unbillable hours

I hate mysteries.

Carusobot.

Picture Envy for December 11, 2006

Link: Shuttle Launch Seen From ISS.

I is for Interview

Pixies icon Frank Black chats with literary legend Ray Bradbury.

Proof of the divine?

J.S. Bach, Air from Suite No. 3, BWV 1068.

'It is as though eternal harmony were conversing with itself, as it may have happened in God's bosom shortly before He created the world.'

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe on Bach

or, to put it more modernly

'I don't think a greater genius has walked the earth. Of the 3 great composers Mozart tells us what it's like to be human, Beethoven tells us what it's like to be Beethoven and Bach tells us what it's like to be the universe.'

Douglas Adams
(both via BBC 3, A Bach Christmas)