Today the world was able to watch a robot land on Mars. How awesome is that?
@MarsCuriosity: I’m safely on the surface of Mars. GALE CRATER I AM IN YOU!!! #MSL
Archive for August 6th, 2012
Bupa Around the Bay 2012 – episode 1
Published August 6, 2012 cycling Leave a CommentTags: AroundTheBay, AroundTheBay2012, Bupa Around the Bay
At this point I’d like to say that I am now averaging 200km a week training and my mail order Cancellara-thighs™ have arrived and are working well; back in the real world I have been laid low by seven days of flu infection which not only stopped me training but have also stuffed up my aerobic capacity. Back to training again this week with a fair bit of cross training as I also appear to be running the Half Marathon during the Melbourne Marathon Festival – everyone needs a hobby *!*
Luckily I have made progress on the bike upgrade. My secret ‘Around the Bay’ weapon is the Trek 2012 Madone 3.1 – “Trek’s new Madone 3.1 brings all the handling, performance, and style of the Madone series into an astonishing value package. Performance Fit frame platform, the 3.1 offers the durability and value of a Shimano 105 drivetrain matched to the energy-saving ride of Trek’s proprietary TCT Carbon.” I was thinking I’d need this technology to be able to ‘Moncoutié’ and hang onto the back of the peloton 
As Kenny quipped Hope you get peddles with it or you may find it hard to ride., so after a bit of maintenance and adjustment the old Sampson cleats are back in action on the new bike. After a bit of a workout on the wind trainer the knees are now reminding me that I haven’t used the cleats for a considerable time.
SPONSORS? : The Smith Family is the official charity partner for Bupa Around the Bay and we need your help to support disadvantaged Aussie kids. You can make an impact to help disadvantaged Aussie kids – have a look at the Fundraising Page.
What’s this, the Sex Pistols used in the Olympic opening soundtrack?
The opening ceremony was a sly celebration of dissent. Marching suffragettes, the Sex Pistols’ version of God Save the Queen, National Health Service nurses prancing at a time when the Tory-Liberal Coalition plans controversial spending cut-backs. All carefully woven into the fabric of the production so as not to offend the delicate sensibilities of the the International Olympic Committee overlords. — SMH
It would appear that the Sex Pistols are now socially acceptable with only a ‘sly celebration of dissent’ left to upset the moral majority. How different things were in 1975.
The Sex Pistols were an English punk rock band that formed in London in 1975. They were responsible for initiating the punk movement in the United Kingdom and inspiring many later punk and alternative rock musicians. Although their initial career lasted just two-and-a-half years and produced only four singles and one studio album, Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols, they are regarded as one of the most influential acts in the history of popular music.
The Sex Pistols originally comprised vocalist Johnny Rotten, guitarist Steve Jones, drummer Paul Cook and bassist Glen Matlock. Matlock was replaced by Sid Vicious in early 1977. Under the management of impresario Malcolm McLaren, the band provoked controversies that took Britain by storm. Their concerts repeatedly faced difficulties with organizers and authorities, and public appearances often ended in mayhem. Their 1977 single “God Save the Queen”, attacking Britons’ social conformity and deference to the Crown, precipitated the “last and greatest outbreak of pop-based moral pandemonium”. — wikipedia
The only Pistols concert that I managed to catch was the 1996 ‘FILTHY LUCRE’ tour; this was a pretty memorable concert not only for the music but for Johnny Rotten’s witty repartee between songs.
And now for some music …
Continue reading ‘Music Monday #113 – Sex Pistols’
In brief:
* NASA’s Mars Rover Crashed Into a DMCA Takedown (2012-Aug-06) [Motherboard]
Stop the band. The video was gone, replaced with an alien message: “This video contains content from Scripps Local News, who has blocked it on copyright grounds. Sorry about that.” That is to say, a NASA-made public domain video posted on NASA’s official YouTube channel, documenting the landing of a $2.5 billion Mars rover mission paid for with public taxpayer money, was blocked by YouTube because of a copyright claim by a private news service.
* Education Apps [iPads for Education]
* Digital Olympics: week one in numbers (2012-Aug-03) [BBC Internet Blog]
We promised Games coverage that you could access anywhere, any time, and it looks like you’ve been taking us up on that offer. … So let’s have a closer look at the stats.
* VidyoWay – The Way for B2B communication (2012-Jul-23) [Vidyo]
In case you haven’t seen this morning’s headlines, Vidyo is continuing to disrupt the video conferencing market and just announced a new free cloud-based service: VidyoWay. Now anyone using Cisco, Polycom, Lifesize, other H.323 and SIP-based room systems, Microsoft Lync clients, mobile devices and telephones can easily connect with each other and/or with Vidyo endpoints.
Some reading/listening:
* Terry and the Pirates
The action-adventure drama featured realistically drawn adventures in the far east and had a serious bent to it, unlike many of the comics of the day. Terry Lee grew up in the strip opposite characters such as Pat Ryan, the soldier of fortune and “two-fisted journalist”, Connie, the coolie and interpreter, and his nemesis, the Dragon Lady.
By November, 1937, the strips popularity spawned the radio series which began on November 1st as a three-times-a-week serial sponsored by Dari-Rich. But within two years it was cancelled. The country was too isolationist for the adventure stories to be popular.
As the country began moving toward war, the series was revitalized and began anew sponsored by Libby on October 16, 1941. By November, 1941 on the eve of the Pearl Harbor attack, the country was interested in what was happening in the far east and the adventures of Terry and the Pirates fit the bill. This series was a fifteen minute five-times-a-week serial initially on WGN, Chicago. We followed Terry through the war, though Japan is never mentioned throughout the run. Some of the actors from this series run included Bob Griffin as Dude Hennick, John Gibson as Connie and Emily Vass as April Kane. Terry was played over the series run by various actors including Jackie Kelk, Cliff Carpenter, Owen Jordan and Bill Fein. — otr.com
Available from:
- archive.org, – otr.com, – radiolovers, – my old radio
Something from Bandcamp:
