Paul Krugman: Salvation Gets Cheap (NY Times)
The incredible recent decline in the cost of renewable energy, solar power in particular, have improved the economics of climate change.
Australian School Answering Machine (YouTube)
This humorous video plays an alleged actual answering machine message at an Australian school after it instituted a policy that parents and students take responsibility for student failures. While this is quite funny, it is, also, sad because, in many cases, it is so true.
Andrew Tobias: Good Friday!
It turns out that the famous "7 million" target was not just met - when the dust settled at the April 15 deadline . . . Eight million had signed up - 35% of them under 35 years old, virtually the same youth percentage that signed up in Massachusetts in their first year of health reform.
Bill & Ted's 25th birthday: party on, dudes! (Guardian)
Who would have predicted that a goofy movie about two time-travelling California metalheads would still be celebrated 25 years after its release? Hadley Freeman was 12 when Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure came out - and she's loved it ever since.
Joe Stice: 20 Things You Might Not Know About 'Kill Bill: Vol. 1 & 2' (FilmDrunk)
1. The Bride really knows how to time her battles. In Vol. 1, when O-Ren threatens the Bride with "I hope you saved your energy. If you haven't you may not last five minutes," the Bride takes exactly 4 minutes and 59 seconds from the music cue to slice O-Ren's scalp off.
Pandæmonium is the capital of Hell in John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost.
"Pandæmonium" (in some versions of English "Pandemonium") stems from Greek meaning "all" or "every", and "little spirit", "little angel", or, as Christians interpreted it, "little daemon", and later, "demon". It thus roughly translates as "All Demons", but can also be interpreted as "all-demon-place".
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Lois In The Bowels Of Hell Of Oregon was first, and correct, with:
Apparently the Capitol of Hell is "Pandemonium", not
"Roseburg". Khan Nooien Singh ("A statement Lucifer made
when he fell to the pit: "It is better to rule in hell than
to serve in heaven") has a condo in the suburbs.
mj said:
For no good reason
Milwaukee.
Charlie wrote:
Pandæmonium
Adam answered:
Pandemonium.
Deborah replied:
Pandemonium is the capital of Hell.
Cute bottles you have there. Try "Death in the Afternoon." You won't regret it.
Happy weekend to you!
Jim from CA, retired to ID, responded:
Pandæmonium
Marian wrote:
Pandemonium
Sally said:
In John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost, "Pandaemonium" is the capital of hell.
Looking upon, "Pandaemonium."
PS: Today I am making up Easter Baskets for my morning care kiddies. I got them little pots and seeds with a bag of earth in which to plant. Okay, there is some candy too...
Dale of Delusional Sprungs, Norcaliful, responded:
Pandaemonium is the place according to Milton. Pandemonium is a state of mind. Here's my Easter story. My cousin Tommy gave my daughter Tia a rabbit for Easter. We eventually gave it back to him because he lives on 29 acres up by Ice House Reservoir. He has a barn, one chicken coop and a ½ acre barnyard. The rabbit screwed every chicken when they were all running around loose in the barnyard. Some rabbit!
DJ Useo replied:
Pandæmonium is the correct answer, professor. Do I still have to sleep with you for a high grade? ;)
Alan J answered:
Pandaemonium
MAM wrote:
"Pandæmonium" ~ "all-demon-place".
"Pandæmonium" by John Martin 1825
BttbBob, said:
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No... I have not yet read all twelve volumes and over 10,000 lines of verse that Milton's "Paradise Lost" contains... mebbee next year.
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Memo to JoeS: It's merely a matter of paying attention... that, and you being a fellow denizen of "The Mitten" makes me more naturally 'in tune' with ya...
As opposed to those who live in, oh, let's say, Joi-zee... who are generally inexplicable as well as deeply unfathomable... Ya know what I mean?
~~~~~
Happy Birthday this day to:
(34) Does she look like her Mom here in this photo, or what?
I say, "heck yeah!" (Luv ya, Goldie...)
