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The Smithsonian has a fascinating article about the Masks for Facial Disfigurement Department, which fitted disfigured veterans of the Great War with prosthetic faces. One benefit of reading it online is that there's an accompanying video.
The Economist opines that Steve Jobs' anti-DRM argument is "in short, . . . transparently self-serving. It also happens to be right."
Let me repeat, The Economist said that.
I'm mad at the weather. It's cold. Colder, in fact, than it should be. This is why I'm mad. If things were just as they should be, I wouldn't complain.
I was standing in our magazine room — the room where we keep our supply of magazines — pulling out a couple of boxes of our beautiful February issue, when group publisher Angela Speziale walked in. It's nice to see Angela. She's smart, she's real, she's no nonsense, she means business. This is how things should be.
"Hello," I said. "How are you?"
"I'm well," she said. "And how are you?"
"I'm feeling…
Distressing news: Vandal punks have defaced the Gaudi-designed dragon at Barcelona's Parque Güell.
As Dave Barry is wont to say, The Singing Neanderthals would be a good name for a rock band, but it's a book by cognitive archeologist Steven Mithen, arging that language and music evolved from a common ancestor. He calls that ur-communication "Hmmmmm" (holistic, manipulative, multi-modal, musical, and memetic).
Via The Well-Tempered Blog who got it from Bloc de Musica.
Here's something you probably never even knew existed: music librarian humor.
Via my favorite cousin Miranda Anabelle.