“The night, New York, sardonic and alert, / Offers a soul to your reluctant dirt.”

A few links, mainly random. Well, pretty much all random. It includes drums:

From r/MapPorn, a lovely shaded relief map of Manhattan made from USGS LiDAR data. Click through for the full-sized image. (via)

Orcas are still smashing up small European yachts, and we’ve finally worked out why: it’s a fad among teenage orcas. TIL bored teen orcas are just as problematic as bored teen humans. (via)

A huge cache of drum samples free to download and use. Or, yanno, just listen to fascinated as you try to figure out what makes each beat different. (via)

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Subject quote from New York City, Maxwell Bodenheim.