I enjoyed tonight's Frontline documentary on the history of apocalyptic belief.

Whee! http://students.washington.edu/dsanders/blog/co_full.html now contains BrainLog's full content (including the archive). Blog watchers and search engines alike can use that file. (The other 2-line text file I mentioned will continue to be supported.)

New primary color discovered. (Yeah, it's old, but hey, it's new to me.)

Jessica Abel is the cartoonist that drew the This American Life comic book. She describes her attempts to follow the instructions in the book to create a TAL-like radio piece.

I've finally developed a web-based updating facility for myself. As a part of this, blog checkers can now access http://students.washington.edu/dsanders/blog/lastupdated.txt to see when BrainLog was last updated. Woohoo!

The Lyrics to College Fight Songs site has a page on differences between versions. On the University of Washington (citin g contributor Toby Nelson):

Lyrical differences in 'Bow Down to Washington' ...

Lyricist Lester Wilson wrote the first phrase of the chorus as "Dobie, Dobie Pride of Washington", instead of "Heaven Help the Foes of Washington". The ASUW enacted an amendment to change the lyrics after Gilmore Dobie resigned as football coach in 191 8.

The very rarely used, and now almost completely forgot, first verse of 'Bow' replaces everything in the intro after the first two lines with:

"From across the land they send their teams of great renown, /
But on the field of battle they are trampled into the ground, /
Pull the Golden Bear, /
From his mighty lair, /
And we'll drag his carcass with us to the Northland."

and the last two lines of the chorus with:

"And when we snare that Golden Bear, /
You'll never carry him back to California."

as 'Bow' was originally written as specifically an anti-UC, Berkeley song.

See also the Mary Paynton's notes on the UW fight song lyrics, with full past and present lyrics.