Art Buchwald, My Childhood Hero
Now that I've read this piece on him from <I>Editor & Publisher</I>, he still is.
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The Greatest Tool Ever?
You <I>know</I> it is.
Engage Stealth Mode!
Has the Army been working on true visual cloaking technology?
Built for Audiophiles
JA, the industrious, is home today, working on his review of the <a href="http://www.slimdevices.com/index.html">Slim Devices Squeezebox</a>, which will appear in our next <a href="http://www.stereophile.com/enewsletters/">eNewsletter</a>. This makes me happy. Happy, not because JA, the boss, is home, but happy because he's working on his review of the Squeezebox. And, the Squeezebox, <a href="http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=21628">as we know</a>, with all of its delicious features and its oh-so-sleek-and-simple lines that fit snugly in the tiniest of corners to broadcast your Editors and Jimmy Edgars and Pink Martinis and Sonic Youth-slash-Fugazis from your office to your kitchen to your bedside window ledge to your broom closet and back into your sweetly pitter-pattering music-loving heart,
10 Factoids About Einstein
I'm not sure you should trust this list too much, especially #6. I went to high school with the Jehle brothers, whose father used to play chamber music with Einstein in Princeton. Dietrich and Eberhardt never claimed he was concert level, but he played well enough that he—and his fellow musicians—enjoyed it.
Mo' Hotter, Mo' Better?
Capsaicin triggers "suicide in prostate cancer cells?" <I>Sweeeeeeeet!</I>
Who Is This Monet?
Apparently Manet wanted to know, too.
Learning to Listen
"Thanks for listening."
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I wish she would call.
Works of Paper
Winning entries at MIT's origami competition. I can't even fold a sheet of paper into quarters, much less do anything like these.
How To Tie Your Shoes
Seriously! Bet you don't know all these knots.