In one of the odder announcements during the Macworld keynote, Sting, along with others like Norah Jones, will teach you to play guitar and piano in Garageband '09.

No one asked the Hill. Came as a suprise to HPSCI and SSCI members. Feinstein and Rockefeller wanted Steve Kappes. Members like and respect Panetta, but they want an IC professional in the post. They remember what Goss did, and fear that CIA's role will continue to diminish with a political in charge (fair or not). Some even like Panetta for Commerce, which is reportedly what he wanted originally. It's awkward.

And from a career intel professional ...

I have 29 years of experience in the intel business both in government and as a consultant / contractor to the government. I recently retired after those 29 years as a Navy Captain (Intel). I have served with many in the "national intel community" and served on the WMD commission in 2004-05. This is my cred, now for my comment.

I think there is a lot more here than is being said. I believe that Feinstein did not want someone like Panetta who has a large and independent power base and network. If you get a career guy they are a lot easier to isolate and move around. Panetta has been around for a long time and has his own network. I actually think that it is a good choice. He knows how intelligence needs to be presented to the President - that is the critical issue here.

I do not discount the notion that many in the CIA feel slighted by the creation of the DNI and not being the "premier" agency anymore, at least when one looks at the totem pole. But if you look at the PDB more than 80% of the product still originates from the DI. It is the gold standard of intelligence agencies, both here and abroad. As a old colleague once said to me: there are a lot of jewels in the crown of the United States government but there are only a few large critical ones: CIA DI, NASA, NIH, State; that is where the intellectual might of the government is.

The issue is not intell guy or non-intell guy. The big issue for Blair and Panetta is strategic or tactical orientation. We are fighting two wars and the warfighter always screams they don't have enough intel or enough of anything for that matter. The dice are so loaded for support to the warfighter that critical strategic intelligence for the President and other senior leaders goes wanting due to time constraints on collection assets.

We need a significant re-orientation away from tactical support by CIA and other National agencies and back to their primary mission - direct intelligence support to the President. The last 15 years have seen an explosion of tactical intelligence capability with the advent of UAVs (which DoD fought against for so long due to the fighter pilot mentality). National systems need to be re-oriented to national priorities and away from tactical or operational desires of the warfighter.

I think the Panetta selection is another indication of the change coming. I was concerned that the selection of Jones as National Security Advisor and Blair as DNI underscored the great concern that I have about the militarization of intelligence. The selection of Panetta, with a much wider and deeper power base than either of them, makes me hopeful in this regard. Panetta is a skilled operator, he knows how to get things done. He knows how to get a budget approved and to make the wheels of government work. He will be a force - both in the Administration and on the Hill -- much larger than any career guy could be. This is good. It gives the CIA the opportunity to re-create itself within the current structure.

I used to do a lot of intelligence reporting. But I haven't really done any to speak of in a few years. So I'm coming at this cold. But I feel instinctively suspicious of the congressional reaction to this appointment. Rockefeller is saying he's not happy. But he was a very poor ranking member and then chairman of the senate committee. So I don't think that means much. If the Obama team really didn't make a courtesy call to Feinstein, who's taking over the overseeing committee, that was a goof -- just because there's enough hard slogging getting this kind of stuff done that you don't get people ticked over stupid things. But let's not let that distract from the substance of the issue. I'm not certain what I think about this appointment yet. But on first blush, the nature of the opposition makes me more inclined to support it.

But the responses I got back ranged from charming to insightful, and all demonstrated just how strongly lemons and limes affect our senses. Here's a sample of the responses from Twitter and Facebook.

The literalist:

• baffled: Easy: lemons are lemony and limes are more limey

The bitter-sweet battle:

• ericagee: Limes are a little bit sweeter and a lot bit tarter :).
• antichason: lemons have a bitter undertone to the sour, while limes are sweeter. Which is why limeade will always be superior to lemonade.
• choirshark: lemons vs. limes: lemons are rarely tasting bitter to me, lime do sometimes

The poets:

• freshelectrons: limes have a little taste of moonlight and silver in with the sunshine / citrus aromatics
• Wiley Wiggins: Lemons have a sweeter darker flavor, Limes are sharper and metallic, the sweetness is married closer to the acidity. The acid in lemons is fruitier.

