2015

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2015-01-30—THEME: SIX YEARS ON THE ISLAND

Your Man Friday has been sending these weekly messages in a bottle from his island since back in January 30th of 2009! It is time for a holiday off the island.  So expect no messages for a few months. Man Friday likes to assume that some recipients have enjoyed his weekly collection of three links to interesting and related ideas. So for those who want to express their appreciation, here are three ideas.

ORDER A BOOK ONLINE…

…from a site linked on this page.

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FIND THREE LINKS TO SOME INTERESTING IDEA…

…and email them to me (Use “3 Ideas” as you email header.)

Ken@Stange.com

MAKE A SMALL DONATION OF APPRECIATION…

…using the PayPal button on this Man Friday website.

 

2015-01-23—THEME: SWEET AND SOUR POETRY

Two of the most fundamental tastes are sweet and sour and paradoxically they are more satisfying when combined than when experienced separately. Life, too, is both sweet and sour. Here are three fine poets reading their poems about savouring together the sweet and sour in life. 

ELLEN BASS

“Relax”

LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI

“Pictures of the gone world 11”

E. E. CUMMINGS

“anyone lived in a pretty how town”


2015-01-16—THEME: THE ROOTS OF AVANT-GARDE MUSIC

The Twentieth Century saw drastic breaks from tradition in all the arts. Music is certainly no exception. It should be noted that such labels as ‘classical’, ‘jazz’, or ‘rock’ are arbitrary and the radical new music rejected such pigeonholing.

CLASSICAL

This film is about some of the mavericks that reshaped what had become the stuffy world of so-called classical music.

JAZZ

Miles Davis, Dave Brubeck, Charlie Mingus, and Ornette Coleman were four radicals that redefined jazz forever.

ROCK

Frank Zappa’s eclecticism marks a milestone in the history of rock music. What could be more avant-garde than combining scatological lyrics with highly sophisticated and polished musical compositions? 

 

2015-01-09—THEME: YOU ARE WHAT YOU OWN

You don’t have to be Sherlock Holmes or a psychologist armed with a battery of personality tests to deduce a lot about an individual by simply examining his or her possessions. And some things are far more revealing than such deliberate status symbols as one’s house or car or wardrobe.

BOOKSHELF CONTENT

What could say more about your mental life than the books you choose to own and how you organize them?

REFRIGERATOR CONTENT

If there is any truth to the claim that you are what you eat, then your refrigerator tells a tale on you.

MEDICINE CABINET CONTENT

How’s your health? It’s not hard to diagnose what various ailments plague you by peeking into your medicine cabinet.

 

2015-01-02—THEME: IS IT PLANT, ANIMAL OR MINERAL?

This traditional first question in the Twenty Questions game is also a reasonable question when actually observing something in the real world. Of course, it is only the beginning of the quest to identify something. But it is a task made much easier by collaboration on the Internet. Here are three great taxonomical resources.

PLANT

An extensive online encyclopaedia of plants.

http://www.theplantencyclopedia.org/wiki/Main_Page

ANIMAL

An extensive encyclopaedia of animals.

http://animaldiversity.org/about/ 

BOTH AND MORE

An extensive encyclopaedia of all living things.

http://eol.org/discover

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