The Tangent Audio AMP-100 and CD-100 cost $350 each.

Under the hood of the Tangent Audio AMP-100.

VMAX Services' Richard Kohlruss followed-up with <a href="http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/072806sleek/">some information on Tangent Audio</a>. Here's how the CD-100 looks on the inside.

So there I am, sitting eating my lunch, watching the news on TV, waiting like the slavering dog that I am for more Mel goes Mad, when none other than Alice Cooper a.k.a. Vince Furnier, he of the large pearly whites and the exquisitely died hair, comes on CNN and begins batting his bright eyes and cheerfully expounding on his new youth center in Phoenix.

Precisely because you're not miserable enough in the first place, if I follow this chap's reasoning.

A medical mystery solved?

Given its ubiquity, strength, and lightness, why don't they build bikes out of bamboo?

Yeah, that's a shock to anybody who has ever seen any of those commercials on late-night TV. But here's the thing, this Claire Hoffman article from <I>The Los Angeles Times</I> is a wonderful piece of participatory journalism.

It's Monday, I have a Jon Carroll column that discusses a new book on the differences between men and women, and it reveals the secret to stimulating a "major dopamine and oxytocin rush, which is the biggest, fattest neurological reward you can get outside of an orgasm." So how could I not link to it?