I want to be secure when I fly, but many of the new restrictions strike me as absurd. I was forced to check my rolling carry-on yesterday because it "was larger than a computer bag." Great. I had visions of arriving at CEDIA sans computer or camera.
<i><b>Panda Has A Baby Roo</b></i>. Morgan Jet. 2006<br>
purple highlighter and red pen on paper<br>
8" x 11"<br>
Paul Quincey said it, not me.
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.
<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.
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.)
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.
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.
These days have been long. Longer than usual, in fact. That's right:<br>
Longer than usual.
<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.