Daniel J. Levitin, author of <I>This Is Your Brain on Music</I>, has a website with a bunch of interesting music-related material, as well as a nifty little animated feature on his book.

Watched James Brown's widow Tomi (not Tammy, she’s touchy), on <I>Larry King</I> last nite. Larry, who was at low ebb last nite and looked real bored by being used as a platform in a marriage dispute, wasn't buying any of it. Larry, bad manicure and all, looks like he's interviewed enough grieving, flaky&ndash;as&ndash;hell rock star widows.

Is industrial design "intelligence made visible" or "attention-seeking frivolity"?

Year's best sports-related story&mdash;2007 is going to have to really be wild to better this one.

As we <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/news/032706ces">reported last March</A>, the Consumer Electronics Association decided to move the "high-performance audio" and "high-performance home theater" exhibits of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) to Las Vegas' Venetian Hotel in 2007. Here, then, in a blatant attempt to scoop my show-reporting <I>Stereophile</I> colleagues, is my picture of the new CES venue. I actually took this picture last year, not in anticipation of the change in show venue, but simply because I’m a sucker for the ersatz-European ambience of Las Vegas hotel-casinos like the Venetian. And whatever the advantages/disadvantages of the Venetian for demonstrating audio equipment, you have to admit that it’s picturesque!

The <I>Stereophile</I> editors are getting ready for CES 2007 and will be reporting live from the show starting Monday, January 8. Join John Atkinson, Wes Phillips, Larry Greenhill, Robert Deutsch, Stephen Mejias, and Jon Iverson as they file their reports and photos.

It's a sensory-motor memory thing.

"Stuff that behaves a little bit outside the norm . . . ." Sounds like a pretty good description of my friends.