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...Ames of Daniel Boone, demonstrating a tomahawk throw, landed his ax squarely in the crotch of a paper target. Carson's greatness was reflected not just in the zinger he came up with--"I didn't even know you were Jewish!"--but in what came before. Watch the playback: he lets the laughter crescendo--five seconds, 10. He knows he has the joke. He knows it will kill. But you cannot have it yet. For a moment, he is keeping it for himself, like a diamond stowed in his breast pocket...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Great Telecommunicator: JOHNNY CARSON (1925-2005) | 1/30/2005 | See Source »

...work currently up at the MIT’s List Visual Art Center, is a black chandelier hanging from the ceiling that blinks poetry in Morse code while the same poetry is simultaneously displayed on an LCD screen hanging on a nearby wall. Another piece is a looped playback of a recording (found by Evans in the MIT Museum archives) of a man engraving students’ names on their slide rules, and yet another is the original 1960s console from MIT’s first student radio station...

Author: By Julian M. Rose, THE ANGEL OF POST-MODERNISM | Title: Contextual Play in MIT Show | 12/3/2004 | See Source »

...show tunes from the Mamma Mia! original-cast recording. It remembers which songs I play five times in a row and which ones I skip altogether. The Bose Lifestyle 48?available in Britain next month for $7,094?understands all this because it comes with uMusic, an "intelligent playback system" that stores hundreds of CDs on a hard drive and can learn its owner's musical tastes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Stereo with a Brain | 9/20/2004 | See Source »

...show tunes from the Mamma Mia! original-cast recording. It remembers which songs I play five times in a row and which ones I skip altogether. The Bose Lifestyle 48 - available in Britain next month for $7,094 - understands all this because it comes with uMusic, an "intelligent playback system" that stores hundreds of CDs on a hard drive and can learn its owner's musical tastes. The Lifestyle system is aimed at an affluent crowd of music lovers who don't want to bother with computer-based music jukeboxes like iTunes or RealPlayer. It makes sense, since a home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Stereo with a Brain | 9/16/2004 | See Source »

...tunes from the Mamma Mia! original-cast recording. It remembers which songs I play five times in a row and which ones I skip altogether. Called the Bose Lifestyle 48 and available this week for $3,999, the stereo understands all this because it comes with uMusic, an "intelligent playback system" that stores hundreds of CDs on a hard drive and can learn its owner's musical tastes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tech: A Stereo with a Brain | 8/23/2004 | See Source »

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