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137-Year-Old Submarine Discovered
Wes Phillips  |  Apr 24, 2006  |  0 comments
Actually, people knew it was there, they just didn't realize what it was. Be sure to check out the photo gallery.
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15 Book-to-Film Adaptations That Live Up to the Source Material
Wes Phillips  |  Jul 20, 2006  |  0 comments
What, no Angels and Insects? No Blade Runner? No Giant? Okay, I'm wrong about Giant—I've always over-rated it because it was almost exclusively made up of boring parts, so I got to make out with my girlfriend in the movie theater for nearly three hours. Now that was a visceral cinematic experience.
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15 lb. Cat in a 10 lb. Box
Wes Phillips  |  Mar 03, 2006  |  1 comments
"These things used to be roomier," Huckleberry grouses.
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187 of the Greatest Hits by the Twelve Tone Masters
Wes Phillips  |  Feb 23, 2006  |  1 comments
Alex Ross links to this fabulously funny informercial hawking the International Mattias Bamert Society's collection of the catchiest twelve-tone rows ever! Alban, Arny, and Anton—they're triple-Ariffic!
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1976?
Wes Phillips  |  Nov 21, 2006  |  0 comments
Over at Locust St., the blog has been featuring an ongoing series called "100 Years (in Ten Jumps)." It's good stuff, but I'm particularly in awe of the entry "1976," which links such disparate artists as Dr. Buzzard's Original Savannah Band, Anthony Braxton, The Wild Tchoupitoulas, and The Ramones.
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20 Easy Rules for Writing about Country Music the Way the Pros Do It!
Wes Phillips  |  Jun 05, 2006  |  3 comments
Remind you of anybody? Heck yes, just about everybody!
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20 Things Everyone Needs to Know
Wes Phillips  |  Jun 08, 2006  |  First Published: Jun 09, 2006  |  1 comments
According to The Independent, at any rate. Myself, I'm not so sure I need to know how to buy a diamond, but 19 out of 20 ain't bad.
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20 Things You Don't Know About Nothing
Wes Phillips  |  Jun 13, 2007  |  0 comments
Everything is mostly nothing.
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20 Years of Computer Viruses
Wes Phillips  |  Jul 06, 2006  |  2 comments
Or is that virii?
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2007 In Review
Wes Phillips  |  Jan 03, 2007  |  0 comments
Why live through it? Steven Winn saves you the trouble by looking back at our future.
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21st Century Airships
Wes Phillips  |  Oct 04, 2007  |  0 comments
I'm a sucker for blimps, so I dream of a day when our skies are filled by them. Air & Space looks at the technological challenges and possibilities of that eventuality.
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22 Comics Panels That Always Work
Wes Phillips  |  Jul 06, 2006  |  0 comments
My buddy Jeff Wong studied with Wally Wood. He said he learned more in one WW class than he did in entire courses by other comics experts. This one-page master class makes me a believer.
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25 Greatest Science Books of All Time
Wes Phillips  |  Nov 17, 2006  |  0 comments
Discover magazine lists its top 25, plus 8 honorable mentions. At first, I was proud of how many I'd read, but as the list went on, I was horrified at how many I own and have been meaning to read. Is it too early to make a 2007 New Year's resolution?
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25 Signs That, Sadly, You've Grown Up
Wes Phillips  |  Sep 27, 2006  |  1 comments
Sad, but oh so true.
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30 Great Westerns
Wes Phillips  |  Jan 02, 2006  |  5 comments
The thing I like about lists like this—and the enthusiasts like me who devour them—is the way they serve as starting points for debate. Fer instance, I think Unforgiven is overrated, although I have a soft spot for Pale Rider, which most critics seem to feel was second-rate Eastwood.
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