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Sumo Polaris II power amplifier
Corey Greenberg  |  May 06, 2007  |  First Published: Apr 06, 1991  |  0 comments
What's in a name? Quite a bit, when you stop and think about it. Would you rather have prostate surgery by Dr. Steadyhand or Dr. Whoops? Names imply a lot, even if we don't consciously make the connection; that's why your Polo shirt was made by Ralph Lauren instead of Ralph Lipshitz.
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Wes Phillips
Duck-Billed Platitudes
Wes Phillips  |  May 04, 2007  |  0 comments
Freida Hughes is less than reverent about a Robert Service poem. She's right—the callow lad got bent out of shape when his booty call wasn't the idyll he had imagined.
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Wes Phillips
What's That?
Wes Phillips  |  May 04, 2007  |  0 comments
Bagheera's bug huntin'!
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Why Is This Cat Laughing?
Wes Phillips  |  May 04, 2007  |  0 comments
Because I thought I was the boss of him, that's why.
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Wes Phillips
With a Hey, and a Ho, and a Hey-Nonny-No
Wes Phillips  |  May 04, 2007  |  0 comments
"These syllables might be nonsensical, but they are telling and resonant."
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Stephen Mejias
So Perfect and Neat and New
Stephen Mejias  |  May 03, 2007  |  4 comments
My allergies are, as they say, "killing me." Robert says it's the tree pollen.
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Wes Phillips
Welcome to the CIA Museum
Wes Phillips  |  May 03, 2007  |  3 comments
"Housed in the Agency's Headquarters Building in McLean, Virginia, this unique collection illustrates the history of US intelligence—which effectively began when this country was still 13 separate colonies—by showing some of the artifacts and tools used by men and women serving in various aspects of espionage."
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Sky Racers
Wes Phillips  |  May 03, 2007  |  0 comments
In the 1920s and '30s, fliers would race their home-built and "suicidally overpowered" single engine aircraft—sometimes in front of 60,000 spectators. The Granville Brothers' Gee Bee Model Z was little more than a massive motor with stubby little wings attached, but it paved the way for the fast fighters the Air Corps put aloft in WWII.
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On the Evolution of Style
Wes Phillips  |  May 03, 2007  |  0 comments
I've been reading Chet Raymo's Walking Zero, a meditation on the history of science focussed through a walk along the prime meridian in the UK. It's a lovely book, one I tend to linger over, reading a chapter and then mulling over it for a few days. Highly recommended.
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O'Neill at Sing-Sing
Wes Phillips  |  May 03, 2007  |  1 comments
Eugene O'Neill is currently having a resurgence everywhere from prisons to Broadway (John Atkinson ranks the Old Vic production of Moon For the Misbegotten as one of his most intense theatrical experiences). John Patrick Diggens argues that O'Neill's themes of deceit and desire are particularly timely for 'Muricans today.
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