Audio on the Web
There are very many high-end audio websites out there. I know this because I've spent all day working on our "Audio Manufacturers on the Web" directory, which may be published in our 2007 Buyer's Guide.
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CEDIA Travel Advisory
<I>Stereophila</I> Bogging will be light for the next three days, while I am blogging <A HREF="http://blog.stereophile.com/cedia2006/">CEDIA</A>. I'll try to get some stuff up here and I will definitely be cat blogging on Friday, having spent the better part of yesterday afternoon following Huck and Bagheera around, camera in hand.
Airport WiFi Guide
Here's a handy site for travelers: <I>TravelPost.com</I> has a chart listing all the US airports with WiFi, complete with their rates and terminal locations. (Some airports do it right and offer free access to their hostages, er, guests.)
Speaking of Rights
Jeff Wong alerted me to the furor among artists over what is known as "The Blue Girl Infringement," which involves a piece of proposed bad law called the Orphan Works Act.
Evaluating DRM
Fred von Lohmann, senior intellectual property attorney at the <A HREF="http://www.eff.org/">Electronic Frontier Foundation</A> (EFF) and our hero, sends along this link to the Center for Democracy and Technology's (CDT) thoughtful guidelines to how electronics product reviewers should evaluate digital rights management (DRM) issues.
Where the Tunnels Go
These days have been long. Longer than usual, in fact. That's right:<br>
Longer than usual.
Irving Penn Platinum Prints
<I>Plep</I> points us toward this gallery of Penn prints at the National Gallery. Amazing how much detail you get in this analog format—go ahead, enlarge 'em and see.
Study Shows Studies Bad For Your Health
Well, actually, it suggests that, by wearing a helmet when I cycle, I give motorists the feeling I'm invulnerable.
Physicists to World: Ooops!
Perhaps not, but <I>PhysOrg.com</I> reports that two Italian physicists have written a paper suggesting that the concepts of dark energy and dark matter might be the result of "improper" gravitational theory.
9/11/2006
For as long as I live, like it or not, I'll remember 10:28 am 9/11/06 like it was yesterday. I remember the roar and the sight of the giant radio antenna on the last of two towers standing disappearing into the massive clouds of gray smoke. I remember the emergency room personnel at St. Vincent's out in the street waiting for survivors that never came and the clouds of gritty smoke and 8 x 11 sheets of paper blowing up the streets of Brooklyn. And then I remember the jumpers, those who'd rather jump than burn.