This Video is All Wet
Evian may have produced the greatest commercial ever. Well, for water anyway.
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For All Your Fake Data Needs
On deadline? Need statistics to back up your project? Here's what you need.
Drink Up!
Drinking vessels of antiquity.
Stereophile Photo Gallery
The <a href="http://forum.stereophile.com/photopost/index.php">Stereophile Photo Gallery</a> is all the way live. It's another fine way of building community and sharing the enthusiasm. I hope that you will visit it and make it beautiful. Like Madonna, she's waiting to be dressed up in your love; decorate her with images of your hi-fi gear.
One Hundred Years of Solitary Dread
Richard Ouzounian wishes Samuel Beckett a happy centeniary. Well, if it's Beckett we're talking about, "happy" isn't precisely the word we want—and Beckett was all about <I>le mot juste</I>.
Hey Neighbor!
If you were sending a shout out to an alien species, what would you say? Here's what Cosmic Call sent via a 70m telescope in the Ukraine. Let's hope our fellow sapient species are brighter than I am—I had to click through to the translation.
Were you ever or are you now a big fan of progressive rock, and why do you/don't you like it?
Genesis, Yes, Gentle Giant, Happy the Man . . . . Progressive rock from the 1970s has taken abuse from all sides, but it is still dear to many audiophiles. Were you ever or are you now a big fan, and why do you/don't you like it?
"Poignance Measured in Digits"
I've been kicking myself for years for not saving the copy of <I>The New York Times</I> in which Hans Fantel wrote about hearing Bruno Walter's 1938 performance of Mahler's Ninth Symphony.
Hail to the Heroes
<I>American Heritage</I> takes a comprehensive look at firefighters.
Godel, Escher, and Almost Bach
Douglas Hofstadter reconsiders some of his notions about music and artifical intelligence.