Wes Phillips

Donald F. Murray passes on an important lesson he's learned from life.

Business Week lauds 12 modern products that so perfectly encapsulated new manufacturing techniques or materials that they remain classics years later. It's a strange list.

Elma G. Farnsworth, wife of electronic TV's inventor Philo T. Farnsworth, is dead at 98. She has been called the "mother of television" because of her technical drawings of the early Farnsworth experiments, which are now ensconced in the Smithsonian.

Unless it's produced according to the Reinheitsgebot of 1516, your beer may contain betaglucanase, ammonia caramel, rhoiso-alpha acids, sulphur dioxide, protease, amyloglucosidase, or propylene glycol alginate. Yum!

A demonstration of the art of manualism. The well known winter holiday tune "Sleigh Ride" by Leroy Anderson is played simply by squeezing air through the hands.

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People like Samir Husni are teaching it in J-school (U Mississippi): "[Rolling Stone] is one of the few magazines that stayed true to its original mission and audience from the beginning. Wenner was able to maintain the original flavor and keep the passengers on board while bringing in new ones. RS is unique. There is nothing like it on the same scale." Except for all of those other magazines with unclad celebrities on the cover.

Kal Rubinson passes this link along. I don't hold out much hope, but it couldn't hurt to remind folks that some of us buy these things.