Want a quick retreat without leaving home or office, and without the use of drugs? Check out these soundscapes from Denmark. My favorites are “camping” and “beach camping” – you can almost smell the scenes. You can also loop them for continuous soundscapage.

Leonard Nimoy says he is retired from Spock, whom he last played in 1991. Nimoy is 71 – was anyone expecting Star Trek: Intergalactic Social Security? the Star Trek icon is “through with acting” after a 51-year career in film, TV and Mr. Spockdom. ….In lieu of on-camera gigs, Nimoy, …

It is difficult not to notice the irony of two jurors suing for $6 billion worth of slander, slander associated with the award of exorbitant sums in civil suits. Poetic justice, that: A pair of Mississippi jurors have filed a $6 billion lawsuit against CBS’ “60 Minutes,” alleging that its …

Since we have a new house that doesn’t suck and drain the spirit from us all, and since it sits up on a hill overlooking a fairly busy road, and we’ve already had a couple of parties for which to prepare, we have decorated pretty profusely (for us) for the …

Norah Vincent has about as clear and succinct an answer to a very troubling worldview as one could wish for: The war on terror is a ploy. It’s not real. It’s not necessary. It’s just a horror show meant to keep us all cowed and passive while the government has …

Who is Tim O’Reilly? Tim O’Reilly is the founder and CEO of O’Reilly & Associates, thought by many to be the best computer book publisher in the world. O’Reilly also publishes online through the O’Reilly Network (www.oreillynet.com) and hosts conferences on technology topics. Tim is an activist for open source …

Six months ago I barely knew a copyright from a patent; and not that I am an expert by any means now, but I at least have a basic conception of the issues, the players, the process, and what is at stake. The system as it stands right now is …

Consumers are scouring for bargains on the Internet, spending less per order than last year. Isn’t that what the Internet is for? Internet cheapskates are out in force this holiday season. They may be spending less on each order than they did last year, but together they’re coughing up more …

Prognosticators predict a new round of mergers and acquisitions for media and entertainment companies in 2003: It looks as if 2003 is shaping up to be a year of the deal for media and entertainment after months of calm on the merger front and much effort and ink spent dissecting …

Nashville’s United Record Pressing says “Vinyl Rules,” which may be true on some level but the bottom line is that vinyl isn’t very durable: not nearly as durable as CDs or DVDs or any other digital content delivery system because the process of playing vinyl is mechanical. Every time the …