IdyllopusPress Presents

Am just recording this in the blog so it gets more Google visibility as at present there is only one search result.
A friend of ours in the music industry received the following and thought it to read like a scam, and it is:
Hello,
compliments of the day to you, how are you and how is
work, hope [...]

Where have I been that I haven’t previously stumbled upon the “Center for Cooperative Research”.
The objectives are to (1) Reduce the fragmentation of the historical record (2) Increase the efficiency of information acquisition (3) Increase the efficiency of information production (4) Encourage the transition of oversight responsibilities from governments to civil society on a [...]

Visit Showandtellmusic.com and listen to the 60s English band “The Shaggs”, the clip offered from their 1968 “Philosophy of the World” album debut being Who are Parents?
I don’t know how they did it. As I only need to listen to “Who are Parents?” once in a lifetime, I’m not going to replay [...]

Klondike Kate’s Aurora continues her watch on the sun’s antics. Her enthusiasm is catching. “Science is cool” she writes, and if H.o.p. was a little older and interested yet in the sun and sun spots then I’d be reading to him her entries.
A sample:
There is an intriguing picture in the film strip on [...]

Skookum has a new blog, Archipelago.
The impetus behind Archipelago is to provide a literary showcase for the unpublished, the self-published, and the uncelebrated islands of brilliance waiting to be discovered. Out of this collective luminescence, it is our hope that the pools of wisdom and currents of insight will carry thoughtful readers to their shores.

All right. Before you think to comment or write to me about how you think Jean Charles de Menezes got what he was asking for (1) read Earl Ofari Hutchinson’s Menezes’ Killing Casts Ugly Glare on Racial Profiling in Britain, and then, if you are still itching to share that opinion (2) empty [...]

This is a photo by Nicolas Asfouri, AFP, from 2005 July 4.
“Police officers in riot kit block a street as a protester participating in the ‘carnival for full enjoyment’ rally stands in front of them in Edinburgh. The demo was to pressure leaders of the Group of Eight most industrialised nations who will stay [...]

Today a friend sends the following in an email saying it maybe a reason to be for Roberts (but I disagree):
“The exchange occurred during one of Roberts’ informal discussions with senators last week. According to two people who attended the meeting, Roberts was asked by Sen. Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) what he would do if the [...]

“When he got things wrong, classmates assumed it was the teacher who had made the mistake.” — TIME