This essay says a lot of interesting things, and they’re all sort of nested inside one another. I think it’s more than a bit Christian, too. But it’s a good read and worth dissecting.

I’ve read a lot of different theories about this, but I find that my meditation gets a bit more rapidly to the core if it’s accompanied by music. This is not something you put a stopwatch on, but I usually find that I’ve been at if for about 20 minutes when I stop and look up. With music I estimate that I get to the kind of place I want to be–the one where it feels like I’ve been on vacation for two weeks–in about half that time when I’m listening to music. And right now nothing works the charm that Sigur Ros does. Their new album, Takk, is phenominal and majestic and by the middle of the third track on a good day I have no idea I’m listening to them anymore.

Thursday Tunes:
m83 - “don’t save us from the flames”
pretty girls make graves - “The Nocturnal House” (TBR April 2006)

Apparently all the noise about the Apple/Postal Service commercial ripoff was for naught. It’s the same directors. No one said anything because SubPop didn’t even know until recently.

In 1975 Russian engineers sent Venera 9 to Venus. Once there it transmitted telemetry data for 52 minutes before failing in the harsh environment.

InsideOut is a project to put cameras in the hands of migrant workers in Singapore. (via designobserver)