I really like this Tuesday's poem from the Writer's Almanac. "Headlines", by Robert Phillips. Go check it out.

Knowing this might make me an obsessive fan boy, but Mike Doughty's new album Golden Delicious comes out 21 Feb 2008. And there's a rocking new version of "27 Jennifers" on his myspace page.

xkcd on letting go.

Kevin Kelly's new blog Street Use* has a post about samizdat records of Western music pressed on discarded x-ray films in Eastern Europe and the USSR in the 1950s. They're very, very cool looking.

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* "The street finds its own use for things" -- William Gibson