Wes Phillips

On Christmas day, my friend, the <I>Nuyorican</I> goddess Liz Ramirez-Weaver saw me looking at Junot Diaz's <I>The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao</I>. "It's good," she said. "You should borrow it."

<I>Technology Review</I>, which is one of the magazines I not only eagerly await, but read from cover to cover, published <A HERF="http://www.technologyreview.com/printer_friendly_article.aspx?id=19845"… 14 page screed against network news</A> by John Hockenberry in the January/February issue.

<I>The Economist</I> has an uncredited article about <A HREF="http://www.economist.com/world/europe/PrinterFriendly.cfm?story_id=1027… charts</A>. They're all familiar to readers of Edward Tufte's <I>The Visual Display of Quantative Information</I>, but they <I>are</I> great charts.

When we awoke on December 30, we found our in-boxes full of emails linking to <I>The Washington Post</I>'s <A HREF="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/28/AR20071… Uproar: Record Industry Goes After Personal Use"</A>, which reported that the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) were charging that Jeffrey and Pamela Howell's transfer of 2000 legally purchased recordings to his computer as MP3 files represented "unauthorized copies" of copyrighted recordings.

On December 27, Amazon.com and Warner Music Group announced that WMG's entire 2.9 million-song catalog would be available on Amazon's DRM-free, à la carte MP3 store—the first time the entire Warner catalog has been available online and the first time it has been offered sans DRM.

For a cat who only drinks water, Huckleberry certainly does a passable imitation of a drunken stupor.

It occurs to me that in the three years I've been posting Friday cat blogging, I have never photographed Bagheera asleep. That wary look of hers is as close to complacent as she gets.