Bought two CDs on a whim last night: Dar Williams (”Beauty of the Rain”) and Kirsty MacColl (”Tropical Brainstorm”). Lovely, lovely stuff. Check out the lyrics to Kirsty’s ”England 2, Columbia 0.” Funny even without the music. (If you’re reading them, it should be noted that she was English, and the ”0” is pronounced ”nil.”)
Harvard Law prof and two students go after the RIAA. — Heroes of the week.
The Minority Report hand-waving computer interface is now real. Its users will have the best toned arms in the office.
The Matrix runs on Windows. Ow. It hurts to laugh that hard.
Google flu trends — doing something useful with all those searches for “flu symptoms.”
Catch you on the flip side, @MarsPhoenix. Good work. Sleep well.
I’m addicted to the NYTimes maps this morning, especially the county bubble view. Hello, population distribution! It’s fascinating to compare this year to 2004.
LibriVox — “acoustical liberation of books in the public domain”
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