Helluva week down here in Austin, Texas. Eclipse followed by a hailstorm. TGIF.
Here are 10 things I thought were worth sharing:
Standard Ebooks is “a volunteer-driven project that produces new editions of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, free of U.S. copyright restrictions, and free of cost.” (A couple of short favorites to get your started: P.T. Barnum’s The Art of Money Getting, Laozi’s Tao Te Ching, and Stevenson’s Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.)
“My dream is to fly over Silicon Valley in a huge old WWII-era plane and air drop thousands of copies of Ernest Becker’s THE DENIAL OF DEATH.” My pal Matt on a forthcoming documentary inspired by the work of Ernest Becker, All Illusions Must Be Broken.
Ear candy: My son got me into the work of Daniel Rosenfeld, aka C418, who made all the music for the massively popular video game Minecraft. I didn’t realize you can buy physical editions of the Volume Alpha and Volume Beta soundtracks — they would be a very cool gift for a young person starting a vinyl collection, and also a gateway drug to other electronic/ambient artists like Aphex Twin. (I’ve been listening to Syro a bunch, and Sunday is Avril 14th!)
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