Jazz fans rejoice! Not only is <A HREF="http://blog.stereophile.com/cedia2007/090707bluenote/">Music Matters</A> releasing new 45rpm double LP reissues of classic Blue Note titles, but so is Analogue Productions.
<B>Jammie Thomas Appeal:</B> Just weeks after having been found liable for <A HREF="http://stereophile.com/news/100807jammie/">$220,000 in damages</A> for allegedly offering 24 music tracks on her KaZaa account, Jammie Thomas has filed a notice of remittitur with the US District Court for the District of Minnesota, asking the judge to slash the jury's damage award, contending that she should receive a retrial that assesses the damages based on the <I>actual</I> damages suffered by the labels resulting from her making the files available.
I think my favorite is #311.
Huckleberry lurks in the shadows.
Now that it's fall, Bagheera barely leaves the toasty top of the Mac music server.
Taking a <I>really</I> close look at Leonardo's portrait.
At last, an explanation of why carefully coiled cables grow knots.
I read <I>Slate</I> primarily to catch my colleague Fred Kaplan's "War Stories" column, but whenever I read Fred, I also go to Garry Trudeau's "The Sandbox," a milblog that allows military personnel stationed in Iraq and Afganistan to "vent, rhapsodize, and [inform] the folks on the home front . . . what is going on from their point of view."
Haven't heard of it yet? You will. It's an opportunistic pathogen that is extremely resistant to antibiotics—some people call it a super bacterium. Jon Carroll writes about it in his <A HREF="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2007/…; today, which, like all of his columns, is a great read.
Philip K. Dick has become a huge success 25 years after his death. He'd have seen the humor in that.