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<I>angrylittlegirls.com</I> manages to avoid getting all soppy about it.

<I>Mapsofwar.com</I> has posted a nifty animated map showing the imperial history of the Middle East: the rise and fall of empires and states in the region over 5000 years. There are other, similar maps at the website, showing, among other things,the ebb and flow of religions over the ages.

I usually go into the Grammy telecast with much cynicism already on edge and a large glass of some variety of fermented libation standing by for medicinal purposes.

Robert P. Crease's <A HREF="http://physicsweb.org/articles/world/20/1/8/1">article</A&gt; on the importance of letters between scientists in helping us appreciate the evolution of ideas planted the thought, but Adam Kirsch's review of Robert Frost's notebooks really has me wondering: Now that we communicate so much through email&mdash;and revise our drafts without saving them&mdash;will future scholars have to judge us only on our published copy?

Is there an anthropological record of a chimpanzee stone age?

On Saturday night, Don Fiorino, Mark Flynn, Chris Jones, and <i>Stereophile</i>’s Bob Reina came together, within the walls of Merkin Concert Hall, as Attention Screen. I sat in the audience, watching and listening as these four men exchanged ideas, made music. I'm not going to say it was beautiful. I'm not going to say it was interesting.

John Atkinson sent me a link to <I>Time</I>'s Rick Rubin interview. I can see why JA liked it&mdash;Rubin's production philosophy reminds me a lot of the way JA edits and records.