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From the FinerMinds blog – watch and get goose bumps from this gorgeous video of two Irish girls in a canoe caught in a dance of a thousand starlings.  Gorgeous.

Years ago I spent my waking, non-university hours pouring wine, telling stories and carrying dishes in a bistro.  I had a regular customer that would stop in for supper in the late afternoon, sit by the far window with a book and order the same thing every time. He was quiet, easy and polite – [...]

Adam has been hugely gung ho about finally getting his own longboard – I showed him this fab ‘Carving the Mountains’ video of the Longboard Girls Crew because it makes me feel happy, girlie and like putting on some kneepads. They’re a cool crew, you can check out this cool trailer about a Spain roadtrip called [...]

via vimeo.com Yet another reason I love going to Marfa (as if you needed me to share another) – spending the night in the Davis Mountains, looking at the sky with the McDonald Observatory folks. Absolutely nothing like it. So humbling.

Pinch me, my music geeker self is swooning with data set magic.  The Hip-Hop Word Count: Searchable Rap Almanac is one of the greatest ideas I’ve seen in ages. A database housing over 40,000 hip hop songs recorded since 1979, what delicious cultural memes and shifts there are to be found in those lyrical battles [...]