palestars

Flash Chess

Ken — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 18:05:17 +0000

A very slick (and free) online chess game built in Flash. You can even download it and play it offline, too. LINK→

Unsayable Grace

Ken — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 06:14:57 +0000

“ Words can never say, as music can, the unsayable grace that leaps like light from mind to mind.

— Gwen Harwood

Ghost Singing

Ken — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:40:38 +0000

A 10-second fragment of a person singing Au clair de lune and recorded on April 9, 1860, has been discovered and played back. It was recorded with smoke and paper 17 years before Edison invented the phonograph. LINK→

Martian Clouds Rolling By

Ken — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 18:32:01 +0000

Martian Clouds Rolling By, courtesy of Phoenix

Catching Up

Ken — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 02:21:03 +0000

Catching Up

Day-Blind Stars

Ken — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 17:46:26 +0000

“ …And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light…

— Wendell Berry

chaquejour66001

Ken — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:35:09 +0000

chaquejour66001 from Fabien Vita*’s photostream

sidereal

Ken — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 02:26:57 +0000

si·de·re·al

adj. Of, relating to, or concerned with the stars or constellations; stellar.

Rest In Peace Arthur C. Clarke

Ken — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 01:30:01 +0000

Arthur C. Clarke
Rest In Peace

How You Take It

Ken — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 18:42:20 +0000

“ Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.

— Irving Berlin