Mockingbird Rehearsal Recording

There are some very loud mockingbirds around my neighborhood recently, with a rather interesting repertoire of calls. Last time I noticed one, I decided to download an audio-recording app and record a bit. (Recording is from the sidewalk on a side-street near Davis Square in Somerville, mid-way through a couple walks by and tries to scare the mockingbird off, without success.)

Bookstarter

Kickstarter is pretty cool. It's a site for the distributed financing of small projects. Pledges are collected if and only if the project is fully funded, so there's less risk of committing money to a project that will never have enough to get off the ground. The project creators can also specify different rewards for different levels of support.

Two of my favorite podcasters are using the site to get off the ground with self-publishing, so I encourage you to check out (and fund) their projects:

Douglas Lain of the Diet Soap Podcast is working on a book titled Pick Your Battle - Foraging as Revolutionary Self-Help, a self-help guide for the urban forager.

kmo of the C-Realm Podcast is working on a book titled Conversations on Collapse, a collection of interviews from the podcast.