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I'm linking to this particular day's posting because it's so clear and well argued, but this insider's animation blog is a constant joy.

Pinky and the Brain present <I>The parts of the brain</I>.

Bagheera: "You distract him and I'll knock the kibble off the shelf. He's slow&mdash;we'll make out like bandits."

Jon Iverson remembers when Moscode amps came equipped with a diaper. "The instructions," he reminisces, "suggested the listener put it on before firing up the amp for the first time."

Is the "amen break" the most important drum loop ever? Nate Harrison thinks so. This nicely illustrates how having total command of the subject can make any topic fascinating.

Last night, I sat down for a bit with Anthony Hamilton and his open road. You're what I want. You're what I need. You touch the deepest part of me. And these loose and tenuous warbling riffs stretched out wide across my windows, parting the curtains and welcoming in the neon lights from the bar on the other side of Monmouth.

<I>SciOrg</I> is reporting that an optical-based quantum computer has successfully demonstrated "counterfactual computation," which is to say it came to its conclusion using information that is counter to what actually happened to reach a correct answer. Also, the computer did not actually run.