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It has been suggested that Alex, one of the cats in residence here, is fat. There is perhaps some truth to this. However, this video clip at CNN.com puts things in perspective. Relative to the cat documented in this video, Alex is svelt. Admittedly, though, he’s probably just as spoiled.

There’s a follow-up article here at the NY Times site which discusses some of the reactions to the studies previously mentioned here which suggest that low-fat diets and calcium supplements do not have the health benefits that they were previously thought to have. It’s an interesting read in part because it illustrates how difficult it [...]

Boulder received its first real snowfall of this winter. We got about four inches night before last, and maybe a little less than an inch since then. It’s been cold, too: below 10 degrees F since 6:00PM yesterday,and below 5 since about 9:00AM today. As luck would have it I had to drive into town [...]

The same folks who recently published the study about the effects of low-fat diets (or lack thereof) just came out with another doozy. This one says that there’s no evidence that taking calcium supplements helps prevent either colorectal cancer or bone fractures in women. Even worse, it leads to an increase in kidney stones. The [...]

Okay, so the new version of Logic, Apple’s flagship $999 music recording package, shipped recently. It’s a little odd that it shipped so quickly after NAMM, since Apple was showing a pre-release version at that show. Kinda makes one wonder about how much testing it received, no?
The most significant thing about this release is that [...]

We (Audio Damage) are pleased to announce BigSeq, our latest plug-in for VST and AU. It’s a combination of step sequencers, gates, and filters, and is a tremendous amount of fun creating all sorts of rhythmic effects. It’s also possible that it’s the first commercially available new Universal Binary audio plug-in. (We’re not sure of [...]

Let’s take a look at some headlines:
White House Knew of Levee’s Failure on Night of Storm
Ex-Cheney Aide Testified Leak Was Ordered, Prosecutor Says [in reference to the leak of the intelligence agent's identity]
Ex-CIA official: Bush administration misused Iraq intelligence
Now, as far as I’m concerned, if Clinton was dragged into impeachment hearings for fooling around with [...]

Tracie just added several dozen photos to the gallery. Yes, new pictures of The Most Photographed Animals in North America await your viewing. There are also pictures from Christmas and a few shots of colorful trees from last fall (yes, last fall–okay, these pictures are a little overdue for posting, but it was a busy [...]

I have been known to grumble about various practices that are commonly believed to improve one’s heath on the grounds that, even within the relatively brief span of my lifetime, many of these practices have been demonstrated to be either of negligible effect or actually harmful. (Taking Vitamin C in large doses for colds, taking [...]

It seems that someone took a video (on Betamax!) of the first introductory presentation of the Macintosh by Steve Jobs. That was back in January of 1984, as you will recall unless you’re not enough of a computer geek to have that date etched in your brain. Someone recently found that tape, digitized it, and [...]