moving on: teabyrd.com

I’ve decided to go with a new hosted blog.  I’ll be integrating shizaam into teabyrd.

The Unseen Beatles

A documentary film featuring unseen home footage and behind-the-scenes news film of the world’s most famous band. This programme reveals the truth about why, at the height of their fame, The Beatles never performed again following the 1966 US sell-out shows. The film shows how the seeds of discontent were sown which eventually lead to [...]

Art and the Semantic Web

Alright, this is the last Wall Street article for the day.  Museums are beginning to open up their collections to the Web for tagging: Why Museums Want you to Catalog their Works

The idea: If works are labeled with simple terms that describe their content, a broader audience will be able to find them, particularly as [...]

Wine Notes

Wine notes: keeping it fresh
Q. I was wondering what you two thought was the best way to keep opened wine fresh for more than 24 hours?

A. This is one of our most-asked questions. The trick is to keep air away from the wine and there are many ways to do that. One of the simplest [...]

Matisse’s Shockingly Subversive work

Matisse – Le Bonheur de Vivre
From the Weekend Edition of the Wall Street Journal: A Modern Masterpiece
(view a high resolution photo of the painting)

 But if his technical procedure was like that of the Renaissance masters, the result was something like the opposite. This nearly 6-by-8-foot canvas was so untraditional — and so subversive — that [...]

A Photograph’s Hidden History

 
The Wall Street Journal Weekend edition features a great piece on this 1979 photograph that has been anonymously attributed until now.

TEHRAN — On Aug. 27, 1979, two parallel lines of 11 men formed on a field of dry dirt in Sanandaj, Iran. One group wore blindfolds. The other held rifles. The command came in Farsi [...]