Dubai plans 'moving' skyscraper

The world's first moving building, an 80-storey tower with revolving floors giving a shifting shape, will be built in Dubai, its architect says.

The Dynamic Tower design is made up of 80 pre-fabricated apartments which will spin independently of one another.

"It's the first building that rotates, moves, and changes shape," said architect David Fisher, who is Italian, at a news conference in New York.

"This building never looks the same, not once in a lifetime," he added.

It's like they have money to burn.

George Carlin

George Carlin has passed on. He has shucked off his mortal coil and joined the Choir Invisible. I don't think he rates a "Raise a Glass", but I did think I would add a few funny quotes from him.

"You can tell a lot about a person by what they'll do FOR $10 and what they do WITH $10"

"Ever wonder why at the end of every package of bacon there's always one weird piece of bacon? "

"Ever notice when you blow in a dog's face he gets mad at you, but when you take him in a car he sticks his head out the window?"

"What do dogs do on their day off? They can't lie around--that's their job."

--"I like using words that have never been used together before, like 'hand me that piano.'"

Quote of the Day

"Remember, good ideas never enter through the mouth."

NPR Still Lamenting 'American Concentration Camp' in Hollywood

Mass murder in real concentration camps in the Soviet Union are ancient history to National Public Radio, but the cause of poor, blacklisted communists in Hollywood charging America was a concentration camp is still a fresh and poignant soundbite. On the June 17 edition of All Things Considered, anchor Melissa Block championed a forthcoming new documentary about communist screenwriter Dalton Trumbo, made by Peter Askin and Trumbo’s son Christopher and featuring big celebrities like Michael Douglas. It amazes me that 50 years after the fact, the leftist media is still denying that there were communists in this country during the cold war who were trying to use our guaranteed freedoms to destroy our country from within.

Quote of the Day

"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."

--Mark Twain

The end of blogging?

It might happen if the Associated Press has its way. They want to begin charging blogs that quote directly from them. We aren't talking long, direct copies mind you, the charges start at 5 words. Each little clip I use on this blog would cost me $50 - $100 to re-print. What ever happened to Free Use you might ask? Well Michelle Malkin has the answer. To quote her article, Mainstream Media (MSM) is the disease, mockery is the cure. Michelle totals up the reverse charges for every time the AP has quoted her blog. This will be a fun battle to watch. It is certainly the Goliath of the News World against every little David on the block.

Raise a Glass

Raise a glass and remember a true Rock and Roll pioneer, Mr. Bo Diddley.

The legendary singer and performer, known for his homemade square guitar, dark glasses and black hat, was an inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, had a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame, and received a lifetime achievement award in 1999 at the Grammy Awards. In recent years he also played for the elder President Bush and President Clinton.

Diddley appreciated the honors he received, "but it didn't put no figures in my checkbook."


"If you ain't got no money, ain't nobody calls you honey," he quipped.

The name Bo Diddley came from other youngsters when he was growing up in Chicago, he said in a 1999 interview.

"I don't know where the kids got it, but the kids in grammar school gave me that name," he said, adding that he liked it so it became his stage name. Other times, he gave somewhat differing stories on where he got the name. Some experts believe a possible source for the name is a one-string instrument used in traditional blues music called a diddley bow.

His first single, "Bo Diddley," introduced record buyers in 1955 to his signature rhythm: bomp ba-bomp bomp, bomp bomp, often summarized as "shave and a haircut, two bits." The B side, "I'm a Man," with its slightly humorous take on macho pride, also became a rock standard.

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20080603/D9129F680.html