Wes Phillips

My friend Jeff gave me a copy of the new CD remaster of this David Byrne/Brian Eno disc—and it's great. Now Byrne and Eno, "in keeping with the original spirit of the album," offer listeners access to the original multitrack recordings and a chance to remix them through a Creative Commons license. They also offer a chance for the remixes to be posted in a daily Top 20, as chosen by the site moderators.

I'm going to be on the road for the rest of the week, so blogging will be even more irregular than usual. I'll be visiting NHT's facility in Benecia, CA—so check the Stereophile Galleries for some instant gratification—and I will be putting up new links, just not as early.

In other words, yawns are contagious.

Through the courtesy of Fred's two feet—and the Kaavya Viswanathan kerfluffle. Or something.

My wife insisted that I post this, "the best exam answer ever." Not that it did the guy any good.

A tribe living on Brazil's Maici River has only three pronouns, no words for colors, no use for numbers, and not much of a past tense. But its language is generating debates among linguists like you wouldn't believe.

You're thinking television, right? Nope, it's the shipping container.