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Jeff Wong, always ready to practice work-avoidence, sends along this fab-faux Louis Armstrong cover of "Oops I Did It Again." It's pretty well done, down to the fake Decca record label.
Amused, I sent it along to Michael Cogswell, director of the Queens College Louis Armstrong House & Archives and author of Louis Armstrong: The Offstage Story of Satchmo. He was already aware of it, of course, but he did say, "It kind of kicked off our realization that we must create an e-collection (ie, stuff that we were getting/discovering on the Internet and needed to save somehow as part of our…
Last Thursday, I mentioned that I'd found some great advertising in old issues of Stereophile. The ad for Moscode's 85-billion watt Black Hole amplifier was particularly amusing.
Today, Moscode's awesome George Kaye sent one to me. A picture of one, that is. Maybe there'll be a review sample waiting for me when I get home tonight.
(Just kidding, George.)
Drinking wine that has a cork is an ecological issue. You know what to do.
"'If consumers and the wine industry turn their back on cork, then [cork] forests will lose their viability and risk facing the axe,' says Grahame Madge, a Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) spokesman. 'If you’re not drinking wine that’s been in touch with a cork, then it is like felling the trees yourself.'"
Recent genetic analyses reveal that early man could not digest milk products. However, shortly after the development of agriculture, large populations in Europe and Africa developed the ability to produce lactase as adults—and milk, cheese, and yogurt became key components of their diet.
Forget that old chicken/egg conundrum, which came first dairy farming or adult lactase production?
Rating bands based on their cover art. Best line: "Boston has the advantage in sheer scale, what with it carrying an entire city, but this unusually large civilian population creates a set of problems the ELO fleet does not have to deal with. Plus Boston sucks."
Via Exhibitionist.
A $279 Speaker
This morning, JA came in and happily announced that he'd finished writing his review of the PSB Alpha B1 loudspeakers. I won't tell you what he said about them, but I will tell you that he suggested that I give them a listen, too. John will be bringing them into the office next week, and I'll be taking them home.
I had been thinking of requesting a pair of the oh-so-very-cute Neat Acoustics Motive 2s ($1995/pair), or maybe even something weird like the Duevel Planets ($1195/pair), both speakers being small floorstanders with prices comparable to the Totem Arros…
Gerald Edelman tries to explain consciousness. But doesn't Gödel's Law tell us that we can't use consciousness to define it?
Sounds like a country song, no?
Graphene, Graphene, Cutest li'l transistor I've seen . . .
"Graphene is a two-dimensional form of carbon, discovered just three years ago. It is very thin—just one atom thick—and highly conductive with minimal resistance, which has sent physicists and materials scientists into a frenzy to find applications that exploit these properties."
I always knew that (and on the heart, too). What I refuse to believe is that anyone who has actually read Shakespeare could write like this:
"This interdisciplinary work is good for brain science because it offers permanent scripts of the human mind working moment-to-moment. It is good for literature as it illustrates primary human thinking. Through the two disciplines, we may discover new insights into the very motions of the mind."
"This interdisciplinary work is good for brain science because it offers permanent scripts of the human mind working moment-to-moment. It is good for literature as it illustrates primary human thinking. Through the two disciplines, we may discover new insights into the very motions of the mind."