CES 2006 Mix CD: The Only Love
I tried to bring together songs that I love, songs that should prove fun and exciting to listen to, with an interesting variety of sounds and emotions.
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Test Your Sense of Pitch
Take the National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders' Distorted Tunes Test.
While My Ukulele Gently Weeps
Jake Shimabukuro is the Jimi Hendrix of ukulele. You laugh—but listen to this guy!
100 Things the BBC Didn't Know Last Year
My favorite is number 100.
Why Are Movies So Bad?
This 25-year-old rant by Pauline Kael is even truer today.
Corn Starch and Water
All I ever do with it is thicken sauces. Onviously, I lack imagination.
What is your choice for worst new recording of 2005?
People constantly complain how bad music is these days, but what is the worst of the worst for 2005? What is your choice for worst new recording of 2005?
XLO Oops
In his January "Sam's Space" column, while writing about the system he used with Sutherland's Director line stage (p.32), Sam Tellig wrote "For the most part, I used now-discontinued XLO interconnects and speaker cables. XLO itself has been discontinued, alas. I do miss its founder, Roger Skoff."
Suing the RIAA
We've reported many times on the mass lawsuits filed by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) against individuals or institutions that it alleges are illegally participating in peer-to-peer file-sharing activities, so we felt it only fair to report on a lawsuit where the trade group is being sued. Actually, the RIAA's <I>attorneys</I> are being sued by James and Angela Nelson, who were themselves the target of <I>Motown v. Nelson</I>, which alleged that the couple had allowed an employee of Ms. Nelson's home-run daycare center to access P2P websites from their computer.