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I thought it was time we mentioned HuHa and now HuHa2 once again. Especially since HuHa2 now has an excellent animation tutorial series by Happy Harry.

Sisters Patience & Prudence McIntyre enjoyed enormous success in 1956 with this, their classic first Liberty Records single Tonight You Belong To Me, and its follow-up Gonna Get Along Without Ya Now. The girls released a few other singles in the late '50s and made a brief return to recording in the mid-'60s, but they failed to achieve further commercial success. Nonetheless, their music - for the most part arranged by their father Mark McIntyre, who had played piano for Sinatra in the '40s and worked as an arranger for numerous other major stars of the post-war period - retains its beguiling sweetness and charm more than half a century after it was recorded. Patience & Prudence never released an album, but the 'A' and 'B' sides of all their singles (plus a few early demos) were collected on a great 'Best Of' CD in 2005. It's still available and has won the girls - who will be 70 and 67 respectively as I write this - quite a bit of latter-day interest, if internet discussion and frequent airings of their songs in movies and commercials are anything to go by. Detailed information about what happened to Patience & Prudence post-fame is scant. This is because they went on to live ordinary middle-class lives in California. They had no desire for fame and quite reasonably wished to keep their business to themselves. In fact, as Patience revealed in a rare interview given in 2005 to coincide with the release of the 'Best Of' CD, she and her sister had never wanted to be recording artists in the first place, to the extent that she refers to their recording career as 'the accident'. You can read that interview, conducted by Doug Bright, here: http://tinyurl.com/8zd8sll . Thanks are due to Mr Bright for soliciting the interview which, succinct though it is, nonetheless represents the most in-depth source of information available about Patience & Prudence's lives before, during and after fame. Standard biographical material also exists, the core of which is to be found in the 'Best Of' CD booklet, for which I believe Patience was also consulted. You may find snippets of info here and there around the web, but probably not anything that isn't already covered in the booklet. During their initial period of fame Patience & Prudence made just one TV appearance; on The Perry Como Show on September 15th 1956. Here it is now, for your viewing pleasure. They made one further TV appearance in 1978, in a 'Where Are They Now' slot on a Dick Clark Special. If you'd like to see that too, I've uploaded it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-4GLbKIZpY . Patience recalled in 2005 that at the time of its recording she and her sister were somewhat bemused as to why they were doing the Como Show at all, telling their father on set that they knew they were just 'a passing thing'. Patience & Prudence's parents had concerns about overexposing the girls to the harsh glare of the showbiz spotlight which is why, despite the million-selling success of the 'Tonight' 45, the singing siblings were limited to performing just this one TV spot. I'd wanted to see this performance myself for a long time and I knew P & P fans would too, so I tracked it down and posted it. I hope you enjoy it. It's for non-commercial use and is not intended to infringe any copyright. I'm simply a fan of this bygone duo and wanted to share this unique footage of them. Originally in colour, it appears that this B & W telecine is what's left.

Nick Offerman gives his wife, Megan Mullally, a rainbow.

Why can't two slices of pizza be used as a slide clicker? Why shouldn't you make music with ketchup? In this charming talk, inventor Jay Silver talks about the urge to play with the world around you. He shares some of his messiest inventions, and demos MaKey MaKey, a kit for hacking everyday objects.

Experience what is was like to be in the Sacret Forests in Damanhur and listen to the singing plants. It will change your perception on life.

THE POWAHHH OF KOKONUT JOOS, EXTRACTED USING THE FINEST MS PAINT SKILLS!!! FREE 1 KOKOJOOS FOR YOUUUUU!!! Da Coconut Nut by Smokey Mountain Enjoy the video and thanks for watching! Image courtesy of Google search

Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali) recites his poem about himself, with Liberace accompanying. From the Jack Paar television show

Music therapy using soft sounds and gentle rhythms may help preemies relax, grow and even go home from the hospital sooner. Music can even bond parents and their frail newborns during those difficult days in intensive care. (May 16)

Google has unveiled a streaming music service called All Access that blends songs users have already uploaded to their online libraries with millions of other tracks for a $10 monthly fee.(May 15)

Using laptops, tablets, and six sided speakers, Princeton University's Laptop Orchestra teaches students the art of creating and coding music. It's neither Mozart nor Star Wars. (May 15)

Superstar, Beyonce Knowles, reveals how she's hoping to score some 'cool points' with her daughter by making her latest film, 'Epic.' (May 14)

Highlights of this day in history: Colonists go ashore in Virginia to set up Jamestown; Lewis and Clark begin to explore Louisiana Territory; Israel founded; Skylab launched; Movie producer George Lucas born; Singer Frank Sinatra dies. (May 14)

In a high-flying, perfectly pitched first, Commander Chris Hadfield, an astronaut on the International Space Station is bowing out of orbit with a musical video: his own custom version of David Bowie's "Space Oddity." (May 13)

Rare guitar played by John Lennon and George Harrison among the rock memorabilia up for auction this coming weekend at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York. (May 13)

A revised version of David Bowie's Space Oddity, recorded by Commander Chris Hadfield on board the International Space Station.