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From the Cornell Ornithology Labs newsletter:

Seven Super Sounds From Our Newly Digitized Archive

Our Macaulay Library is the world’s largest public archive for natural sounds and video. After 12 years of hard work, the library recently finished digitizing its entire archive of tapes—150,000 clips and 7,513 hours of running time are now up online. To celebrate, we've put together a small sampler of sounds we love, including a Song Sparrow from the Jazz Age, a bird's impression of a UFO landing, and everyone's favorite wailing waterbird, among others. Read the story and hear the sounds.

Nifty!

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Here is a video of somebody dressed like Gandalf playing the bagpipes on a unicycle. You're welcome.

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Just to give myself a rough idea of how far along I am in the first draft of editing the raw translation of this book:

9967 / 38139 (26.13%)

It's not a particularly long book. :) More of a novelette or a novella, in fact. The target wordcount there is the number of words in the raw translation, and the number of words written is the number of words in the sections I've gotten through so far. (I have actually removed about 1000 words from the raw translation, some of which are the translator's notes to me, but quite a lot of which are extraneous.)

edit to remind myself of the URL where I got this meter code: http://honorless.net/progressbar.htm