"<I>Epact</I> is an electronic catalogue of medieval and renaissance scientific instruments from four European museums: the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, the Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Florence, the British Museum, London, and the Museum Boerhaave, Leiden. Together, these museums house the finest collections of early scientific instruments in the world."
Are the Beatles coming to iTunes soon?
Despite the <I>Oh, really?</I> hed, this is kind of a fascinating article.
John Marks sends along this link to an Orthodox web radio station, which, as Monseigneur Marks points out, offers "more varieties of Chant than thou canst a stick shake at!"
Waaay before it becomes audiophilia. A documentary about the Audiophile Club of Athens.
Microsoft's Zune, that is. Andy Ihnatko's <I>Chicago Sun-Times</I> review is pretty much perfect. Don't write him off as an Apple cultist, however. He gives props to the PDDs that get it right.
Quarks, photons, and space-time foam—oh my!
Or maybe they're the larval form of some other proliferating common household object—Maya Kessler makes the case.
We received an interesting email from engineer Richard Burwen just before the Thanksgiving business break:
