"'Real Time Rome' project debuts in Venice" (Cool!)
Venice Wants to Clean Up Lagoon Pigeons (Thank God!)
Memorial image at right via grow-a-brain.
Venice in the News...
"'Real Time Rome' project debuts in Venice" (Cool!)
Venice Wants to Clean Up Lagoon Pigeons (Thank God!)
Casanova
Well, we've already established that "Casanova: The Movie" wasn't exactly historically accurate... which is too bad, since the life of the real Casanova was often stranger than fiction (or maybe even was fiction, considering that he wrote his own life story himself!!) Wanna know more? Check out the Casanova Research Page. Enjoy!!
(via The Presurfer)
(via The Presurfer)
Scientists saving the Renaissance!
"Physicists in Italy are developing a new device for assessing the condition of some of the country's most valuable fresco paintings. The tool can reveal information about the condition of a wall painting without ever touching its surface, making the device a potentially valuable aid to restoration and preservation efforts...."
Weird Science in Sidebar Video: Sound & Salt
It's been a while since I ran into such a thoroughly cool (and trippy!) science link on the web... Watch how changing sound waves create increasingly intricate patterns in table salt! Enjoy!!
(via grow-a-brain)
"Hey Ya"? Today's Sidebar Video!
Thanks to Hotlinks for bringing this great cover to my attention!
Although only three years old, Outkast's "Hey Ya!" has already been listed as #180 of Rolling Stone's "Greatest 500 Songs of All Time." But it's not just a great song... The video's fantastic, too, and was listed as Stylus Magazine's 72nd top music video of all time!
Here, Mat Weddle from Phoenix-based band Obadiah Parker does his own improbably-entertaining acoustic "Hey Ya" version! Enjoy!!
Although only three years old, Outkast's "Hey Ya!" has already been listed as #180 of Rolling Stone's "Greatest 500 Songs of All Time." But it's not just a great song... The video's fantastic, too, and was listed as Stylus Magazine's 72nd top music video of all time!
Here, Mat Weddle from Phoenix-based band Obadiah Parker does his own improbably-entertaining acoustic "Hey Ya" version! Enjoy!!
More fun with "Pat & Stanley"!
Can't get enough of "Pat & Stanley" in the sidebar video??
Luckily, we can continue to follow their adventures through a whole series of animated shorts available on YouTube, like...
- Pat plays the "Stanley-Pipes"
- Wild West
- Pat & Stanley play ball
- Pat annoying Stanley
- Stanley giving Pat a hand
- Stanley gets a new hairdo
- Toothbrush hip-hop
- Danger in the bathtub
- Pat & Stanley play the spaghetti game
- Pat challenges Stanley to yet another game
- Yet another Pat & Stanley "pissing contest"
- Pat says goodbye!
Mystery ship discovered in Italian waters!
"Ride, capitano, ride... upon your mystery ship!!"
After Maine's "Mystery Beast," we've got Italy's very own "mystery ship"...
Linkfilter cites Ghost ship discovered in the Italian waters from Pravda.Ru!
Now, the Pravda version includes a photo looking like it's straight outta "Pirates of the Caribbean." Seems a little large to have gone unnoticed before... So, I looked the story up in Italy's La Repubblica.
And now, behold... the "Italian Ghost Ship"!
In addition to the details given in English by Pravda, Italians first reported on August 22nd other essential information like the ship also contained "badly-made clothing." What's more, the next day the newspaper recounted that another police station had received an anonymous note saying, "In the Mediterranean, a sailboat will appear with a bomb on board." Even though continued searches of the vessel have so far uncovered no explosives, investgators have determined that any information regarding route and heading were wiped clean from the navigation equipment.
Ah, but little did Pravda realize that the very day they broke the news, the mystery surrounding the ghost ship would be apparently resolved! Turns out that the ship was owned by a Luxembourger, who had left it exactly where it was found because he had an urgent call to return to his home country. Still, questions remain... Why leave the boat so utterly abandoned? Why were all identifying marks erased? The owner claims that he knows only that he had originally left everything in legal order.
I'll post any further updates as I find 'em... but so far, this story has seemingly begun to dry up!
The end (?)
After Maine's "Mystery Beast," we've got Italy's very own "mystery ship"...
Linkfilter cites Ghost ship discovered in the Italian waters from Pravda.Ru!
Now, the Pravda version includes a photo looking like it's straight outta "Pirates of the Caribbean." Seems a little large to have gone unnoticed before... So, I looked the story up in Italy's La Repubblica.
And now, behold... the "Italian Ghost Ship"!
In addition to the details given in English by Pravda, Italians first reported on August 22nd other essential information like the ship also contained "badly-made clothing." What's more, the next day the newspaper recounted that another police station had received an anonymous note saying, "In the Mediterranean, a sailboat will appear with a bomb on board." Even though continued searches of the vessel have so far uncovered no explosives, investgators have determined that any information regarding route and heading were wiped clean from the navigation equipment.
