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Bagheera has decided that the roasting pan makes a dandy command bridge for managing kitchen operations.

The trouble with Tasers, <I>CrunchGear</I> explains, is "there appears to be an aggressive effort by [Taser International] to silence critics and to control data and, on occasion, manipulate statistics with the intent of preserving an illusion of safety surrounding its products."

I spent an afternoon <A HREF="http://stereophile.com/musicrecordings/671/">interviewing</A&gt; the Emerson Quartet when they released their epic Shostakovich cycle.They were delightful. They're dedicated musicians, of course, but also witty and welcoming&mdash;just good company.

Not too many people know this about him &#151; not even his closest friends, not even his mother, not even his wife &#151; but John Atkinson, editor of <i>Stereophile</i>, is a huge fan of The Fucking Champs. In fact, JA sent me this clip<SUP>1</SUP>.

In the dawn of the record era, album covers were based on the covers of photographic albums. Then Alex Steinweiss proposed to Columbia that it "embellish the 78 RPM record albums (covers) with original artwork (drawings and paintings)." An art form&mdash;and an industry&mdash;was born.