string can phone

Whilst perusing our scrapbook, we came across this photo of a highly stylized M5 assault weapon as related by Mr Bruce Sterling via Mr Wm. Gibson (who obtained it we know not where). We must assume that its ammunition is equally elegant. Remember when being shot by one of these to grasp your chest and tumble from a balcony.

An aquaintence of ours recently retired from the electronics repair business has approximately 2,500 vacuum tubes stored in his garage. We suspect that he will no doubt be investing heavily in Goldster Audio, which has recently debuted its Concertina tube-based amplifier and speaker set. Ah, the warm cathode glow and ozone aroma of toasted glass! The perfect accompanyment to your colorless, oderless iPod.

Some interesting documents from the dawn of home digital history, “scans” of the Homebrew Computer Club Newsletters.

Brought to our attention by those fine, ever-vigilant gentlemen and -ladies (well, only one) at BoingBoing.

When presented with a wholly new medium to experiment with–in this case, the wonderful miniscule phonograph player known as an iPod–what better than to thrust the most ancient form of the medium upon it? The fine folks at WFMU have long made available dusty cylinder and disk recordings over the air with The Antique Phonograph Music Program and Thomas Edison’s Attic. Now that the WFMU cadre have expanded into the realm of so-called “ipodding”, you can pull these very rare recordings down to your very own microphonograph–er, iPod–and enjoy them at your whim.