I’ve always heard that Led Zeppelin took a lot of their ideas from others. I knew Dazed and Confused was by someone else, and that Willie Dixon had successfully sued them. I guess I didn’t know. Check out these links, particularly the first video.
Month: March 2008
Links o’ Interest
Random funny pictures of kids.
Hilarious plane crash picture
Who would Alex P. Keaton vote for? (by the producer of Family Ties)
History’s greatest replies. Somehow the format takes away from many of these. I enjoyed some new ones I had never heard, particularly The Pope, Mark Twain. Hard to beat Wilkes and Churchill also. I was also discouraged to find that one of my favorite lines that I thought I had written had already been used by Dorothy Parker. Dang.
Can you tell the difference between expensive Monster cables and a coat hanger?
21 Accents in less than 3 minutes. Now that’s acting.
I laughed out loud at this. Of course, I enjoy economics.
Put in some writing samples, this guesses your gender. (Yes, I’m male.)
A different kind of candidate. Watch the whole thing.
Watch traffic jams developing in this interesting Japanese experiment
Any More “Good War”s?
I’m reading Stud Terkel’s “The Good War”. I am entranced by this book, an oral history of World War II. Published in 1984, it simply records the words of veterans and others who were there. One amazing story after another. One theme that comes through is how many of them believe it was a good war, maybe the only one. It made me wonder if the USA has been in any wars since that qualify. I know my answer, what do the readers think?
P.S. My favorite part of the book so far: A casual reference to a speaker’s friend called Lowlife McCormick. Best name ever!
Update: The answer is here.