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Are the Beatles coming to iTunes soon?
"Epact is an electronic catalogue of medieval and renaissance scientific instruments from four European museums: the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, the Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Florence, the British Museum, London, and the Museum Boerhaave, Leiden. Together, these museums house the finest collections of early scientific instruments in the world."
John Atkinson gave me a lavishly illustrated book about early scientific instruments one Christmas. I gaze at it for hours on end—as I will now do with Epact.
Via Grow A Brain.
Whenever I fly into one of those, "I gotta get rid of some of these CDs" moods, I inevitably settle on my seemingly endless boxes of blues records. But then like magic, hard–edged questions like "Do I really need 15 B.B. King records" eventually morph into expressions like, "Damn, I haven't heard this record in a hundred years." I am genetically unable to dump blues records.
Strangely enough, while it was pouring rain in New York all day Thanksgiving Day, I stayed in and got into the blues records, this time not to weed out the weak doggies, but to find my Robert Lockwood Jr. discs. The…
Than to blog hi-fi from China—or at least, that's what I thought when Original Audio's Ping Gong and GuangZhou Hi-Fi 2006's Zou Dao invited me to attend the largest audio show in the Celestial Kingdom.
I fly over on Wednesday, November 29 and promptly lose a day. I start blogging from GuangZhou Hi-Fi 2006 on December 1 and will continue through its final day, December 3.
While in GuangZhou, I'll also visit an audiophile's listening room and go shopping in the city's audio market. I'll also visit E&T, which manufactures chassis for high-end companies, both Chinese and…
Yeah, but my punk CDs beat up your easy listening CDs in the lunch room.
Digital Domain gives us the CD honor roll.
This product would be creepy enough with just one vibro-pod, but with two, it just makes my skin crawl. No, I do not want to share you iPod sex toy.
Actually, it's a fascinating article about Chinese sports fandom. Interesting country—I really should go there sometime.
I'm leaving for China in about 10 minutes, so blogging will be even more erratic than usual—I foolishly almost said "normal," but it has never been that.
I will be posting here every day and, yes, cats will be blogged on Fridays, but you should also check out China Hi-Fi Tour 2006 for daily updates on the GuangZhou Hi-Fi Show and other amazing audio activities in the Celestial Kingdom.
As you can see above, I'm really psyched about going to China.