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The relationship between many audiophiles and well-sung, well-recorded female vocal tracks is like the relationship between alcoholics and alcohol—or between, apparently, quite a few congresspersons and unworked-for money. The sentence, "Thank you, but I really have had enough already," is seldom heard. In defense of our hobby, buying and setting up stereo equipment so that gorgeous singing can enthrall you does no one any harm, and arguably does much good. "Beauty is truth," and all that.

Rotel's newest: <A HREF="http://www.rotel.com/">Rotel</A&gt; is venturing into the power conditioner market with two new components developed in conjunction with APC (American Power Conversion), a company with a long history in power-protection: the $1599 RLC-1080, which offers internal battery backup, and the $499 RLC-140. Both models offer system protection against spikes, brownouts, over-voltages, and RFI noise. Both also offer protection for coaxial, telephone, and Ethernet hook ups, as well as audible warnings and text displays.

On Friday, April 29, AP <A HREF="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060428/ap_en_mu/music_downloads_royalties;…; that Cheap Trick and the Allman Brothers Band were suing Sony Music over the record label's payment for music downloads through Napster and the iTunes Music Service.

Another reason to love <I>The Onion</I>.

Here's a video for the <a href="http://www.ryecoalition.com/index3.html">Rye Coalition</a> track "Young Yellers," off their new album <i>Curses</i>.

I expect we'll see a lot of articles about this, touting it as the beginning of the end for aging. It's a start, but I suspect that aging is such a complex cluster of processes that there's no one "key" to reversing it.

"You know, Mr. Stephen, I'll be coming to you for help with my new blog," Robert warns me.