married Meredith Baxter) or Oliver (the bespectacled blond moppet in a later season of The Brady Bunch, a stray kid the ...

Yeah, I had the family doctor tell me to kill myself, when I was 12.

A real charmer, that one was.

I miss not having a good classical music station that I can put on the radio.



Load iTunes onto your machine (assuming you have a net connection) and then go to one of the stations like the Youngstown Ohio or Tulsa Oklahoma or everything-in-Boston or... for some fine programming.

Don't forget ...

Western composers who write music similar to eastern masters have, to my knowledge, so far failed to produce anything like the real deal.



Listen to the "world music" program 7, from the radio show I cite elsewhere in this thread. They point to Debussy and his attempts to recreate the sounds of ...

Here's a more action packed tenor Juan Diego Florez who has an entirely different tenor than Pavarotti.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aS6M8j3pvQ

5:02 is the start of the waltz.



I think Florez was doing encores of that aria, for a while, with some sort of signal to the conductor as to ...

If we're going to get THAT far off topic................

Have you boys been listening to the "13 Days When Music Changed Forever", a series of one-hour broadcasts from the SF Symphony that's been airing recently?

The most recent is:

Program 09: May 29, 1913: Premiere of "The Rite of Spring"

The ...

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I agree that the horse-race of a discussion, replaying the Scopes Monkey Trial in this thread, is fun. It is, however, a digression.

YodaNell posted a fascinating response in this thread, about being a straight castrate who's finding some unexpected (but not unwelcome ...