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Great writing in The New Yorker on a great musician singing some real "adult" music. I offer Britten as the refutation to those who say that there can be no great vocal music in English—I can't think of any of his operas or art songs that aren't immensely musical and moving. And did I mention dramatic?
There's still time to register for the Lady Mariam Abacha and Mr. Godwin Oyathelem seminar on "The effectiveness of using all UPPERCASE characters."
Today I received an e-mail from one of my favorite hi-fi sales managers. These are the guys who help me collect pricing and dealer data, images to accompany our reviews, and other behind-the-scenes stuff.
This particular e-mail was out of the ordinary. It had nothing to do with any of those things. It went:
I just received an e-mail request for a review sample. Since I am not familiar with this gentleman, and I am not aware of an Australian edition of Stereophile, I thought I would run it by you for authenticity before I responded to him.
So, you see, there's this…
Kevin Hulsey offers a fascinating tutorial on how to do cut-away illustrations. I have so much respect for folks who can clearly conceptualize complex devices, much less portray them for the rest of us.
Scientists turn to information theory to analyze the complexity, redundency, and predictability of the songs of the Humpback whale. Their conclusion? Well, we need more research—but our lack of knowledge is now so much better informed.
Yeah, Brokeback Mountain mashups are a dime a dozen, but this one is delightful. Go to the external link and scroll down to "Brokeback Mouse."
Via Cartoon Brew, obviously.
No, not our intrepid correspondent from Sin City, but the anti-iPod—a cheap ambient sound generator with a line out for hi-fi connection. Rumor has it that Brian Eno bought 8.
Kevin Kelly's Cool Tools posts a link to a nifty flash demo.
Here's a chapter from Tufte's upcoming Beautiful Evidence. Some of the graphics are pretty blurry on the computer screen, but they look great if you print this out.
Cool as that is, I'm even more impressed by the collaborative aspect of this post. Tufte seeks—and responds to—some great feedback.