Just pokin' around youtube. Here's your song for the day:

I don't know if I believe it's truly any kind of right brain left brain test. But it sure is cute.

Have a look.

My friend and musical collaborator Alexei Panshin just posted an addition to his cluster of pages titled Art of the Abyss. The collages by Shorey Chapman have just been added and are quite evocative. But if you haven't seen the cluster before, take a look at the other art while you're there as well.

Well, it looks like the peak is here. In fact, this report, which based its conclusions on actual energy production rather than reserves, says oil production peaked in 2006. It's expected to decline 7% per year, and right now there's 42 years left at current rates of usage. "Hang on to your heinie, we're in for a ride."

Read the full story here.

I've been a fan of Persepolis, Volumes 1 and 2, two graphic autobiographies (normally they say graphic novels, but if you don't know, that means comics) written by a woman who came of age during the Iranian Revolution and now lives and works in France. They've now been turned into an animated film, co-directed by the books' author, and this review from Salon suggests the movie exceeds the writer's expectations. I'll be looking for it.

Author Doris Lessing wins Nobel Prize for Literature. Check out her Briefing for a Descent Into Hell or Mara and Dann. Mind-bending stuff.