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Donald M. Murray died on Saturday, December 30. On Friday, he filed his last column. <I>The Boston Globe</I> ran his final column today.

Robert L. Jamieson, Jr. took a reader's dare to spend some time in Muslim countries and "see how they live over there." It didn't have the expected result.

Who knew?

"One does not inhale vodka's bouquet, but one may use vodka to sterilize a wound on the knee, as familiar a sight to the serious vodka drinker as the shot glass and the handful of ibuprofen."

Because the difference between a stupid joke and a <I>really</I> stupid joke is that <I>really</I> stupid jokes are pretty funny.

HD DVDs and Blu-Ray discs came to market with a digital rights management (DRM) content encryption system called <A HREF="http://www.aacsla.com/home">Advanced Access Content System (AACS)</A>. Supposedly, AACS was intended to permit greater flexibility than conventional DVD's Content Scrambling System (CSS) DRM, since it was touted as allowing purchasers, say, to load DVDs onto their media servers or burn downloaded HD purchases to disc.

Here at <I>Stereophile</I> we like to measure things. Part of that is because we <I>can</I>, of course&mdash;and that's another reason why we love the Internet. We have no way of knowing how many times our readers re-read certain articles, nor do we know how many different readers look at any given issue, but on the web, we can at least count the page views. Yes, we know that there are some uncertainties about that metric, too, but we <I>can</I> count it, so we do.