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Take That, Evil Headwind!

I may have found the solution to Jeff Wong's and my return-leg headwind problem. Of course,the Pacific Wind ThrustPac is noisy and would make us look (more) like dorks, but a personal jet pack that would give us speeds of 25–35mph and it a range of 150mpg might be worth it. Pacific Wind’s website is pretty crappy, but the ThrustPac seems to utilize a 35cc engine.

Class, Today We Study the Messner Effect

Because it's so freaking cool.

Beware the Brown Peril

I try not to link to stuff I see on Boing-Boing, since that site gets about a zillion times the traffic I do, but Peter Bagge's four-page comics rumination on immigration on is just too good to ignore.

Mild language, disturbing images.

Bunny Yawns

We all have our obsessions, I suppose. This one seems pretty benign.

Via www.plep.org, going out to Art Dudley.

Bringing Home the Macon

The zeppelin USS MACON crashed and sank in 1935.Now MBARI, NOAA, and the US Navy are collaborating on mapping the airship's final resting place and discovering its missing tail fin. Be sure to check out the photo gallery for the shot of the Macon over Manhattan.

And The White by Gray

photo by kgm
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I noticed, after six days away, something different:
More space.

Or, I should say:
An absence.

The filing cabinets which held copies of invoices, shipping and receiving receipts, press releases, and other office documents were taken away and replaced by new, unfamiliar filing cabinets. The shorter ones have been replaced by taller ones, the taller by shorter, the gray by white, and the white by gray. The office uniform has been altered. It's not so uniform anymore.

I shrug my shoulders at this, just as I've shrugged…

On Food

It's the new political issue. It's the new spectator sport. It's the new porn.

This One Has It All

Suspense, music, drama—a fluffy kitten!

Via Kyle Gann.

XX1st Century Kama Sutra

New positions for you and your faithful companion.

Robert Silverman: Variations: Robert Silverman performs Beethoven Piano Music

Robert Silverman: piano.

Stereophile STPH017-2 CD. Robert Silverman, John Atkinson, prods. Graemme Brown, Ray Kimber, John Atkinson, Brett Terry, engs. John Atkinson, digital editing and mastering. DDD. 68:08.

Okay, you may have raised an eyebrow over the apparent lack of perspective I bring to this disc, since I write for Stereophile and not only count John Atkinson as a friend, but have accompanied him on many a recording field-trip. On the other hand, I had absolutely nothing to do with making this disc and if I don't tell you how fantastic it is, I suspect you won't…