William's Favorite Links

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Music

Scottish Smallpipes by Hamish Moore. He made my set.

The Piper's Gathering ~ North America's premier alternate piping event!

Need a piper in Germany? Piping is global. Here is the web site of Thomas Schalla. He was a student of Duncan Johnstone and that is how I learned of him. He found my pictures and tribute to Duncan Johnstone on this web site. Can you say: "Dudelsackspieler"?

The Willie Clancy Summer School. Hey I'd like to go there... wouldn't you?

Nigel Gather's Traditional Music Pages are a terrific resource for Scottish Music.

Parlor Songs is where I discovered an incredibly beautiful song "Macushla" and there are many other gems hidden here.

Click here for Jazz Fiddle Radio on the Web.

Books/Cinema

The Lord of the Rings An awesome piece of celluloid.

And here's another--what cool days we are living in...to see your childhood imagination of Narnia brought to life on screen.

Other Wonderful Diversions

Here's a site for folks like me from the Church of Christ who crossed the Tiber to find the real thing had been there all along... These are some other good ones: BCS, Catholic Answers, EWTN, Spirit Daily, and perhaps what you could call the Encyclopedia Galactica of the Roman Catholic Church online: New Advent... or just click on the image to go to the source...

I also love ancient Roman History as well. You can do-it-yourself with a game called Caesar IV.

Long live Ray! It really could be a Fantastic Voyage. Some interesting ideas about better health no matter how long you've got.

You gotta hope there are never mushroom clouds on the horizon but it is always nice to know something in advance about the enormous blast effects. This is an unforgettable site.

Spencer Wells has done some very interesting work on human origins and our history before history. It is incredible to think that 70,000 years ago there were only about 2,000 humans scattered in isolated tribes, for example. Check it out at the Natl. Geographic.

IF it does happen, might as well just light up a fat one of these: CAO Cigars are some of the best.

I love Giant Squids and Colossal Squids,Check out the pictures of a live Architeuthis and and a dead Mesonychoteuthis hamiltoni, respectively. The paper published by the scientists who first photographed a live Architeuthis on September 29, 2005 is here. Check out the squidblog and now that they have a greater biomass on the planet: All Hail Squid Overlords!! "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." Hamlet, Act I, Scene V

I love Congo African Grey parrots, Psittacus erithacus and Hyacinth Macaws, Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus.

A great source of things to think about is the Investor's Business Daily.