My car was parked about 25 yards from where the old Westinghouse building in Newark collapsed this morning. It was a rare display of luck on my part to have not been closer at the time. My office is on the opposite corner of the building, and up here on the 16th floor we've had a pretty excellent view of the rubble and crushed cars. Wish I had my camera handy.

Seth does a good job of putting all of the issues with the music industry into one, (mostly) concise speech and Nine Inch Nails releases an instrumental album using a slightly altered version of the Radiohead model. I haven't been able to stomach the last three Nine Inch Nails albums, but this instrumental stuff isn't half-bad. Track 4 on Ghosts I sounds like My Bloody Valentine on acid, which works for me this morning.