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TOSSING THE DULL BALLADS THAT made him beloved, Gill dives into bluegrass, jazz and Southern rock on this four-disc set of originals, showing off guitar chops that seem to have come from nowhere. Meanwhile, his singing, stripped of its usual Nashville production dross, delivers numerous heart-piercing moments...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Best Albums | 12/17/2006 | See Source »

...story in computer games this year was HOW TO BLOW A HUGE LEAD, by Sony. Its PlayStation 2 was the champ in the last round of the console wars. This time Sony bet on a chip called the Cell and a disc format called Blu-ray. They're probably awesome, but how would anybody know? The PS3 is hideously expensive--it goes for up to $600--and Sony manufactured only a piddling few hundred thousand for the U.S., fewer for Japan. Plus it's hard to write games for; the launch titles were lame. You know you're in trouble...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 5 Things That Went From Buzz to Bust | 12/17/2006 | See Source »

...later broadcast information going in and out of the bank. He could also have shut down the security cameras, alarm and telephone systems. The pair got access to the back side of the ATM and a room with boxes of backup customer data. Alsbury was able to drop a disc into an unattended, logged-on computer: a Trojan Horse virus could then download itself and allow him to hack the credit union's system. "There was nothing more we could have done," says Stickley laughing, when the pair returns triumphant to the parking lot. "We owned that place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Small Business: Hackers For Hire | 12/10/2006 | See Source »

...gong, called Kepler, is now broken but produced sound when a hammer hit its metal disc. The third instrument—dubbed Galieo—is a metal sheet that makes a loud, thunderous noise, sometimes irking commuters, when the handle is moved...

Author: By Gabriel J. Daly and Sonam S. Velani, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: T-Riders Ring the Sound of Science | 12/7/2006 | See Source »

...most part, the new disc finds Snoop trying to step his game into the realms of MCs that still matter to the record buying public, which seems to be mostly middle-class white boys. Ironically, only the thugs Snoop contracts for the occasion save the album from being completely awful...

Author: By Scoop A. Wasserstein, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: NEW MUSIC: Snoop Dogg, "Tha Blue Carpet Treatment" | 11/30/2006 | See Source »

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