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Marc Fisher wonders if sharing the hit record experience is possible in the age of iPod.

Stephen Strauss argues that we can only really know our nearest relatives by creating cloned reincarnations.

Mystery of Napoleon's death laid to rest?

Now that I don't review DVDs professionally, I almost never watch the commentary tracks. Like most folks, I feel I could use that time watching a movie I've never seen before&mdash;yet, a few (a very small few) of 'em are interesting or amusing. I think my favorite was Randy Newman's commentary for <I>Pleasantville</I>, which came off as an insider's view of the Hollywood scoring community (his uncles Lionel and Alfred were both film composers).

Greg Sandow has written three long posts about why this might be the end of the classical music era. The link below takes you to the third, but you can scroll down the page and read them in order.

On the 29th floor of the Venetian, I stop for a moment to look through the dirty glass:

we watch as the stardust falls<br>
window by window<br>
and the wynn rises again