Wes Phillips

Forget Adam Smith's invisible hand, says William Baumol, look for the invisible man.

I tend not to link to the NYT because I think their paid-portal policy on their name pundits is dumb—essentially removing them from the public discourse. Then again, considering what many of those "names" write, they may have done the public a favor there.

An algorithm that can turn any image into an Escher illustration.

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine estimate that the human eye transmits visual data at more or less the rate of an Ethernet connection.

Back in March, I posted a linkhttp://blog.stereophile.com/wesphillips//index4.html">link; to a Physics Web articlehttp://physicsweb.org/articles/world/20/3/3/1">article; on iconic equations, which quoted Gauss' assertion that if Euler's formula wasn't immediately obvious, the reader probably has no chance at being a first-class mathematician.

Fred von Lohmann, senior intellectual property attorney at the Electronic">http://www.eff.org/">Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and our hero, sends along this link to the Center for Democracy and Technology's (CDT) thoughtful guidelines to how electronics product reviewers should evaluate digital rights management (DRM) issues.

It might be a duck anyway—or at least it was meant to be.