Wes Phillips

Bagheera demonstrates how to supercharge the obliques. That girl is flexible!

I've seen lots of links to the article on LiveScience about ants counting their steps in navigating the shortest route between two points. Ho hum, I thought, I had a cow-orker who did the same thing when deciding which route to take to the bathroom at work—and he was way dumber than an ant.

Well, I would—if Hollywood could get it as right as these amateurs. But then, Amateur means doing it out of love and that's where Hollywood falls down when it makes movies out of comic books, um, I mean graphic novels.

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This segment covers plating and pressing. Audiophiles should note that this example uses the simpler (and less replicable) one-step plating process, which is why there's no mention of an archival "mother," just a stamper.

But this one's the Best Summer Music Reads from Pitchfork. And the only one I've already read is King Dork.

I love the way the interview begins with a line that echoes the opening line of Burgess' Earthly Powers. The man who gave us The Quiet American also had some prescient things to say about future conflicts America might participate in.

I've been remodeling my downstairs into a dedicated office, small listening room, and home theater and, as a result, I've been constantly scratching my head and muttering how do you do that? Well, the answer to most of those questions has been in the Lee Valley Tools catalog and website.