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Polk Audio Acquired by Directed Electronics
Wes Phillips  |  Aug 27, 2006  |  0 comments
On August 21, Directed Electronics, Inc. announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Polk Audio for $136 million in cash, with the deal to close in Q3 of 2006. Current Polk management will join Directed, and company founder Matthew Polk and Polk president Jim Herd will sit on Directed's home audio advisory board. File this one under the you can't make this stuff up department: Sandy Gross, founder of Directed's other loudspeaker company, Definitive Technology, already sits on the board, which makes Polk's presence there a homecoming of sorts, since Gross was a founding partner at Polk.
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Wes Phillips
You Can Leave Your Socks On
Wes Phillips  |  Aug 25, 2006  |  4 comments
Secrets of the orgasm: "As orgasm lasts much longer in women than in men, it is easier to study using PET—male ejaculation is over so quickly it is hard to get a reliable reading."
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Magic Sand
Wes Phillips  |  Aug 25, 2006  |  1 comments
Well, hydrophobic at any rate. Amazing stuff.
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Led Huckelin
Wes Phillips  |  Aug 25, 2006  |  1 comments
You need coolin', baby, I'm not foolin'
I'm gonna send you back to schoolin'
Way down inside honey, you need it
I'm gonna give you my love
I"m gonna give you my love
Whoa!
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Do Not Adjust Your Dial
Wes Phillips  |  Aug 25, 2006  |  1 comments
"Put down that mouse and go upstairs and pour some kibble into bowls. Do not stop to watch TV. Do it now!"
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Robert Baird
Dylan (Black Elk II) Speaks
Robert Baird  |  Aug 24, 2006  |  2 comments
I love Bob Dylan: the man, the music, the whole enchilada. I even like the endless tour, (currently playing triple A ballparks), which he seems determined to continue on until, to use that famous line from Midnight Cowboy, he "dies on the stage."
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Stephen Mejias
With Three Zs
Stephen Mejias  |  Aug 24, 2006  |  2 comments
I've been working on the Buyer's Guide all day long. It's a drag. Zzz. If I was Elizabeth (we're now calling her "Lizzzie," by the way), I might let my hair loose and kick something.
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Have A Cuppa Tea
Wes Phillips  |  Aug 24, 2006  |  0 comments
Tea in the morning, tea in the evening, tea at supper time,
You get tea when it's raining, tea when it's snowing.
Tea when the weather's fine,
You get tea as a mid-day stimulant
You get tea with your afternoon tea
For any old ailment or disease
For Christ sake have a cuppa tea.
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Everything You Know Is Wrong, Chapter 1147
Wes Phillips  |  Aug 24, 2006  |  0 comments
One of the best books I read last year was Jared Diamond's Collapse, which argues that Easter Island is a classic tale of ecological disaster caused by overpopulation and the depletion of irreplaceable resources. Not so fast, says Terry L. Hunt.
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Get Ready to Feel Old
Wes Phillips  |  Aug 24, 2006  |  1 comments
Beloit College publishes a "mindset" memo at the beginning of each year that reminds teachers that the new students don't have the same cultural references we oldsters do.
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