confused of calcutta

….is the title of a bizarre short film from the Wholphin stable. Take a look at the clip sometime. It’s people playing cross-border volleyball across an international boundary fence. A different perspective, it lets you see just how ugly fences are.

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Have you really thought about how you listen to music on any given day? Do you tend to choose an artist, an album, a period? Or do you just press the shuffle button or its equivalent?
I’m currently using one of my favourite techniques:

Sort out my iTunes library into Time order
Scan through the library very quickly [...]

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It happens every now and then; my ten-books-at-a-time reading habit throws up a really good bunch, driven both by recommendation as well as randomness:

Absurdistan: Gary Shteyngart (recommended by the bookstore I visited in San Francisco a month ago)
The Ice Palace That Melted Away: Bill Stumpf (discovered as part of my interest in Max De Pree [...]

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