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...disquisition on the shape of the universe provides a surprising amount of interesting information to those of us who have never taken an astronomy course. And he gives what could have become a tired “is my waking life a dream?” sketch an abnormal punch with his well-written description of his dreamed identity as a butterfly—a dream he describes as so intense and vivid that he was left unsure whether he was a man or an insect upon waking...
Congress' second youngest representative, Harold Ford Jr. (D-Tenn.), spoke to a bemused crowd at the Arco Forum last night, imploring audience members to put a punch back in the political process...
Much has been made of the coincident slide in tech shares and tech earnings, a brutal one-two punch that has left some stocks down 80%--but no less expensive than during the bubble. How can that be? Stocks are most often valued relative to future earnings. If earnings prospects fall faster than a stock's price, the stock gets more expensive no matter how low it goes...
...barely has time to recover before the Frenchman delivers the second half of his one-two punch with “Naive Song.” Upbeat and uplifting, the track creates a brand new world of escapist fantasies. Mirwais’ voice, delivering banal yet somehow appropriate lyrics, is filtered through a vocoder to encapsulate an otherworldly effect. Sounding at times like the soundtrack to a car commercial, “Naive Song” nevertheless manages to successfully fuse electronic sensibilities with a more conventional pop motif. Unfortunately, it’s all downhill from here, and though...
...restrictions, especially since a San Francisco court recently declared the auction service could not be held responsible for pirated or bootlegged music sold on its site (Napster should be so lucky). Its name has entered the global lexicon: "I bet you'll find that on eBay" has become the punch line to a thousand jokes. For the media, eBay is a bottomless treasure trove of news items - from the boy who tried to sell his soul, to the convicted killer who capitalized on his rapidly evaporating minutes of fame by trading in his hair follicles and calluses. You could argue...