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I'm mad at the weather. It's cold. Colder, in fact, than it should be. This is why I'm mad. If things were just as they should be, I wouldn't complain.

<I>The Economist</I> opines that Steve Jobs' anti-DRM argument is "in short, . . . transparently self-serving. It also happens to be right."

<I>The Smithsonian</I> has a fascinating article about the Masks for Facial Disfigurement Department, which fitted disfigured veterans of the Great War with prosthetic faces. One benefit of reading it online is that there's an accompanying video.

Eddie Campbell ruminates on Roy Lichtenstein's "appropriation" of comics art.

Turning 6lbs of brass and 600 parts into a tenor saxophone at the Yamaha factory.

You've undoubtedly read Steve Jobs' <A HREF="http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughtsonmusic/">"Thoughts on Music"</A> by now, but what does it mean? I've been sorting through interpretations and responses (such as the <A HREF="http://www.macnn.com/articles/07/02/06/norway.responds.to.jobs/"><I>Mac…; interview</A> with Torgeir Waterhouse of the Norwegian Consumer Council), but I think Thomas Hawk at <I>Seeking Alpha</I> comes closest to deciphering it correctly.

Because evil has a blueprint.