So, I figured I should sit down and do some serious listening. [<i>Hee hee. That cracks me up.</i>]

Well, the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project could change the world, which is pretty much the same thing.

A lot of these are fugly, but I bet any <I>Stereophile</I> reader worth his (or her) salt has seen much worse flipping through yard sales.

David Berlind makes the case.

<I>Romeo and Juliet</I> told completely in emoticons. L33T!

<I>The Guardian</I> on books on cults and religious extremists. I love any list that calls <I>The DaVinci Code</I> "literary crack cocaine&mdash;reading it does you no good at all, but you just can't stop." Actually, I found it easy to put down and hard to pick back up.

The story that just won't stop. Over at Boing-Boing, they've posted a timeline of just this week's developments&mdash;and it's only Thursday.

The Institute of Museum and Library Services has digitized over 5000 early recordings and posted some of them, including the Edison Blue Amberol of "The Teddy Bears' Picnic."