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Margaux R's Radio Weblog
Radio UserLand tip: Jenny Levine's navigator links tutorial covers how to add links, mailto links, and HTML to a weblog's list of links.One she doesn't cover: To include a blank line, add an element with a space as its name: <item name=""/>. [Rogers Cadenhead: Workbench: Radio Userland Tips]
ok, now you get an assignment -- check out these links and let me know if any are good !!
Mo' Library Blogs.
"Another Library Weblog!, this one, called The Reader's Connection, from the Readers' Advisory department at the Glenview Public Library in Illinois. Provides short book reviews, book and reading news and links, and some library news (more GPL library news available on another blog). The whole website is worth a look." [WPL: waterboro lib blog]
There's also a new blog called Keep the Change by a "future librarian," and a more established site called The Exploded Library.
And for all of you blogging librarians out there, Brig Eaton was kind enough to honor my request for a Librarian category over on her Eatonweb Portal of blogs, so hop on over and register your site!
[The Shifted Librarian]Dennis the K gets a break
2 Former Executives of Tyco Get Extra Day to Raise Bail. A Manhattan judge gave L. Dennis Kozlowski and Mark H. Swartz another day to post millions of dollars in bail. By Susan Saulny. [New York Times: Business]
Mr. Kozlowski's lawyer, Stephen E. Kaufman, said Mr. Kozlowski's former wife, Angie, was offering $10 million in cash to secure Mr. Kozlowski's $100 million bail. As of midday yesterday, Mr. Kaufman said he was having trouble with the transfer and was "getting an education" in how to move $10 million from a brokerage firm to the court.
"We're working hard at it," he said. Mr. Kaufman spoke briefly about Mr. Kozlowski's former wife, adding, "She is entirely supportive of her former husband."
He said that the cash was coming from part of the couple's divorce settlement in 2000.
What admirable devotion. Now would the wife of Jack Welch (retired GE CEO) -- who in their messy divorce just spilled the beans on all the undisclosed perks he gets from GE in retirement -- post bail for her hubby?
I'm making my list, checking it twice, ....
All of a Sudden, It's DVD Season. Rarely have DVD releases been as prolific as they are this week and next. By Peter M. Nichols. [New York Times: Movies]
On Tuesday of next week "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,""Amadeus,""Singin' in the Rain,""Unforgiven,""A Hard Day's Night" and "Grease" will all be released in multiple-disc special editions,
Three of the greatest musical movies ever (ok, Grease is the one I'm not including)! I knew about Hard Day's Night and budgeted for it, looks like I'll have to dig deeper in the wallet.
If the musical remastering is as good as "Yellow Submarine", the Fab Four never sounded so good.
Next week Fox will release " `The Mary Tyler Moore Show': Season One on DVD" ($49.98). But two other major television special editions are scheduled for Tuesday:
"Ed Sullivan's Rock 'n' Roll Classics" on nine discs from Rhino ($169.99)
Show the kids the first time we saw the Beatles, Stones, and so many more... Sorry, I suspect this one will be in lo-fi mono, just like the first time.
and, for the first time on video, the much-awaited "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy," the first-rate BBC adaptation of John Le Carré's novel broadcast by PBS in 1980. The three-disc set ($69.95) is distributed by Acorn Media, and there is a VHS version (also $69.95). Because of a distribution agreement, "Tinker, Tailor" won't be available in stores, only from Acorn. Information: (888) 870-8047.
OMIGOD. We want this. What, no retail?!! It's not fair! How can I put it in my holiday "employee appreciation" bucket!
Mr. Le Carré was interviewed in March for "Tinker, Tailor." He calls espionage activity during the cold war a "vast, submerged international commerce" and describes the Central Intelligence Agency as so overfinanced and overstaffed that it was falling all over itself. And so it was come Sept. 11, he adds: too much detail and not enough evaluation.
Where have you gone, George Smiley, a nation turns its weary eyes to you...
Speaking of Heath, both Roger and Elvis diss this one, alas. I supposed I could rent "The Patriot"...
Going Undercover in the Service of Her Majesty. Shekhar Kapur's remake is a tepid, shallow tributary of larger, deeper bodies of waters like the historical revisionist film dramas "Last of the Mohicans" and "Little Big Man." By Elvis Mitchell. [New York Times: Movies]
The opposite of terror sex. Why Christy and Ed split, what Heath won't wear, when Winona takes the stand. [Salon.com]
No hose for Heath
"I'm a rebel in Hollywood. People keep telling me I have to do big popcorn movies in order to do the smaller ones that really appeal to me. They keep talking to me about opportunities, but I refuse to put on tights and play a superhero."
-- Heath Ledger on his aversion to things clingy, in the Calgary Sun.
What a shame. Heath in tights would make me slobber in my popcorn. Weren't there tights in "A Knight's Tale"? Hmmm, I'll have to watch it again to find out.
I like his attitude.
Being part of rock's first defining audience is no crime, and it would be cruelty to deny the boomers every aging human cohort's right to indulge in nostalgia. Those who insist that rock 'n' roll must be about youth and rebellion and represent some sort of Dionysian explosion are being critical fascists.
I confess to feeling smug around 20- and 30-somethings who had no clue what it was like to be alive when Sgt. Pepper and The White Album were released, and "Light My Fire" was the hot song on the Top 40.
The important thing for me, however, is that I never had any