My favorite thing at work the past few weeks has been the stuff we're doing with They Might Be Giants's kids releases.  The really cool stuff though is the podcast which is totally weird but incredibly watchable.

No fancy tech or anything, just great, entertaining content.

The owl is my current IM icon. We'll be releasing those on the site soon, I think. I may not gush about those, though, when it happens. I like to keep some stuff to myself.

I've noted -- probably on twitter since I rarely post things longer than 140 characters these days -- that I have way more music released this year than I have in years past. With podcasts, music blogs, my emusic subscription, amazon.com mp3 downloads and monthly amoeba runs, I'm awash in music. Hell, I even tested out urge for 6 months this year. As I do chores this morning, I'm listening to my Best of 2007 playlist in preparation for my end of the year music posts (yes, I might actually write things here in full interesting sentences that you may even care about). These two finds, Keren Ann, above, and Big Sir, below, were both random podcast finds. I'd never heard of either artist before and, in truth, I haven't sought out other music of theirs since but, today, I was reminded why I gave each 5 stars.