Rob Pegoraro, <I>The Washington Post</I>'s personal technology editor, reviews Microsoft's Windows Media Player 11, which MS claims, possesses an ease of use and simplicity to match iTunes." As if MS would <I>recognize</I> ease of use if it bit them in their text assembler.

<A HREF="http://www.he2006.com">Home Entertainment 2006</A> is only days away, taking place June 1&ndash;4 at the Sheraton Gateway Hotel in Los Angeles, CA. Attendees will find a wide variety of special events, product demonstrations, and entertainment options throughout the show.

A website devoted to deciphering the lyrics (and name) of Steely Dan. Not quite as comprehensive as <A HREF="http://arts.ucsc.edu/Gdead/AGDL/"><I>The Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics</I></A>, but these collaborative efforts improve with time&mdash;and participation.

If you go by the RIAA's claims of $150,000 damage <I>per song</I> caused by downloading (as in this <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/news/052206xmtrials/"><I>Stereophile</I&gt; story</A>), that would mean that one month's worth of downloads caused be a single P2P site <I>would be greater than the GDP of France</I>&mdash;at least according to <I>Donny's Blog</I>.

I couldn't do it, but these eight physicists rose to the challenge: Explain in one page what the Higgs boson is and why we want to find it.