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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.

Really cool site with labels from Jamaican singles. Get your analog nerd on.

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.

Paul Griffiths reviews two new books about Bach. I'll probably read both, but it's <I>his</I> writing I find delightful.

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.

If molecular interactions are electrical, doesn't it follow that dynamic electromagnetic field interactions are caused by electromagnetic resonance rather than through random collisions?