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So, there’s an article in last week’s Stranger about how The Sound of Music turned the author gay. I just got around to reading it, and at the end it said Julie Andrews will be in town this weekend singing her new children’s book.

!!!

So I went to the bookstore website, it says it’s already sold out, doh,
but seemed to be focused on the meet-Julie-and-get-her-autograph part. So I was like, well, we could still go and hear her sing, right?

Doh again. Not singing. Signing.

Sigh.

Wind Map!

I love looking at this. It kind of reminds me of the story about the astronauts looking down on the earth — ah, here’s the quotation.

The first day or so we all pointed to our countries. The third or fourth day we were pointing to our continents. By the fifth day, we were aware of only one Earth.

–Sultan bin Salman Al-Saud, astronaut

So what we need now is a wind map of the whole planet.
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Update: Ah! I was so transfixed by the picture yesterday that I didn’t notice the text below it. Turns out they would love to do a global wind map — they just need a source of data.

Hooray for science turned to art!