Bits & Pieces

Having trouble going to sleep. Try Permanent Bedtime. I love this site featuring recordings from the BBC. The opening music itself should do the trick. (h/t and more info from Warren Ellis)

The latenight edition of the Shipping Forecast has long been praised by the British as a gentle aid to restful sleep. And dream-filled sleep, too, because the Forecast is famous for listing “places” that are entirely notional, a virtual geography inhabited only by ships and the wondering minds of people drifting off into sleep. Sleep districts of the British imagination: Fastnet, Rockall, Dogger, Cromarty, Viking…