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No, not the one in Minnesota (our sympathies to everyone there), but <A HREF="http://youtube.com/watch?v=FbpUwx_YLGc">this one</A>. <I>Media Bistro</I> has the back story on Merry Miller's Holly Hunter interview.

I have one word for you: nanotechnology.

Julian Lloyd Webber asks a big question.

I sat on the orange couch, grabbed the television remote, and flipped through the channels: 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, and 13, 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, and 13. The Mets weren't on. Meanwhile, Tom Glavine was struggling to become the 23rd pitcher in Major League Baseball history to win 300 games. I needed to know how he was doing.

When I was a kid, I wanted to grow up to become a professional baseball player. I loved playing ball, and all of the adult men in my family seemed to respect it, too. When I wasn't playing ball, I'd be in my room, listening to the radio, and drawing up my own baseball cards. Collecting cards, too, was a wonderful hobby. The photographs on the fronts were nice, but I was more interested in the information on the backs. Even when UpperDeck came out with their glossy, action photos, Topps cards remained, in my mind, the absolute best. Topps cards listed all of the stats for every single season of a ballplayer's career, even going back at times to his minor league years. How can you beat that?

That's ECM, in case you didn't know. Geoff Dyer tells us how a label changed the way he listened to music.

Didn't they back up Ziggy Stardust?