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"While in residence at the Baltimore Museum of Industry during the last two years, Catherine Wagner was given access to their 50,000+ collection of historic light bulbs, one of the premier collections of vintage and antique light bulbs in the United States, with lights dating from the early 19th century. The resulting series of photographs titled A Narrative History of the Light Bulb embodies both sculptural installation and photography. Wagner creates arrangements of bulbs that she then photographs with an 8 by 10 view camera in order to record the glass enclosures and the delicate filaments in stunning detail. Wagner’s work has long been noted for its investigation of the dissemination of knowledge and the construction of culture and these new works follow in her trajectory of providing access to the close scrutiny of scientific objects."

<I>BBspot</I> claims to have obtained the super-duper-secretest-ever legal decision flowchart used by the RIAA. Everything now makes so much sense!

More proof, as if needed, that the true definition of a gentleman is someone who can play the bagpipe, but won't.
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I've mentioned <a href="http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/121406something/">my problem with sleep</a>. It's not that I can't <i>fall</i> asleep. I'm usually so tired that I'm completely gone before my head meets pillow. I could go to bed at 7pm and fall asleep, no problem. I'm half-asleep right now.

Lest I begin every blog entry in a negative fashion let me begin by saying, I love the music of Led Zeppelin.

Somehow, the November issue of <I>Technology Review</I> made it to the top of my Empire State Building pile of unread magazines and I happened upon this fascinating recollection by Freeman Dyson about working for the Operational Research Section during WWII.

Philip K. Dick, far from being too paranoid to be prophetic, might not have been paranoid enough. After all, even <I>my</I> comments section makes you prove you're not a robot (<I>Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?</I>) and there really <I>are</I> cameras everywhere for our protection (<I>Through a Scanner Darkly</I>). Oh yes, and legislation aimed at protecting us from terror may have invaded our privacy (<I>Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said</I>).