Musical Road Hits Sour Notes With Neighbors

Local officials say it was a mistake to allow a television commercial company to grind grooves into a stretch of desert roadway near Lancaster to enable car tires to play a song — “The William Tell Overture” — as people drive over it.

The sounds are disturbing people in a nearby subdivision, the Daily News reports. The City of Lancaster plans to pave over the musical grooves Tuesday.

Persons driving the posted 55 miles an hour west on Avenue K, in the high desert about five miles west of the Antelope Valley (14) Freeway, hear about 38 musical notes of the well-known theme, also known as the overture to “The Lone Ranger.”

American Honda has paid for the promotion as part of a television ad campaign set to air this fall, but amateurs have peppered YouTube with homemade renditions of their own vehicles rolling over the grooves.

The road is tuned to a car just exactly the length, and equipped with tires the same size, as a Honda Civic, a spokesman for Honda said. But other vehicles are also successful in playing the notes, if a little off-key.

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Lebanon lands $175M Bible Park USA

Developers of the Bible Park USA have announce plans to build the $175 million park in Lebanon.

The park will be built on 113 acres off Cainsville Road and Tater Peeler Road fronting Interstate 40 in Lebanon, according to a press release from the developers, BPU Holdings, LLC.

Construction is expected to begin in 2009, with the park opening in late 2010.

Developers had hoped to building the Bible theme park just outside of Murfreesboro, but zoning for the park was defeated in a close vote by the Rutherford County Commission in May.

The development of the park is being headed by Calif.-based Entertainment Development Group Inc.

The park will represent life as it was in the Holy Land’s early days and visualizations of Bible stories, according to the developers. In addition to attractions for people of all ages and religions, it will include a children’s area and a teen area that will be ideal for church events and field trips.

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The Bible Goes Green for the Prius Age

Green runs through the Bible like a vine. There are the Garden and Noah’s olive branch. The oaks under which Abraham met with angels. The “tree standing by the waterside” in Psalms. And there is Jesus, the self-proclaimed “true vine,” who describes the Kingdom of Heaven as a mustard seed that grows into a tree “where birds can nest.” He dies on a cross of wood, and when he rises Mary Magdalene mistakes him for a gardener.

Now there is a Bible trying to make gardeners of us all. On Oct. 7, HarperCollins is releasing The Green Bible, a Scripture for the Prius age that calls attention to more than 1,000 verses related to nature by printing them in a pleasant shade of forest green, much as red-letter editions of the Bible encrimson the words of Jesus. The new version’s message, states an introduction by Evangelical eco-activist J. Matthew Sleeth, is that “creation care”–the Christian catchphrase for nature conservancy–“is at the very core of our Christian walk.”

Using recycled paper with soy-based ink, The Green Bible includes supplementary writings by, among others, St. Francis of Assisi, Pope John Paul II, Desmond Tutu and Anglican bishop N.T. Wright. Several of these essays cite the Genesis verse in which God gives humanity “dominion” over the earth, a charge most religious greens read to mean “stewardship.” Others assert that eco-neglect violates Jesus’ call to care for the least among us: it is the poor who inhabit the floodplains.

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Mixtape Memory Stick

Nobody makes mixtapes anymore. Analog audiotapes just aren’t passed around anymore. It’s a shame, really. Yes, the medium sucks, but the concept and the thought and the ART needs to find a way to live on.

The USB Mixtape Memory Stick is a digital analogue to the venerable C60 cassette of old. 60 minutes worth of storage or your MP3s, organized into a cohesive whole – something that says who you are at this moment in time. Packaged to look like an old analog audio cassette tape, with room to scrawl out your tracklist, the USB Mixtape Memory Stick makes the perfect gift to your significant other.

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