eclecticism

Sometime between June 21st and June 23rd, I thought this stuff was interesting. You might think so too!

• Edgy comic George Carlin dies in L.A. at age 71: "The world is a big theatre-in-the round as far as I'm concerned, and I'd love to watch it spin itself into oblivion," he said. "Tune in and watch the human adventure."
• Return of the ’70s Weirdos: Bob Greenberg (center of old photo, in red sweater), then a programmer and now a tech and financial consultant, had won a photo portrait in a contest and used it to commemorate the soon-to-be disrupted group. The picture was shot in a shopping mall.
• Edith Macefield, 1921-2008: Ballard woman held her ground as change closed in around her: The Ballard woman who captured hearts and admirers around the world when she stubbornly turned down $1 million to sell her home to make way for a commercial development died Sunday of pancreatic cancer.
• Interview with Alan Taylor, Creator of Boston Globe’s The Big Picture - Waxy.org: The idea's simple, but extremely effective. Spend a few minutes with the Iowa floods, the faces of Sudan, or the daily life in Sadr City, and you feel like you've opened a window to another world.
• How scientists are bringing dinosaurs back to life with the help of the humble chicken | Mail Online: just like in the hit Steven Spielberg movie, these men and women are intent on cracking the genetic code of the dinosaurs and opening the possibility of bringing them back to life.

[See also: Rocky Horror-A-Thon | Links for June 26th through June 27th | One last interview | Links for June 27th through June 30th | Buses are fun ]

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