Wes Phillips

Made in Japan
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Wes Phillips  |  Jan 24, 2008  |  0 comments
I'd pay cash money to know how "Some stupid with a flare gun" translates into Japanese.
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The Media Has No Mind
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Wes Phillips  |  Jan 23, 2008  |  0 comments
John Atkinson sent along this Jay Rosen article about why "the media" gets stuff like primaries so wrong.
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It's a Bed! It's an iPod Accessory! It's Shiny!
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Wes Phillips  |  Jan 22, 2008  |  0 comments
Stereophile gets press releases every day. Some days, they are for products that strike us as really great ideas, sometimes they make us go huh? And sometimes we think both.
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McIntosh MS750 music server
Media Server Reviews
Wes Phillips  |  Jan 22, 2008  |  0 comments
It has a fan, it won't work without a monitor, and it contains a 750GB hard drive—for some audiophiles, that's a trifecta of reasons not to buy the McIntosh MS750 music server ($6000).
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When Marty Met Mick'n'Keef
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Wes Phillips  |  Jan 22, 2008  |  3 comments
Who knows? This might be good.
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What The Wire Reveals About Urban Journalism
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Wes Phillips  |  Jan 22, 2008  |  0 comments
Lawrence Lanaham goes to Baltimore, Maryland, as well as Bodymore, Murdaland to discover if David Simon's dyspeptic portrait of newspapers in crisis in this season's The Wire is realistic.
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Huck Hangs Out
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Wes Phillips  |  Jan 18, 2008  |  0 comments
"What's the problem? It's warm and out of the way—I could do this for hours!"
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Vegas Cat
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Wes Phillips  |  Jan 18, 2008  |  0 comments
On my travel day to Vegas, I awoke at 3am and flew six hours to the desert city. When I checked into my hotel, I stripped off my outerwear and napped.
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So Long, Flashy
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Wes Phillips  |  Jan 17, 2008  |  1 comments
For many years one of my most beloved guilty pleasures has been reading George MacDonald Frasier's books. Not just the Flashman Papers, which I have found delightful and from which I have learned a lot of 19th century history, but also his McAusland novels, his Mr. American,his spirited adventure novel Candlemass Road (which, at a taut 181 pages, is one of the finest examples of economical action writing ever), and his masterful history of the Scottish boarder wars, The Steel Bonnets.
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Emerson Radio Corp. and Adcom LLC Announce Joint Venture
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Wes Phillips  |  Jan 17, 2008  |  0 comments
A few days ago, Stereophile reader Bill Taylor wrote, "I was just strolling down memory lane and took a look at the Adcom website...they just merged with Emerson."
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