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Tweeter Tip

Carefully tape a little mirror flat over each tweeter and turn the speakers so you can see yourself in each mirror equally well when you stare at it. This gets the tweeters "looking" at your ears correctly. (Then remove the mirrors!) The standard is to have the speakers at a 60-degree subtended angle, 30 degrees to each side of the listening position.

Chris Stamey
Fixing It Before the Mix (part two)
Tape Op magazine, #64, p30

Faceboogle

As we each carve out our individual niche on the Web, the logic of search may well flip inside out. Since we are essentially meta-tagging ourselves through our social networking memberships, shopping habits and surfing addictions, it's conceivable that the information could attempt to find us — the old concept of push media, but in a far more refined way.

Glenn Derene
Popular Mechanics Online

Down Under

Q: What's the one piece of tech or software that you can't be without?
REAS: It's easier for me to think of technologies I would like to live without. I would prefer my personal world to be free of telephones and calendar software, but I can't function within other people's expectations without them.

Interview with Casey Reas
Creativity, March 24, 2008