All Hallow's Eve

Saturday's nor'easter, foot of snow, and downed trees and power lines across the region led our local town board to cancel trick or treating tonight.  Obama's right, America's gone soft.

White Halloween

Boo!

Screen Savers

The Bible and other religious texts are making strides online.  iTunes and the Android Market have dozens of apps for different faiths.

What would Jesus tweet?

According to Publishers Weekly:

"As publishers strive to meet the enduring need for Bible reference materials, it's the electronic format that dominates discussion. The easiest thing to do right away is to convert existing books into electronic versions, and everyone is doing that. Zondervan has over a thousand titles available in digital formats, Abingdon sells the New Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible and New Interpreter's Bible on CD-ROM, and you can get e-book versions of many of the Jewish Publication Society's commentaries and reference titles. Oxford has a collection of research monographs online and just launched Oxford Bibliographies Online to help researchers at all levels find relevant and credible sources. Laurie Schlesinger, JPS's director of sales and marketing, is excited about the publisher's audio version of JPS Tanakh, seeing in it an opportunity to experience the Bible as people might have done years before it was a book—in an oral format.

"More challenging—and promising—is the creation of interactive, multimedia platforms. Jack Kuhatschek, executive v-p and publisher for Baker Publishing Group, says, 'I think some of the most exciting trends will be in the digital arena, where we will be able to transcend the limitations of print.' The ability to call up relevant visual aids and even audio and video to clarify or supplement straight text are not just useful tools—they will be expected by the iPad generation. 'We also see the need for reference materials that go beyond print to include visual enhancements,' says Paul Engle, senior v-p and publisher at Zondervan. The 'ongoing challenge,' Engle adds, 'is to publish vetted and carefully edited resources from the best scholars, to set it apart from what might appear in Internet searches.' "

Class Warfare

. . . in this week's New Yorker magazine.

Fighting Back ~ Barry Blitt

Lockerbied . . .

Courtesy of our friends at Tulip Frenzy.

on YouTube:

 

. . . by a Yankee fan, no less.  And nasty A-Rod dig by Rupert's boys.

Why Not?

Is this hope and change?

Cedar Tree Neck

Went fishing on the north shore and caught these.

Frisbee

Flying Horses

Flying Horses Carousel

There’s a Carousel in Oak Bluffs town, 
The horses don’t go up or down,
The horses just go ‘round and ‘round, 
On the Carousel in Oak Bluffs town.

Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish

Steve Jobs, RIP.

It is high, it is far . . .

It is gone!

Fun article from The New York Times (with multimedia features) about John Sterling, the radio announcer of the New York Yankees.  I did not know there are blogs dedicated to dissing the guy.  Like most things about the Yankees, you either love 'em or hate 'em.  Count me among the cosmic community.

Excerpt here:

"There is no more polarizing figure in New York sports broadcasting than the idiosyncratic and eccentric Sterling. His home run calls — “An A-bomb from A-Rod” or “Robbie Cano, don’t you know” — are cultural references that will permanently mark this latest era of Yankees success. He is unquestionably popular among the cosmic community of Yankees fans, his presence entering or exiting Yankee Stadium causing the same commotion as most players’. The ratings for Yankees radio broadcasts are strong. The team’s management and players routinely and unwaveringly praise him."

61

October 1, 1961.

The South Pole

. . . of Mercury.

 From nasa.gov:

"After only six months in orbit around Mercury, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft is sending back information that has revolutionized the way scientists think about the innermost planet. Analyses of new data from the spacecraft show, among other things, new evidence that flood volcanism has been widespread on Mercury, the first close-up views of Mercury's "hollows," the first direct measurements of the chemical composition of Mercury's surface, and the first global inventory of plasma ions within Mercury's space environment."