Dobie - Cloud 98 3/4

This song reminds of being 13 or 14 on a family holiday to Kerry. I had this on tape (nicked off my brother) with a load of hip-hop/ambient/trip-hop stuff off late-night radio and I would keep rewinding it and playing it over and over and over. It's still great...

Images from 1960's Ireland

Amazing photos of 1960's Dublin from the Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection at Indiana University (thank you Peter).

Himmler's Angora album.

I was joking about how ridiculous[ly cute] Angora rabbits are and googling images of them when I came across this on Wiki. Bizarre.

Angora rabbits were raised in Nazi concentration camps, including Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Dachau to provide fur for the linings of jackets for Luftwaffe pilots.

Many of the artifacts left by Nazi Germany could be considered bizarre. But few are as chilling as a beautifully bound volume covered in woven gray wool, titled "Angora." It belonged to one of history's most ruthless men, Heinrich Himmler, the chief of the SS in Nazi Germany and head of its concentration camps.

Himmler's "Angora" album, which he hid in a farmhouse with his other papers near the end of World War II, tells the story of the Angora rabbit project that operated in all the Nazi concentration camps, including Auschwitz, Buchenwald and Dachau.

Images from Wisconsin Historical Society. Article from Wikipedia.