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Random attack!
<--- I totally want one of those.

And equally random, I can relate - On babies

Yet, more random - I came across this book recently... I skimmed through it to see what it's like and one paragraph in particular left me somewhat dumbfounded...

I watched the man as he did the drawings, watched him as he regarded the models, drew a bit, erased and drew again, for about twenty minutes. During this time, he became restless and seemed tense and frustrated. Later he told me that he hated his drawings and that he hated drawing, period.
If we were to attach a label to this disability in the way that educators have attached the label dyslexia to reading problems, we might call the problem dyspictoria or dysartistica or some such term. But no one has done so because drawing is not a vital skill for survival in our culture, whereas speech and reading are.

I'm not entirely sure why, but I never thought about it before, but for some reason this struck me as quite profound. Possibly as I share a similar dislike for drawing. Not for any particular reason other than "It's too difficult... and my drawings suck...". All that aside, I am so far finding it to be quite an interesting book overall.

Keeping with the completely random theme of topics, I do believe Beatport is more dangerous than iTunes Genius.
Partly, because it's a lot faster than the iTunes store, and it's chock-full-o-exclusives.
Oh, you can listen to a lot more than a 30 second clip of a song also.
Did I mention it's fast? Like, really fast? Like, buffers an entire song in ~10 seconds fast? And won't cause your computer to shriek in pain as it tries to load pages?
And that's on my pokey 3... well, 2ish mbit ADSL.

Here's another song.