A very slick (and free) online chess game built in Flash. You can even download it and play it offline, too. LINK→
“ Words can never say, as music can, the unsayable grace that leaps like light from mind to mind.
— Gwen Harwood
A 10-second fragment of a person singing Au clair de lune and recorded on April 9, 1860, has been discovered and played back. It was recorded with smoke and paper 17 years before Edison invented the phonograph. LINK→
Martian Clouds Rolling By, courtesy of Phoenix
“ …And I feel above me the day-blind stars waiting with their light…
— Wendell Berry
si·de·re·al
adj. Of, relating to, or concerned with the stars or constellations; stellar.
“ Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it.
— Irving Berlin