And You Thought the Audio Glossary Was Strange
Meet the Schmidt Sting Pain Index. Example: Being stung by a Bullhorn acacia ant is "a rare, piercing, elevated sort of pain. Someone has fired a staple into your cheek."
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From the Front Lines
<I>The Birmingham News</I> recently uncovered a cache of unpublished photographs from the early years of the Civil Rights struggle. Thank goodness these images weren't lost.
I Wonder Wonder Who, who-oo-ooh who, Who Wrote the Book of Love
Chapter one: vasopressin and oxytocin did it.
Nominate These Folks For a Nobel Prize
Nanopaint that blocks cell phones? Yowsah!
Spam Filter, Where You At?
Dear "poker casino 875,"<br>
I hate you.
Is File-Sharing Theft?
The BBC's Adam Livingstone says that he knows it's not—even if the Beeb did use the "t-word" in a story last week.
Monsters In New York
Walking tours featuring the gargoyles, green men, griffins, and hippogryphs of New York. When I first moved here, my wife told me that looking up all the time marked me as a tourist, which seemed like a terrible thing to be. Then I discovered that by not looking up, I missed all of this stuff, which seemed much worse.
A Purely Resistive Load
There's <a href="http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/022806summer/">another complication</a>.
Cellolicious!
I don't know anything about Ethan Winer except that he made one heck of a cool video of himself playing cello. It's <I>all</I> cello, baby.
I Do Not Think You Know What That Word Means
iPod Hi-Fi? "iPod Hi-Fi accurately reproduces the lowest cello notes and the highest piccolo notes; the brittle strum of an acoustic guitar and the powerful thump of a driving bass."