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The pairing has been likened to Mary Poppins and Satan. That's the easy and obvious way out, and it's a load of crap. It's much more difficult than that. They're much more similar than they are different, coming together to tell one story and filling in each other's blanks only when the reverb gets too thick. But I don't want to say any more about it. I'll now speak only of the differences I heard between listening in the office — through my computer's Dell speakers — and listening at home — with the Musical Fidelity A3.5 system and Totem Arro speakers.

I'd laugh if I weren't so busy crying.

And I play one on TV, too. Why some academics can hit it and others have to quit it. Yes, we're still talking television.

We're talking two 500-cubic-inch V-8s, 1000 board-feet feet of mahogany (cut into 4183 pieces), five gallons of glue, 60 pounds of drywall screws, and four gallons of varnish.

From <I>The Guardian</I> comes "Fallout: the human cost of a nuclear catastrophe," a photo essay on Chernobyl that's difficult to look at&mdash;and impossible to look away from.

John Atkinson just emailed this link asking, "Have you blogged this?" Well, no&mdash;although I do believe I emailed it to him back in ought-three. Disirregardless, it's a good'un.

A 1959 Walt Kelly <I>Pogo</I> page commemorating the best note ever. Nowadays you'd never get away with humor this wordy, but the language is intoxicating.