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I heard a great interview early this morning on NPR’s Weekend Edition Sunday. NPR’s Liane Hansen interviewed Charlie Hunter, a jazz musician who plays an instrument unlike any I’ve ever heard of before, a modified eight-string guitar. I’m given to understand an eight-string guitar is usually nothing more than a regular guitar with a slightly [...]

Every once in a while I hear a story on NPR that simply fascinates me. Yesterday it was a story on All Things Considered about a previously undiscovered portrait by Van Gogh. This new painting was not “discovered” in the sense that it was found in the basement of some old museum. Rather, it was [...]

I’ve been using LibraryThing to catalog my books since September 2005. All Things Considered on NPR recently featured LibraryThing in a story called “Web Sites Let Bibliophiles Share Books Virtually” (listen).
I especially love the intro to this story:
You know that you’re a bibliophile if you check out peoples’ bookshelves when you visit their homes, if [...]

One of my favorite music groups, The Weepies (who I’ve blogged about before), is auctioning a ’63 Fender Vibroverb Reissue amplifier[1] they used to record their Say I Am You album and on the road during the subsequent North American concert tour. The cool thing is the proceeds from the auction will go to Free [...]

I hear a lot of interesting stories on NPR, so I’m going to start highlighting a few of them from time to time on my blog. Tonight I heard a couple great stories on All Things Considered that I’d like to share.
The first story is about a bizarre problem that’s killing commercial bees all [...]

This seems really serious at first, but wait for it—it’s hilarious.

(Hat tip: See Life Differently)

It’s been long enough that I’ve forgotten how fun it is to upgrade my browser. Sure, we’ve had the security updates, but there’ve really been no new features for almost a year.
Mozilla Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 changes all that with a slew of new bells and whistles, including a super-simple “Clear Private Data” dialog, better [...]

Microsoft has announced the official name of the Longhorn code-name project: Windows Vista.
One of the more exciting announcements (imho) is that six new fonts will ship with the OS. Assuming Vista gains widespread market-share, these will be the first new fonts in a long time to be acceptable for use on the web.
You can already [...]

I laughed out loud a few times while reading this:
* The Fox Is in Microsoft’s Henhouse (and Salivating)
If you don’t want to register with NYT, you can read the full article on “c|net News.com”:http://news.com.com/The+fox+is+in+Microsofts+henhouse+and+salivating/2100-1032_3-5497057.html.