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SXSW I
So I'm sitting in traffic on MOPAC, the north/south expressway in Austin, listening to Willie Nile sing "Streets of New York," a tune that can be thought of as his "Jungleland" from his latest album, <I>Streets of New York</I>, on the CD player of my rented Jeep Liberty.
Is That a Gramophone In Your Pocket?
<I>StreetTech</I> has the cutest little portables from the 1920s
An Open Letter to My Audiophile Elders, by Erik Bobeda
Erik Bobeda is a full-time college student. With all sorts of debts and due dates and distractions, Erik Bobeda is also an audiophile.
Bagheera Primps
Looking this good takes effort.
Semper Fi
Huckleberry is ever vigilant, keeping my desktop 100% rodent free. And birds—no birds here!
Ear Ear
Why is the mammal ear more complex than the reptile ear?
Forget the Big Cats
It's the small wildcats that naturalists are all excited about.
The Real Dreamgirls
<I>Smithsonian</I> on girl groups.
Fake News Is Not That New
Robert Love gives us some historical perspective on non-factual "news." My favorite bit comes from his report of a 1903 <I>Washington Post</I> article on the unreliability of news garnered by remote stringers.