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<I>BBspot</I> claims to have obtained the super-duper-secretest-ever legal decision flowchart used by the RIAA. Everything now makes so much sense!

More proof, as if needed, that the true definition of a gentleman is someone who can play the bagpipe, but won't.
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John Atkinson sends along this link to <I>The Vintage Knob</I>, which shows the naughty bits of some classic '70s gear.

Lest I begin every blog entry in a negative fashion let me begin by saying, I love the music of Led Zeppelin.

When John Atkinson and I were driving from Kansas to New Mexico after recording <A HREF="http://ssl.blueearth.net/primedia/product.php?productid=22&cat=1&page=3…;, we spotted a crop duster spraying a roadside field. I was stunned by his precision at high speed&mdash;and by the exuberant loops with which he terminated each run. It looked incredibly difficult, and also like he was having a ball.

Philip K. Dick, far from being too paranoid to be prophetic, might not have been paranoid enough. After all, even <I>my</I> comments section makes you prove you're not a robot (<I>Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?</I>) and there really <I>are</I> cameras everywhere for our protection (<I>Through a Scanner Darkly</I>). Oh yes, and legislation aimed at protecting us from terror may have invaded our privacy (<I>Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said</I>).

It's funny, but one of the topics Jeff Wong and I have been discussing, seemingly on a daily basis, has been the endless barrage of negative reviews of <I>300</I>. I have my misgivings&mdash;principally the film's depiction of Hoplite warfare that completely ignores the existence of hoplon armor or Hoplite tactics.