Avast Ye Chumbuckets!
Just a reminder: Tomorrow is International Talk Like A Pirate Day. If John Atkinson sticks to his guns and actually observes this holiday, it's going to make for an interesting day of jury duty.
Wes Phillips
Masters on Mastering
Jeff Wong passes along this 2003 article on the fine (and in this age of compression, almost lost) art of disc mastering.
What Are You Looking At, Monkeyboy?
Huckleberry pities us hairless apes, not least for our cluelessness concerning the value of half-eaten "presents."
Yeah!
Bagheera, uncharacteristically agrees with the tabby. "You guys are pathetic."
Quantum Mechanics Really Isn't All That Weird
Paul Quincey said it, not me.
Why British Cellists May No Longer Fly to the US
I want to be secure when I fly, but many of the new restrictions strike me as absurd. I was forced to check my rolling carry-on yesterday because it "was larger than a computer bag." Great. I had visions of arriving at CEDIA sans computer or camera.
Evaluating DRM
Fred von Lohmann, senior intellectual property attorney at the Electronic">http://www.eff.org/">Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and our hero, sends along this link to the Center for Democracy and Technology's (CDT) thoughtful guidelines to how electronics product reviewers should evaluate digital rights management (DRM) issues.
Speaking of Rights
Jeff Wong alerted me to the furor among artists over what is known as "The Blue Girl Infringement," which involves a piece of proposed bad law called the Orphan Works Act.
Airport WiFi Guide
Here's a handy site for travelers: TravelPost.com has a chart listing all the US airports with WiFi, complete with their rates and terminal locations. (Some airports do it right and offer free access to their hostages, er, guests.)
CEDIA Travel Advisory
Stereophila Bogging will be light for the next three days, while I am blogging CEDIAhttp://blog.stereophile.com/cedia2006/">CEDIA;. I'll try to get some stuff up here and I will definitely be cat blogging on Friday, having spent the better part of yesterday afternoon following Huck and Bagheera around, camera in hand.