Just some stuff I get in email and from other sources read these all the way through.

While poking around the intertoobs a few days ago, I found a remarkable blog by a young woman.

The Ditty Bops sing the kind of songs that put a smile on your face and a particular kind of warmth in your heart.

What the heck is a skeptic ring tone? I don't know, but someone advertising on MySpace does.

Carrie Brownstein was putting together an online mix for her NPR blog , and wanted to include a Grateful Dead track.

Also from Freedom to Tinker, this time from Ed Felten: NJ Voting Machine Tape Shows Phantom Obama Vote .

I am now working at JPL in Los Angeles so will be writing about "city" life. This blog was originally to tell about my first trip to Chile and was continued for Chile II.

Google updated the panorama photo imagery of Manhattan as part of Google Maps, and for this update also blurred the faces of persons shown in the pictures.