Boom, Pow! Right in the Kisser!
<I>Dial "M" for Musicology</I> recounts the confrontation between champion of the world Mike Tyson and 77-year-old philosopher A. J. Ayer.
Wes Phillips
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Al Yankovic A Genius?
Maybe so, says <I>The Village Voice</I>'s Ben Zwickel. Perhaps a better theory is that he's "a canary in the coal mine of pop music, and when pop music's good—or interesting, at least—Yankovic has more to sing about."
You Do What You Eat?
Have the changes in our diet in the past century constituted "a very large uncontrolled experiment that may have contributed to the societal burden of aggression, depression and cardiovascular death"?
On the TV/Autism Link
<A HREF="http://www.slate.com/id/2151538/"><I>Slate</I></A> published a short piece on a <A HREF="http://www.johnson.cornell.edu/faculty/profiles/waldman/autpaper.html">… academic paper</A> that suggested several possible correlations between the increase of autism and television watching.
Do We Own Our Own Bodies?
<I>The New England Journal of Medicine</I> weighs in on an increasingly pertinent question: Does a cell-based breakthrough belong to the cell donor or the people who harvested and developed it?
Forcefield On!
Here's a Fox News segment on the Trophy Active Defense Systems, a division of General Dynamics. Although the video makes it look like it's all but installed on IDF vehicles, <A HREF="http://www.defense-update.com/products/t/trophy.htm"><I>Defense Update</I></A> throws some cold water on the rosy predictions, quoting US Army deputy for acquisition and systems management, Maj. Gen. Jeffrey A, Sorenson, who said the project is obviously not good to go. "If this thing was ready to go, my question would be, why wasn’t it on the particular tanks that went into Lebanon?" he said, noting that no Israeli Merkava tanks carried the Trophy system.
Hergé's Auto Erotica
Tintin's cars and the vehicles that inspired them.
R.I.P. CBGBs
My apologies that this blog has been so irregular recently. A situation in my personal life, namely a <A HREF="http://forum.stereophile.com/photopost/showphoto.php/photo/946">wedding…;, has been distracting me. But now that it's over…
TL Audio's Fatman iTube
I got scooped on this by Josh Ray over at <a href="http://www.sonicflare.com/archives/fatman-itube-now-available.php">Sonic Flare</a>, but, in my defense, I did manage to tell my sweetheart about it. My priorities are in place, indeed. I told her, "You might be interested in this." Kelli owns an iPod, you see. I do not. "I don't know anything about TL Audio," I continued, "but I am familiar with <a href="http://bluebirdmusic.com/Fatman_Intro.htm">Bluebird Music</a>. I'm a fan of their products as well as their business philosophy — one that emphasizes system synergy and value for money. At home, I'm using their Exposure <a href="http://www.stereophile.com/budgetcomponents/1105exposure/index.html">in… amp</a> and CD player. Good stuff."