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Elma G. Farnsworth, wife of electronic TV's inventor Philo T. Farnsworth, is dead at 98. She has been called the "mother of television" because of her technical drawings of the early Farnsworth experiments, which are now ensconced in the Smithsonian.
Business Week lauds 12 modern products that so perfectly encapsulated new manufacturing techniques or materials that they remain classics years later. It's a strange list.
Many of the commuters around me have the white plastic implants shoved into their innocent ears. All sorts of sounds come slithering out as we hold onto stainless steel. The F train sings a different song.
Unless I count the Magnavox boombox, which lived permanently within my old television stand, I've never owned a portable music device of any kind. I don't like putting things in my ears or on my head, so I've never owned a pair of headphones. I also find that the sounds around me are often very interesting. The sound of the woman shouting at her ex–lover is as powerful,…
Professor Solomon says there are 12 rules—and his guide is on the Internet, so you can't lose it.
Via Cool Tools.
If two guys with limited resources and a lot of imagination can put together a lightsaber battle this good, why can't George Lucas make a decent movie with more money than God?
Apparently, money can't buy imagination—or even rent it.
That's right, "Using infrared video cameras and an array of microphones in their bat lab, the University of Maryland research team discovered that the big brown bat solves a rather complex geometrical problem to minimize the time it takes to intercept flying insects. ..." (Italics mine.)
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Ba Da Bing Records
Ba Da Bing Records
This disc is an example of what is so lovely about independent music: singular, eccentric musicians/composers working in some utterly disconnected deep musical world, emerging later with a completed work as they squint in the light of day.
Zach Condron, the heart of Beirut, is a nineteen-year-old kid from NYC via Albuquerque, New Mexico. But you can know that only by being told. Just hearing this music alone would have convinced you that it sprang from a rag-tag group of musicians from the Balkans, circa the 1950s. A lost artifact,…
Almost like a real audio reviewer, tomorrow I'll be
working
from
home.
Three holy words to be only whispered between cupped hands or shouted to the high heavens. I've always imagined it — Working. From. Home. — to be a life full of sunshine and smiles and tingling toes. I'll wake at the usual time, but instead of rolling heavily out of bed, I'll linger for a happy moment, knowing that there's nowhere else for me to be. I'll rise gently and walk the seventeen short steps into the kitchen where the coffee will suddenly brew itself.
Oh, even before I that, I'…