<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.
Well, actually, it suggests that, by wearing a helmet when I cycle, I give motorists the feeling I'm invulnerable.
Perhaps not, but <I>PhysOrg.com</I> reports that two Italian physicists have written a paper suggesting that the concepts of dark energy and dark matter might be the result of "improper" gravitational theory.
For as long as I live, like it or not, I'll remember 10:28 am 9/11/06 like it was yesterday. I remember the roar and the sight of the giant radio antenna on the last of two towers standing disappearing into the massive clouds of gray smoke. I remember the emergency room personnel at St. Vincent's out in the street waiting for survivors that never came and the clouds of gritty smoke and 8 x 11 sheets of paper blowing up the streets of Brooklyn. And then I remember the jumpers, those who'd rather jump than burn.
Formats and audio trends come and go, but some components are timeless. What component have you changed least often in your system?