This fascinating, brilliant 20-minute video narrates the history of the “Amen Break,” a six-second drum sample from the b-side of a chart-topping single from 1969.

Rob Paravonian played the cello part of Pachelbel’s canon in high school, “8 stinking notes….54 times.” He then goes on to demonstrate how the tune is infused in every genre of music today. Brilliant!

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“…the most productive farmland in the United States is in the Borough of the Bronx! The second most productive farmland is in the City of San Francisco!”

97 year old blogger Donald Crowdis “Ponders Life, the Universe, and Aging” Quite a life. Read his Wikipedea entry. Very articulate

Pictures in San Jose, CA from 1975 then 2006 in the exact same location. Quality images.

“Like many North American media outlets, Canadian newspapers have been supplying the public with such a steady diet of misinformation and skewed science on the critical issue of global warming that it might best be described as journalistic malpractice.”