A few charming responses:

• gwentown: Easy: limes are better. [I loved the blatantly opinionated response here.]
• danwolfgang: lemons are great for lemonade, limes are great for marinades. [This sounded like Dorothy Parker to me.]
• otherniceman: lemons }{, limes () [Obviously nerdy, but still somehow clearly correct.]

And then, those that were least literal and perhaps most evocative. These caught my eye because (at least as I read them) they seemed like totally unselfconscious responses based on how we perceive the taste and smell of these fruits.

• redmonk: limes taste rounder.
• JonathanDeamer: EASY. Limes taste more green.
• Harold Check: Lemons taste yellow. Limes taste green.

Thanks to everyone who responded. If you're looking for a scientific distinctions between the two species, you can consult your favorite reference materials to learn about Citrus aurantifolia or C. latifolia (limes) and Citrus limon (lemons). A quick Google search for comparisons between the two fruit will yield a large number of people saying that limes are just unripened lemons. These people are stupid and should learn from the wisdom of the folks I've quoted above.

It seems to me that I'm a Peter Morgan fan. I liked The Last King of Scotland, I liked The Queen, and I enjoyed Frost/Nixon a great deal. But per Kevin Drum and Becks it's important for people to understand that this film is terrible history. Not just in the sense that, like many historical films, it gets some facts wrong. The whole premise is wrong. Read Elizabeth Drew for a lengthy explanation, but to make a long story short the movie leaves out the fact that Nixon and Frost had a deal whereby Nixon was entitled to 20 percent of the proceeds from the interviews. They were business partners, not antagonists, and Nixon knew he had to make news with some kind of dramatic Watergate statement.

Meanwhile, I should say that I'm not normally a strickler for accuracy in these sorts of things. I thought it was a good movie well-acted, and given a good, if false, story. But in my role as a political blogger I think it's important that people learn the facts.

1. Robert Ashley - Music with Roots in the Aether
2. Joe Jones/ Chicken to Kitchen Fluxus Meditation from Fluxsaints (1992)
3. Robert Wilson - Christopher Knowles The Sundance Kid Is Beautiful (1975) from Giorno Poetry Systems, Big Ego
4. Wolf Vostell - De/Collage [LP] (1980)
5. John Cage and Raahsan Roland Kirk - Sound?? (1966)
6. Nicholas Moore, Spleen (Ubu Editions, 2004)
7. Pina Bausch Documentary (directed by Anne Linsel) (2006)
8. David Behrman, Long Throw (Roulette, 2008)
9. Derek Bailey, Interview by Henry Kaiser (1987)
10. Vito Acconci, The Bristol Project (2001)

Julian Cowley contributes regularly to The Wire and occasionally to other music magazines. He has also lectured and written extensively on literature. During the 1980s he had the good fortune to work closely for several years with poet and critic Eric Mottram, whose inexhaustible conversation was, in effect, a foretaste of the UbuWeb experience.

November 2008
Selected by Neville Wakefield

1. Willoughby Sharp Interviews Vito Acconci (1973)
2. Bas Jan Ader - Selected Works (1970-71)
3. Pipilotti Rist - Video Works (1986-2003)
4. Chris Burden - Documentation of Selected Works 1971-74
5. Johan Grimonprez - Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y (1997)
6. The Films of Jack Goldstein (1974-1978)
7. Gordon Matta-Clark - Splitting, Bingo/Ninths, Substrait (Underground Dailies) (1974-1976)
8. Lawrence Weiner - WATER IN MILK EXISTS (2008)
9. Psychic TV - Unclean
10. Robert Smithson - Bootleg of Hotel Palenque by Alex Hubbard (1969 / 2004)

Neville Wakefield is a writer and curator living in NYC. Recent film projects include destricted a compilation of commissioned films by Marina Abramovic, Matthew Barney, Marco Brambilla, Larry Clark, Gaspar Noe, Richard Prince and Sam Taylor Wood. Senior curatorial advisor to PS1 and curator of Frieze he is also creative director of tar' magazine.

