Wes Phillips

"Epact is an electronic catalogue of medieval and renaissance scientific instruments from four European museums: the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, the Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Florence, the British Museum, London, and the Museum Boerhaave, Leiden. Together, these museums house the finest collections of early scientific instruments in the world."

Are the Beatles coming to iTunes soon?

Despite the Oh, really? hed, this is kind of a fascinating article.

Waaay before it becomes audiophilia. A documentary about the Audiophile Club of Athens.

Microsoft's Zune, that is. Andy Ihnatko's Chicago Sun-Times review is pretty much perfect. Don't write him off as an Apple cultist, however. He gives props to the PDDs that get it right.

Or maybe they're the larval form of some other proliferating common household object—Maya Kessler makes the case.

Bagheera, unlike Huck, found the possibilities tantalizing.