Wes Phillips

An interactive New York map (that doesn't even cover my nabe, grrr). Cool though.

Bagheera thinks a small amount of compression is acceptable in return for tube warmth.

Did I read this correctly?

I do not listen to Christmas records. I just don't—a legacy of working in record stores over waaay too many holiday seasons. So, when I tell you that I can't stop listening to Dana Cunningham's Silent Night, you just have to believe that it's pretty special. It's quiet, ruminative, and deep—good sound, too.

Physicist Matt Sellars and his research team at the Australian National University's Laser Physics Center have "frozen" laser light—slowing it from 670 million miles an hour to 670 miles an hour, and then stopping it altogether.

Yup, this is a colossal waste of time.