Pop music spasm

I bought three CDs by a group called Cake. I like them quite a bit, particularly how unadorned the music is. The vocalist (I hesitate to call him a "singer") is crystal clear and each song has its own little story to tell. Why can't more people produce simple works that are attractive in this way? There's so much crap around.

Unwrapping the CDs, I found they had "Parental Advisory: Explicit Content" warning stickers on them. So satisfying!

Yet playing them in my office, I haven't noticed anything particularly naughty.

Experiment loading photos off flickr

Perhaps a way to lighten the load on this web server—stick all my photos on Flickr, instead, and load them like this:

Indian rock acorn grinding holes

Nice. It works.

via The Economist

Humanoids on the march:

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