Wes Phillips

Think about it, if you reduce the noise caused by airplanes, what else are you reducing—or enhancing?

The Daily Mail maps the world with cartograms: resizing the countries according to different measures. For example, did you know that Ugandans drink the most alcohol per adult?

I spent an afternoon interviewinghttp://stereophile.com/musicrecordings/671/">interviewing; the Emerson Quartet when they released their epic Shostakovich cycle.They were delightful. They're dedicated musicians, of course, but also witty and welcoming—just good company.

The trouble with Tasers, CrunchGear explains, is "there appears to be an aggressive effort by [Taser International] to silence critics and to control data and, on occasion, manipulate statistics with the intent of preserving an illusion of safety surrounding its products."

Charlie Brooker doesn't like his new phone.

Break me a freakin' give, I muttered to myself as I clicked on the URL to the above-titled article. How stupid is this going to be?

In the dawn of the record era, album covers were based on the covers of photographic albums. Then Alex Steinweiss proposed to Columbia that it "embellish the 78 RPM record albums (covers) with original artwork (drawings and paintings)." An art form—and an industry—was born.