Terry Pratchett Flow Chart
My admiration or Terry Pratchett is no secret, but to the uninitiated, an ouvre approaching 50 books must seem intimidating—not to mention indicative of a less-than-stellar consistency.
Terry Pratchett Health Update
Donates $1 million to early-onset Alzheimer's research http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7291315.stm";. Tells Alzheimer's Research Trust conference, "Personally, I'd eat the arse out of a dead mole if it offered a fighting chance."
Terry Pratchett Interview at SciFi.com
The man's a marvel. Gives good interview, too.
Terry Pratchett: "I'm Not Dead"
That, unfortunately, is the good news at Discworld">http://www.paulkidby.com/news/index.html">Discworld News. Pratchett announces that he has been diagnosed with early onset Alzheimer's.
Terry Teachout on the Beatles
And popular songs and why only "Yesterday" became a "standard in the old fashioned sense."
Test Your Sense of Pitch
Take the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders' Distorted Tunes Test.
Testing Riddum
Do your part for research by taking this rhythm perception test.
Testing: One, Two, Three
Jean-Paul Guy's office contains his electronics test bench and a variety of classic French hi-fi. He's definitely one of us.
Text to Speech
Kind of cool—and very well done, although the first thing I loaded in was "argh," which Kate could not pronounce.
Thank God!
I'm not alone. As Blog">http://www.bookslut.com/blog/archives/2007_05.php#011150">Blog of a Bookslut's Jessa Crispen says, "Another book they'll have to put me in a Clockwork Orange chair to get me to read: Falling Man by Don DeLillo. Thank you, Guardian, for justifying my judgmental reaction."