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How do you "wheeze" in Spanish? You don't.

Now that Radiohead have fullfilled thier contract with EMI, the band will let you set the price for their next album: "Instead of listing a price for the music, the group's website simply states "it's up to you" - and then adds: "No really, it's up to you" (BBC News). Could consumers be allowed more choice in how much they pay for products? Would the liberty to choose how much one wants to...

better than The Matrix, better than V for Vendetta: Equilibrium. Watch it.

Currently reading David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas. As I'm beginning the third section, I am almost certain I like it more than Number9Dream, which I also liked very much. CA isn't unlike Calvino's If Upon A Winter's Night A Traveler in that a whole story presents itself as asides of other fuller stories just as Calvino makes a novel out of other novels' beginnings. In CA the first section is a...

Went to Bumbershoot this weekend-Seattle's yearly music & arts festival, and the hippies were ripe, the hipsters all-too-pretty, Andrew Bird sang and played well, and the films were fantastic....

John Ashberry is now on the MTV payroll. Add to his many accolades (Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, National Book Critics Circle Award, a MacArthur Fellowship and The Yale Younger Poets Prize, the Guggenheim), the title of mtvU Poet Laureate. This isn't the first time Ashberry holds this title, but this is the first time the MTV networks names itself one of these. Had the network...

Roy F. Baumeister, a social psychologist at Florida State University, looks at the motivational differences between men and women throughout history and discovers that "The Man" has historically been made up of about twice as many women....