- “Meditation Gives Brain a Charge, Study Finds” (via Agonist): [...] “What we found is that the trained mind, or brain, is physically different from the untrained one” [...]
- Newsday’s “Place matters: Where we hear music influences how we hear it” (via Alex Ross’ “The spell”): [...] The fantasy of deracination fuels pop music mythology. Hip-hop burst out of the Bronx street party to take over the suburbs and the world. The bar band strives to break out of the bar. Garage rockers who remain garage-bound get no respect. Context is considered a form of artistic death. If for Beethoven the enclosed space for music was a challenge, for his rebellious descendants it is a prison to be escaped, rather than defied. [...]
- If it’s January, it’s time for Bruce Sterling’s State of the World 2005 Interview (via Beyond the Beyond) and that reminds me: only two months or so to his SxSWi-ending blowout bash!
- I kinda wish Bryan Boyer hadn’t had to break down the admirable way he packs for airplane flights.
- Francis Strand checks in after setting off for Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam.
- I was kind of hoping someone trustworthy would write about buying a TV set, and am glad someone did.
- Am sure glad Jianda is singing and walking and eating kalamata olives
- I envy Candicissima her Phoenix concert attendage.
- Librarian In Black offers a tidbit of cluefulness that makes me think a little less evilly of my HMO.
- Basically, the year’s first must-read for Naderites and Greens.
- Elle’s Garden’s drops secret bombs. 100 things? More like 100 mph!
- Macworld SF bloggers’ lunch? Tight.
- Dr. Spence sends word on Cornel West’s latest in “Imperial Imperilment”
- “Bookmark Now”? Why do that when you can preorder it?
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