Footnote Podcast http://footnote.libsyn.com A discussion of Myth. en tom marquette tom@lake.org Liberated Syndication - libsyn.com podcasts@libsyn.com (Liberated Syndication) Sat, 05 Jan 2008 00:06:00 GMT 180 Only a Footnote Footnote is made up of Footnote, 8 Things, and Short Attention Span Poetry. Each of these comes out once a week. Tom Marquette (tom@lake.org) is the main voice and guiding spirit of Footnote. science history movies film cinema art dada trivia tech technology computer myth Tom Marquette jjackson@lake.org James Jackson http://libsyn.com/podcasts/footnote/images/fnlogo10.jpg Footnote Podcast http://footnote.libsyn.com No Eight Things #114 - Predictions for 2007 and 2008 http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=295460# Tom's predictions for 2007.
How pathetic were they?

Well, really pretty good.

That just means that he isn't
going far enough out on the limb.

PLUS, As a Special Bonus;
Tom's predictions for 2008


]]> podcasts Sat, 5 Jan 2008 00:06:00 GMT http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=295460# Tom Marquette No #114 - Short Attention Span Poetry - Cohen - Hallelujah http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=294649# Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah
]]> podcasts Wed, 2 Jan 2008 06:25:00 GMT http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=294649# Tom Marquette No Footnote 124 - Multiplication http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=292569# Multiplication -
The the missing foundation
The tyranny of low expectations

The image is of a multiplication
algorithm that has not been taught
for a couple of centuries.


]]> podcasts Sun, 30 Dec 2007 23:24:00 GMT http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=292569# Tom Marquette No Eight Things #113 -Tom's Stories for the Fall http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=291772# More 100 word stories

Pumpkin Dreams
The Friendly Skies
Mexican Standoff
Frankie and Johnny
Left House Red; Right House, Black & Blue
Snow Blind
What if God were One of Us?
Presents Remembered, Presents Forgotten


]]> podcasts Fri, 28 Dec 2007 11:54:00 GMT http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=291772# Tom Marquette No #113 - Short Attention Span Poetry - Silverstein, Eliot, Hughes http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=291636#
My Beard - Shel Silverstein

Morning at the Window - T.S. Eliot

Quiet Girl - Langston Hughes


]]> podcasts Wed, 26 Dec 2007 20:21:00 GMT http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=291636# Tom Marquette No Footnote 123 - Problems of Estimating http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=290804# Numbers -

Don't Worry, You Will Never Need Numbers for Anything.

Estimating & Projecting - What does that number feel like?


]]> podcasts Sun, 23 Dec 2007 17:19:00 GMT http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=290804# Tom Marquette No Eight Things #112 - Christmas Songs http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=290216# Eight Christmas Songs

It Came upon the Midnight Clear
First Noel
Hark, the Herald Angeles Sing
We Three Kings

Patta-Pan
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
What Child is This
Silent Night


]]> podcasts Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:10:00 GMT http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=290216# Tom Marquette No #112 - Short Attention Span Poetry - Tolkien - Fellowship of the Ring http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=289907#
JRR Tolkien -

Poems from "The Fellowship of the Ring"


]]> podcasts Wed, 19 Dec 2007 05:35:00 GMT http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=289907# Tom Marquette No Footnote 122 - Origin of Numbers http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=289188# Numbers

Origins
Integers
Algorithms
Space Holders
minus 3 cows


]]> podcasts Sun, 16 Dec 2007 22:39:00 GMT http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=289188# Tom Marquette No Eight Things #111 - Tom's Network on the Internet http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=287215# Tom on the Internet

Tom's Internet Network


]]> podcasts Fri, 14 Dec 2007 18:00:00 GMT http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=287215# Tom Marquette No #111 - Short Attention Span Poetry - Eliot - Rum Tum Tugger http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=286787# T. S. Eliot -

Rum Tum Tugger


]]> podcasts Wed, 12 Dec 2007 06:32:00 GMT http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=286787# Tom Marquette No Footnote Number 121 - Numbers, Prehistory http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=286361# Numbers

4th book of the Bible

Septigent

Numbers in Prehistory

]]> podcasts Sun, 9 Dec 2007 23:07:00 GMT http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=286361# Tom Marquette No Eight Things #110 - "The Feel of Clay, Part VI" http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=285157# The Feel of Clay, Part VI

