The Greatest Yenta the World Has Ever Known
<I>Scientific American</I> takes a look at online dating.
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DRM in the BitTorrent and Broadband Age
<I>Firing Squad</I> has an interesting take on DRM. Warning: the site has super-annoying "content links that are just as annoying as "malicious viruses and rootkits."
Not a Review of Mailer's New Book
Shalom Auslander didn't review Mailer's <I>The Castle</I>. He really, really wanted to. He just couldn't bring himself to <I>read</I> it. I know what he means.
It's An Old Joke
But the classics never stale.
If 10 Had More Numbers
This isn't exactly the way I submitted it to Tris, but if I created this list again tomorrow, it would again be different. So. My Top 10 of 2006 looked something like this:
Janis Ian on Copying
Meridian's resident genius, Bob Stuart, sends along this old but still appropriate article by Janis Ian. Be sure to read her follow-up, "Fallout," as well.
Bill Watterson on Comic Strips
The creator of <I>Calvin & Hobbes</I> gave a legendary (some say notorious) speech called "The State of Cartooning" in 1989. I'd heard of it, but never read it until <I>Planet Cartoon</I> posted it yesterday.
The Slow, Painful Death of Sony Corporation
Dave Taylor has it right, I think. Sony, once the personification of innovation, quality, and vision, now has none of them. That <I>is</I> the beginning of a lingering death.
Wrong, wrong, and wrong again!
Fiona Maddocks writes a fine rebuttal to Norman LeBrecht's <A HREF="http://www.scena.org/columns/lebrecht/070124-NL-tchaikovsky.html">grous… dismissal</A> of the BBC's Tchaikovsky Experience.
Admit it—You Hate Modern Art
That's Spengler's argument in this <I>Asia Times</I> essay, at any rate. Within that discussion, however, Spengler muses about why modern art is so much more popular with the public than "modern" music—and <I>that's</I> the <I>hmmm</I> part of his essay—that music, unlike the plastic arts, can only be experienced within time.