M = Music
Mathematical proofs set to music. It's a fascinating idea in that wake-up-the-next-morning-and-saying-I-did-what? kind of way.
Wes Phillips
Set Up A Front-Projection Home Cinema
Engadget has a nice tutorial on setting up a front-projection HT. It's pretty good, other than suggesting you DIY a cable set out of CAT5. OTOH, Engadget's suggestion that you create a cutout of the different aspect ratios is a brilliant idea I haven't seen anywhere else. For the price of a few pieces of cardboard, you can save yourself from making a costly screen mistake.
LPs More Popular Than CDs?
Well, that's what The Business says. Reading the article, I suspect the answer is one we audiophiles have known all along: LPs are cooler than CDs and all the hip kids dig 'em. Still, it's nice to read an upbeat article on the music industry for a change.
Now That's a Fan
Craig Robins couldn't understand why his favorite show wasn't available on DVD, but instead of carping about it, he bought the rights and released it himself. I'd consider buying a copy for that alone, but now that I know that the show in question was written by Steven Moffat, who created Coupling, it's a no-brainer.
Zen and the Art of Record Licking
There are LP collectors and then there are those freakin' record lickers.
Tim Arnold's Pinball Hall of Fame
Yup. Of course, it's in Las Vegas—but where else could it be? If we're lucky, Stereophilia regular Buddha will give us a personal report.
Data Mining
When I was a corporate speechwriter, I wrote a speech for the head of the "research" division. He bragged that his store could track customers so accurately through their purchases that he could send targeted sales supplements to expecting parents, in some cases, before the wife informed her husband she was pregnant.
VQR on Little Nemo
I remember when The Virginia Quarterly Review was the perfect panacea for insomnia, but something has happened to that august publication: It woke up! These days, it has become a must-read, from Art Spiegelman's latest multi-chapter opus to well-written articles such as this one on Winsor McCay's Little Nemo in Slumberland.
Carl Zimmer Has a Blog
Just what I need—another daily stop on my Internet rounds. Zimmer, an alarmingly prolific, vastly entertaining science writer, has a knack for explaining complex ideas simply enough for me to grasp. Check out his coverage of the Homo floresiensis (Hobbit Man) brouhaha.
Jazz Wars Go Calypso
Moistworks has a great post on the "lost to history" NYC bebop wars, which have left a historical record by spilling over to the Caribbean and migrating to London, where—wait for it—"they were fought by proxy, in the streets of Notting Hill, by a host of Trinidadian stick-fighters and calypsonians."