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iPod iChing - genocidal algae

By catdynamics on September 22, 2006.

Friday again, already?
Oh man, lets stay topical, and ask the iPod a historical question:
oh Mighty One, was there a single transition to an oxygenated archaen atmosphere, involving sudden onset of photosynthesis-2, with associated rapid mass extinction, say around the late Huronian or thereabouts?

Whoosh goes the randomizer.
Whoosh.

  • The Covering: Rat Trap - Boomtown Rats
  • The Crossing: Cry For Love - Iggy Pop
  • The Crown: O Little Town of Bethlehem - King's College Choir
  • The Root: Lilli Hittir Mikka Ref - Thorbjorn Egner
  • The Past: No Business - Bonnie Raitt
  • The Future: Pole Pole - Ella Jenkins
  • The Questioner:Hóky Póky - Edda Bachman
  • The House: Carnival of the Animals: - Peter and the Wolf
  • The Inside: Burning Down the House - Talking Heads
  • The Outcome: All Around the Kitchen - Pete Seegar

Well, the Covering hits the key evolutionary issue. The Crossing is on topic.
The Crown is on a key "birth" event, albeit historically not well verified.
The Root is "the little mouse meets the fox", Mouse wins.
The Future and Questioner are obscure versions of the Hokey, Pokey, and that is what it is all about.
Oops. No, I just listened - Pole Pole is "Go Slow, Go Slow" - to save the animals.
Wise is the iPod. Lets not do atmospheric changes quite as fast or drastic as those dumb cyanobacteria did...
Home Sapiens - Not Quite as Dumb as CyanoBacteria!

Burning Down the House was more or less the excpectation.

And the Outcome is another variation on the Hokey Pokey!
Three in one answer, what are the odds.
Mighty is the iPod.

As always, the Key as explained by Sean


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Burning Down the House

Hold tight wait till the party's over
Hold tight We're in for nasty weather
There has got to be a way
Burning down the house

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