The Magpie Bjournal

K.D. Lang – Hallelujah, Crying

Jane Siberry – The Walking, Calling all Angels

Glenn Gould - Bach - Goldberg Variations: Aria, Bach - BWV 828 - 1 - Overture

The Tragically Hip – New Orleans is Sinking, Blow at High Dough, Poets

Sarah McLachlan - Ice Cream

Rush - YYZ, Tom Sawyer, The Trees

The Barenaked Ladies - One Week, Brian Wilson, Lovers in a Dangerous Time

Neil Young - Heart of Gold, Helpless, Needle and the Damage Done

Bruce Cockburn - Deer Dancing ’round a Broken Mirror, Mama Just Wants To Barrelhouse all Night Long, If I Had a Rocket Launcher

The Guess Who - American Woman

BTO - Taking Care Of Business

The Band - The Weight, Up On Cripple Creek, The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down

Spirit of the West - Political

The Reostatics - Claire, P.I.N., Power Ballad to Ozzy Osbourne

Sarah Slean - Lucky Me, Pilgrim

Joni Mitchell - Big Yellow Taxi, Raised on Robbery, Woodstock

Oscar Peterson - Hymn to Freedom, C Jam Blues

Lenny Breau - The Claw, Georgia

The Cowboy Junkies - Sweet Jane, ‘Cause Cheap is How I Feel, Blue Moon Revisited

Blue Rodeo - After the Rain, Trust Yourself

Holly Cole - Little Boy Blue, Cry (If You Want To)

Ed Mitchell was an Apollo 14 Astronaut who is among the 12 people ever to walk on the moon. He has recently been in the news for saying that all of the “Roswell” and “Hanger 18” stuff is true. Flying saucers, little grey aliens, a 1947 crash in New Mexico – all of it. It all really happened, and the government has been keeping it secret.

Mr. Mitchell also has some things to say about The Quantum Hologram of Nature’s Mind.

Captain Joe Kittinger, although not widely known, was first man in space, and first person to exceed the speed of sound without the aid of an aircraft.

Here’s a truly, chillingly, awesomely, cool shot of the Earth / Moon system as seen from Mars, by the HiRISE (High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment) camera on NASA’s Reconnaissance Orbiter. This is what you would see through a good backyard rig, if you were on Mars and were pointing your telescope back at earth.

Here is a cool little movie made by the folks at the Space Sciences Laboratory, UC Berkeley – explaining magnetic fields, solar flares and the Northern Lights. They also get bonus points for making science so damn beautiful.
 

Best ever idea for a movie.

I think it’s eminently nifty that Flickr provides a “Take me to the Kittens” button, just in case the images you are viewing suddenly become too scary. At least that’s what I found while viewing Coop’s most awesome and extensive Flickr photoset of his toy Japanese monster collection.

And the button actually takes you to kittens, if you press it.

Be sure to look up occasionally between late February and early March. It could be good for your health.

Between late February and early March, that’s when a disabled American spy satellite the size of a city bus will plunge back to earth. It’s powered by pure poison and they have no idea where it will come down.

 
This photograph was taken on Mars, by NASA’s Mars Spirit rover who was launched along with her sister craft, Opportunity, on June 10^th, 2003.

This is a close-up of that dark thing in the upper left hand portion of the NASA picture.

This image is from a film shot in Bluff Creek Clifornia, on October 27th, 1967 by Roger Patterson and Robert Gimlin.