A Day Well Spent
Thanks for the kind birthday messages, everybody. I had a great day. Joan & I went to the Frick">http://www.frick.org/">Frick Collection to gaze at our favorite Vermeers, Franz Hals, and J.M.W. Turners, not to mention checking out a comprehensive display of the New Testament drawings of Domenico">http://www.frick.org/exhibitions/tiepolo/">Domenico Tiepolo, which were completely new to me.
A Dictionary You Can Trust!
Word!
A Dilemma
As a guy, I really want to brag—but wouldn't that mean 'fessing up to stupidity?
A Dimple in the Space-Time Continuum
Evidence that a Black Hole leaves a dent in space-time "just like a dimple in one's favorite spot on the sofa."Right, that's precisely the homey metaphor that immediately occurred to me. Isn't anybody else alarmed by alterations in reality as we perceive it? i mean, it is all about me, isn't it?
A Dream Lay Dying
Bill Maxwell always wanted to teach journalism at a historically black college, but after only two years, he quit, disillusioned. Judging from the comments of many of my professor friends, his story wouldn't have been all that different at any land grant university, either.
A Dublin Without Guinness?
That just seems so wrong. But the article is a reasonable excuse to link to thishttp://www.scaryideas.com/print/2698/">this;.
A Failure of Intelligence
Somehow, the November issue of Technology Review made it to the top of my Empire State Building pile of unread magazines and I happened upon this fascinating recollection by Freeman Dyson about working for the Operational Research Section during WWII.
A Fairytale of New York
The Beeb censored Shane MacGowan's "Fairytale of New York" for its use of a slur.
Sam Leith argueshttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml;jsessionid=2CF13YVN1JHF5Q…; that Auntie mistook a slur for a swear-word—an unforgivable sin in the maidenly world of journalism.
Sam Leith argueshttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml;jsessionid=2CF13YVN1JHF5Q…; that Auntie mistook a slur for a swear-word—an unforgivable sin in the maidenly world of journalism.
A Fifth Element?
Are Bose-Einstein Coordinates really a fifth state of matter? Are these really BECs?
A Focal Trip!
Back in April, Daniel Jacques of Audio Plus, Focal's North American distributor, invited me to visit Focal's factory in St. Etienne. Since I'd never reviewed any Focal loudspeakers, I didn't know a lot about the company, but I have spent many happy hours in Jonathan Scull's ribbon chair, listening to his Grand Utopias, so I was eager to go—and to learn more.