I subscribe to a daily email called Very Short List. Each day it sends information about a piece of culture-music, movies, books, web sites, and so on, which hasn’t been widely publicized or “hyped to within an inch of their lives” (from the VSL web site). Through this site I’ve learned how frogs sound in Romania, seen how Obama’s first 100 days are comparing to other presidents’, and gotten the hot tip on some fantastic movies (current suggestions include The Visitor and Happy-Go-Lucky).
A recent email included this video:
I love this-the video is really simple and the music is moving. It’s amazing how you can just get caught up in the movements of a paper airplane and be concerned with how its flight will end. I like to think that at the end, the car that almost hits the airplane moved out of the way just in time, to save it.
In similar news-I have started to very actively use my Google Reader. This is a problem as I continue to add more web sites, blogs, and search terms to my Reader. I have over 200 unread posts and I don’t know when they will be read, but my obsessive compulsive side really wants to go through all of them so I can see that I have no unread posts. We’ll see if that ever happens.
