music: Paper Tiger, the Felonious Groove Foundation. I am so tragically unhip that it was only recently that I grasped my own fondness for the funk. Plus, you've gotta love an album dedicated to Malcolm Gladwell and John Denver.

book: Just finished Lee's Ferry: A Crossing on the Colorado, by Evelyn Brack Measeles. How to say this politely.... There are many times when I'm taken aback reading, thinking, "I wish I'd written that." This was not one of those occasions. But it did give a good overview of the basic facts of John D. Lee's establishment of the river crossing, with some fun stuff about the intersection of Lee's and John Wesley Powell's paths in 1872, when Powell was preparing for his second run through the Grand Canyon.

books: Been playing with Google Print, their digitized library project. There's clearly no way to read a book this way, but it seems a potentially useful research tool. Is there anything Google can't do? (Well, yes. More on this later.)

science: For a story I've been working on at work, yesterday I read the famous 1935 Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paper. I am not a physicist, so it's not easy going. But, equations aside, the paper's central point is made with remarkable clarity. But there was this moment when I read one of the key paragraphs, and looked up at the author's name. Einstein wrote this. Shivers. From his brain to mine. Insanely cool.