Keith Jarrett, the Koln Concert. For the first time.

Car seat, lunch box, notebook, traveling entertainment system - rethought, redone. I want the notebook. From the New York Times.

From IDEO

Peregrines find housing and abundant prey in SF. Via sfgate, here’s a webcam of a recent nest.

From atmospheric whistlers, glaciers, ventifact rocks, and wind harps.

Out of an inability to cope today, I pointed to the top of my iTunes library, where Al Green and Al Jarreau reside. Al will be singing Since I Fell for You and the theme from Moonlighting, followed by Antonio Carlos Jobim, Antonio Vivaldi, and Aretha Franklin (Freeway of Love).

Usually I don’t listen to Brazilian music until the evening. During work, it is too lulling, and lacks a much-needed edge, especially after lunch. Not a good day for Vivaldi either. Got lots of Brian Eno. No, not today. And so it goes down through Chris Botti, Dido, Elvis (Suspicious Minds), and Emmylou Harris. I need some new music.

space glass

Drums. Thunder. Trumpets. Pipe Organs. Tambourines. Cannon fire. Prop planes. Foghorns. Whistles. It’s noisy out there.

In parts of the world, sand dunes threaten entire villages.

Blooms and other growths made from liquid gallium with the potential for many uses.