Miscellany

Best thing on the internet today: This compilation of images based on topographical data of Mars taken from two years of flyovers by a European satellite (h/t Nature Magazine website)(seriously, get the bigger HD version):



(even the space-age electronic Andean flute soundtrack is kinda' cool)

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Other inter/n/ether©® places I've spent time on instead of revising my novel:

25 Killer Websites that Make You Cleverer

Marketing Libertarianism (to Dupes on the Right and the Left):(which doesn't [make you cleverer])

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The other best thing on/in the inter/n/ether: Did you see this? The "Culture Minister" from the Vatican tweeted lyrics from the Lou Reed song "Perfect Day".

Thus, more VU:

Sunday Morning

It had to be on Sunday Morning. No?

Lou Reed, founding member of The Velvet Underground, was visited by the Black Angel this morning. Dead at the age of 71.

Nothing. Nothing. Nothing like VU. Nothin' at all.

Foggy Notion

Yesterday would've been the 68th birthday of Sterling Morrison ex and always of the Velvet Underground if tomorrow weren't the 15th anniversary of his passing. If you drew a straight line from Bo Diddley to The Edge, it would necessarily pass through SM's work with VU.



The following song's a tribute to Sterling who, after an academic career in Medieval/Renaissance lit decided to become a tugboat captain. Interesting life.



UPDATE: For example:





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Rumor has it there are other birthdays around—some even with fit tribute.