October 2008
Selected by Gary Sullivan

1. Jaap Blonk's sound files
2. Dada Magazine
3. Drew Gardner's sound files
4. Kenneth Goldsmith, editor, Publishing the Unpublishable series
5. George Kuchar's films (especially Corruption of the Damned)
6. Anders Lundgerg, Jonas Magnusson and Jesper Olsson, editors, After Language Poetry papers
7. Paper Rad's P-Unit Mixtape
8. Bern Porter's page
9. Jerome Rothenberg's Ethnopoetics : Soundings page (especially Ca Dao, Vietnamese Folk Poems)
10. Survival Research Laboratories, Virtues of Negative Fascination

Poet and cartoonist Gary Sullivan lives in Brooklyn with Nada Gordon. Together, they wrote the book Swoon. Gary's most recent book is PPL in a Depot. He has published three issues of a comic book, Elsewhere, and maintains a blog by the same name at http://garysullivan.blogspot.com.

September 2008
Selected by Rick Moody

1. Komar and Melamid & Dave Soldier, The Most Unwanted Song
2. Jacques Derrida, On Religion Part 1, Part 2
3. Assorted Street Posters
4. William Carlos Williams, Danse Russe.
5. Beth B., Stigmata
6. James Joyce, Anna Livia Plurabelle
7. Tellus #14, Just Intonation
8. Hugo Ball, Karawane, performed by Marie Osmond
9. Gregory Whitehead, We All Scream Alone
10. John Cage Meets Sun Ra

Rick Moody is the author of four novels, three collections of stories, and a memoir, THE BLACK VEIL. He also plays music with The Wingdale Community Singers.

August 2008
Selected by Ben Rubin

1. Erik Saite - A Day in the Life of a Musician
2. Richard Leacock - For an Uncontrolled Cinema
3. William S. Burroughs - The Cut-Up Method of Brion Gysin
4. Claude Cloksy - The first thousand numbers classified in alphabetical order
5. Robert Smithson - A Heap of Language
6. Vito Acconci - RE
7. Marshall McLuhan - The Medium is the Massage, Side A , Side B
8. Raphael Rubinstein - A Brief History of Appropriative Writing
9. Marjorie Perloff - The Music of Verbal Space
10. Steve Reich - Pendulum Music (score)

Ben Rubin is a media artist based in New York City. He has been a frequent collaborator with artists and performers including Laurie Anderson, Diller+Scofidio, Ann Hamilton, Arto Lindsay, Steve Reich, and Beryl Korot.

July 2008
Selected by Zach Feuer

1. Paul McCarthy - Painter (1995)
2. Pipilotti Rist - Video Works (1986-1999)
3. Richard Kern - My Nightmare (1993)
4. Bas Jan Ader - Fall I & II (1970)
5. Lynda Benglis - Female Sensibility (1974)
6. Sophie Calle & Greg Shepard - No Sex Last Night aka Double-Blind (1992)
7. Kembra Pfahler - Cornella; The Story of a Burning Bush (1985)
8. Robert Morris & Stan VanDerBeek - Site (excerpt) (1964, .mov)
9. Carolee Schneeman - Meat Joy (1964)
10. Dan Graham - Rock My Religion (1982-84)

Zach Feuer owns the creatively named Zach Feuer Gallery in New York City.

