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Pop music from arabophonic countries is often so amazingly insane - I recall being transfixed in the back of a Moroccan cab, delirious from tainted couscous, zooming around hairpin curves in the Rif Mountains at 70 miles an hour and wondering, “what the fuck IS this?” I became enamored for life. The instrumentals remind me of the backings behind the late great Oum Kalthoum.

clipped from awesometapesfromafrica.blogspot.com Saturday, September 22, 2007 Who is this? What’s this record called? Side A Track 1 Track 2 Track 3 Side B Track 4 Track 5 Track 6 Arabic-reading friends, can you help us identify this tape? Thanks again to Haab for these sick cassettes from Egypt. (see also: here and here) Lovers of circus-y melodic maneuvers go directly to Track 6. My girlfriend asked if I was listening to Arabian Fiddler on the Roof. Sounds like fancy party music to me. The dueling male and female vocal choruses on Track 2 are worth checking out, as is the general virtuosity of the instrumental accompaniment throughout.

Defenders Of Wildlife has made available some really cool desktop wallpapers of wolves (including a cute wolf pup who, when he grows up, will no doubt be shot at from a helicopter by a Wyoming ranching friend of our Vice Prez) and polar bears, too. For both Macs + PCs. Y’know, REAL hunters RESPECT wildlife, NOT decimate!

INSTRUCTIONS :

For Windows 95 or higher

1. Click on the link below the wallpaper you want to choose the proper resolution for your monitor.
2. With the cursor over the image, click and hold the right-hand button on your mouse.
3. On the menu that pops up, select “Set as wallpaper” or “set as background.”

For Mac OS X

1. Click on the image above at the proper resolution for your monitor, a larger version of the image will appear in your browser.
2. Click on the image and drag it onto your desktop.
3. Select “Change Desktop background” and find the image you’ve just downloaded and click on it.

clipped from www.defenders.org Defenders of Wildlife Wallpaper Add one of our wallpapers to your computer’s desktop. Grey Wolf 1280×1024 1024×768 800×600 Polar Bear 1280×1024 1024×768 800×600 Wolf Pup 1280×1024 1024×768 800×600   Identify the resolution that most closely matches your computer monitor’s resolution For Mac OS X For Windows 95 or higher

Enough being nice. Fuck ranchers! Vice-President Dick “Blow Your Face Off” Cheney has enabled aerial hunting of wolves in Wyoming - such a chicken-shit thing to do. But ranchers have long been poisoning prairie dogs warrens as well. I was welcomed to the Arctic Circle by a friendly arctic ground squirrel, a cousin of these creatures, so I have a different perspective anyway. Watch the video, won’t you?

clipped from www.britannica.com Prairie dogs excavate elaborate burrow systems with many entrances marked by low or volcano-shaped mounds. The common black-tailed (C. ludovicianus) and Mexican (C. mexicanus) species live in large, dense colonies that early explorers described as “towns.” Natural predators of prairie dogs include badgers, wolves, coyotes, bobcats, black-footed ferrets, golden eagles, and large hawks. Once abundant, prairie dog populations have been drastically reduced in range and number by poisoning programs of ranchers who have considered them as pests and by conversion of habitat to cropland. The black-tailed prairie dog (C. ludovicianus) is the most widespread, living throughout the Great Plains from Canada to northern Mexico