Wes Phillips

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A Cat Can Look at a King
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Wes Phillips  |  Oct 26, 2007  |  1 comments
And Huck will stare at you for hours attempting to convince you it's kibble time.
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A Catalan Treat for Your Barbecue
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Wes Phillips  |  Jul 04, 2006  |  1 comments
Yeah, yeah, we all know that you grill burgers'n'brats on the Fourth, but that only takes a few minutes and then yo have all those coals going great. What to do with that lovely fire? Here's a non-intuitive dish that will excite absolutely no one—until they taste it! Then you won't have made enough.
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A Classic!
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Wes Phillips  |  Jun 07, 2007  |  0 comments
New to me, though. A toob guy's guide to eBay.
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A Close Shave With Occam's Razor
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Wes Phillips  |  Mar 09, 2006  |  0 comments
Chet Raymo has a nice essay rebutting Larry Dossey's screed about why science doesn't accept the wisdom of alternative medicine gurus such as Depak Chopra et al.
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A Closing and a Conundrum
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Wes Phillips  |  Apr 18, 2005  |  0 comments
Lights out in Gloversville: Universal Music Group's record-pressing plant in Gloversville, NY will shut its doors on May 6, 2005. Founded in 1953 as part of the Brunswick Radio Corporation of America, the plant (and the parent corporation) were acquired in 1962 by Decca, which was itself merged into MCA—and later, UMG, now part of Vivendi Universal.
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A Concise Introduction to Physics
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Wes Phillips  |  Feb 02, 2006  |  1 comments
Just relax and enjoy it—as Feynman said.
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A Confederacy of Dunces
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Wes Phillips  |  Jan 25, 2007  |  3 comments
Evan Thomas and Jeffrey T. Richelson have written books that chart the CIA's legacy of arrogant wrongheadedness.
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A Day Late, But Not a Dollar Short
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Wes Phillips  |  Dec 05, 2007  |  1 comments
Yesterday was the anniversary of Frank Zappa's death in 1993. The good news is that the Zappa estate is releasing tapes of The Grand Wazoo tour and that Zappa Radio is back online. Wowie zowie.
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A Day Well Spent
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Wes Phillips  |  Nov 04, 2006  |  0 comments
Thanks for the kind birthday messages, everybody. I had a great day. Joan & I went to the Frick Collection to gaze at our favorite Vermeers, Franz Hals, and J.M.W. Turners, not to mention checking out a comprehensive display of the New Testament drawings of Domenico Tiepolo, which were completely new to me.
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A Dictionary You Can Trust!
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Wes Phillips  |  Sep 12, 2007  |  0 comments
Word!
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