The Physics of Noir

]]> podcasts Fri, 7 Dec 2007 07:06:00 GMT http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=285157# Tom Marquette No #110 - Short Attention Span Poetry - Beatles - She Loves You http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=284146# The Beatles - She Loves You
   (as read by Peter Sellers)

]]> podcasts Thu, 6 Dec 2007 04:10:00 GMT http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=284146# Tom Marquette No Footnote Number 120 - The End of Baseball http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=284168# The End of Baseball

Little League
Boy Scouts
Hot Dogs at the bar

Who's on First?
Shakespeare is on First



]]> podcasts Mon, 3 Dec 2007 02:00:00 GMT http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=284168# Tom Marquette No Eight Things #109 - Female Singers; Part 2 http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=284184# Female Singers Part 2, or
Part 1 explained

K D Lang

Melissa Etheridge

Ann Wilson

Janis Joplin

Joni Mitchell

Cindi Lauper

Peggy Lee

Madonna




]]> podcasts Sat, 1 Dec 2007 02:35:00 GMT http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=284184# Tom Marquette No #109 - Short Attention Span Poetry - Counting Crows - Mr. Jones http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=282569# Counting Crows - "Mr. Jones"



]]> podcasts Thu, 29 Nov 2007 03:50:00 GMT http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=282569# Tom Marquette No Footnote Number 119 - Baseball as Myth http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=282311# More Yogisms
Baseball as Philosophy
Little League
Pro Baseball
Franchising vs. Home Team
Little League Parents

The image is George W Bush
in Little League


]]> podcasts Sun, 25 Nov 2007 13:15:00 GMT http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=282311# Tom Marquette No Eight Things #108 - Thanksgiving in the 1960s http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=281574# Memories of Thanksgiving in the 1960s

Coats on the Bed
Entrance Buzzers
Color TV Sets
Kid's Table
Pinochle
Mixed Nuts
The Bird
China and Silver

The image is Norman Rockwell's
     Thanksgiving



]]> podcasts Fri, 23 Nov 2007 11:15:00 GMT http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=281574# Tom Marquette No #108 - Short Attention Span Poetry - Child -Thanksgiving Day http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=281434#
Thanksgiving Day
   by Lynda Maria Child

The image is
   "Winter's Morning in the Country"
      by Currier and Ives



]]> podcasts Thu, 22 Nov 2007 02:22:00 GMT http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=281434# Tom Marquette No Footnote Number 118 - The Wit and Wisdom of Yogi Berra http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=280582#
Yogi Berra - Catcher; Manager; Videocaster

The Wit and Unusual Wisdom of Yogi Berra

The Image is of his namesake Yogi Bear


]]> podcasts Sun, 18 Nov 2007 07:05:00 GMT http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=280582# Tom Marquette No Eight Things #107 - Female Singers http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=279543# Female Singers -

Hallelujah
Thunder Road
Rain On Me
Summertime
Songs Are Like Tattoos
Time After Time
Fever
Another Fever




]]> podcasts Fri, 16 Nov 2007 06:53:00 GMT http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=279543# Tom Marquette No #107 - Short Attention Span Poetry - Oscar Wilde - Madonna Mia http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=278351# Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde

Madonna Mia


The image is of a statue of Wilde in Dublin
]]> podcasts Wed, 14 Nov 2007 07:05:00 GMT http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=278351# Tom Marquette No Footnote Number 117 - A Little More on Cathedrals http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=277444# A Little More On Cathedrals

Stained Glass
Vaults
Byzantium
Hagia Sophia
Crescent and Star
Pilgrimage and Commerce
Santiago de Compostela

The image is Santiago de Compostela


]]> podcasts Mon, 12 Nov 2007 01:33:00 GMT http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=277444# Tom Marquette No Eight Things #106 - "The Feel of Clay - Part V" http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=277157# "The Feel of Clay - Part V"

As Luck Would Have It.

