In August, astronomers discovered an <A HREF="http://www.nrao.edu/pr/2007/coldspot/">one billion light-year hole</A> in the Universe. Now, Dr. Laura Mersini-Houghton's team of theoretical physicists and cosmologists posits that it is "unmistakable imprint of another universe beyond the edge of our own."
Have astronomers astronomers accidentally nudged the universe closer to its death by observing dark energy?
According to an article posted by <I>The Financial Times</I> November 20, Kim Bailey, the director general of the UK trade group Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA) is urging the music industry to drop digital rights management (DRM), saying that incompatible proprietary technologies, rather than preventing unlicensed copying, discourage sales of electronic files, "stifling growth and working against the consumer interest."
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) has always been aimed at the electronics industry and the reporters who cover it. Other than a brief experiment with "open" days toward the end of the summer CES held in Chicago in the mid-1990s, the exhibition has never been open to the public.
Easter Island isn't the only place with big heads lying about.
"Sure, this box is snug, but I still fit in it," insists Huckleberry.
No, not those guys, the real thing.
Jon Fine nicely spanks <A HREF="http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/20/opinion/20brooks.html">David Brooks for "putting on his old man hat."</A>
Speaking at the GSMA Mobile Asia Congress in Macau on November 13, Warner Music Group (WMG) chairman and CEO Edgar Bronfman, Jr. warned mobile phone executives to heed the mistakes of the record industry as it moved forward.
As we <A HREF="http://www.stereophile.com/news/012907master/">reported</A> last January, <A HREF="http://www.tapeproject.com">The Tape Project</A>, a collaboration among mastering engineers Paul Stubblebine and Michael Romanowski, both of Paul Stubblebine Mastering, and Dan Schmalle of Bottlehead, plans to release 10 master-quality tapes per year. The Tape Project's inaugural outing, available now, is <I>The Number White</I> by jazz vocalist Jaqui Naylor.