One of the best reads I've had in the last few years was Mark Haddon's <I>The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time</I>, a story written in the first-person voice of Christopher Boone, an autistic 15-year-old.
I forgot to mention something else that the Musical Fidelity pieces seem to add to my system's performance: <i>depth</i>.
To some people, music doesn't make any sense. There's a name for that: amusia. Auntie Beeb 'splains it to us.
Jeremy Clarkson gives good rant on over-used words that really ought to be considered offensive.
Hours of mindless fun drawing and watching your own flipbooks. If I can do it, you can do it.
<A HREF="http://www.clivejames.com/index.cfm">Clive James</A> has a website, which is full of stuff that'll keep you riveted to your chair.
You didn't think people did it for the money, did you?
In <I>FilmMaker</I>, Scott Macauley has written a spirited preview/interview of Richard Linklater's <I>A Scanner Darkly</I>, which he says is the first faithful film based on a Philip K. Dick novel. I hope so, because the early trailer I saw had an overly-rotoscoped look that I didn't simply hate, I detested. Macauley makes me want to see the movie anyway.
Chet Raymo argues that George Herriman's love struck cat and brick-tossing mouse "turned the deterministic world of Newtonian physics upside down."
I guess I lied when I said "More tomorrow." That should teach me something about making promises during "Recommended Components" time. I'm sorry.