music map: every noise at once, or: 1264 genres to click & listen to

Fascinating + fun music link to explore different music styles: 

Every Noise at Once - music map

The "how to" is at the bottom of the map: "This is an ongoing attempt at an algorithmically-generated, readability-adjusted scatter-plot of the musical genre-space, based on data tracked and analyzed for 1264 genres by The Echo Nest. The calibration is fuzzy, but in general down is more organic, up is more mechanical and electric; left is denser and more atmospheric, right is spikier and bouncier. Click anything to hear an example of what it sounds like. Click again to jump to the middle of the song, a third time to stop it."

There also ist a Page with play lists 
The songs run via Spotify, i don't have an account there, but it still plays (maybe it's based on a 1-month-trial-system)
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(via Kraftfuttermischwerk)

Mallorca links, walk, places, etc.

the joy of preparing for island-time:

soon i will be flying to Mallorca again, and am now starting to pick the books i will take, and also plan a bit ahead. last time, i went for some walks, trying walkways i came across. and i visited one of the prehistoric places on the island (and arrived there to find it was closed..)

to have a bit more of a plan this time, i will gather links here in this blog post, some are in German, some in English:

• 12 easy walking routes in Mallorca (Consell de Mallorca.net)  
• Parc natural de s'Albufera (wiki, daily 9-18)
• Prehistoric Sites: Ses Paisses (wiki, Mo-Fr 10-17)
• About the prehistoric places: Talaiotic culture (wiki) +
   Talayots & Dolmen (Mallorca Photo Blog)
• The Roman town of Pollentia (Di-Fr 10-4)
• Wandern in Mallorca (Hiking blog, with links)

Blogs about Mallorca: seasons, people, plants...

• Mallorca observed / Mallorca Postcards (moments)
• Mallorca stories (people)
• Plantarum Maioricarum (plants)
• Wordpress/Majorca
• (more to come)

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and a photo + link from last year's stay:

island lessons: The Kindness of Strangers
Today turned into a little adventure. The plan i had was: to drive to Arta, to visit the prehistoric ruins of "Ses Paisses" there...