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What do you get when a fellow with a questionable voice scats over the top of gospel and lounge classics? Shooby Taylor! Yes, there are MP3s.

A recent top-secret web project of mine went live this morning. I won’t link to it directly, but if you’re interested in locally grown natural produce, send me an email and I’ll share the link. If you’re in the Athens area, you can use it right away. If you’re not in the area, you can still look, but you won’t find it all that useful. If we started shipping our produce, it wouldn’t be “locally grown”.

While playing around with Hit or Miss’s tools, I found another Matt put together. To hear it in action, call 1-800-555-TELL and when the recording begins press 130662. It’s Kestrel’s Nest, read to you over the phone. Program your speed dials now!

I’ve updated the “a few favorites” section over on the sidebar. It’s dynamically generated using the Daily Crawl utility written by Matt at Hit or Miss. He’s als owritten a script that automatically includes what his TiVo’s recording on his weblog, but I lack all sorts of connectivity to manage that.

Alton Brown, host of Good Eats , was on NPR’s All Things Considered this weekend, talking about such things as cooking Tuna on the grill and smoking salmon in a trash can. You can watch and/or listen on NPR’s website. (They’ve backed of on their linking policy, so it’s OK for me to link this.)

Virulent Memes, welcome to Movable Type! Looks like you’ve got things up and running quite well.

A new version of Movable Type, the system I use to maintain this weblog and many other portions of my web space, was released over the weekend. Among the steps forward are support for MySQL (an open-source database that has become a standard for web applications) and something entirely new called TrackBack. It’s hard to describe what this actually is, but it may revolutionize the weblog format. It allows a threaded discussion between sites, so that (for example) a weblog author using MovableType could post an entry mentioning my blackberry story. That entry written by someone I may not even know could then be inserted into my own commenting system. Or, if I were to add a category structure to my farm’s site like, say, recipes, I could allow other weblog authors to post to both their site and mine at the same time. There’s other uses for multi-site threaded discussion that will sort themselves out over time. Could be really neat, it could never get used. We’ll see.

Somehow I’d entirely missed the wonder that is Incorrect Music, a radio show on WFMU every Wednesday afternoon. Incorrect music presents “present an asylum of crackpot and visionary music, covering sounds that are atrocious, outsider, blasphemous, or just plain WRONG,” and it’s wonderful. They’re on summer hiatus, but you can listen to most of their previous shows right on the website in Real format. Their last show, number 235, was a two-hour special. My friend Matt Goolsby may want to forward to 1:55 first, and then rewind to catch the rest.

Another busy week and month is drawing to a close and again I’m left wondering where the time went. The play I’m in opened last night. We had a good show and a sparse audience. It closes tomorrow, on my sister Adrienne’s birthday. A character with the same name has a small but dramatically intense appearance in the show. Happy birthday, A! The farm’s to do list is getting longer rather than shorter. While it can seem overwhelming at times, and it’s meant putting aside the day-to-day-living type of things like, say, unpacking the kitchen from our mover seven months ago, I think we’ve done really well considering what this place was like when we bought it. And we’re bringing in enough money to cover most of our expenses for the year, which is really good since a lot of those were one-time-only startup costs. Sometimes I ignore all those and just say the farm is covering more than half the mortgage all by itself. After another wonderful meal there last night (a simple mushroom cheeseburger that still manager to be the best burger I’ve had in a long time), I’ve discovered that my new favorite restaurant is called “Hudson Carter’s CLOCKED” with the byline “…food for the space age…”