Wes Phillips

<I>Yes, we speak of things that matter,<BR>
With words that must be said,<BR>
"Can analysis be worthwhile?"<BR>
"Is the theater really dead?"</I>

This is a really sweet video from Fast Focus' <I>Lennon Legend</I>. I've always loved Lennon's soulful version of this classic&mdash;what a great slow dance.

You take a 600 Hz tone and adjust the amplitude and phase relationships among three speakers. My buddy Jeff swears he saw this done in Jersey with just two loudspeakers, but I think he was just listening at such high volume that his eyeballs were compressing.

On August 21, Directed Electronics, Inc. announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Polk Audio for $136 million in cash, with the deal to close in Q3 of 2006. Current Polk management will join Directed, and company founder Matthew Polk and Polk president Jim Herd will sit on Directed's home audio advisory board. File this one under the <I>you can't make this stuff up</I> department: Sandy Gross, founder of Directed's <I>other</I> loudspeaker company, Definitive Technology, already sits on the board, which makes Polk's presence there a homecoming of sorts, since Gross was a founding partner at Polk.

Secrets of the orgasm: "As orgasm lasts much longer in women than in men, it is easier to study using PET&mdash;male ejaculation is over so quickly it is hard to get a reliable reading."

You need coolin', baby, I'm not foolin'<BR>
I'm gonna send you back to schoolin'<BR>
Way down inside honey, you need it<BR>
I'm gonna give you my love<BR>
I"m gonna give you my love<BR>
Whoa!

"Put down that mouse and go upstairs and pour some kibble into bowls. Do <I>not</I> stop to watch TV. Do it now!"