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<A HREF="http://www.realtraps.com/">RealTraps</A>'s Ethan Winer has condensed what must have been thousands of hours of work into one six minute video.

You haven't farrrrghotten that today is International Talk Like a Pirate Day, have you?

Is there a link? I dunno, I happen to <I>like</I> the "modern fashion ... for the tall, thin and very un-breast-like champagne flutes."

Stephen has challenged me to build a system with just $1000.

I need to think fast. My requirements for the system are loudspeakers, preamp/power amp, phono stage, turntable, CD player... Shit. $1000! That's it? I'll use the 2008 Buyer's Guide data and see what I can do...

Just to get you in the mood, if you're going to hear Sonny Rollins at Carnegie Hall tonight. Or, if like me, you won't be there, just as a treat, there are some new videos up on Rollins' website.

It gets my vote!

Now you can be incomprehensible in several languages.

Neutrons aren't as simple as we thought.

"If Alex were a dog, he would be 189 years old. But he's a parrot and he's 27. In parrot years that's 27. Unless Alex chokes on a nut or falls out of his cage, he should live another 50 years. In a perfect world, healthy parrots can live 80 to 90 years."

Oliver Sacks on music and amnesia&mdash;and about just how puzzling cognition and memory truly are.