"<I>Epact</I> is an electronic catalogue of medieval and renaissance scientific instruments from four European museums: the Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, the Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Florence, the British Museum, London, and the Museum Boerhaave, Leiden. Together, these museums house the finest collections of early scientific instruments in the world."
Are the Beatles coming to iTunes soon?
Despite the <I>Oh, really?</I> hed, this is kind of a fascinating article.
John Marks sends along this link to an Orthodox web radio station, which, as Monseigneur Marks points out, offers "more varieties of Chant than thou canst a stick shake at!"
Waaay before it becomes audiophilia. A documentary about the Audiophile Club of Athens.
Microsoft's Zune, that is. Andy Ihnatko's <I>Chicago Sun-Times</I> review is pretty much perfect. Don't write him off as an Apple cultist, however. He gives props to the PDDs that get it right.
Quarks, photons, and space-time foam—oh my!
Or maybe they're the larval form of some other proliferating common household object—Maya Kessler makes the case.
We received an interesting email from engineer Richard Burwen just before the Thanksgiving business break:
On November 22, the Librarian of Congress issued a—take a deep breath— <A HREF="http://www.copyright.gov/1201/">declaration of exemption</A> from the prohibition against circumvention of technological measures that control access to copyrighted works. In other words, the LOC decreed that six classes of "non-infringing rights" were exempt from the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which criminalized "production and dissemination of technology whose primary purpose is to circumvent measures taken to protect copyright."