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Year's best sports-related story—2007 is going to have to really be wild to better this one.
Is industrial design "intelligence made visible" or "attention-seeking frivolity"?
Watched James Brown's widow Tomi (not Tammy, she’s touchy), on Larry King last nite. Larry, who was at low ebb last nite and looked real bored by being used as a platform in a marriage dispute, wasn't buying any of it. Larry, bad manicure and all, looks like he's interviewed enough grieving, flaky–as–hell rock star widows.
Tomi Rae Hynie Brown's story is that she's out thanks to Brown's lawyer Buddy Dallas. A lawyer named Buddy Dallas. It's gotta be a pseudonym. Yet every time I hear it I think that if I were James Brown, I too would want and the kind of criminal attorney who coulda had a…
Daniel J. Levitin, author of This Is Your Brain on Music, has a website with a bunch of interesting music-related material, as well as a nifty little animated feature on his book.
One of the treats of my Thanksgiving was an up-close-and-personal analysis of my 14th century musical manuscript by Metropolitan Museum fellow Eric Weaver. I was reasonably sure of its date, based on the staff structure and mensuration, but Eric taught me an immense amount about parchment, calligraphy, illumination, monastic culture, and medieval guilds in the 30 minutes or so that he discussed my musical fragment. In short, he took an object I see above my hi-fi every day and made an epoch come alive—conversationally and off-the-cuff.
This National Archives tutorial on deciphering…
With another act of blatant scoopage (I'm writing this as my colleagues are meeting for breakfast), I must let you know that, while ripping through the Venetian halls, late yesterday evening, making some final preparations before today's morning activities, I nearly fell on my face at the sound of such sublime elfin wonder coming from the Audes Room (suite 29-324, conveniently close to where Primedia's Home Tech Group resides, which is to say: I'll be back, again and again.)
It was Joanna Newsom singing and harping about, you know, elves and butterflies, and fairies, making me want to…
I'm covering CES in Las Vegas this week, so posting will be sporadic. Check out Stereophile's 2007 CES Report blog for the latest on high-end audio and the people who make it.
No, that's a $2900 painting of an extension cord—and, God help me, I want it.
Via Boing-Boing.