Waaay before it becomes audiophilia. A documentary about the Audiophile Club of Athens.

Microsoft's Zune, that is. Andy Ihnatko's <I>Chicago Sun-Times</I> review is pretty much perfect. Don't write him off as an Apple cultist, however. He gives props to the PDDs that get it right.

Quarks, photons, and space-time foam&mdash;oh my!

Or maybe they're the larval form of some other proliferating common household object&mdash;Maya Kessler makes the case.

We received an interesting email from engineer Richard Burwen just before the Thanksgiving business break:

On November 22, the Librarian of Congress issued a&mdash;take a deep breath&mdash; <A HREF="http://www.copyright.gov/1201/">declaration of exemption</A> from the prohibition against circumvention of technological measures that control access to copyrighted works. In other words, the LOC decreed that six classes of "non-infringing rights" were exempt from the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which criminalized "production and dissemination of technology whose primary purpose is to circumvent measures taken to protect copyright."