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Jim Tolpin's Table Saw Magic, Second Edition
ISBN: 1558706771 ASIN: 1558706771
Author: Jim Tolpin
Publisher: Popular Woodworking Books 01 December, 2003
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Jim Tolpin's Woodworking Wit & Wisdom: Thirty Years of Lessons from the Trade
ISBN: 1558707190 ASIN: 1558707190
Author: Jim Tolpin
Publisher: Popular Woodworking Books 01 August, 2004
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Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth
ISBN: 0375404538 ASIN: 0375404538
Author: Chris Ware
Publisher: Pantheon 12 September, 2000
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Joan Wulff's Dynamics of Fly Casting: From Solid Basics to Advanced Techniques
ISBN: ASIN: B00006484L
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Publisher: 01 October, 2001
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Joan Wulff's Fly-Casting Accuracy
ISBN: 1558214658 ASIN: 1558214658
Author: Joan Wulff
Publisher: The Lyons Press 01 October, 1997
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Job (Anchor Bible, Vol 15)
ISBN: 0385008945 ASIN: 0385008945
Author: M. H. Pope
Publisher: Anchor Bible 19 February, 1965
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Job Feedback: Giving, Seeking, and Using Feedback for Performance Improvement
ISBN: 0805844953 ASIN: 0805844953
Author: Manuel London
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates 01 July, 2003
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Job Search Tools: Resumes, Applications, and Cover Letters
ISBN: 1563707020 ASIN: 1563707020
Author: Ronald C. Mendlin
Publisher: Jist Works 01 June, 2000
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Joe Satriani - Guitar Secrets
ISBN: 0895247380 ASIN: 0895247380
Author: Joe Satriani
Publisher: Cherry Lane Music 01 February, 1993
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Joe Taylor's Complete Guide to Breeding and Raising Racehorses
ISBN: 0929346610 ASIN: 0929346610
Author: Joseph Lannon Taylor
Publisher: Russell Meerdink Company 01 January, 1999
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Joe Weider's Ultimate Bodybuilding
ISBN: 0809247151 ASIN: 0809247151
Author: Joe Weider
Publisher: McGraw-Hill 01 September, 1989
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Joel on Software: And on Diverse and Occasionally Related Matters That Will Prove of Interest to Software Developers, Designers, and Managers, and to Those Who, Whether by Good Fortune or Ill Luck, Work with Them in Some Capacity
ISBN: 1590593898 ASIN: 1590593898
Author: Joel Spolsky
Publisher: Apress 02 August, 2004
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Joel Sternfeld: American Prospects
ISBN: 1891024779 ASIN: 1891024779
Author: Joel Sternfeld
Publisher: .A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc. November, 2003
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Joey and Jet : Book 1 of Their Adventures (Richard Jackson Books (Atheneum Hardcover))
ISBN: 0689869266 ASIN: 0689869266
Author: James Yang
Publisher: Atheneum/Richard Jackson Books 01 September, 2004
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Jog Frog Jog: Level 1 (Start to Read! Library Edition Series)
ISBN: 0887434045 ASIN: 0887434045
Author: Barbara Gregorich
Publisher: School Zone Publishing Company 01 June, 1992
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John Adams
ISBN: 0743223136 ASIN: 0743223136
Author: David McCullough
Publisher: Simon & Schuster 03 September, 2002
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John Adams: The American Presidents Series
ISBN: 0805069372 ASIN: 0805069372
Author: John Patrick Diggins
Publisher: Times Books 11 June, 2003
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John Colter: His Years in the Rockies
ISBN: 0803272642 ASIN: 0803272642
Author: Burton Harris
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press 01 April, 1993
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John Howland of the Mayflower Volume 1
ISBN: 0929539311 ASIN: 0929539311
Author: Elizabeth Pearson White
Publisher: Picton Press 01 January, 1999
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John Le Carre's A Murder of Quality
ISBN: ASIN: B00061QJ8A
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Publisher: A & E Home Video 28 December, 2004
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John Lee Hooker - Come and See About Me: The Definitive DVD
ISBN: ASIN: B0001XAMH2
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Publisher: Red Distribution, In 01 June, 2004
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John McCain : An American Odyssey
ISBN: 068486794X ASIN: 068486794X
Author: Robert Timberg
Publisher: Fireside 17 August, 1999
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John Neff on Investing
ISBN: 0471417920 ASIN: 0471417920
Author: John Neff
Publisher: Wiley 30 March, 2001
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John P. Kotter on What Leaders Really Do (Harvard Business Review Book)
ISBN: 0875848974 ASIN: 0875848974
Author: John P. Kotter
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press 01 April, 1999
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John Quincy Adams: (The American Presidents Series)
ISBN: 0805069399 ASIN: 0805069399
Author: Robert V. Remini
Publisher: Times Books 20 August, 2002
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How English Is Evolving Into a Language We May Not Even Understand

