Another Summer Song
Heck, I find something that works, I stick with it.
Wes Phillips
Rewind, Pause, Play, Fast-Forward
Jeff Wong's unintentional guest-blogging continues with this lurvely little paean to the cassette.
Recording the Beatles
Jeff's last link of the day—he can take the afternoon off.
This One Reads Like a Movie Pitch
Scientists in Malta are excited about what they're learning from a mummified duck-billed brachylophosauruses. The pictures are fabulous.
Inside the Museum Infinity Goes on Trial
The Archimedes Palimpsest suggests that the canny philosopher understood infinity not just as heuristics and mystics, but refined and defined down to the last line. Nearly two millennia before the Calculus—eureka indeed.
Huck Shows the Love
Huckleberry does some aggressive grooming on Bagheera. It looks cute, until you notice her exasperated expression. Usually, this is a prelude for a fight; this time it turned into synchronized napping.
Protect Whose Property?
Ed Quillen asks a big question that Congress ought to be asking in the rush to protect property rights.
One Step Closer to Positronic Brains?
Researchers led by the Institute of Cognitive Science and Technology in Italy are developing robots that employ Embedded and Communicating Agents to evolve and develop without human "intervention." Better start making 'em three laws safe.
The Sky is Falling
Digital Music For the Future says so, asking, "is the record industry ready to face the music?" Interesting essay—and one that says , "the record industry is stuck in a time warp, always several years behind. That would mean 2006 is the new 1999. The Internet boom and music sales have reached their climax, anything is possible, and the digital entertainment world was ready for something to pop."
Cheetah Crashes
"More common than you'd think," says National Geographic. Makes sense—they can run 60mph over broken ground and, if Huckleberry is anything to judge by, a cat in full jetpack mode pays scant heed to obstructions—even walls.