Dear "poker casino 875,"<br>
I hate you.

The BBC's Adam Livingstone says that he knows it's not&mdash;even if the Beeb did use the "t-word" in a story last week.

Walking tours featuring the gargoyles, green men, griffins, and hippogryphs of New York. When I first moved here, my wife told me that looking up all the time marked me as a tourist, which seemed like a terrible thing to be. Then I discovered that by not looking up, I missed all of this stuff, which seemed much worse.

There's <a href="http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/022806summer/">another complication</a>.

I don't know anything about Ethan Winer except that he made one heck of a cool video of himself playing cello. It's <I>all</I> cello, baby.

iPod Hi-Fi? "iPod Hi-Fi accurately reproduces the lowest cello notes and the highest piccolo notes; the brittle strum of an acoustic guitar and the powerful thump of a driving bass."

MPAA spokesflack Brad Hunt tried to sell a roomful of Hollywood tech types on "plugging the analog hole." Ought to be a slam dunk, right? Apparently not. The group groaned out loud when he said that retailers would have to educate consumers on its implications and after more probing questions, he got this one: "This is a room full of people whose living depends on this working. You're getting pushback to the point of hostility. If you can't sell this to us, how are you going to sell it to the target 16&ndash;45 demographic?"