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Wes Phillips
Decorative Electronics
Wes Phillips  |  May 22, 2007  |  0 comments
"This is simply a resistor that has pretty much no resistance: in effect a bit of wire in a tiny box. It might sound like an absurd component, but they're quite common in modern circuits, because they can be used to bridge the gap between adjacent tracks on a circuit board with a standard-size component. I'd like to apologise both for knowing that and for sharing it with you."
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Wes Phillips
Why Aren't You Working?
Wes Phillips  |  May 22, 2007  |  0 comments
As a work-at-home guy, I wonder about this all the time—especially when I visit Park Slope during the daytime. Doesn't anybody there have a job?
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Stephen Mejias
One or Two Wonderfully Musical, Etcetera
Stephen Mejias  |  May 21, 2007  |  3 comments
My mind is filled with audio components. I guess that's what a show does to you.
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Wes Phillips
How Illegal Immigration Was Born
Wes Phillips  |  May 21, 2007  |  0 comments
"The Chinese Exclusion Act and its subsequent extensions altered the legal definition of American citizenship far more than its original drafters could have foreseen."
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Wes Phillips
How to Become a Writer
Wes Phillips  |  May 21, 2007  |  0 comments
The long, though not particularly hard, way. Good lessons—presented realistically for a change.
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Wes Phillips
I'm a Bad Boy
Wes Phillips  |  May 21, 2007  |  1 comments
I probably shouldn't be linking to this, but it really made me laugh.
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Wes Phillips
Rules of Engagement
Wes Phillips  |  May 21, 2007  |  0 comments
John Laurence spent a year embedded with the 101st Airborne. He respected and liked the guys he was reporting on, but what happened when his duty conflicted with the culture of loyalty?
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What musician, from the past or present, would you want to find in the seat next to you on a six-hour plane flight?
Stereophile  |  May 20, 2007  |  0 comments

Let's say you're flying on a plane for six hours. What musician, from the past or present, would you want to find in the seat next to you?

What musician, from the past or present, would you want to find in the seat next to you on a six-hour plane flight?
It would be...
95% (103 votes)
Don't care
5% (5 votes)
Total votes: 108
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News
Steinway and Peter Lyngdorf Create Monumental System
Wes Phillips  |  May 20, 2007  |  0 comments
It's not that we're jaded, but most mornings as we open the day's press releases, we manage to curb our enthusiasm as we read of the breakthroughs du jour. Yet, when we read that Steinway & Sons and Peter Lyngdorf had collaborated (as Steinway Lyngdorf) on a $150,000 "Steinway & Sons Model-D Music System," we knew we had to hear it.
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John Morgan Eargle: 1931–2007
Wes Phillips  |  May 20, 2007  |  0 comments
On May 10, members of several pro audio Internet bulletin boards read the following post from Gary Margolis: "It is with great sadness that I inform you that John Eargle, one of the finest audio engineers and teachers it's been my privilege to know, has passed away.
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