"Don't stay too late," JA says, on his way out of the office.

Good news: It's in the ventromedial nucleus (VMN) in the hypothalamus.<BR>Bad news: As an audiophile, I emanate vibes that shut it down.

My fellow blogger <A HREF="http://blog.hometheatermag.com/markfleischmann/">Mark Fleischmann</A> has taken his <I>Happy Pig's Hot 100 New York Restaurants</I> online. The listings are available by neighborhood, alphabetically, or by type of cuisine.

"I don't get why some audiophiles still think that saving data using a lossless compression scheme like FLAC or Apple Lossless sounds any different than an uncompressed CD file," says <A HREF="http://www.sonos.com">Sonos</A&gt; founder and VP of Sales and Marketing Thomas S. Cullen between bites of white fish shish kebab. "It's just mathematics, and the results are sonically identical, but you save half the space on your hard drive."

It's interesting: A small change can make such a big difference. I wake up, force myself out of bed, walk into my living room, and stop to admire the so-slightly-revised layout. So slight, the revision is, but I love it. It just seems right. It seems

Back when everyone was rushing to convert LPs to CDs, the boxed set was a wondrous thing. The rush to "box" every artist propelled the record biz to some of their best Christmas seasons ever. It even inspired some labels to get off their then wealthy asses and dig around the vaults to find that most marvelous of record label offerings, the "bonus track."