June 2008
Selected by Ron Silliman

1. Frank Film (1973), Frank and Caroline Mouris
2. The Name (1973), Robert Creeley
3. Recollections of Grande Apachera (1973), Edward Dorn
4. Reading at Goddard College (1973), Robert Creeley
5. Carnival The First Panel: 1967-1970 (1973), Steve McCaffery
6. Black Tarantula Crossword Gathas (excerpt) (1973), Jackson Mac Low
7. A Vocabulary for Sharon Belle Matlin (1973), Jackson Mac Low
8. Heavy Aspirations (1973), Charles Amirkhanian
9. Armand Schwerner (1973), Phil Niblock (real video .rm file)
10. High Kukus (1973), James Broughton

Ron Silliman was once a slow left-handed second baseman. Now he lives in a faux forest in what was once the Biddle Estate.

May 2008
Selected by Christian Bk

1. Claude Closky: The First Thousand Numbers Classified in Alphabetical Order (1989) [PDF]
2. Derek Beaulieu: Flatland (2007) [PDF]
3. Darren Wershler-Henry: The Tapeworm Foundry (2002)
4. Claude Simon: Properties of Several Geometric and Non-Geometric Figures (1971)
5. F. T. Marinetti: Dune, Parole in Libert (1914)
6. Survival Research Laboratories: Virtues of Negative Fascination (1985-86)
7. Seth Price: Video Game Soundtracks 1983-1987 (2001)
8. Trek Bloopers
9. Anton Bruhin: Rotomotor (1976-77)
10. RACTER: The Policeman's Beard Is Half-Constructed (1984)

BONUS TRACK:
IBM 7090: Music from Mathematics (1962)

Christian Bk is the author of Eunoia.

April 2008
Selected by Laura Beiles

1. Anita Feldman and Michael Kowalski, Riffle (1985)
2. MoMA: Writing in Time (2007)
3. Piotr Kamler, Films (1960s-90s)
4. Fortunato Depero, Verbalizzazione astratta di signora (1916)
5. Penelope Umbrico, All the Dishes on Ebay (2002-03)
6. Catherine Jauniaux & Ikue Mori, Smell' (1992)
7. Abbie Hoffman Makes Gefilte Fish (1973)
8. Mary Lou Green on Andy Warhol's Hair (1963)
9. Sophie Calle and Gregory Shephard, Double Blind (1992)
10. Cioni Carpi, Three Short Films (1960-62)

Laura Beiles is an associate educator in the Department of Education (Adult and Academic Programs) at The Museum of Modern Art, where she has organized programs with artists, poets, scholars, architects, and designers for seven years. In May of 2007, she received her MA in Art History from Hunter College, and received the Shuster Award for her thesis, Creating National and International Identities: The Futurist Exhibitions at the Venice Biennale under Fascism, 1928-1942. Prior to coming to MoMA, she worked at NYU's La Pietra in Florence and the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice.

March 2008
Selected by Seth Price

1. Tessa Hughes-Freeland Baby Doll (1982)
2. Marie Menken Glimpse of the Garden (1957)
3. Robert Barry Interview (1969)
4. Ethyl Eichelberger Jocasta (Boy Crazy) or She Married Her Son (1986)
5. Lytle Shaw Low-Level Bureaucratic Structures: Principles of the Emeryville Shellmound
6. Taj Mahal Travellers Taj Mahal Travellers on Tour (1973)
7. Asger Jorn Pataphysics: A Religion in the Making
8. Racter The Policeman's Beard Is Half-Constructed (1984)
9. Tristan Tzara A Note on Negro Poetry (1918)
10. I.B.M. 7090 Music From Mathematics (1962)

Seth Price is an artist.

