Dying Is Easy, Comedy Is Hard
Steve Martin has just published an autobiography, Born Standing Up, in which he describes how he created his comedic persona by using logic. That was the easy part, next he had to figure out how to sell">http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/funny-martin-200802.html?c=y… it to the audience.
Dylan Hears a Who
Bob Dylan sings Seuss. It's his most personal work since Self Portrait.
Dynamic EQ
Adjusting the EQ for every 1km change in speed, the Dynamic EQ has over 300 settings. Other fun tricks include various EQ "modes," allowing the system to be voiced for the driver's position or for the rear right passenger's seat. ("Home James, and give me the sweet spot!")
E=mc2 Proved
Well, actually they said E differs from mc2 by at most 0.0000004, which is "consistent with equality."
Ear Ear
Why is the mammal ear more complex than the reptile ear?
Earth 2?
We might have neighbors—and they could be closer than we thought.
Eating Tea With Chopsticks
In zero-G, doesn't everybody?
Ebert's Glossary
"Antiheroine Skin Rule: In a Horny Teen-ager Movie, the 'bad girl' who is the object of the hero's desire will always expose more flesh than the girl whom he ends up with at the end of the film, despite equal sexual activity. If the 'good girl' is shown topless in a love scene, it must be accompanied by slow music. In a Dead Teenager Movie, the girl who exposes the least skin is inevitably the only survivor."
Edgar, a Poet to a T
I grew up in Charlottesville, VA, where E.A. Poe briefly attended college without matriculating. I used to visit Poe's bedchamber, which has been preserved as a memorial,and gawp at artifacts that almost certainly had no connection to him. Somehow I had the impression that we Charlottesvillians appreciated his gothic world view more than other folks.
Editions of Contemporary Me
That's ECM, in case you didn't know. Geoff Dyer tells us how a label changed the way he listened to music.