The Fredösphere

The A Cappella News links to an article about Deke Sharon, the maven of the contemporary a cappella movement.  How appropriate that his name makes him sound like a college fraternity.  For more about Deke, start at his Wikipedia entry and follow the links.  I was able to find some sound files and score excerpts.  Sounds like the day they recorded these, somebody accidentally dropped the reverb box down the stairwell -- the sound is pretty dry. 

Their take on "Longest Time" recalls fond memories of hearing it sung (better, frankly) by The Friars, an elite commando unit of the University of Michigan's hoary ol' Men's Glee Club.  (No, I was never a member.)  Apparently the Friars are even better than I remember.  Looking for sound files is frustrating; you might end up here, or you'll get information that, however useful, is not pertinent to our current topic:

Many of Chaucer's tales are joined by brief snippets of dialogue and action traditionally called "links"; on the WWW one "clicks" on a "hyperlink" to go to another "page" on the Web.

If that's too confusing, one can simply "read" Chaucer's tales from a "book" by turning it's "pages" in "sequential" order from "left" to "right."  Okay, I'm done now.