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...from the screen and connected it to my laptop's DVD player. (This required adapter cables that cost about $50.) To round out my ad hoc system, I plugged into my laptop the portable PC speakers and subwoofer ($25 from Logitech) I use with my desktop computer and - voilà! - home theater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Projecting a Better Image | 10/15/2009 | See Source »

...their arrangement of the English ballad "Stewball" for yet another hit single. But Seeger said he was pleased by PP&M's version of "Where Have All the Flowers Gone," which he had adapted from a Cossack lyric (and to which folk singer Joe Hickerson added the final verses). Voilà! One more antiwar ballad to insinuate its thesis into the minds of the vast AM-radio audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Folk's Beloved Princess: Mary Travers Dies at 72 | 9/17/2009 | See Source »

...holes in player-piano music to make new melodies, or, at 13, disconnecting a console-radio speaker and attaching a phonograph pickup. He bought his first Gibson guitar, an L-5 acoustic, which he promptly electrified. In local performances, he wired his guitar to radios stage right and left - voilà, stereo! "If you can be an engineer and a musician," he told David John Farinella for a biographical sketch in the 1999 Encyclopedia of Record Producers, "that's very complementary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Death of the Guitar Man: Les Paul (1915-2009) | 8/13/2009 | See Source »

...make enormous advances in national energy efficiency - and controlling carbon emissions - simply by improving the grid, before we even begin to clean up our energy sources. The key is to add 21st century speed and intelligence (i.e., the Internet) to the 20th century infrastructure of the power grid - voilà, a "smart grid." The result would be a system that allows power utilities to remotely detect and respond to outages; that lets consumers program their appliances to use electricity when it's most abundant, allowing power companies to reduce waste; and through which new sources of alternative power could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miami's Smart Grid: A Blueprint for the Power Future | 4/22/2009 | See Source »

...York people" had a system whereby they placed a series of instant trades - at once with futures, currencies and stocks - and out of this magic recipe fell a tiny 1% guaranteed, no-risk profit for the group. You do that 20 times a year, take away management fees and, voilà, a steady 15% return. Man, these guys were good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How I Got Screwed by Bernie Madoff | 12/15/2008 | See Source »

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