Bring Back Dynamic Range!
We've said it before, but Bob Speer says it well—and do go to the links at the end of the article.
Bring Back Personal, Individual Embarrassment
Euan Ferguson took the Tube last week. "Only three stops on the Piccadilly line between Knightsbridge and the centre of town, and I would have got there more quickly, pleasantly, and safely by crawling backwards through the linking sewers with a twitching rat in my mouth and open bleeding weals on my bare backside."
Bring Back the Neanderthal
Stephen Strauss argues that we can only really know our nearest relatives by creating cloned reincarnations.
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.
British Library on DRM and the Law
"DRM is a technical device, but it's being used in an all-embracing sense. It can't be circumvented for disabled access or preservation, and the technology doesn't expire (as traditional copyright does). In effect, it's overriding exceptions to copyright law,"said Lynne Brindley, chief executive of the British Library.
British Library Treasures
The British Library has posted 15 fabulous titles to its interactive website. Naturally, I'm kind of partial to its Mozart musical diary, but all of 'em are worth looking into. And you can look into 'em—you can "turn" the pages.
Britten's Children
Here's a fascinating review of John Bridcut's Britten's Children, a book that traces Benjamin Britten's fascination with a succession of young boys and that obsession's role in the creation of so much of his glorious music.
Broadway Electrician Talks Shop
As the stagehands' strike enters its third week, The Boston Globe discovers what it is a Broadway electrician does. Anybody besides me find it strange that no NY paper did this?
Brokeback Download
A hilarious account of one man's attempt to legally download a video via Movielink.
Brooklyn Analog in da House!
Over at The Audiophiliac, Steve Guttenberg's CNET blog, there's a superb piece on Daptone Records, Brooklyn's own old-school analog record label. I heard Daptone artists the Budos Band on Soundcheck a few weeks ago and loved the classic '60s sound on their record.