Money quote: "Not one student said, I am studying English "because I want to make a lot of money" or 'because my parents made me.'"

Site hero Fred von Lohmann weighs in. Read it all for the long of it; the short of it: "YouTube's 10-minute clip limit and tiny video window cater to clip culture, not pirates."

I should have just slept here. It certainly would have been easier. And, of course, it would have saved me the commute. However, the thought of enormous roaches warming up against my thighs throughout the air conditioned evening kept me from crashing on JA's couch.

Guess there's free and then there's <I>free</I>.

A new way of looking at chords and music. Well, new-ish. Or maybe, not so much.

It's a paper turntable. I'm sure that Mikey Fremer will be contacting the artist for one to go next to his Nixie clock.

What a score! Here's a promotional short for Irving Mills' Master and Variety labels that shows us Ellington in the studio. Amazingly, the process of record manufacture hasn't changed substantially since 1937.