drchilledaire has uploaded to YouTube this fabulous clip of Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross performing Count Basie's "Everyday (I Have the Blues)." A while ago, I was frustrated in my attempts to get a digital replacement for my well-played copy of <I>Twisted</I>, so I thought I'd probably use this as a chance to rant about the lack of LHR CDs.
<I>Gizmodo</I>'s Mark Wilson does a different Blu-ray <I>vs</I> HD DVD comparison. That is, for <I>my</I> kind of difference: audio quality and extras.
A website devoted to exotic (mostly) turntables. Two thoughts struck me: I've actually seen or heard most of these, and I bet if I issued audiophile "baseball cards" I could make a mint.
. . . To a pianist with small hands.
Ben Yagoda on <I>meh</I>, <I>awwa</I>, <I>feh</I>, <I>heh</I>, and all those other interjections. How could he leave out <I>d'oh!</I>?
Conductor Kenneth Woods has some thoughts about "honest" recordings. Follow the link to the University of Houston's listserv for a surprising revelation about another widespread classical hoax.
Carl Zimmer gives us the straight, er, poop on tapeworms.
While we listen to music, the areas of your brain that enable our bodies to move are active, even if we're not. The brain, it seems, likes rhythm.
For Nick Mason, it's driving; for Roger Waters, it's being driven.
Pay attention, class. This little rope-climbing device looks pretty slick. As the article says, the real trick isn't ascending the rope, but ascending the rope without damaging it. The rule of thumb we used when I did technical caving was to retire any rope we had "shocked" with an impact or weight-bearing kink.