Today Kurt Cobain would have been 40. Seems like yesterday when we were seeing that searing image of his suicide: the photo taken in the room where he died, of his Converse All Stars, still on his feet, sticking out from behind a piece of furniture.
For Nick Mason, it's driving; for Roger Waters, it's being driven.
Pay attention, class. This little rope-climbing device looks pretty slick. As the article says, the real trick isn't ascending the rope, but ascending the rope without damaging it. The rule of thumb we used when I did technical caving was to retire any rope we had "shocked" with an impact or weight-bearing kink.
Even if you read my <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/news/021907hatto/">news article</A>, about Joyce Hatto's recordings, David Hurwitz' <I>Classics Today</I> editorial will supply new information.
Kind of cool—and very well done, although the first thing I loaded in was "argh," which Kate could not pronounce.
I can't believe I missed Clive James' wonderful paean to the Duke in <I>Slate</I> earlier this month. Better linked to late than never, I suppose.
Did the Himalayas and the Tibetan plateau rebound "like a cork" in response to losing their massive anchoring mantle?
The original transparencies of an iconic Beatles album cover had been thrown in the garbage and crushed.
An audiophile is practically defined by his/her thoughtful and considered approach to selecting components. Which part of the audio chain do you spend the most time auditioning before purchase?
We wrote last week about the <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/news/021207drm/">increasingly heated debate</A> over DRM copy protection, with everybody from Steve Jobs to the RIAA weighing in on the subject. This week was just as wild and whacky on that front.