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Sail Away

Date: April 26, 2005

As ever, Mark Twain said it best: “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

Moments for the Time Capsule

Date: April 23, 2005

Remember elementary school?

Bluer Skies

Date: April 21, 2005

Combining beautiful guitar music, atmospheric sounds, and some of the clearest vocals I’ve ever heard (straight from the mouth of Canadian-born Cilette Swann), Gypsy Soul stands out from many others in the World/Americana/Celtic(/and more!) genres.

How to Make Me a Vegetarian

Date: April 17, 2005

If you scratch out a million and one sensible causes for extreme worry, then maybe you can comfortably accept a new study that tries to tell consumers that cloned cow meat and cloned cow milk will be safe for the human body. As if all of this isn’t enough to frighten you into becoming a vegan, this study was apparently conducted over only a little more than 100 cows. As if that’s not enough to tell the average-brained person that they haven’t studied nearly enough, one also reads in the linked article that only 90% of those animals cloned showed no variations in meat and milk quality (also keep in mind that these were animals not kept alive for very long, so more variations could have occurred with more time).