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There's a new biography of Leo Szilard, the physicist who proposed the Strangelovian "doomsday weapon."
Arthur Mole and John Thomas arranged thousands of soldiers, reservists, and nurses into various patriotic symbols and photographed them from above—a description which, while being accurate, doesn't prepare you for their work.
Let's Play the Caption Game!
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Here I am, captured by the wily paparazzi (Mark Fleischmann), at today's Denon press event in ever-rising downtown Jersey City, conveniently located only minutes from my humble abode.
Denon introduced a large and impressive new line of products aimed at achieving simple and seamless whole-home networking. Among the new components were 13 A/V receivers, a couple of smart-looking iPod docks, some snazzy remote control components, and even a couple of compact 2.1 systems.
Nevertheless, I was drawn — like the card that I am…
Me, I'm lucky—I work with a great editor and an even better copy editor. It's win-win.
I love Tothian: He "doesn't wear a mask because it blocks his peripheral vision, and says he doesn't wear a cape 'because capes get in the way of actually doing real superhero stuff.'"
Wagner's 29-year-old great-granddaughter debuts her production of Die Meistersinger tonight. It's part of a multi-generational saga that rivals the Ring cycle for drama.
Our popular "Recommended Components" issue begins its lucky life as this daunting stack of faxes.
And then it gets bigger and messier, decorated by scratches and red ink, updates and additions and revisions.
After a short walk up foul-smelling Madison Avenue, I returned to my office to find this giftwrapped present from Ariel.
Fine work!
Taylor Dinerman offers an appreciation of Heinlein on the occasion of his centenary. Of course, he conveniently skips over that embarrassing incest novel Time Enough for Love, but I've always marveled that that one raised eyebrows at all. After all, the heroes of "All You Zombies" (considered by some to be the best time travel story ever—although I confess to being thoroughly creeped out by it) and "By His Bootstraps" go considerably further than traveling back in time to seduce their mothers.