Saying No to Wal-Mart
When Jim Wier told Wal-Mart he wanted them to stop selling his lawnmowers, was he being a good businessman or was he "the dumbest CEO ever to live"?
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Birthday Song
What song was top o' the charts when you were born? (Or, if you're older than the pop charts like me, on your 18th birthday?)
The Curious Incident of the Book Club in Texas
One of the best reads I've had in the last few years was Mark Haddon's <I>The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time</I>, a story written in the first-person voice of Christopher Boone, an autistic 15-year-old.
Law and Order and Depth and Stuff
I forgot to mention something else that the Musical Fidelity pieces seem to add to my system's performance: <i>depth</i>.
Amusia
To some people, music doesn't make any sense. There's a name for that: amusia. Auntie Beeb 'splains it to us.
Words Words Words
Jeremy Clarkson gives good rant on over-used words that really ought to be considered offensive.
Productivity Enhancer
Hours of mindless fun drawing and watching your own flipbooks. If I can do it, you can do it.
Clive James Has a Posse
<A HREF="http://www.clivejames.com/index.cfm">Clive James</A> has a website, which is full of stuff that'll keep you riveted to your chair.
Poetry as a Symptom of Epilepsy
You didn't think people did it for the money, did you?
A Scanner Darkly
In <I>FilmMaker</I>, Scott Macauley has written a spirited preview/interview of Richard Linklater's <I>A Scanner Darkly</I>, which he says is the first faithful film based on a Philip K. Dick novel. I hope so, because the early trailer I saw had an overly-rotoscoped look that I didn't simply hate, I detested. Macauley makes me want to see the movie anyway.