moon phases

Started this before change to "New Blogger", as backup in case of trouble with digiphoto blog "In a Small Dark Room", or rants & links blog "Hello Cruel World" . Useful - at one stage Dark Room was there, but like the astrophysical Dark Matter, we could't see it ... better now, but kept Just In Case.

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There is nothing. There is no God and no universe, there is only empty space, and in it a lost and homeless and wandering and companionless and indestructible Thought. And I am that thought. And God, and the Universe, and Time, and Life, and Death, and Joy and Sorrow and Pain only a grotesque and brutal dream, evolved from the frantic imagination of that same Thought.
Mark Twain (letter to Joseph Twichell after his wife's death)
[me, on a bad day]

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Other Germanic news, but sadder  
Sadder Germanic News
Someone who isn't Dan Brown demonstrates the most common use of 'Renowned' at the start of a sentence (and, indeed, a paragraph, or even a whole story).
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/5243582.stm
Renowned German soprano Dame Elisabeth Schwarzkopf has died at her home in Austria at the age of 90.
BBC Video Obituary (approx 1 minute)

Video Obituary (??)
I hope this means we get a few good full-length arias played over the next few days/weeks, but I suspect there'll just be snippets. She was very a good singer.

Digital Domesday
From parchment to pixels as book hits web
news.bbc.co.uk/ nolavconsole/ ifs_news/ hi/ newsid_5240000/ newsid_5244300/ nb_wm_5244332.stm
[permalink] posted by Mez at 10:36 pm