The targeted offenses: if you are stolen, call the police at once. please omnivorously put the waste in garbage can. deformed man lavatory. For the past 18 months, teams of language police have been scouring Beijing on a mission to wipe out all such traces of bad English signage before the Olympics come to town in August. They're the type of goofy transgressions that we in the English homelands love to poke fun at, devoting entire Web sites to so-called Chinglish. (By the way, that last phrase means "handicapped bathroom.") But what if these sentences aren't really bad English? What if they are evidence that the English language is happily leading an alternative lifestyle without us? Thanks to globalization, the Allied victories in World War II, and American leadership in science and technology, English has become so successful across the world that it's escaping the boundaries of what we think it should be. In part, this is because there are fewer of us: By 2020, native speakers will make up only 15 percent of the estimated 2 billion people who will be using or learning the language. Already, most conversations in English are between nonnative speakers who use it as a lingua franca. In China, this sort of free-form adoption of English is helped along by a shortage of native English-speaking teachers, who are hard to keep happy in rural areas for long stretches of time. An estimated 300 million Chinese — roughly equivalent to the total US population — read and write English but don't get enough quality spoken practice. The likely consequence of all this? In the future, more and more spoken English will sound increasingly like Chinese. It's not merely that English will be salted with Chinese vocabulary for local cuisine, bon mots, and curses or that speakers will peel off words from local dialects. The Chinese and other Asians already pronounce English differently — in both subtle and not-so-subtle ways. For example, in various parts of the region they tend not to turn vowels in unstressed syllables into neutral vowels. Instead of "har-muh-nee," it's "har-moh-nee." And the sounds that begin words like this and thing are often enunciated as the letters f, v, t, or d. In Singaporean English (known as Singlish), think is pronounced "tink," and theories is "tee-oh-rees." English will become more like Chinese in other ways, too. Some grammatical appendages unique to English (such as adding do or did to questions) will drop away, and our practice of not turning certain nouns into plurals will be ignored. Expect to be asked: "How many informations can your flash drive hold?" In Mandarin, Cantonese, and other tongues, sentences don't require subjects, which leads to phrases like this: "Our goalie not here yet, so give chance, can or not?" One noted feature of Singlish is the use of words like ah, lah, or wah at the end of a sentence to indicate a question or get a listener to agree with you. They're each pronounced with tone — the linguistic feature that gives spoken Mandarin its musical quality — adding a specific pitch to words to alter their meaning. (If you say "xin" with an even tone, it means "heart"; with a descending tone it means "honest.") According to linguists, such words may introduce tone into other Asian-English hybrids. Given the number of people involved, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinglish">Chinglish</a> is destined to take on a life of its own. Advertisers will play with it, as they already do in Taiwan. It will be celebrated as a form of cultural identity, as the Hong Kong Museum of Art did in a Chinglish exhibition last year. It will be used widely online and in movies, music, games, and books, as it is in Singapore. Someday, it may even be taught in schools. Ultimately, it's not that speakers will slide along a continuum, with "proper" language at one end and local English dialects on the other, as in countries where creoles are spoken. Nor will <a href="http://chinglish.com/community/show/Chinglish+Dictionary">Chinglish</a> replace native languages, as creoles sometimes do. It's that Chinglish will be just as proper as any other English on the planet. And it's possible Chinglish will be more efficient than our version, doing away with word endings and the articles a, an, and the. After all, if you can figure out "Environmental sanitation needs your conserve," maybe conservation isn't so necessary. Any language is constantly evolving, so it's not surprising that English, transplanted to new soil, is bearing unusual fruit. Nor is it unique that a language, spread so far from its homelands, would begin to fracture. The obvious comparison is to Latin, which broke into mutually distinct languages over hundreds of years — French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian. A less familiar example is Arabic: The speakers of its myriad dialects are connected through the written language of the Koran and, more recently, through the homogenized Arabic of Al Jazeera. But what's happening to English may be its own thing: It's mingling with so many more local languages than Latin ever did, that it's on a path toward a global tongue — what's coming to be known as Panglish. Soon, when Americans travel abroad, one of the languages they'll have to learn may be their own. Michael Erard (<a href="mailto:author@umthebook.com">author@umthebook.com</a>) wrote about the spread of the Chinese language in issue 14.04. <img alt="" style="border: 0; height:1px; width:1px;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?i=0a8089f53a0c0cfb9289d5f1811855c9" height="1" width="1"/> <img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=0a8089f53a0c0cfb9289d5f1811855c9" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/> <a href="http://feeds.wired.com/~a/wired/culture?a=gr127F"><img src="http://feeds.wired.com/~a/wired/culture?i=gr127F" border="0"></img></a><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/culture?a=MxMUMJ"><img src="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/culture?i=MxMUMJ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/culture?a=NWsRPj"><img src="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/culture?i=NWsRPj" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/culture?a=EdMskj"><img src="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/culture?i=EdMskj" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/culture?a=84cXxJ"><img src="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/culture?i=84cXxJ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/culture/~4/327132206" height="1" width="1"/>

