Distilled from several nights and early mornings of field recordings, this CD brings you right to the water's edge of a small waterhole in Madikwe Game Reserve, South Africa. In the span of about forty minutes you can experience a representative eight-hour night of sound, from the spectacular late-night chorus of frogs and toads, to the first threads of birdsong from the dawn chorus.

This recording may be enjoyed in many ways: as a calming background soundtrack for relaxation or exercise; as a meditation on the passage of Time; as documentation of a disappearing African wetland habitat; as a tool for the naturalist to hone his or her skills at identifying wildlife by ear; or simply as an experience of pure ambience—the living sound of life on Earth.

Includes an eight-page explanatory booklet.

Right here, right now, the solid Earth is moving under your feet. Earthquakes, storms, and ocean surf on a distant shore: each contributes a note to the restless chorus of vibrations that echoes across the planet's vast interior.

This CD includes three 20-minute recordings of these slow natural vibrations, captured by a global network of digital seismographs and transposed into high-quality stereo.

The CD is accompanied by a 16-page full-color illustrated explanatory booklet (not available separately). An excerpt from this work was featured on National Public Radio's “Sound Clips” series in 2006.

For five months in 2006 I meticulously recorded the weight of everything that passed into and out of my studio, carefully annotating each measurement: lunch & box of nails IN; full bladder OUT; empty bladder IN; stepladder OUT; etc.

The results of this study were published in the hypothetical Journal of Tangible Intuitions (Volume 8, No. 3, March 2008). This limited-edition 8-page offset reprint includes the complete text of that article, including Figure 1, a 9" × 50" full-color accordion-fold chart that reveals the meaning latent in the raw observations.

The original "God Bless Our Vacuous Slogans" ribbon magnet decal. It's a message that will never go out of fashion.

These are high-quality vinyl covered magnets, about 3.5" × 8", just like the ones you've seen everywhere — but with a better message. They're very durable: The one on my car lasted through three years of harsh New England summers and winters before it finally began to peel apart and needed to be replaced.

Read more about it and see photos of it in action. If you send me your photo I'll add it to the gallery!

Since 1993, Access to Insight has served as an online repository of useful texts for students, scholars, and practitioners of Theravada Buddhism. This CD-ROM is a complete copy of the Access to Insight website. It contains modern translations of more than 1,000 important suttas from the Pali Tipitaka, plus some 350 books, articles, essays, Dhamma talks, and study guides by scores of respected writers, teachers, and meditation masters within the Theravada traditions, all carefully cross-referenced and indexed. These texts are offered in full cooperation with all the authors, translators, and publishers concerned, with the clear understanding that none of them are to be sold.

This is version 7.10 of the CD-ROM, published in October, 2007.

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