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RadioShack, the second-rate phone store that used to sell electronics, just fired 400 employees by email. Classy, no? But here's my question: Considering that the last five times I tried to buy basic computer supplies at RadioShack (yes, I'm a slow learner, but it is just around the corner), the employees treated me as if I were asking for unobtainium, are the 400 people who've been let go capable of accessing an email account to find out they've been made redundant?
Learn the Northern Jersey dialect of Italian. Think The Sopranos. Racy language alert—or is that redundant after mentioning Tony's gang?
Photographer David Burnett has posted his series of photographs of the Gulf coast, taken last January and published in the new National Geographic. It's stunning stuff. Burnett has the eye for both the big picture and the telling detail—his photo of the refrigerator-magnet–covered car of a worker at the garbage dump where they destroyed "white goods" is surprisingly touching and human, even though no people are shown.
Thanks to Bag News Notes.
I've been wondering about Onkyo's new D-TK10 speakers, the ones that incorporate the design philosophy and technique of Takamine guitars. I've been wondering. On the surface, it seems a good and logical partnership. There are, of course, similarities between guitars and loudspeakers. Are there? Guitars are made of wood, speakers are made of wood. Guitars make sound, speakers make sound. Etc. But guitars are musical instruments, and, however nice and poetic it may be to think of a loudspeaker as a musical instrument, it's not. Not really. Is it? You could, of course, mess…
A film critical of the MPAA get rated NC-17. What are the chances?
Says Huckleberry: "I don't care what the ASPCA says, I am not diurnal—and even if I were, I definitely wouldn't be a morning kitty!"
Bagheera, gazing down on Huckleberry, can't believe he's too lazy to wake up for breakfast (and she's the svelte one).
Okay article, but it has a fabulous photograph of Ronnie Wood accompanying his grandmother.
Scientists agree that humans are stimulated by music in the same ways as we are by sex and food. So now for the big question: How come?