Why You Should Be Glad You're Not AT CES
Basically, the press conference day is crowded and noisy and pointless. Even worse, they play irritating techno music at you for what seems like hours.
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At the Sands
To be honest, I didn't give it much of a chance. I mean, especially after Jim <a href="http://www.thielaudio.com/">Thiel</a>'s captivating presentation on the new CS3.7, the Philips press conference seemed like so much noise and swirling lights and fake boobs.
Sony Playstation?
Call me biased. I really don't care, and, anyway:<br>
Purple Mountains
It's amazing.
"Billboard"
Through a process that R. Luke Dubois has dubbed "time-lapse phongraphy," you can listen to all of <I>Billboard</I>'s number one singles since 1958. Playing a "spectral average" of each piece, lasting one second for each week it charted, the 857 songs create a spacey collage.
In Praise of Idleness
That Bertie Russell is <I>my</I> idea of a philosopher.
A Unified Physics Theory
Not the you're thinking about, but one that explains how animals run, fly, and swim.
Science Gives Us the Answer!
It starts to rain: Do you run or walk?
Heart Race
Feel my heart<br>
race now<br>
almost as it does<br>
when we kiss.
CES—the Calm Before the Storm
As more than 100,000 visitors fly in to Las Vegas for the 2006 Consumer Electronics Show, I thought I'd post this shot of an empty Alexis Park Hotel, home of the high-end audio exhibits, on the last day of the 2005 Show. Tomorrow, this joint will be <I>jumping</I>!