Sex Drive: How to Keep the Fireworks Going From Afar

Many long-distance lovers have become experts in how tech can augment sexuality. No commuter couple should go without Skype, Twitter and mobile phones, while sex toys can take the repetitive stress injury out of a long-distance affair. But it's not much of a stretch to think that there's a bigger need (read: market) for "tele-amore" devices than there ever will be for <a href="http://www.wired.com/culture/lifestyle/commentary/sexdrive/2004/09/65064">teledildonics</a> (online sex toys controlled by a lover from anywhere in the world). And yet we don't have a lot of options when we're looking for devices designed to arouse our emotions. Not everyone is comfortable enough with both sex and computers to get internet-enabled vibrators working, but we all want to interact with our partners in special ways. Despite the frenzy around social media applications, we still don't have sensual devices that extend that functionality beyond virtual space. All it would take is something like the <a href="http://www.ambientdevices.com/cat/orb/orborder.html">Ambient Orb</a> hooked up to a desktop dot to get my heart racing. Joseph Kaye, a Ph.D. candidate at Cornell University studying human-computer interaction, developed the <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/intimateobj/">Virtual Intimate Object</a>, or VIO, to study the effect of low-bandwidth applications on long-distance intimacy. The VIO is a dot that sits in your system tray (Windows) or desktop (Mac) and monitors an identical dot on your partner's computer. When your partner clicks his or her dot, yours fills with color; as time goes by without a click, the color slowly fades until the circle is just an outline. In Kaye's 2004 <a href="http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~jofish/writing/alt-chi-i-just-clicked-to-say-i-love-you.pdf">study</a> (.pdf), five long-distance couples kept journals of how often they clicked the VIO and how using it made them feel. He notes that while he originally thought of the VIO as the source of intimacy, he realized that the journals quickly became an integral part of the experience for the couples. Just as dancing leads to necking which leads to spanking and then to the oral sex, what was enough on day one was merely adequate by day five of the study. By week's end, participants had several suggestions for additional functionality: a choice of colors, the option to play a sound, and the ability to replace the circle with their own set of graphics. They had become emotionally engaged not just with their partners, but with the application. If you can get all that from a 2-D dot, think what you could do with an object you can touch. Unfortunately, the closest thing I can find to that type of technology for consumers is the <a href="http://www.nabaztag.com/">Nabaztag rabbit</a>, a wireless device that connects with other Nabaztag rabbits over the internet. From a strictly romantic standpoint, they one-up the <a href="http://www.chumby.com">Chumby</a> and the <a href="http://www.tuxisalive.com/">Tux Droid</a> in that the rabbits can "marry" each other, so that when one partner moves their rabbit's ears, the paired rabbit's ears move the same way. Chat acronyms, make way for the semaphore signs of love. The Nabaztags are excruciatingly cute. I've wanted a set for years, but they weren't specifically designed for suitors. (Nor are they the seamless technical experience they claim to be, apparently: The <a href="http://www.nabaztalk.com/forum/">Nabaztalk user forums</a> provide a sobering counterpoint to the Nabaztags' slick product marketing.) The human-computer interaction folks at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology seem to understand the connection between technology and emotion, but their clever projects -- like the <a href="http://web.media.mit.edu/~jackylee/cups.htm">Lover's Cups</a> that light up when a far-away partner takes a sip or the <a