"Slipping into the twilight / I ride the broken wave tonight / an old song on the radio"

[larryhammer]

If I mention that the internet radio station I'm listening to right now is playing "Il Vespa" by Tiki Tones, I don't think I need to explain anything else about its genre. Secret Agent at SomaFM -- the perfect groove salad soundtrack for posting links:

• I think I want -- no, scratch that, need a device. Almost as much as a jetpack. (via)
  
  
• Behind the falsification of US economic data. (via)
  
  
• 3-dimensional spider tattoo. (via)
  
  
• Working for the future nighttime -- a New Yorker profile of the International Dark-Sky Association. (via)
  
  
• The problems of textual instability, pre- and post-Internet. (via)
  
  
• Friends, we live in a barred-spiral galaxy. In a minor spiral thereof.

---L.

Comments

[packbat.livejournal.com]

Ooh, so that's what a barred-spiral galaxy is! I'd heard the phrase, but I didn't recognize its import.