A Heinous Hairdo Is Creeping Back Into the Limelight
The real horror of The Da Vinci Code? It's Tom Hanks' hair.
Wes Phillips
Lost In Translation
English comedy doesn't work in German—and that's no joke. Blame it on a "geographical accident."
Higgs Boson in One Page
I couldn't do it, but these eight physicists rose to the challenge: Explain in one page what the Higgs boson is and why we want to find it.
The True Cost of Piracy?
If you go by the RIAA's claims of $150,000 damage per song caused by downloading (as in this Stereophilehttp://www.stereophile.com/news/052206xmtrials/">Stereophile; story), that would mean that one month's worth of downloads caused be a single P2P site would be greater than the GDP of France—at least according to Donny's Blog.
Was Steely Dan Really Named After a Dildo?
A website devoted to deciphering the lyrics (and name) of Steely Dan. Not quite as comprehensive as The">http://arts.ucsc.edu/Gdead/AGDL/">The Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics, but these collaborative efforts improve with time—and participation.
WaPo Reviews WMP11
Rob Pegoraro, The Washington Post's personal technology editor, reviews Microsoft's Windows Media Player 11, which MS claims, possesses an ease of use and simplicity to match iTunes." As if MS would recognize ease of use if it bit them in their text assembler.
The Top 25 X-Men?
Over at IGN.com, Hilary Goldstein and Richard George have compiled a list of the top 25 X-Men characters. Granted, it's a shamelessly blatant tie-in to Friday's release of X-Men III: The Last Stand, but it also points to what I suspect will be that movie's biggest weakness, judging from the trailers I've seen.
Where's Corey?
Erstwhile Stereophile scribe and Audio editor Corey Greenberg has a new mission: To bring back the manly art of wet-shaving with a badger hair brush and a "real" razor. No matter how obscure the subject, Greenberg's always an entertaining read.
Sun Drunk
Bagheera and Huckleberry have pruned the Venetian blinds so they can bask in the late afternoon sun.
Cool Is Cool, Too
After a hard afternoon of sunbathing, relaxing in the dark living room is nice, too.