href="http://www.distancelab.org/projects/mutsugoto/">Mutsugoto</a> interactive art bed -- have yet to break free of academia and museums. Gadgets like teledildonics and sex machines that stimulate the body but shouldn't be used at work or in public only go so far. Sex tech doesn't have to be explicit to be effective: If you and your distant partner have been together long enough, you realize that tech that fosters intimacy, playfulness and common experiences has a much greater impact on the quality of your union than just having orgasms now and then. I want to glance at the shelf and see an object glowing warmly because someone special sent me a message. I want to let someone know I'm thinking about him, simply by stroking my fingers over a smooth surface. I know I'm not the only one who wants to interact through something sensual and swoopy and erotic that has no connection to business, chores or taxes. I want my ambient intimacy object. Are you listening, developers? There's a mountain of money to be made keeping long-distance lovers connected in our increasingly complicated world. See you in a fortnight, Regina Lynn - - - Regina Lynn is the author of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1580052312?ie=UTF8&tag=reginalynnonl-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=1580052312">Sexier Sex: Lessons From the Brave New Sexual Frontier</a>. She blogs at <a href="http://www.reginalynn.com">reginalynn.com</a>. <img alt="" style="border: 0; height:1px; width:1px;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?i=a128e8ffead16bebcb7b4945042d0a76" height="1" width="1"/> <img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=a128e8ffead16bebcb7b4945042d0a76" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/> <a href="http://feeds.wired.com/~a/wired/culture?a=FiH26g"><img src="http://feeds.wired.com/~a/wired/culture?i=FiH26g" border="0"></img></a><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/culture?a=JNHg7J"><img src="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/culture?i=JNHg7J" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/culture?a=CiK48j"><img src="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/culture?i=CiK48j" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/culture?a=qGVrRj"><img src="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/culture?i=qGVrRj" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/culture?a=kpgmsJ"><img src="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/culture?i=kpgmsJ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/culture/~4/326353056" height="1" width="1"/>

Stage a Fireworks Show Safely

Lighter in one hand and crazy look in another? It must be July 4th and it is time to honor our forefathers and delight your neighbors by blowing stuff up with fireworks. Our fireworks tips will ensure your fireworks show is the best and safest one yet. <img alt="" style="border: 0; height:1px; width:1px;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?i=e42bf41f3bcda58fe13b37a14c1c9650" height="1" width="1"/> <img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=e42bf41f3bcda58fe13b37a14c1c9650" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/> <a href="http://feeds.wired.com/~a/wired/culture?a=DlLnP0"><img src="http://feeds.wired.com/~a/wired/culture?i=DlLnP0" border="0"></img></a><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/culture?a=MuOlCJ"><img src="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/culture?i=MuOlCJ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/culture?a=jleSGj"><img src="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/culture?i=jleSGj" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/culture?a=Dpzqfj"><img src="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/culture?i=Dpzqfj" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/culture?a=zckEHJ"><img src="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/culture?i=zckEHJ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/culture/~4/326128018" height="1" width="1"/>

