Works. : )

I lost this on November.  They played Don't They Know It's Christmas After All, So This is Christmas, and Simply Having a Wonderful Christmas Time and they won't stop!

Sorry I missed this New Dawn.  I hope you had a wonderful celebration.  The big 50!  Mine is not too far in the future as well.

Different tastes keeps us from being a boring species.

I never really had exposure to the Dead before.  I listened to the entire performance you linked to.  Thanks  for that.  I will listen to some more perhaps with better sound quality.  Feel free to post more links.

I can understand the appeal but it would seem to be one of those can't quite describe in a single common phrase.  Their singing is not particularly good and their instrumentation didn't seem particularly special, not that most popular performers stand out in these ways either.  However, it is the sort of music that you can have on as background music which is why I can see them being particularly popular in live concerts.  Most musicians are lousy outside of the studio.  For example, Katy Perry is expert at her vocal arrangements in her pop music but live she is terrible to the degree you'd think she doesn't care a whit about her performance.  She is a true recording artist, not performing artist.  Technology does wonders.  So the Dead, not too loud, not too soft, not offensive, not kiddie oriented or candy granola.  They are just about right there in the middle.

I took interest in the commenators' discussion during the concert, noting the part where they stated that the band was just beginning using a producer for their next album, as opposed to self producing, and couldn't help but wonder if they received criticism from some fans who may have thought that this move was "going commercial".


New Dawn I liked the Honda commercial a lot.  Fun. 

Also, the time lapse links were not so much about the time lapse format but rather about the subject, the night sky.  It is of particular interest to me because here on the east coast of the US, there is not much night sky to enjoy.  I'm a sci-fi junkie and the stars are wondrous to me, all nine of them that I can see here in Maryland.

I give credit to the editors of your #2 and 3 videos.

I like things like these.  Best viewed in HD.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_719132&feature=iv&src_vid=KySThq5CxLI&v=xLKc4yKgZTk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EM5lM5WEY3Q

The Sun map is preset to have no regions.  My apologies for somehow missing your post.

One of my machines has Vista, an operating system about which Microsoft should be ashamed and should reimburse and personally apologize to all users.

I'd rather she didn't sing at all because she's, IMO, vastly overrated.  But if other folks like her that's fine too.  I'd pay to see SOoT sing though.