Folklorist Elaine Eff has been on a crusade for three decades to preserve the kitschy art -- landscapes painted on rowhouse window screens. The screens are for decoration, and privacy, too: The paintings allow residents to see out and prevent passersby from seeing in.

Music, Folkmusic, Iraq secular music

The epic here edited and translated was recorded from a Karakalpak epic singer, Jumabay-jïraw Bazarov, in Shomanay in Karakalpakistan in 1993. Karakalpakistan is a province in Uzbekistan" (15). Thus begins Karl Reichl's masterful presentation of Edige and his important contribution to the ever-increasing number of modern-day oral epics textualized by Western scholars for Western audiences in accordance with the most rigorous and up-to-date criteria for such a project.

Tom Dula was hanged 140 years ago. The murder that sold 10,000 guitars. His guilt may be a matter of debate, but his legend -- and the song that cemented it -- are indisputable.

This has been going on for almost two decades both in Europe and the USA. Some of us have been researching, writing, and talking about the heritage industry for 15+ years.

[ECP] K-12 Newsletters - SCIENCE - The Send Your Name to the Moon Web site enables everyone to participate in the lunar adventure and place their names in orbit around the moon for years to come. Participants can submit their information at http://www.nasa.gov/lro, print a certificate and have their name entered into a database. The database will be placed on a microchip that will be integrated onto the spacecraft. The deadline for submitting names is June 27, 2008.

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Vinyl Madness - I just wanted to report that, during the past month, it seems almost EVERY project I do will have a vinyl release. I don't know how to explain this, it is amazing. AUXOUT great sound system.

On May 4, 1970, four students at Kent State University in Ohio were killed by Ohio National Guardsmen at an on-campus march to protest Nixon’s invasion of Cambodia five days earlier.

This is Sidney at his best. Great writing by William Rose. Classic scene. "Let me tell you something, I owe you nothing! because you brought me into this world - You Owe ME speech!! You and your whole lousy generation . . .

Countdown’s Bushed!: You Gotta Be Kidding Me Edition: Next is an update on the Orwellian No Child Left Behind program, which has resulted in graduation ratios going down and schools hurting for funding country-wide. Turns out that the cornerstone of the program, Reading First, a program emphasizing literacy administered by the president’s brother, Neil Bush, has not proven to be effective whatsoever. So the reality is that NCLB is actually leaving children behind in favor of lining the pocket of the Bush family.

'Turn on, tune in, drop out' 1943 Discovered the first acid trip! I saw lights and beautiful colors that lasted for hours! Albert Hofmann discovered the substance while working for a pharmaceutical company in 1938. Hofmann was also the first scientist to synthesize psilocybin, the active ingredient in psilocybin mushrooms, in 1958.

Virus writers selling software with a detailed licensing agreement. The CHUTZBA is hilarious.

Discovery Channel Canada is scouting for new, sexy, cool science or technology that's in the works -- not products already available - and (sorry folks) not internet-based.

fonolo is a new way to call large companies.Use Deep Dialing to avoid dealing with phone menus.Use Intelligent call history to track your calls like never before.

One commentator calls today's decision 'Another bad day for the RIAA.'"

After three decades of keeping mum, Barbara Walters now says she had a past affair with married U.S. Senator Edward Brooke, whom she remembers as "exciting" and "brilliant."