Fireworks: Coming Soon to a Screen Near You

The great outdoors is overrated. Explosive Fourth of July imagery is coming your way, couch potatoes, thanks to your TV or computer. <a href="http://www.pheedo.com/click.phdo?s=3c083f47bbca9bb25334032b608f8d20"><img alt="" style="border: 0;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?s=3c083f47bbca9bb25334032b608f8d20"/></a> <img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=3c083f47bbca9bb25334032b608f8d20" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/> <a href="http://feeds.wired.com/~a/wired/culture?a=xYR3bG"><img src="http://feeds.wired.com/~a/wired/culture?i=xYR3bG" border="0"></img></a><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/culture?a=KENHyJ"><img src="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/culture?i=KENHyJ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/culture?a=yxSpuj"><img src="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/culture?i=yxSpuj" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/culture?a=4o70Vj"><img src="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/culture?i=4o70Vj" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/culture?a=q0mAKJ"><img src="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/culture?i=q0mAKJ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/culture/~4/326128019" height="1" width="1"/>

Resistance to Broadband Runs Deep in US: Study

Only 14% of Americans say they are still using dial-up connections to the internet because they have no choice -- 35% say it's too expensive and a hard core 19% nothing would persuade them to upgrade. The findings from the Pew Internet and American Life Project challenge the notion that the slowish spread of high-speed connections is because supply isn't meeting demand. <img alt="" style="border: 0; height:1px; width:1px;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?i=265e9ca91f689aaae424b8efb6387e27" height="1" width="1"/> <img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=265e9ca91f689aaae424b8efb6387e27" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/> <a href="http://feeds.wired.com/~a/wired/culture?a=HClMLe"><img src="http://feeds.wired.com/~a/wired/culture?i=HClMLe" border="0"></img></a><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/culture?a=EVEhcJ"><img src="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/culture?i=EVEhcJ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/culture?a=PYxCwj"><img src="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/culture?i=PYxCwj" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/culture?a=ZySN3j"><img src="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/culture?i=ZySN3j" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/culture?a=oxqTjJ"><img src="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/culture?i=oxqTjJ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/culture/~4/325835758" height="1" width="1"/>

Reviews: Indian Jewelry's <cite>Free Gold!</cite>, <cite>Physics for Future Presidents</cite>

