Tea Report: Mariage Frères Thé des Lumières -- listening to ultra-cool Norwegian jazz/folk music with The Brazz Brothers and Våga Spelmannslag!

Tea Report: Lady Jane Grey in Geilo. Have noticed a significant upgrade in available tea in Norway since that very first trips back in 1988.

Weather sirens going off in Northfield. This is not a drill...

@AustinHeap and those helping him are heroes of free speech to many Iranians. http://ping.fm/TPrEP

Tea Report: Swedish Söderblandning. Lovin' this time of the morning when it is dark, but the birds have just awakened and are singing.

Preparing salmon and salad for the evening's dinner. There will be grilling -- and French Horns -- tonight!

I could SO get into having a house built from this material: http://www.sgblocks.com/

Tea Report: Eau de Buddha for a friend visiting this weekend. It's a flowering tea! Video: http://ping.fm/HG9Ry

Have you seen the petition at http://www.OpenCuba.org asking USA leaders to remove the 50 year ban on American travel to Cuba?

One of the best things about the Internet and Social Media? Pictures of a buddy's new baby moments after birth. Priceless!

Tea Report: Fleur de Buddha -- flowering tea. Take a zen moment and see it in action: http://ping.fm/CO87a

w00t! The Colbert Report will be broadcast from Iraq this week. I'm leaking this information - just as Stephen Colbert requested.

WOW!!!! Piratpartisterna tar plats i EU http://ping.fm/PDTan

Tea Report: I'm not drinking tea -- and listening to ABBA. Not going to explain... ;-)

Tea Report: An early cup. Noticing that some pals clearly have a Superior-ity complex this weekend while they're at the North Shore.

Epic YouTube ad by @tibetweet for "PR/marketing consultant wanted" http://ping.fm/CHCuo

Tea Report (Yes, it's back!): Swedish Søderblanding as I download Norwegian and Finnish dictionaries for my Nokia E71.

I think it's great how Last.fm let's me "love" a track -- but there are a few I'd like to "hate". Where's that icon?

Watching the MN Senate case before the MN Supreme Court @ theuptake.org. Thinking that lawyers ought to avoid the use of "always" and "never".

Just used the original Popol Vuh version for my new mobile ringtone. Norwegian progressive rock!