(26) My fa-vo-rite female tennis player... Heck, my fa-vo-rite tennis player, period... (I think Bart liked her, too)
(45) This photo is a perfect example how 'plain' can be 'beautiful'. Seriously...
Born this day:
(1935-2002)
A talented (and complicated) person. He made me laugh...
(1933-1967) The 'Woman-who-would-be-Marilyn' (by contract with Twentieth Century Fox...) Oh, what do you suppose Sophia is looking at? and thinking?
8:30pm... Gots some hotdogs ready fer later... Koegel, o' course, right, Joe?
And, Joe S answered:
"Pandaemonium" (in some versions of English "Pandemonium"). John Milton invented the name for the capital of Hell, "the High Capital, of Satan and his Peers", built by the fallen angels at the suggestion of Mammon at the end of Book I of Paradise Lost (1667). It was designed by the architect Mulciber, who had been the designer of palaces in Heaven before his fall.
"Malt does more than Milton can to justify God's ways to man." A.E. Houseman
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CBS begins the night with a RERUN'Mike & Molly', followed by a RERUN'the Millers', then a RERUN'Criminal Minds', followed by '48 Hours'.
NBC opens the night with 'Dateline Saturday Night Mystery', followed by an hourlong RERUN'SNL' with Seth Rogen and Ed Sheeran.
'SNL' is a RERUN with Melissa McCarthy hosting, music by Imagine Dragons.
ABC fills the night with the movie 'The Ten Commandments'.
The CW offers an old '2½ Men', followed by another old '2½ Men', then an old 'Family Guy', followed by another old 'Family Guy'.
Faux fills the night with LIVE'UFC On FOX', then pads the left coast with local crap.
MY has an old 'Burn Notice', followed by another old 'Burn Notice'.
AMC offers the movie 'Forrest Gump', followed by the movie 'Forrest Gump'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] ORPHAN BLACK - Season 1 - Ep 6 - Variations Under Domestication
[7:00AM] ORPHAN BLACK - Season 1 - Ep 7 - Parts Developed in an Unusual Manner
[8:00AM] ORPHAN BLACK - Season 1 - Ep 8 - Entangled Bank
[9:00AM] ORPHAN BLACK - Season 1 - Ep 9 - Unconscious Selection
[10:00AM] ORPHAN BLACK - Season 1 - Ep 10 - Endless Forms Most Beautiful
[11:00AM] ORPHAN BLACK: THE CLONEVERSATION
[12:00PM] THE MATRIX
[3:00PM] THE MATRIX RELOADED
[6:00PM] THE MATRIX REVOLUTIONS
[9:00PM] ORPHAN BLACK - Season 2 - Ep 1 - Nature Under Constraint and Vexed NEW
[10:00PM] THE REAL HISTORY OF SCIENCE FICTION-Ep 1 - Robots NEW
[11:00PM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 15 - Episode 2
[12:00AM] ORPHAN BLACK - Season 2 - Ep 1 - Nature Under Constraint and Vexed
[1:00AM] THE REAL HISTORY OF SCIENCE FICTION-Ep 1 - Robots
[2:00AM] IN THE FLESH - Season 1 - Episode 1
[3:00AM] ORPHAN BLACK - Season 2 - Ep 1 - Nature Under Constraint and Vexed
[4:00AM] THE REAL HISTORY OF SCIENCE FICTION-Ep 1 - Robots
[5:00AM] THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - Season 15 - Episode 2 (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has the movie 'The Princess Diaries', followed by the movie 'The Princess Diaries', again.
Comedy Central has 'South Park', another 'South Park', followed by the movie 'Role Models', and 'Katt Williams: The Pimp Chronicles: Part 1'.
