Slate Lauds Weird Al
According to Sam Anderson, "To the millions of us flitting around the edges of hipness, he is our Geek Bard, our Troubadork."
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Say Yeah!
Bagheera throws her hands in the air like she just don't care.
The Art of Complex Problem Solving
Perhaps not brilliant in content, but certainly dazzling in its execution.
San Francisco Airport Audio Museum
Tipped off by <I>Stereophile</I> reader David Goodwin, I recently visited the San Francisco Airport Museum's beautifully thought-out and executed exhibit <A HREF="http://www.sfoarts.org/exhibits/f2/f2-current.html"><I>The History of Audio: The Engineering of Sound</I></A>. Installed to coincide with the 121st convention of the Audio Engineering Society, held at San Francisco's Moscone Center October 5–8, the exhibit runs through May 2007 in the North Connect Gallery of the airport's Terminal 3 (footnote 1).
Warning Signs From the Future
I like "Existential Threat," which strikes me as almost as funny as my favorite <I>real</I> existential road sign, which I spotted in an arroyo on I-25 between Albuquerque and Santa Fe: "Gusty Winds may exist."
Rocky Mountain AudioFest 2006
Coverage will be starting Friday.
Gary Giddons on Motion Picture Masterpieces
You've got to love an essay that begins, "It is a universally acknowledged truth that a movie studio in possession of a good fortune must be in want of Great Books."
This One's For JA
At a get-together the other night, I observed John Atkinson squinting at his cell phone when he received an in-coming call, and parroted Jon Stewart's remark that the amazing thing about the Mark Foley scandal wasn't that there was abuse in the page system, but rather that a 54-year-old could text message.