Music Lessons
Apparently they pay off.
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On The Beach
A family in Wales went to the beach last July and discovered an intact P-38 that went down in 1942.
Getting to Yes
Robert Cialdini's science of persuasion.
Profiling
Those impressive profilers you see on TV and the movies? In reality, they're not quite as effective as they're portrayed—not by a long shot.
Show Time
<I>"Rave on down through the corridors,<BR>
"Rave on words on printed page!"</I>—Van Morrison, "Rave On John Donne"
Sun Ra Phones Home?
The Cassini-Huygens probe has been recording the sounds of Saturn. My cats, who are thoroughly bored by everything audio (other than the gear's heat-generating properties), were quite agitated by these sounds. Good to know, <I>hee hee hee</I>.
10 Years After
"Words are pegs to hang ideas on."—Henry Ward Beecher
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DVD: A Reality Check
The <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/asweseeit/1295awsi">announcement in October 1995</A> of the Digital Versatile Disc (DVD) set the hearts of audiophiles and music lovers pounding. Although primarily a digital video and computer-data storage format, DVD's massive capacity could be applied to a "super CD" audio-only disc. Finally we would be liberated from the musical limitations of the CD's 16-bit word length, 44.1kHz sampling rate, and two-channel format. We were tantalized by reports of 96kHz sampling rate, 24-bit word length, and multichannel playback. Digital redemption appeared to be just around the corner.
Stupid Filter
I believe I've linked to this in the past, but golly, I get a kick out of it—and it's coming soon!
Unintentionally Hilarious
I'm solidly hooked on <A HREF="http://www.joshreads.com/"><I>The Comics Curmudgeon</I></A> and I have to confess that the newly revived <I>Cracked</I> website is a guilty pleasure, so when the two get together to describe the "Five Most Unintentionally Hilarious Comic Strips," you <I>know</I> I'm there.