Just In Time For the Transit Strike
An interactive New York map (that doesn't even cover my nabe, grrr). Cool though.
Wes Phillips
Friday Cat Blogging I
Huck prefers that Cuervo burn.
Friday Cat Blogging II
Bagheera thinks a small amount of compression is acceptable in return for tube warmth.
Maybe I've Been Doing It Wrong
The Art of Sushi.
Bomb Proof Bubble Wrap?
Did I read this correctly?
Bachanalia
The BBC intends to broadcast every surviving Bach composition, beginning December 16 and ending on Christmas. Now that's special programming.
Season's Greetings
I do not listen to Christmas records. I just don't—a legacy of working in record stores over waaay too many holiday seasons. So, when I tell you that I can't stop listening to Dana Cunningham's Silent Night, you just have to believe that it's pretty special. It's quiet, ruminative, and deep—good sound, too.
Wombat Courtship
"Complete with chasing, biting, grunting, and loads of heavy breathing." Sound familiar?
Whoa!
Physicist Matt Sellars and his research team at the Australian National University's Laser Physics Center have "frozen" laser light—slowing it from 670 million miles an hour to 670 miles an hour, and then stopping it altogether.
The '40s In Color
The Library of Congress has posted Bound for Glory: America in Color, an online exhibition of color images taken by the Farm Security Administration from 1935–1944. Amazing stuff.