Wes Phillips

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.

Perhaps not, but PhysOrg.com reports that two Italian physicists have written a paper suggesting that the concepts of dark energy and dark matter might be the result of "improper" gravitational theory.

Well, actually, it suggests that, by wearing a helmet when I cycle, I give motorists the feeling I'm invulnerable.

As Dave Barry points out, there apparently is something worse than driving while talking on a cellphone.

Yes, it's the fifth anniversary of 9/11 and the media coverage is relentless. However, despite all the hoopla, the solemnity of the day can still sneak up on you—it happened to Jeff Wong and me this morning as we completed out daily bike ride and came upon a memorial service for firemen and policemen from our neighborhood who died that day.

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"No crunchy goodness," grouses Bagheera. "Truly, you are dead to me."