Usually WQXR is just the station I turn on when I can’t take the stupidity on the morning news. Good for soothing background noise but nothing too surprising. Today was a lovely exception, and I now have a new composer to check out tonight.

Lou Harrison (Solstice Suite)

I’m thinking about setting up a separate blog just for all the nifty photos and artwork I find online. Maybe that’s what I’ll use my soon-to-be-created Dreamwidth account for.

EDIT: Or I could just add another WP installation and keep it all under one roof but with the streams un-crossed…

Or, I don’t need FriendFeed.

See, I do get the point of wanting all your myriad online activities centralized for easy viewing, but I don’t use that many services on a constant basis, and I don’t need or want many of them published to the world at large. What I listened to today on Pandora, the books I’m checking out on Amazon and random sites I stumbled are not, I think, interesting enough to merit inclusion in my personal data stream. Mostly, the stuff I publish to the world includes my tweets, traditional blog posts, pictures, and the occasional site I bookmark on Delicious. That’s it.

Maybe I’d use FriendFeed to aggregate the few things I want aggregated if I didn’t already *have* solutions in place (thanks mostly to WordPress plugins), but I do, and right now FriendFeed just looks like a reinvention of the wheel. So, no. Don’t need another account out there that I have to keep track of.

Of course, this might change in the future.

Once upon a time, I almost fell into a hole somewhat like this. (though at the same time, rather un-like) I’m and grateful beyond words that I didn’t open my mouth until I could *see* the great gaping hole in the ground and nav’ed my way around it.

Maybe Plato was right after all:

The holographic principle says that the amount of information papering the outside must match the number of bits contained inside the volume of the universe. Since the volume of the spherical universe is much bigger than its outer surface, how could this be true? Hogan realized that in order to have the same number of bits inside the universe as on the boundary, the world inside must be made up of grains bigger than the Planck length. “Or, to put it another way, a holographic universe is blurry,” says Hogan.