The Agassiz statue

The Agassiz statue, Stanford University, California. April 1906.
The collapse reason of the statue is earthquake.



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Beatles and iTunes talk growing

EMI is to hold a media event on Monday with Apple boss Steve Jobs as special guest, prompting speculation that Beatles songs will finally go online.

None of the Beatles tracks are available to download on any online music service.

In an invite to media sent out on Sunday, EMI said it was announcing an "exciting new digital offering".

There will also be a "special live performance" at the London event by an unnamed artist or band.

Earlier this year iPod-maker Apple reached agreement with Beatles' record label Apple following a long-running legal row over the use of the two firms' name.

Under the terms of the arrangement, Apple Inc took full control of the Apple brand and licensed certain trademarks back to the Beatles' record company Apple Corps for continued use.

That led to mounting speculation that Beatles songs would be available on Apple's download service iTunes. EMI has released the Beatles records since 1962 single Love Me Do.

Last week at a mobile industry conference, EMI chief executive Eric Nicoli praised Apple for the simplicity of the iPod and iTunes.

He told the industry that it should learn from Apple.

If the deal does not have anything to do with the Beatles, there is speculation that it could be tied to Apple's new iPhone.

A spokesman for EMI would not comment on the subject of the press conference.

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The Fray- How to Save a Life

Internet map by Matt Britt...

Matt Britt: I created this small partial map of the Internet from the 2005-01-15 data found here using a slightly different rendering technique than was used to generate the maps there. Each line is drawn between two nodes, representing two IP addresses . The length of the lines are indicative of the delay between those two nodes. This graph represents less than 30% of the Class C networks reachable by the data collection program in early 2005. Lines are color-coded according to their corresponding RFC 1918 allocation as follows:

• Dark blue: net, ca, us
• Green: com, org
• Red: mil, gov, edu
• Yellow: jp, cn, tw, au, de
• Magenta: uk, it, pl, fr
• Blue-green: br, kr, nl
• White: unknown

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A Horseshoe Bend

My Sweet Lord

"My Sweet Lord" is its name, 1.8 m height, made of chocolate...

The sculpture by Cosimo Cavallaro described naked Jesus with his arms outspread. 90 kg chocolate has been used in its formation, and had been planning to exhibit over Easter Holy Week, from Monday, at Manhattan's Lab Gallery, but boycott of Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights the exhibition has been canceled.

Canadian-born artist Cavallaro is very famous with his sculptures which he made from food ingredients. One of his works was hotel room in mozzarella cheese.



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Nowruz Celebration in METU

Very beautiful Caucasian Dance by Azerbaijani students in celebration of Nowruz which is national holiday of Turks, they celebrate this day as the first day of spring. They make fire, they jump over the fire and believe that the tiredness of last year discharged to the fire. There some other customs of Nowruz like preparing some national sweets, cleaning homes, and etc... Here Azerbaijani students just come together and dance to celebrate the Nowruz, and here is one video from the celebration day...