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One of the most popular URLs I ever linked to was <A HREF="http://www.wesjones.com/shipbreakers.htm">"The Shipbreakers"</A>. Here's more, including pictures of many of the treasures that have been "liberated" from the ships.

A flash video from the Dove Self-Esteem Fund. Those cover girls don't really look like that, but we all know this, right? Still, a nicely done reminder.

Steve Silberman passes along this article and video on Dick Hoyt and his son, Rick. Put fragile documents away before you read this one&mdash;unless tear stains won't bother you.

If you didn't follow Paul Messenger's <I>2006 Hi-Fi News Show Report</I>&mdash;and really, you missed some fine reporting if you didn't&mdash;you may be unaware of the fact that <A HREF="http://blog.stereophile.com/hifinews2006/092406apogee/">Apogee Acoustics</A> has been reborn in the Antipodes.

On July 1, 1986, Advanced Audio Systems opened for business. On Saturday, November 11, it's going to celebrate with what Curtis Havens calls "an open format seminar" at the Sheraton Tacoma Hotel (1320 Broadway Plaza, Tacoma, WA 98402. Tel: (253) 572-3200).

<I>Why don't you review affordable gear? </I>

It's a jungle out there. The shrinking shelves of your neighborhood newsstand drip with the blood and corpses of magazines that have gone under in the intense battle for browsers' eyeballs. And only if we can make our latest issue's cover sufficiently eye-catching to get enough newsstand browsers to pick up and buy a copy do we get to play another round of the game. (Conventional publishing wisdom holds that, <I>at most</I>, a magazine's cover has six seconds to get its message across.)