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I heard a great story on NPR today: Making the Perfect Iced Tea. Although I grew up in Virginia, my parents were both from elsewhere - so I didn't grow up with a traditional Southern Ice Tea tradition. However, my mother did turn me onto one great thing: "sun tea".

After some frustrating circumstances at Macrobyte, this site went off the air for a week, as some of you may have noticed. Sorry about that. Everything is back up now, however, thanks to Seth's hard work.

I almost posted something earlier today titled "All blogged out". Sometimes I think I lose my "voice", lose track of why I blog. And just as I'm about to write my farewell post, something in my head clicks, and I think "oh, I've got to blog that..."

Now that RealPlayer is available for Max OS X, I'm listening to NPR live. Can I just say how cool this is!? I know, I'm late to the game, but this is awesome.

Oy. It's 3 am, and I can't stop blogging. I channel surfed (old-school surfing, with a remote -)) my way through the last few hours while blogging bits and pieces - I think I've gotten most of it out of my system, but I'm making up for lost time here.

Those who know me know I'm a bit of an experimentalist in the kitchen. This evening while trying to find something interesting to put in an omelet, I tried some Indian ginger pickle. Now I admit this was an odd combination, but you have to admit, you never know unless you try, right?

Doc Searls writes a longish essay on the state of "Big Entertainment v. the populace".

[Via Aaron] Music video from Royksopp, "You Remind Me". The video is done in classic "infopgraphic" style, following an office worker's day. This is one of the most innovative things I've seen in ages, even if the music is fairly classic euro-techno-pop. (Catchy though).

I'm not the only one...