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.

<I>Laser turntable launch:</I> Despite its having been available on a limited basis for several years (and having been written about in magazines like <I>Stereophile</I> since 1988), the ELP Corporation's <A HREF="http://www.elpj.com/main.html">laser turntable</A> was officially introduced into the North American market on May 18.

On May 17, XM Satellite Radio was sued by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), which alleged that Pioneer's personal portable XM device, <A HREF="http://www.xm-radio-satellite.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWPROD&ProdID=… Inno</A>, infringes on copyrights and essentially represents a digital download device.