Ah, but little did Pravda realize that the very day they broke the news, the mystery surrounding the ghost ship would be apparently resolved! Turns out that the ship was owned by a Luxembourger, who had left it exactly where it was found because he had an urgent call to return to his home country. Still, questions remain... Why leave the boat so utterly abandoned? Why were all identifying marks erased? The owner claims that he knows only that he had originally left everything in legal order.
I'll post any further updates as I find 'em... but so far, this story has seemingly begun to dry up!
The end (?)
Oddities by Photographer Arthur Grace
This photo, "Boy with Gun, Venice, 1979" by photographer Arthur Grace appeared on today's Unusual Children Links at grow-a-brain.
The boy could have just as well have been my future husband, since it turns out that the photo is not actually from the historic center of Venice, but rather from the Lido, the barrier island just off of Venice that's the local beach hotspot!
My Venetian hubby was born on the Lido, and spent his childhood going to the beach at the Excelsior Hotel (the terribly posh resort that hosts the Venice Film Festival every year), which just so happens to be the one depicted in the photograph from 27 years ago (and which hasn't changed a bit since!!)
Che mondo piccolo!
The boy could have just as well have been my future husband, since it turns out that the photo is not actually from the historic center of Venice, but rather from the Lido, the barrier island just off of Venice that's the local beach hotspot!
My Venetian hubby was born on the Lido, and spent his childhood going to the beach at the Excelsior Hotel (the terribly posh resort that hosts the Venice Film Festival every year), which just so happens to be the one depicted in the photograph from 27 years ago (and which hasn't changed a bit since!!)
Che mondo piccolo!
Starring "Volare" & "Pat & Stanley" in Sidebar Video!
The sidebar video for the last couple of days has been the superhip "Nel blu dipinto di blu" with Domenico Modugno for Italy at the the Eurovision Song Contest in 1958. Also known as "Volare," the song has also been listed in September 2006's Conde Nast Traveller as one of the world's greatest "50 tunes that unforgettably evoke their culture." Personally, since the Italian national anthem has always technically been just "temporary," I always thought they should use "Volare" instead! :-)
Today, meet "Pat" & "Stanley"! Pat is a rather sophisticated hippopotamus, and Stanley his sillier dog friend, and together they advertise the Kinder "Happy Hippo" chocolate bar. The ad is French, but it also appeared on TV in Italy over the summer, and - I have to admit - they just cracked me up! Enjoy!!
Today, meet "Pat" & "Stanley"! Pat is a rather sophisticated hippopotamus, and Stanley his sillier dog friend, and together they advertise the Kinder "Happy Hippo" chocolate bar. The ad is French, but it also appeared on TV in Italy over the summer, and - I have to admit - they just cracked me up! Enjoy!!
Aroo! More Werewolves of Maine!!
The story of the dead "Mystery Beast of Maine" refuses to die! See the Portland Press Herald's 'Scary' creature is a monster story for Maine.
Can't get enough of those werewolf hybrids? How about an mp3 musical mashup of Boston vs. Lynyrd Skynyrd vs. Warren Zevon by AudioDile called "More Werewolves of Alabama"??
Like the mystery beast itself, it's cute, clever and - as a mix of "bootlegs" - maybe even looks just a little bit "evil"! :-)
Enjoy!!
Can't get enough of those werewolf hybrids? How about an mp3 musical mashup of Boston vs. Lynyrd Skynyrd vs. Warren Zevon by AudioDile called "More Werewolves of Alabama"??
Like the mystery beast itself, it's cute, clever and - as a mix of "bootlegs" - maybe even looks just a little bit "evil"! :-)
Enjoy!!
Science isn't made in a day!
Do you have patience? How about continuing to wait after 166 years for your results?! See what I mean at Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society's "Longest Running Scientific Experiments".
What's more... you can enjoy some of the excitement of these experiments moving at break-neck glacial speed for yourself! When the webcam's on, check out a recreation of the "Pitchdrop Experiment".. . Enjoy!!
What's more... you can enjoy some of the excitement of these experiments moving at break-neck glacial speed for yourself! When the webcam's on, check out a recreation of the "Pitchdrop Experiment".. . Enjoy!!
Wikipedia in Veneto dialect!
I don't know when exactly this came online, but it's a great addition to the 200+ languages which already have their own Wikipedias... Benvegnui su ła Wikipedia en łéngoa vèneta!
(Need help reading Veneto? Try an introduction to "Venet" here!)
(Need help reading Veneto? Try an introduction to "Venet" here!)
Quiz: What's your "brain sex"?
This Sex ID quiz apparently comes from a recent tv program on the BBC (which I got via Monkeyfilter).
Personally, I'm always very skeptical about anything which claims that certain behavoral traits are biologically hardwired to men and others to women, but see what you think! Enjoy!!
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