Understatement of the Year
Variety headline: "Digital proves problematic." Oh who would have ever thunk it? Oh wait—maybe it was us audiophiles.
Unintentionally Hilarious
I'm solidly hooked on The">http://www.joshreads.com/">The Comics Curmudgeon and I have to confess that the newly revived Cracked website is a guilty pleasure, so when the two get together to describe the "Five Most Unintentionally Hilarious Comic Strips," you know I'm there.
Unleash the Badgers!
Is this the perfect news story or what?
Unlikely Bedfellows
Locust Street is exploring 1956. Yesterday's post actually manages to connect Stockhausen to Clarence "Frogman" Henry. True, it's a chronological connection, but I guarantee that nobody will contrive an odder coupling in 2006. Great site, worth a regular visit.
Unnatural Acts of Opera
La Cieca at Parterre.com has posted a new podcast episode of "Unnatural Acts of Opera," wherein Elenore Steber performs at the Continental Baths in 1973. The Village Voice's Arthur Bell described the performance as "an affair to rank with the coming of Christ, the death of Garland, the birth of the blues, and the freezing of spinach."
Unraveling the Möbius Strip
Eugene Starostin and Gert van der Heijde have solved a 75-year-old conundrum by developing tools to predict the three dimensional form a Möbius strip will take.
Us and Them
Robert L. Jamieson, Jr. took a reader's dare to spend some time in Muslim countries and "see how they live over there." It didn't have the expected result.
Use Your TV Tuner for an ADC
I love http://www.hackaday.com, but today's entry is the dopest ever: How to use the bt878 chipset on your TV tuner card as a high-speed analog-to-digital converter. Warning: I haven't tried this myself, so I only pass it on as "interesting." As always when playing with the guts of an electronic device, don't mess with it if you're not technically adept. Word!
Utopia!
Of Focal's 200 employees, only 15 are "allowed" to build the Utopia line of loudspeakers. "Utopia, to Jacques Mahul's way of thinking, represents the finest expression of Focal—so only the most experienced employees can build Utopia products. They are also the most critical employees and we do not push them to produce mass numbers—we push them to produce perfect products," said Gérard Chrétien, Focal's managing director (and former editor of L'Audiophile.
Vacuum Tube Valley Show
I don't know anything about this, other than what you see on the URL, but it's free and it has a lot of stuff I haven't been able to see yet. Probably worth checking out if you're in the nabe.