FX has the movie 'Avatar', followed by the movie 'Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes', then the movie 'The Green Lantern'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] The Hunt for Red October
[9:00AM] The Three Stooges-Dizzy Pilots
[9:25AM] The Three Stooges-Dutiful but Dumb
[9:50AM] The Three Stooges-False Alarms
[10:15AM] The Three Stooges-Fright Night
[10:40AM] The Three Stooges-From Nurse to Worse
[11:05AM] The Three Stooges-Gem of a Jam
[11:30AM] Portlandia-Late in Life Drug Use
[12:00PM] Portlandia-Baseball
[12:30PM] Beverly Hills Ninja
[2:30PM] The Hunt for Red October
[5:30PM] The Last of the Mohicans
[8:00PM] GoodFellas
[11:00PM] GoodFellas
[2:00AM] Funny Games
[4:30AM] Portlandia-Bahama Knights
[5:00AM] Portlandia-Trailblazers
[5:30AM] Portlandia-Late in Life Drug Use (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00AM] Love Lust-Love Lust & the Bikini
[6:15AM] Snow Cake
[8:45AM] The Lucky Ones
[11:00AM] Escape From Alcatraz
[1:30PM] Revealing-True or Faux
[2:30PM] The Writers' Room-Scandal
[3:00PM] Loredana, Esq.-Episode 5
[4:00PM] The Order
[6:15PM] Rising Sun
[9:00PM] Hard Eight
[11:15PM] Eyes Wide Shut
[2:45AM] Martha Marcy May Marlene
[5:00AM] Loredana, Esq.-Episode 5 (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Piranha', followed by the movie 'Big Ass Spider'.
Kim Novak says that cruel jabs about how she looked during the Oscar ceremony amounted to bullying that left her crushed at first, but then determined to speak out in protest.
"It really did throw me into a tailspin and it hit me hard," Novak, 81, said in a telephone interview Thursday, after she released an open letter condemning remarks by Donald Trump and others about her appearance.
She had initially remained silent after serving as a presenter with Matthew McConaughey at the March 2 Academy Awards because the comments were so painful, Novak said from her home near the Rogue River in Oregon.
"For days, I didn't leave the house, and it got to me like it gets kids and teenagers" who are attacked, she said.
"I'm not going to deny that I had fat injections in my face. They seemed far less invasive than a face lift," Novak wrote in her letter, adding, "In my opinion, a person has a right to look as good as they can, and I feel better when I look better."
Actor Eric Idle and his wife Tania Kosevich pose at the premiere of the HBO television comedy special "700 Sundays" in Los Angeles, California April 17, 2014.
Photo by Mario Anzuoni
The brash animated series "The Boondocks" returns to Adult Swim for its fourth and final season without Aaron McGruder, the man who spawned it, but with its brashness intact.
A future episode even spoofs "Breaking Bad." The weekly episodes air Mondays at 10:30 p.m. EDT.
With its beautiful anime style but tough subjects and rough language, the series ruffled feathers while winning acclaim, including an NAACP Image Award.
It also won the prestigious Peabody Award in 2007 for an episode that found Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. awakening from a decades-long "coma" into a modern world that both disturbed and disappointed him for its lack of social progress.
David Letterman and Jerry Seinfeld will join Jon Stewart, Robert De Niro and other big names in comedy and entertainment on Spike TV to celebrate the legendary career of industry icon Don Rickles.
"One Night Only: An All-Star Comedy Tribute to Don Rickles" will also feature Martin Scorsese, Tracy Morgan, Jimmy Kimmel, John Stamos, Bob Newhart, Regis Philbin, Ray Romano, Brad Garrett and more.
The show will tape at New York City's Apollo Theater on Tuesday, May 6. The 90-minute special, produced in conjunction with Don Mischer Productions, will air on Spike TV on Wednesday, May 28 at 9 p.m.
This April 16, 2014 photo shows Laura Poitras, left, and Johanna Hamilton in New York to promote their documentary film "1971," premiering Friday at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Photo by Charles Sykes
Hatsune Miku, a computer-generated Japanese pop star who performs as a hologram, is to support some of Lady Gaga's tour of North America next month, the US songstress has announced on Twitter.
The pixel-perfect pop princess, whose voice is also the product of digital code, will perform in 3D alongside a band made of real musicians at shows starting in Atlanta on May 6.
