http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN0111549320100301?type=marketsNews

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"The blizzards that affected much of the country during the last month are likely to distort the statistics. So it's going to be very important ... to look past whatever the next figures are to gauge the underlying trends," Summers said in an interview with CNBC, according to a transcript.

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Just heard a few seconds of the first track, but I am downloading all of it (a freaking lot) since the sound is so great.

http://www.archive.org/details/charliehunter2003-07-20.flac24

Looking down at the record, which side of the groove is the "left" side?

In other words, is it the side of the groove closest to the spindle that carries the left channel of the recording, or is it the side of the groove closest to the record's edge?

You'd think this would be easy to look up, but I've been using Google for a few hours and come up with nothing. I'm getting a bit of left-side bias in my playback, and can't tell if I should increase or reduce my anti-skating force.

Thanks for any advice.

As computer audiophiles we love to obsess about 'bit perfectness' ('bit perfection'?), in other words whether or not the integrity of the audio samples being properly preserved in the digital domain. This is particularly relevant when ripping CDs, since a data error that makes its way into the ripped file will remain there forever. However, given that on an audio CD each 16-bit word (some simplification here) encodes one sample representing only 1/44100th of a second of audio it is legitimate to ask whether these errors are generally audible at all.

I keep waiting for the grainy video of KBK reading something badly scripted.

Are you sitting down?....

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/opinion/28gore.html?pagewanted=1

http://otisgibbs.bandcamp.com/album/joe-hills-ashes?autoplay=true.Pre-sale

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