I just heard the sad news that Clarence Clemons, the sax player from the E Street Band, died over the weekend after having a stroke last week. I remember discovering how great rock saxophone could be when I first heard Clarence playing on The River about ten years ago. Here’s a small tribute: And this is classic:
I was completely blown away when I saw the pictures from the Vancouver post-loss riots. I had envisioned some variation of the Red Sox 2004 Kenmore Square riots (the crazier ones were after the ALCS, not the World Series). But no. This was on an entirely different scale: More here. I wish my brother, who is a big Bruins fan, luck when he moves to Vancouver in the fall.
1. From MIT, Soon We’ll Be Able to “Throw Applications Between Our Computers and Phones” 2. Better displays with quantum dots? 3. Volcano Sunset Photography 4. If you’re into this sort of thing: The First Self-Powering Nano-Device That Can Also Transmit Wireless Data 5. Arabian Unicorn Leaps Out of Near Extinction 6. Mapping Sun’s Potential to Power New York 7. The Sad Plight of the Fundamental Analyst 8. When people move to the States from abroad, where do they go?
I have to thank my brother for letting me know about the Mother Hips show at Cafe du Nord last night. The venue was great – it’s an old Swedish hall that was build over 100 years ago in Upper Market. I’ve been meaning to see the Hips for a while now, and they put on a good show, although there were definitely a few parts of the set that dragged a bit. Here’s a clip of a Stones cover I shot: But they didn’t play my favorite song:
I went through some of my shots from the road trip, and here’s the first batch. These were taken on June 4th in the Badlands, the Black Hills, Custer State Park, and there may be a couple from Eastern Wyoming.
Sam Adams isn’t the first brewery to release single hop beers, I have to hand it to them. They got this right: By and large, most beer is made with a hodgepodge of hops, those flowers that add aroma, bitterness and flavor. That’s because certain hops are ideal for imparting fragrance, while other breeds are better suited for adding mouth-puckering bitterness. Matching various hops’ strengths and weaknesses helps brewers create singular flavor profiles, much the way that cooks blend spices in different ratios and proportions. Yet lately, brewers have stopped mixing hops. Instead, they’re dosing beers with a single breed, allowing drinkers to discern each hop’s unique characteristics. One of the best examples of this liquid lesson plan is Boston
PopPhoto.com has a list of the 25 best places to photograph on Earth. Here are a few highlights: The Galapagos: Kangaroo Island: Geysir National Park:
Via my brother’s blog, this is very exciting news:
Via XKCD:
Some links I found to be interesting: 1. Homemade Rocketship Test Flight 2. Google Earth Goes Under the Sea 3. Graphene-Based Circuits? 4. Chart Porn: US Military Spending in Perspective 5. Spiders with Spare Legs? 6. Antimatter of Fact 7. Ezra Klein: Why Scott Brown Should Be Elizabeth Warren’s Biggest Fan