My wife gave me a copy of <A HREF="http://www.randomhouse.com/pantheon/graphicnovels/catalog/display.pperl… Complete Persepolis</I></A> for my birthday and I've been devouring it greedily. Satrapi's graphic novel uses a charmingly primitive visual style to tell a horrifying story of growing up in revolutionary Iran.
Scientists say your brain does it for you. Now, I'd like them to reverse the experiment to see if that's why okay home theater can be "good enough," but so-so hi-fi seldom is.
Maybe we need a new word for over-advertising results.
Jeremy Paxman argues that the last lines of "<I>Dulce et Decorum Est</I>" were not meant cynically.
Wow, Mark Steyn is even crankier than I am.
Jay Allen Sanford describes his horrifying descent into crack addiction and homelessness. It's not a pretty story, except that he did make it back.
When we last heard from NBC Universal's CEO Jeff Zucker, he'd refused to renew the network's yearly contract with Apple's iTunes Store, leading Apple <A HREF="http://stereophile.com/news/090307nbc/">to immediately pull NBC shows</A> from the store rather than have them yanked midseason. In addition, Apple managed to control the story so that NBC came off looking clueless and greedy. You'd think Zucker would have learned to keep his mouth shut from that media drubbing.
This last week has generated more mainstream coverage of the vinyl world than we've seen in, say, the last 20 years.
Hat tip to Mark Fleischmann.
There's still hope for skies full of blimps.