I continue to revel in the fleeting satisfaction of my MARIO KART victory, one each – sweet, sweet detente. This week’s MacroParentheticals is inbound, +/-60; in the meantime, enjoy the random etc etcs that found their way to my brain over the last week:

The solar roof could finally become a reality thanks to GAF’s nailable solar shingles (via The Verge).
Sounds about right: Ohio toiled 15 months on license plate, missed backwards plane (via Autoblog).
Highly recommmend Katelyn Jetelina's Your Local Epidemiologist newsletter to help make sense of omicron.
Political video-games in Brazil (via The Economist)
Steeped, "a short poem that unfolds sequentially in the captions under the photos. Subtitled ‘A zine for tea breaks and short waits’ the photographs are of tea bags steeping, tea in cups and mugs" (via Zineopolis).
Maud Newton's return to blogging is a very good thing. Can’t wait to read ANCESTOR TROUBLE, out 29 March.
‘Ghost’ orchid that grows in the dark among new plant finds (via The Guardian).
Dark-themed Parisian nightclubs of the Belle Époque (via Bruce Sterling).
Brik Font: Creating Type with Lego (via Kottke.org).
Rolling Stones Altamont concert footage found in Library of Congress archives (via The Washington Post).
Brian Eno’s LED Color Changing Turntable Spins an Ambient Mood (via Design Milk).
And, finally: Masked stranger in Tokyo secretly takes down someone else’s Christmas lights, puts them away (via SoraNews24).
Also, be sure to check out last week’s EarBliss; new installments (nearly) every Wednesday.

Daily read, daily run, weekly return to Level 8-4: the day awaits.