From the Front Lines
<I>The Birmingham News</I> recently uncovered a cache of unpublished photographs from the early years of the Civil Rights struggle. Thank goodness these images weren't lost.
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I Wonder Wonder Who, who-oo-ooh who, Who Wrote the Book of Love
Chapter one: vasopressin and oxytocin did it.
Nominate These Folks For a Nobel Prize
Nanopaint that blocks cell phones? Yowsah!
Spam Filter, Where You At?
Dear "poker casino 875,"<br>
I hate you.
Is File-Sharing Theft?
The BBC's Adam Livingstone says that he knows it's not—even if the Beeb did use the "t-word" in a story last week.
Monsters In New York
Walking tours featuring the gargoyles, green men, griffins, and hippogryphs of New York. When I first moved here, my wife told me that looking up all the time marked me as a tourist, which seemed like a terrible thing to be. Then I discovered that by not looking up, I missed all of this stuff, which seemed much worse.
A Purely Resistive Load
There's <a href="http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/022806summer/">another complication</a>.
Cellolicious!
I don't know anything about Ethan Winer except that he made one heck of a cool video of himself playing cello. It's <I>all</I> cello, baby.
I Do Not Think You Know What That Word Means
iPod Hi-Fi? "iPod Hi-Fi accurately reproduces the lowest cello notes and the highest piccolo notes; the brittle strum of an acoustic guitar and the powerful thump of a driving bass."
That's a Very Good Question
MPAA spokesflack Brad Hunt tried to sell a roomful of Hollywood tech types on "plugging the analog hole." Ought to be a slam dunk, right? Apparently not. The group groaned out loud when he said that retailers would have to educate consumers on its implications and after more probing questions, he got this one: "This is a room full of people whose living depends on this working. You're getting pushback to the point of hostility. If you can't sell this to us, how are you going to sell it to the target 16–45 demographic?"