]]> podcasts Fri, 9 Nov 2007 08:04:00 GMT http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=277157# Tom Marquette No #106 - Short Attention Span Poetry - Dylan - Tangled Up in Blue http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=275689# Dylan - Tangled Up in Blue


]]> podcasts Wed, 7 Nov 2007 22:27:00 GMT http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=275689# Tom Marquette No Footnote Number 116 - Cathedral, Domes and Buttresses http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=274307#
Buttresses

Basilica of Santa Maria degli Angeli

Commerce

Dome of St Peter's and St Sophia's

Double Domes

Test of Time

Glass

The Image is St Paul's 1940
London is being bombed and is burning


]]> podcasts Mon, 5 Nov 2007 04:45:00 GMT http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=274307# Tom Marquette No Eight Things #105 - Orson Wells and the Counter Culture http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=274301#
The Begating of the President
Freedom River

The image is counter culture - 1965
Richard FariÃa / Bob Dylan


]]> podcasts Sat, 3 Nov 2007 02:44:00 GMT http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=274301# Tom Marquette No #105 - Short Attention Span Poetry - Sapphire - Burning Leaves http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=273120#
Elspeth Sapphire - "Burning Leaves"


]]> podcasts Wed, 31 Oct 2007 16:30:00 GMT http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=273120# Tom Marquette No Footnote Number 115 - Basilica http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=272435#
Al Gore

Cathedral of Rome

Oxford Cathedral

Wars of Religion

Bavaria

West Door

Altar

The image is of the nave at San Giovanni


]]> podcasts Sun, 28 Oct 2007 16:03:00 GMT http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=272435# Tom Marquette No Eight Things #104 - 100 Word Tales of Heaven and Hell http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=271023#
Wm. S. Burroughs and "the podcaster" recreate Dante

The image is a corporate trademark of:
The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company


]]> podcasts Fri, 26 Oct 2007 06:38:00 GMT http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=271023# Tom Marquette No #104 - Short Attention Span Poetry - Lewis Carrol - Beautiful Soup http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=269881# Lewis Carrol - Beautiful Soup


]]> podcasts Wed, 24 Oct 2007 04:53:00 GMT http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=269881# Tom Marquette No Footnote Number 114 - The Last of Gaia http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=269052#
Katrina
Carbon Sequestration
Engineered solutions
CFCs
Northwest Passage
Greed
Peter Pace

Image is of Katrina filling the Gulf
 ]]> podcasts Sun, 21 Oct 2007 07:13:00 GMT http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=269052# Tom Marquette No Eight Things #103 - Body Parts http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=268767#
Hair
Eyes
Arms
Hands
Brain
Prostate
Skin
Feet

]]> podcasts Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:23:00 GMT http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=268767# Tom Marquette No #103 - Short Attention Span Poetry - Rossetti - Song http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=268110# Christina Rossetti - Song
 
]]> podcasts Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:48:00 GMT http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=268110# Tom Marquette No Footnote Number 113 - Gaia Continues (at least for a while) http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=267401# Planetary Homeostasis?
Feedback and Buffers
Go North Young Man, Go North!
Nuclear Power as a delaying tactic
Mayan Influence

The map shows the Northwest Passage is now open.
And, the Northeast Passage is almost open.

Ah, the commercial advantages of Climate Change.
 

]]> podcasts Sun, 14 Oct 2007 23:57:00 GMT http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=267401# Tom Marquette No Eight Things #102 - Jake Holmes http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=266299#
Dazed and Confused
Be All that You Can Be
I'm a Pepper, He's a Pepper
Raise your Hand
We Fly the World
Aren't You Hungry
Less is More
Prep School Boys
]]> podcasts Fri, 12 Oct 2007 08:46:00 GMT http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=266299# Tom Marquette No #102 - Short Attention Span Poetry - Marquette - Orange http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=265428#
The image is JMW Turner
   - "The Prince of Orange"

]]> podcasts Wed, 10 Oct 2007 10:48:00 GMT http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=265428# Tom Marquette No Footnote Number 112 - Learning to Write and Gaia Theory Part I http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=263835#
Brown Cow
Palmer Method
Laddy Pencil
Kindergarden vs. 1st Grade

James Lovelock
Life reflected in the atmosphere
Rachel Carlson trace toxicology
Gaia - Feedback systems

The image is from the Palmer Method

]]> podcasts Sun, 7 Oct 2007 05:51:00 GMT http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=263835# Tom Marquette No Eight Things #101 - Orson Wells - "The Begatting of the President" http://footnote.libsyn.com/index.php?post_id=263603#
Robert Kennedy
Richard Nixon