March 2008
Selected by Stephanie Strickland

1. Maya Deren, Divine Horsemen
2. Concrete! Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive
3. Jason Nelson, Poetry Cube
4. b. p. Nichol, White Text Sure
5. Yoko Ono, Snow Is Falling All the Time
6. Dick Higgins, Horizons [PDF
7. Ketjak: the Ramayana Monkey Chant
8. Concrete Poetry: A World View Mary Ellen Solt
9. Raphael Rubinstein, Gathered, not Made: A Brief History of Appropriative Writing
10. Kenneth Goldsmith and Conceptual Poetics

Bonus
11. Glossolalia: Speaking in Tongues
12. Caroline Bergvall, About Face

Stephanie Strickland is a poet. Her latest collaborative hypermedia work is slippingglimpse first shown at e-Poetry 2007 in Paris and published in hyperrhiz: new media cultures. Her latest book, Zone : Zero (with digital poetry CD) will appear from Ahsahta Press in fall 2008. She recently published Quantum Poetics: Six Thoughts, in Media Poetry: An International Anthology, edited by Eduardo Kac, co-edited The Iowa Review Web issue, Multi-Modal Coding: Jason Nelson, Donna Leishman, and Electronic Writing, and also co-edited the first Electronic Literature Collection, published by the Electronic Literature Organization.

February 2008
Selected by Alan Licht

1. Derek Bailey Interview by Henry Kaiser
2. Richard Foreman MP3 loops from Now That Communism Is Dead My Life Feels Empty
3. Bruce Nauman Record
4. bpNichol all sound works
5. Cornelius Cardew Stockhausen Serves Imperialism
6. Philip Guston/Clark Coolidge Poor Richard
7. Lou Reed the View from the Bandstand
8. Jack Smith Buzzards Over Baghdad
9. Richard Meltzer Barbara Mauritz: Music Box
10. Adrian Piper Untitled 1968

Over the past two decades, guitarist Alan Licht has worked with a veritable who's who of the experimental world. He has released five albums of compositions for tape and solo guitar, and his sound and video installations have been exhibited in the U.S. and Europe. His new book Sound Art: Beyond Music, Between Media, the first extensive survey of the genre in English, was published by Rizzoli in fall 2007.

February 2008
Selected by Bettina Funcke

1. Harun Farocki, Inextinguishable Fire (1969) and How to Live in the German Federal Republic (1986) - Note! Films Removed by copyright holder's request
2. UbuWeb Hall of Shame
3. Robert Frank, Energy and How to Get It (1981)
4. J. G. Ballard, Shanghai Jim (1991)
5. Pandid Pran Nath Ragas of Morning and Night (1968)
6. Hrabanus Marus De adoratione crucis ab opifice / De Laudibus Sanctae Crucis Augsburg (ca. 845)
7. Jacques Lacan, Tlvision (1973)
8. Joan Jonas The Anchor Stone (1988)
9. Inuit Throat Singing, from Ethnopoetics
10. Assorted Street Posters (1985-present) from Outsiders

Bettina Funcke is the Senior U.S. Editor of Parkett Magazine.

January 2008
Selected by Alex Ross

1. Robert Ashley She Was a Visitor
2. Kurt Schwitters Sonata in Urlauten
3. John Cale Loop
4. The Films of Mauricio Kagel
5. Charles Amirkhanian Dog of Stravinsky
6. Bernd Alois Zimmermann Musique pour le soupers de Roi Ubu
7. Pauline Oliveros Sound Patterns
8. Ezra Pound Sestina: Altaforte
9. John Cage 433
10. Robert Ashley The Wolfman

Alex Ross has been the music critic of The New Yorker since 1996. His work has also appeared in The New Republic, The London Review of Books, Lingua Franca, and The Guardian. From 1992 to 1996 he was a critic at The New York Times. He has received two ASCAP-Deems Taylor Awards for music criticism, fellowships from the American Academy in Berlin and the Banff Centre, and a Letter of Distinction from the American Music Center for contributions to the field of contemporary music. He played keyboards in the noise band Miss Teen Schnauzer, which gave only one public performance, in 1991. His first book, The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century, a cultural history of music since 1900, was published in October 2007 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.

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I spent a little time over the last couple of weeks playing around with some Twitter data. I was noticing how several people, myself included, were sharing the funny things their kids say sometimes:

• it is noisy outside. my daughter said, the texans are shooting their guns!' no, dear. just fireworks
• Asked my son to hold my unfinished snack while I drove and said, I'm full, don't let me have any more.' He said, OK. I spit in it.'
• Son asked me to get yardstick from garage. Told him to use ruler from his room. He said, I am measuring your width. I need a yardstick.

