To be honest, I didn't give it much of a chance. I mean, especially after Jim <a href="http://www.thielaudio.com/">Thiel</a>'s captivating presentation on the new CS3.7, the Philips press conference seemed like so much noise and swirling lights and fake boobs.
Call me biased. I really don't care, and, anyway:<br>
It's amazing.
Through a process that R. Luke Dubois has dubbed "time-lapse phongraphy," you can listen to all of <I>Billboard</I>'s number one singles since 1958. Playing a "spectral average" of each piece, lasting one second for each week it charted, the 857 songs create a spacey collage.
That Bertie Russell is <I>my</I> idea of a philosopher.
Not the you're thinking about, but one that explains how animals run, fly, and swim.
It starts to rain: Do you run or walk?
Feel my heart<br>
race now<br>
almost as it does<br>
when we kiss.
As more than 100,000 visitors fly in to Las Vegas for the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show, I thought I'd post this shot of an empty Alexis Park Hotel, home of the high-end audio exhibits, on the last day of the 2005 Show. Tomorrow, this joint will be <I>jumping</I>!
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 <I>Unforgiven</I> is overrated, although I have a soft spot for <I>Pale Rider</I>, which most critics seem to feel was second-rate Eastwood.