Best and Worst Lines in Film
Much too short a list, but it's a start.
Wes Phillips
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You Big Baby!
Michael Bywater thinks he knows what your problem is.
Animated Knots
It's knots! With animation!
Doonebury's War
I think Gene Weingarten may be the best long-form newspaper writer in the country and this profile of <I>Doonesbury</I> artist-writer Garry Trudeau is Exhibit A.
Don't Be a Douche
Jack Black on the need to stop piracy.
Why the Hell Not?
Texas' political scene is clearly crazy—which is just one more reason why Kinky Friedman might make the perfect Texas governor. The state has clearly elected clowns before, why not try a pro?
Semper Dowland; Semper Sting
Sting's recording of Dowland lute songs has certainly generated a lot of hooey—ranging from accusations of Sting making commercial move (yeah, recording a disc of lute songs is <I>sooo</I> calculated to run up the charts) to complaints about Sting's "inauthentic" performance.
Björk 'er, Danno
My gosh, Björk's new video is just lovely. How many levels of recursion can you spot?
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Logitech Acquires Slim Devices
Logitech International, the Swiss computer'n'communications peripherals manufacturer, announced on October 19 that it had acquired Slim Devices, Inc., the home-network-music-systems pioneer that manufactures the <A HREF="http://stereophile.com/digitalprocessors/906slim/">Squeezebox</A> and <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/news/073106transporter/">Transporter</A>.
Twelve Inducted into Consumer Electronic Hall of Fame
On October 19, 2006, the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) honored the latest 12 members of the CEA Hall of Fame at its awards dinner at the San Francisco CEA Industry Forum.