Why Sheep?

From CuteOverload.com. Hopefully, this crow is helping remove some Bot Fly eggs from the sheep’s nose.

Abraham Lincoln, An Account of His Personal Life, Especially of Its Springs of Action as Revealed and Deepened by the Ordeal of War Link to (free) full-story-page at Project Gutenberg

The Gettysburg Address (MP3) from the Great Speeches in History Podcast from LearnOutLoud.com

This collection of Lincoln’s letters gives us a glimpse into the inner self of a great American president. After a brief autobiography, the letters appear chronologically, beginning with his courtship and early political life and continuing into the presidency. In these letters, Lincoln reveals his private side. His letter to Mrs. Orville Browning is a [...]

(Link to Yahoo) By CARLA K. JOHNSON, Associated Press Writer Artists, sculptors and photographers knew Abraham Lincoln’s face had a good side. Now it’s confirmed by science. Laser scans of two life masks, made from plaster casts of Lincoln’s face, reveal the 16th president’s unusual degree of facial asymmetry, according to a new study.

CAMBRIDGE — With an Xbox that projects onto the wall, beer in the fridge, and a caffeinated techno soundtrack playing in the background as burgers sizzle on the grill outside, a dozen entrepreneurs are hard at work building Boston’s next Web start-ups in a Central Square loft dubbed Betahouse. http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2007/08/11/in_cambridge_loft_web_junkies_meet_for_coffee_and_the_next_big_thing/?page=full

Honest Abe cloisonné label pin. Wear it with pride. From Shopshin’s General Store in NY.

2008 Sheepshearing Festival Saturday, April 26th, 10am-4pm, Rain or Shine 52 Gore Street Waltham MA

This is a fixed-episode-count podcast (they just put out the final episode) about John Coltrane and his music and his impact on jazz. Most episodes are pretty short (~10 mins) and involve either interviews/commentary with experts on John Coltrane (or the quartet) or with people who played with him, such as McCoy Tyner, Jimmy Cobb, [...]

David Kaffine told me about the TWiT podcast a while back and it has become a lasting staple of mine. It is one of the few “long” (~1 hour, give or take) podcasts I listen to, but it is very interesting.There is a regular crew of heavy-duty podcasters (Leo Laporte and John C. Dvorak and [...]