Science's 10 Most Beautiful Experiments
Physics! Animation! What more could you ask for?
Wes Phillips
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Pass It On
Donald M. Murray died on Saturday, December 30. On Friday, he filed his last column. <I>The Boston Globe</I> ran his final column today.
Us and Them
Robert L. Jamieson, Jr. took a reader's dare to spend some time in Muslim countries and "see how they live over there." It didn't have the expected result.
Starship Size Comparison Chart
You've got to love people with too much spare time on their hands. At least, <I>I</I> love this.
Vodka Chic
"One does not inhale vodka's bouquet, but one may use vodka to sterilize a wound on the knee, as familiar a sight to the serious vodka drinker as the shot glass and the handful of ibuprofen."
Foolproof: A Sampling of Mathematical Folk Humor
Because the difference between a stupid joke and a <I>really</I> stupid joke is that <I>really</I> stupid jokes are pretty funny.
Do you look for the same or different types of reviews in our print and web products? Can you give some examples?
According to our year-end web metrics, it would appear that the magazine's online readers are interested in a different mix of products than its print readers. Do you look for the same or different types of reviews in our print and web products?
Has HD's DRM Been Hacked?
HD DVDs and Blu-Ray discs came to market with a digital rights management (DRM) content encryption system called <A HREF="http://www.aacsla.com/home">Advanced Access Content System (AACS)</A>. Supposedly, AACS was intended to permit greater flexibility than conventional DVD's Content Scrambling System (CSS) DRM, since it was touted as allowing purchasers, say, to load DVDs onto their media servers or burn downloaded HD purchases to disc.
Our Biggest Links of 2006
Here at <I>Stereophile</I> we like to measure things. Part of that is because we <I>can</I>, of course—and that's another reason why we love the Internet. We have no way of knowing how many times our readers re-read certain articles, nor do we know how many different readers look at any given issue, but on the web, we can at least count the page views. Yes, we know that there are some uncertainties about that metric, too, but we <I>can</I> count it, so we do.