The collaborative brainchild of software developers, a manga comic artist and a vast digital fan community, the virtual singer from outer space has become one of the hottest stars on the J-pop scene in the last few years.
The programmers who created Miku are vague about her persona, but very specific about her stats -- the teenage pop queen is 158 centimetres (five feet two) tall and weighs a dainty 42 kilograms (93 pounds).
Prince now owns the rights to the music he recorded on Warner Bros. Records after years of disputes and battles with the record label.
Warner Bros. announced Friday it had reached an agreement with the pop icon, who was signed to the label from 1978 to the mid-1990s, during which time he released key projects like "Purple Rain," ''1999," ''Diamonds and Pearls" and "Around the World in a Day."
Financial terms weren't disclosed.
The agreement comes years after Prince's relationship with Warner Bros. soured as he failed to gain possession of the music he recorded for the label. He changed his name to an unpronounceable symbol and wrote the word "slave" on his cheek. He also vowed to rerecord the 17 albums he released on the label and sell them on his own.
Actor Billy Crystal (L) and television host Jay Leno pose at the premiere of the HBO television comedy special "700 Sundays" in Los Angeles, California April 17, 2014.
Photo by Mario Anzuoni
Four years after the Deepwater Horizon spill, oil is still washing up on the long sandy beaches of Grand Isle, Louisiana, and some islanders are fed up with hearing from BP that the crisis is over.
Jules Melancon, the last remaining oyster fisherman on an island dotted with colorful houses on stilts, says he has not found a single oyster alive in his leases in the area since the leak and relies on an onshore oyster nursery to make a living.
He and others in the southern U.S. state say compensation has been paid unevenly and lawyers have taken big cuts.
Under the settlement, claims for lost income or property damage have been easier for individuals and large businesses than small companies or start-ups without detailed accounts.
The settlement does not compensate everyone. Just 20 out of over 3,000 claims for failed business have been paid so far, according to the settlement website.
Actor Rob Reiner poses at the premiere of the HBO television comedy special "700 Sundays" in Los Angeles, California April 17, 2014.
Photo by Mario Anzuoni
Pop star Rihanna has agreed to settle a lawsuit with her former accountants accusing them of mismanaging her finances and costing her millions of dollars, lawyers for the parties told a federal judge on Thursday.
The terms of the deal were not disclosed during a brief hearing before U.S. District Judge Kevin Castel in New York. Lawyers for Rihanna and for the defendants, accounting firm Berdon and former employees Michael Mitnick and Peter Gounis, declined to comment.
The lawsuit, filed by Rihanna in 2012, said Berdon charged "exorbitant" commissions from her concert tours, causing significant financial losses. It also accused Berdon of mishandling Rihanna's foreign and domestic taxes and failing to monitor unpaid song royalties.
When she first hired Berdon, the lawsuit claimed, she was only 16 years old and knew nothing about financial matters.
As a result of the firm's mishandling of her finances, Rihanna suffered major losses during her 2010 "Last Girl on Earth" tour, even as Berdon collected millions of dollars in commissions, the lawsuit claimed.
Actor Larry David arrives at the premiere of the HBO television comedy special "700 Sundays" in Los Angeles, California April 17, 2014.
Photo by Mario Anzuoni
Japan said Friday it would redesign its controversial Antarctic whaling mission in a bid to make it more scientific, after a United Nations court ruled it was a commercial hunt masquerading as research.
The bullish response, which could see harpoon ships back in the Southern Ocean next year, sets Tokyo back on a collision course with environmentalists.
Campaigners had hailed the decision by the International Court of Justice, with hopes that it might herald the end of a practice they view as barbaric.
"We will carry out extensive studies in cooperation with ministries concerned to submit a new research programme by this autumn to the International Whaling Commission (IWC), reflecting the criteria laid out in the verdict," said Yoshimasa Hayashi, minister of agriculture, forestry and fisheries.
Hayashi said the northwestern Pacific hunt, which is due to depart Japanese shores on April 26, would continue, albeit in a slightly reduced form.