<img src='http://www.wired.com/images/article/magazine/1607/pl_reviews1_t.jpg'></img>: Indian Jewelry Free Gold! The Houston-based electronic noise band's second album has a few gems — but nothing priceless. <img src="http://www.wired.com/images/global/ratings/circles6.gif" alt="" > <img src='http://www.wired.com/images/article/magazine/1607/pl_reviews2_t.jpg'></img>: Pas/Cal I Was Raised on Matthew, Mark, Luke & Laura We were raised on witty, bouncy Belle & Sebastian-y pop — like this Detroit band's debut LP. One extra point for having a song with whistling in it. <img src="http://www.wired.com/images/global/ratings/circles8.gif" alt="" > <img src='http://www.wired.com/images/article/magazine/1607/pl_reviews3_t.jpg'></img>: Icy Demons Miami Ice We expected Don Johnson doing a triple sow-cow. Instead, it's a damn fine Chicago art-rock collective's second album. <img src="http://www.wired.com/images/global/ratings/circles7.gif" alt="" > <img src='http://www.wired.com/images/article/magazine/1607/pl_reviews4_t.jpg'></img>: Dr. Dog Fate This Philly quintet's got a PhD in '60s psychedelic rock (which may explain why Lou Reed loves 'em.) <img src="http://www.wired.com/images/global/ratings/circles9.gif" alt="" > <img src='http://www.wired.com/images/article/magazine/1607/pl_reviews5_t.jpg'></img>: Physics for Future Presidents Richard Muller A nuclear power plant can't explode like a nuclear bomb, spy satellites can't actually read license plates, and solar power can't break our fossil fuel addiction. Knowing why is crucial, physicist Richard Muller insists, for aspiring leaders and intelligent voters alike. This accessible, worthwhile primer explains the essential physics behind nuclear weapons, terrorist attacks, surveillance technology, and global warming. — Kyla Dunn <img src="http://www.wired.com/images/global/ratings/circles9.gif" alt="" > <img src='http://www.wired.com/images/article/magazine/1607/pl_reviews6_t.jpg'></img>: The Ridiculous Race Steve Hely & Vali Chandrasekaran What started as a lark for two Hollywood sitcom writers turns into a lark of a book after they challenge each other to a round-the-world race, no airplanes allowed. (Spoiler alert: One cheats — big time.) Traveling in opposite directions, they alternate chapters, cracking lame jokes all the way — two pop-culture-soaked nerds encountering the big, smelly world in all its unpredictable glory. It reads like a 300-page <cite>Simpsons</cite> episode. — Mark Horowitz <img src="http://www.wired.com/images/global/ratings/circles7.gif" alt="" > <img alt="" style="border: 0; height:1px; width:1px;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?i=39284fe01ab5f4e97726fb609af8329a" height="1" width="1"/> <img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=39284fe01ab5f4e97726fb609af8329a" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/> <a href="http://feeds.wired.com/~a/wired/culture?a=zWd963"><img src="http://feeds.wired.com/~a/wired/culture?i=zWd963" border="0"></img></a><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/culture?a=62wi4J"><img src="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/culture?i=62wi4J" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/culture?a=xCVN5j"><img src="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/culture?i=xCVN5j" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/culture?a=HqloAj"><img src="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/culture?i=HqloAj" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/culture?a=XOka2J"><img src="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/culture?i=XOka2J" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/culture/~4/325452620" height="1" width="1"/>

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5 Great Interactive Museums to Visit this Summer

Forget the stereotype of the stuffy, don't-touch-the-art, kid-unfriendly museum. Interactive museums offer great alternatives to cartoon characters, long lines and sticky roller coaster seats -- and they're often cheap entertainment for the family. <img alt="" style="border: 0; height:1px; width:1px;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?i=16add75546eace42b3c81f65452b5807" height="1" width="1"/> <img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=16add75546eace42b3c81f65452b5807" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/> <a href="http://feeds.wired.com/~a/wired/culture?a=xOvc2t"><img src="http://feeds.wired.com/~a/wired/culture?i=xOvc2t" border="0"></img></a><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/culture?a=9hTRSJ"><img src="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/culture?i=9hTRSJ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/culture?a=5Kx7Bj"><img src="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/culture?i=5Kx7Bj" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/culture?a=wvkwLj"><img src="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/culture?i=wvkwLj" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/culture?a=HYnEaJ"><img src="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/culture?i=HYnEaJ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/culture/~4/326022672" height="1" width="1"/>

