Dusting it off doesn't work, the study shows. But what if you kiss it and hold it up to God? Hah, that's the study I want to see!
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According to researchers at the University of Illinois, if you drop food on hardwood or tile floors and pick it up within five seconds, it probably is safe to eat.That's because it takes at least that long for germs to devour dropped dry food. It takes wet food less time to become contaminated—and if you drop food onto carpet, all bets are off. "That's an entirely different story and we haven't done that study yet."
Though the finish of the Cain & Cain speakers was lovely, all I could really focus on were their Frisbee-like belly buttons. I'm a little bit sorry to admit that, because I found the speaker itself unattractive, I lost interest in what it had to say. I couldn't get around the looks to examine the sound. This is something I will have to work on.
Imagine HiFi's Paul Lim redirected my attention to Almarro's cute A205A amplifier in sassy iPod white finish. The price of this amp with iPod input has yet to be determined, but the standard version goes for $800.
Paul Lim then introduced me to the diminutive NuForce Reference 9 monoblock amps ($4200/pair) in their very attractive Rose Copper Special Edition finish. I'm all about the fancy colors, y'all.
I was impressed to find these little guys driving the hefty JAS Audio Plato loudspeakers ($24,800/pair).
The discs were spun by Esoteric, power conditioning by Furutech, and mercurial glow by Passthru.
John Atkinson caught the cables' strange glow on film, but, in reality, they were plain-Jane. Can anyone tell us why they appear to be glowing?
Interesting collection of images from Cornell's division of rare and manuscript collections.
Corey Doctorow over at Boing-Boing links to this amazing clip of "Tumse Hai Dil Ko" from the 1965 movie Jaanwar. It is, of course, "I Wanna Hold Your Hand" filtered through a Bollywood sensibility, and it's great fun.
I try not to link to stuff featured on Boing-Boing, since I figure everybody goes there anyway, but this was just too good to not share.
Great photo essay on the growth of Hummingbirds from eggs to fully grown—and leaving the nest.
Take an F1 track and race a Fiat, Ferrari 360 Modena, and an F1 car for one lap. Who wins? Nah, let's make it interesting: Give the Fiat a 30-second head start over the Ferrari and don't even start the F1 until one minute and twenty-one seconds have passed. Yeah, same result, but a lot more interesting this way.
The ability of the F1 car to corner just staggers me.
The Chicks' victory is nearly complete.
Let me add my voice to the growing chorus that's applauding the Dixie Chicks new album, Taking the Long Way, and its unrepentant stance against America's continuing drift, what Natalie Manes said about Bush and Nashville's pitifully small-minded crap. Make that the small-mindedness of the mainstream country music establishment and some—not all— of its fans.
The always smug Reba McEntire, who entirely made a fool of herself on the ACM award telecast by tweaking the Chicks can only dream of the kind of sales they’ve nailed down: 525,…
This mild-mannered bunch of classical guitarists had me wanting to jump up on my seat and curse my brains out.
While each member was clearly capable of daredevil guitar theatrics, the stunts were always held in check. The Los Angeles Guitar Quartet was all about the beauty of the song, as a whole. Tasteful and controlled, but wild and marvelous. They killed me. These guys kill them all. They kill The Fucking Champs.
I plopped down beside Jon Iverson, an excellent guitarist by most any standards (except maybe his own), and, shaking my head in awe, I spat out: "These…