I'm finding all *kinds* of neat stuff on YouTube. I had thought it was mostly teenagers' home videos of Stupid Human Tricks and MTV-type music videos, but after I stumbled across an old Dave Brubeck video on somebody's blog, and Curtis sent me to a terrific Sonny Williamson II video, I started poking around to see what else might be there.
It's addictive. I can hardly tear myself away. Here's a few of my finds: A real treasure--M.S. Subbulakshmi singing "Maitreem Bhajata": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbBBNRT4VKg And a very different treasure, Bessie Smith singing "St. Louis Blues": http://tinyurl.com/jf8z2 Physicist Richard Feynman in a charming, informal short talk analogizing scientific exploration to figuring out the rules of chess by observing a game, with a neat twist at the end: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ub042xIT7a0 Enrico Caruso singing "Vesti la giubba" from "I Pagliacci." After this, they should have retired the number; nobody ever needed to sing it again: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0hX-8KSVOo Something for everybody. What an amazing site. The best way to explore it, I've found, is via playlist categories, not the general categories. Every video on a playlist has a "Related playlists" link. If you find a playlist with a number of videos you like, chances are the related playlists will also have neat stuff in that category, but they may also branch out and include surprises from entirely different categories. I found the Subbulakshmi and Feynman videos via playlists related to a playlist in the Classical Music category. There's a bunch of other good Carnatic music videos, BTW. If anyone's interested, I'll post links to some of those as well. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get to your groups with one click. Know instantly when new email arrives http://us.click.yahoo.com/.7bhrC/MGxNAA/yQLSAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