Race for Reservations Turns New York's Momofuku Ko Into Net Obsession

NEW YORK -- A hotshot restaurateur's playful menu and populist booking policy have cooked up an online obsession for Manhattan food freaks. David Chang's latest restaurant, <a href="http://momofuku.com/ko/default.asp">Momofuku Ko</a>, opened in March with an egalitarian concept: There's a strict no-VIP policy, and the 12 seats in the tiny eatery can be booked only through an online reservation system. "We wanted to try something different," says Chang. "We didn't want to make it for the elite." But Momofuku Ko's online system has made trying to get a seat at the restaurant a frenzied morning ritual for thousands of obsessive fans. Hopeful diners log on to the restaurant's website each day when the system opens at 10 a.m. They see a series of time slots for that evening's seatings, with green check marks and red x's. If they click fast, they might get a reservation. More likely, they'll get a message reading: "Sorry, someone just grabbed that spot." After about two seconds, that day's reservations are gone. "You have a combination of a white-hot chef opening a new restaurant with very few seats, and a reservation system that no one has tried before," says Ben Leventhal, editor-in-chief of restaurant blog Eater. "It created a lot of excitement." New York is famous for its trendy restaurant scene and the bragging rights that accompany a meal at the latest, greatest eatery. Momofuku Ko's simple booking system short-circuits the common methods used to secure a seat at Manhattan's A-list restaurants -- waiting lists, sweet spots for celebs and good old-fashioned grease for the maitre d's palm. As maddening as it is egalitarian, Momofuku Ko's system appears to be the only one of its kind. With its modest décor and eight-course tasting menu priced at $100, the East Village restaurant might seem an unlikely fixation for New York foodies, who have thousands of fabulous dining options. But Chang, 31, has already won two James Beard awards -- the restaurant equivalent of an Oscar -- and his unique Asian cuisine has drawn near-universal praise since his first two restaurants, Momofuku Noodle Bar and Momofuku Ssam, opened in 2004 and 2006.  Momofuku Ko's upscale twist on comfort food features creative dishes like snail-and-ricotta lasagna. The concepts are often so playful that one wonders if Chang isn't making fun: The panna cotta is made from "cereal milk." Yes, that's milk that's been steeped overnight in corn flakes. Whisk it all together, and you've got a flawless frittata of fixation: When Chang recently offered a reservation at a charity auction, the <a href="http://www.cmarket.com/auction/item/Item.action?bidHistory=&_sourcePage=/item/itemDetail.jsp&id=69369092">winner bid $2,870</a>. Chang's so hot that would-be diners tried to hack the system before Momofuku Ko opened. Commenters on Eater began guessing at likely URL names and found the restaurant's website while it was still in development. Soon, food blogs and forums started to fill with ideas on how to beat the system. Some realized the odds were better on Sundays, when fewer people logged on. Others figured that cancellations were entered into the system at random times, and began obsessively checking all day long. Others realized the site's clock changes by a few seconds each day, and reset their own clocks daily. Of course, as each strategy was shared online, it lost effectiveness, and nabbing a reservation got even more difficult. "In the first two weeks, if you logged in exactly at 10 a.m., and were quick enough, you were pretty sure to get a reservation," says Steven A. Shaw, executive director of <a href="http://forums.egullet.org/index.php?act=home">The eGullet Society for Culinary Arts & Letters</a>, an online portal for restaurant industry professionals. "Now, it's virtually impossible to get in." As the reservations game fueled the hype, enthusiasm turned to frustration. Critics at <cite><a href="http://dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/03/going-ko-ko/#more-419">The New York Times</a></cite>, <cite><a href="http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120948049053952941.html">The Wall Street Journal</a></cite>, <cite><a href="http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/food/dishing/2008/06/momofuku_ko_res.html">The Boston Globe</a></cite> and the <cite><a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/dailydish/2008/04/ko-woes.html">Los Angeles Times</a></cite> all published rants about the hardships of getting a reservation. Then came the Craigslist ads. "Hire my services for $40, and I will get you seats for 1, 2 or 4 at Momofuku Ko," read one. Food blogs went crazy with speculation that someone had created an automated bot to beat the system. But mercenary reservation bookers work manually, and for one customer at a time. They have aspiring diners send them their login info (after they've already entered their credit card information into the system), and then secure a reservation on their behalf. If this sounds like a massive waste of time, Chang is the first to agree. "I can't imagine why people would spend the time to do this," he says. 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Alt Text: Con Men Lose Their Cool in the E-Mail Era

