Field Notes

Best headline of the month: The purloined sirloin. Why Americans love to shoplift meat. – By Brendan I. Koerner – […]

Steve Martin, Tony Trischka, and Bela Fleck together on NPR. For banjo fans, this is like the harmonic convergence: NPR

Thank god for telecom deregulation, eh? YouTube – Stephen Colbert explains the whole AT&T thing!

Pogue pens new words to the Village People tune “YMCA”: Ode to the R.I.A.A.

Can I hear you say RAMEN?

Violet Blue: “the city is filthy with user-friendly Mac ass” – hilarious: How to Seduce a Mac Geek / A

Apparently babies have five distinguishable cries, each with a different meaning. Here’s the decoder: Why is my newborn baby crying?

After telling George Bush to go to hell, Hugo Chavez is doing the same thing to Bill Gates: Technology Review:

Pete Mortensen is right — if Apple’s phone is to succeed, it will be on the strength of its ability

VCs Todd Dagres and David Hornik in a thoughtful debate: Is ‘Web 2.0’ Another Bubble? – WSJ.com