Musician Paul Simon performs at the 25th Anniversary Rainforest Fund benefit concert at Carnegie Hall on Thursday, April 17, 2014 in New York.
Photo by Evan Agostini
Federal scientists have found high amounts of mercury in fish caught in remote areas of national parks in the West and Alaska, according to a study released Thursday.
Researchers for the U.S. Geological Survey and National Park Service said that most fish they caught had acceptable levels of mercury, but 4 percent exceeded healthy levels.
In the study, researchers caught 1,400 fish between 2008 and 2012 at 86 lakes and rivers in places such Yosemite National Park in California, Mount Rainier National Park in Washington and Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming.
In two Alaskan parks, the average level of mercury in fish found bypassed the federal standard for human consumption. The amounts of mercury also exceeded healthy levels at parks in California, Colorado, Washington and Wyoming, the study found.
Hops, one base for producing beer is pictured at the Hop museum in Wolnzach on April 10, 2014. A slump in consumption of more than a third in the last 25 years has hit Germany, Europe's biggest beer producer, triggering intense competition and price discounting. With young Germans turning to spirits and non-alcoholic fruit drinks, beer sales fell 2 percent last year alone. Traditional family breweries, also under pressure from double-digit rises in energy, glass and malt costs, are struggling, some dying. In a bid to move upmarket and charge more, some breweries are trying to tap into growing demand for speciality beer.
Photo by Michael Dalder
Buried thousands of feet under Summit, the highest point on Greenland's ice sheet, is a soil born before humans ever walked on Earth. The 2.7-million-year-old silt is a remnant of the verdant tundra that covered Greenland before it was entombed in ice, researchers report today (April 17) in the journal Science.
Pollen and plant DNA buried in the seafloor offshore of Greenland also suggest the island once had tundra and patchy forest, similar to today's high Arctic. The new findings hint that at Summit, the tundra landscape was open to the sky for 200,000 years to 1 million years before ice covered it.
The new results also mean the Greenland Ice Sheet gets a nod for endurance. If the soil under Summit has been buried for 2.7 million years, then the discovery implies the ice sheet has never fully melted, even when the Earth went through an incredible natural warming swing 130,000 years ago - one as warm as this century's predicted climate change.
The ancient soil was pulled from beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet in 1993, during the GISP2 deep-drilling project to reach the bedrock beneath Summit. The 10,019-foot-long (3,052 meters) GISP2 ice core records more than 100,000 years of past climate history, but until now, no one had examined the dirt in the ice at the bottom of the drill hole. (The ice is archived at the National Ice Core Laboratory in Denver, Colo.)
This undated photo provided by Olson Communications shows a Colt .45 revolver believed to have been carried by Wyatt Earp during the O.K. Corral shootout in Tombstone, Ariz. The gun sold at an auction of of numerous items related to Earp and his family Thursday, April 17, 2014 for $225,000 in Scotsdale, Az.
Photo by Josh Skalniak
Last week, a thief stole a 1993 Chrysler New Yorker from a house in Boonville, Indiana and then sold it to a 72-year-old man for $300, in the rightful owner's name. The 72-year-old man, however, started to have a nagging feeling that the deal was just too good to be true and so he gave the car's rightful owner, Derk West, a call after looking him up. As WFIE 14 News reports, what happened next was pretty fantastic.
Mr. West met up with the 72-year-old who had unwittingly bought his stolen Chrysler and determined the senior citizen needed the vehicle more than he did. As Mr. West told WFIE, "…72-years-old and fixed income. Stuff like that. He was out $300, he was out the money and he was just, really upset. He told us, 'Too good to be true.' I just drove the car for several years as a work car…By the time it was over, I worked it out, I just wound up giving him the car. He needed it worse than I did."
As for the alleged car thief, 46-year-old Donald Grigsby of Evansville, Indiana was arrested by the Vanderburgh County Sheriff's Office on April 13. Mr. West told WFIE that Mr. Grigsby was caught because he had signed the receipt using his social security number.
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