The online world has improved many things. Classified ads are simpler to search, obscure books are easy to get your hands on for the right price, and if you wish to see any two cartoon characters having sex with each other, you have only to ask. However, I think even the most forward-looking technophile would have to admit that there's one area in which we have gone too far, sucking the humanity out of what once was a vibrant, personal endeavor: the realm of the con man. <div id="lorepodcast"><img src="http://www.wired.com/images/commentary/lorepodcasttall.jpg" /> <h1>Alt Text Podcast</h1> Download audio files and subscribe to the <a href="http://rss.sonibyte.com/rssfeed/wired/20.xml">Alt Text podcast</a>. </div> In the Golden Age of Hucksterism, an unsavory gent might try to sell you a bridge, or a large area of swampland, or perhaps a simple faux-Stradivarius violin. The first step, though, would always be to gain your confidence -- the "con" in "con man." They did this the old-fashioned way, gaining your trust and even becoming your friend through an elaborate set of lies set one on top of another like Roman architecture. And when they departed, taking your money and your ability to trust your fellow man with them, you could take solace in knowing that this was your con, specially concocted for you and nobody else. What do you get now? Form letters from deposed African royalty, handed out impartially like advertisements for prostitutes on the Vegas strip. Dry, clinical warnings of fictional eBay disputes. Mindless, soulless pop-up ads for "antivirus programs" that merely throw up more mindless, soulless ads. The soul of yesteryear's con man may have been shriveled and caustic with disdain for humanity, but at least he had one. Can a computer cackle with glee as it fans its face with a stack of bills taken from your nest-egg account? Well, yes it can, but only if you build it especially for that purpose. Most of today's swindlers won't even take the time to do that. And the stories! It used to be that a con man would leave you with a tale to tell passers-by as you held out your hand for a few meager coins: the Spanish princess in need of a young man to do double duty as her rescuer and her husband ... the briefcase that held thousands of dollars when it was shown to you, but somehow contained only newspaper once it was yours ... the betting store, bustling with gamblers, all of whom turned out to be in on the scam. The story itself might be worth maybe one-twentieth of the money you lost in your naive ignorance. Today, of course, you're lucky if you get a few run-on sentences about Nigerian royalty. More likely, if you fall for a modern scam, the only tale you'll have to tell is some boring sob story about trying to sell a laptop and getting paid with a cashier's check. How many sympathy drinks can you get out of, "Well, this website asked for my login and password, so I gave it to them"? There's no epic sweep there, no sense of gravitas or adventure. I call upon the grifters, schemers and flim-flam artists of this brave new age to step up their game! Don't just throw a form in my face -- get to know me! Befriend me, then let me in on the opportunity of a lifetime, something so juicy that I'd run off to tell my friends if I weren't concerned that they'd beat me to it. Then finally, with flair and grace, rip my heart out, take my money and tip your hat to me as you depart. Anyone can cheat me, but only you can truly con me. - - - Born helpless, nude and unable to provide for himself, Lore Sjöberg eventually overcame these handicaps to become a rube, a mark and occasionally a dupe. <img alt="" style="border: 0; height:1px; width:1px;" border="0" src="http://www.pheedo.com/img.phdo?i=9534bee38bd873b7ca272e300d1af2a7" height="1" width="1"/> <img src="http://www.pheedo.com/feeds/tracker.php?i=9534bee38bd873b7ca272e300d1af2a7" style="display: none;" border="0" height="1" width="1" alt=""/> <a href="http://feeds.wired.com/~a/wired/culture?a=E7I3eX"><img src="http://feeds.wired.com/~a/wired/culture?i=E7I3eX" border="0"></img></a><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/culture?a=j1iBZJ"><img src="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/culture?i=j1iBZJ" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/culture?a=4b7d5j"><img src="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/culture?i=4b7d5j" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/culture?a=D0FEOj"><img src="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/culture?i=D0FEOj" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/culture?a=tf5HDJ"><img src="http://feeds.wired.com/~f/wired/culture?i=tf5HDJ" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/culture/~4/324581219" height="1" width="1"/>

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