The 89 Most Redundant, Repetitive Clichés In Music
Because 100, would, like, be a cliché.
The A/V War
Ars Technica has a fascinating piece on personal electronics in the war zone. There's an image of a gunner with his iPod fastened to his Fritz helmet that's worthy of iconic status.
The Accidental Cyborg
Reading Jamais Cascio's article on his new hearing aids was fascinating, but it also led me to this articlehttp://www.audiologyonline.com/theHearingJournal/pdfs/HJ2003_07_pg36-41…; on music and hearing aids.
The Aerodynamics of Toast
'Fess up—you've always wondered about that butter side down thing.
The Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel
Anybody who has been around NYC for the last 20 years or so will attest to the fact that it has gotten a lot easier to get great burritos. Ever wonder why? Idle Words fills us in on the secret.
The Alchymical Notebooks of Isaac Newton
I'm linking to these because they are extremely cool and because John Atkinson is halfway through Neal Stephenson's The Baroque Trilogy.
The Amazing Adventures of Lethem and Chabon
"Always remember—with great reading comes great responsibility."
The Ampitheater As Acoustic Filter
Why theater goers in Epidaurus could hear actors from 60m away.
The Apprentice
S. L. Price writes about his initiation into the newspaper business. "I was, as everybody there can attest, an instant master—at overwriting, at missing deadlines, at trying to invest my stories with an importance they didn’t deserve. But with another daily paper in town, I had to hustle or lose, and fear of humiliation was only one reason I got better. The fact is, battling on a beat is one of life’s few, clear-cut, post-athletic competitive venues. Each morning, readers open up a newspaper to see who won the game. Each morning, sportswriters open up a newspaper to see which writers won the battle for the best lead, best quotes, best information, best kicker, best assessment of that game. I lost often and won some, too, and spent a bit of each day wondering if I’d be fired."
The Archeology of Table Manners
Kate Colquhoun reviews Martin Jones's Feast: Why Humans Share Food. At first I thought the article's title was absurdly inflated, but I was convinced by the time Colquhoun wrote: "To mangle Brillat-Savarin, he dissects not just what early humans ate, but how they ate, in order to draw conclusions about who they were. In the process, he proves once again that food and the ways we have chosen to process and proffer it can be more revealing than any other historical or prehistoric artefact."