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If one were to construct an amendment to the Constitution based on a literal reading of the Bible it might well contain the following stipulations. [via lancearthur]

Audio recordings of animals and environments throughout the western United States.

"Gordon Hempton is an international acoustic ecologist and Emmy Award-winning sound recordist." He uses a dummy head for binaurel field recordings and has dozens of albums on iTunes with no cheesy synth music.

Nice article about Bernie Krause, bioacoustician. [via MeFi]

Fantastic, fantastic story about the life of field recorder Tony Schwartz. Listen to this right now!

Neighborhood data for geo-aware applications under a CC license. [via joshua]

"A blogger named Violet Blue noticed that we unpublished some posts related to her." BoingBoing comments on posts missing from their archive. Glad they explained, but unpublished has an unfortunate Orwellian ring to it.