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Sunday, January 24, 2021

Awesome streaming Radio Garden, the birth of the web, cool etymologies, mid winter 2021

Radio Garden



A world map with radio stations streaming.


This is one of the most fantastic things I've seen/heard online. Wow. 

Apparently, it was created by TRE (Transnational Radio Encounters). It is so awesome to be able to travel around this amazing planet, see the geographic details on the map, listening to the languages, music, ambiance, news in so many countries, far flung corners of the world. Just like that. Boom. One moment listening to music in Bamako, Mali, Almaty, Kazakhstan, Bengaluru, India then swiveling the globe and listening to music in Chalcis, Greece.

I love the Stories part of this website too, in different accents. The History part too around the world, in different languages. Even the Jingles part is cool.

Looking at the globe is wonderful as well, connecting to parts of the world by their radio programs is an interesting sort of intimacy. I like targeting the littler dots in exotic places I've never heard of before.

What a great sound adventure this is.

The birth of the Web

The World Wide Web was invented by British scientist Tim Berners-Lee in 1989 while working at CERN

Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN. The web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated information-sharing between scientists in universities and institutes around the world.

The first website at CERN – and in the world – was dedicated to the World Wide Web project itself and was hosted on Berners-Lee's NeXT computer. In 2013, CERN launched a project to restore this first ever websiteinfo.cern.ch.

On 30 April 1993, CERN put the World Wide Web software in the public domain. Later, CERN made a release available with an open licence, a more sure way to maximise its dissemination. These actions allowed the web to flourish.

Browse the world's first website

Lake Street Dive - "Don't Let Me Down"


For anyone who needs some blissfully calm videos, these are marvelous - Nature Relaxation Films - on YouTube.

Traditional Architecture Traditional House of Java












The Etymology Nerd on Twitter




Sunday, June 21, 2015

Sunday, Summer Solstice 2015

I found this mesmerizing. The dream of making my own tiny house in the forest.


So interesting this, making a basket from scratch and surviving in the forest.

This is neat too. Making a stone axe.


I love the ferny frondiness of trees with bipinnate leaves.
Chinese Albizia

Trees with bipinnate leaves


Ooh, rainbow hair
Goodbye Eternity, Sigrid Astrup
Black Panther, Toshi Yoshida (1911 - 1995) 

Illustration by Lim Heng Swee.
Peace is Wise by Tamara K. Richel

Image by Dr. Mike Emme, 2013

Tama by Takahashi Shôtei

Harry G. Aberdeen American, active c. 1935 Bicycle, c. 1936 watercolor and graphite on paper

Carlos with a laptop after work, 2010 by Karoliina Paatos