So then I wondered whether there was a way to capture, prioritize and then syndicate the best Twitter posts into a kiddie quote of the day' or something like that.

My experiment only sort of works, but there are some lessons here that may be useful for community builders out there. Here's what I did:

1. Get the quotes: I ran some searches through Twitter Search and collected the RSS feeds from those results to create the pool of content to use for the project. In this case, I used daughter said and son said. I put those feeds into Yahoo! Pipes and filtered out any posts with swear words. Then I had a basic RSS feed of quotes to work with.
2. Prioritize the quotes: I'm not sure the best way to prioritize a collection of sources and content, but the group voting method may do what you want. Jon Udell has another approach for capturing trusted sources using Del.icio.us. For voting, there's an open source Digg clone called Pligg. I set it up on a domain at Dreamhost (I called it KidTwitsDreamhost has a one-click Pligg installer that works great) and then pumped the RSS feed I just made into it. In no time I had a view into all the Twitter posts which were wrapped in all the typical social media features I needed (voting, comments, RSS, bookmarking, etc.).
3. Resyndicate the quotes to Twitter: While you might be able to draw people into the web site, it made more sense in this case to be present where interested people might be socializing already. First, I created a Twitter account called KidTwits. Then I took a feed from the web site and sent it through an auto-post utility called twitterfeed. Now the KidTwits Twitter account gets updated when new posts bubble up to the home page of kidtwits.com.
4. Link everywhere possible: When building the feed into Pligg I made sure that the twitter ID of each post was captured. This then made it possible to retweet with their IDs intact. Thus, the source of the quote would then see the KidTwit posts in their Twitter replies. It works really well. People were showing up at the web site and replying to me on Twitter the same day I began the project.

   Again, I used Yahoo! Pipes to clean up and format the feed back out to Twitter to include the RT' and @userid prefix to each entry. I played around a bit before arriving at this format.
   
   I also included a Creative Commons copyright on all the pages of the web site to make sure the rights ownership issues were clear.

   Lastly, I added a search criteria for my feed collector that looks for references to KidTwits. This means people can post directly to the web site either by adding @kidtwits to their posts or #kt. There was already a New Zealand Twitter community forming who began using kt' to join their posts (short for kiwitweets), but they gave it up. I then had to filter out references to the kidtwits Twitter posts to avoid an infinite loop.

5. Improve post quality: Now, here's where things have been failing for me. I can't think of better search terms to capture the pool of quotes I want, but there are so many extraneous Twitter posts using those words that it seems like I'm getting between 5% and 10% accuracy. Not bad, but certainly not good enough. The good news is that it's pretty easy to kill the posts you don't want through the Pligg interfaces. I just don't have the time or desire to maintain that.
6. Optimize the site: I then did a bunch of the little things that wrapped up the project. I added Google Analytics tracking, created a simple logo and favicon, customized the Twitter background, and configured Pligg to import the Twitter Search pipe automatically.

There are several things I like and a few I dislike about this little project.

• I really like the fluidity of Twitter's platform. It's amazingly easy to capture and resyndicate Twitter posts.
• I love the effects of the @reply mechanism. I can essentially notify anyone who gets their Twitter post listed on the home page of kidtwits.com without lifting a finger. And they get credit automatically for their post.
• I already knew this, but Yahoo! Pipes is just brilliant. I can't imagine I would have even considered this project without it.
• Pligg is pretty good, too. It does everything I want it to do.
• I would love to hand over the management of the voting and quality checks to someone else. Voting naturally invites gaming. At the end of the day, however, the quality control and community management function is what makes a community service interesting to people. You can't automate everything.
• I'm actually not a fan of voting approaches to prioritizing content. It will ultimately result in dumbing down the quality. That's less of an issue for highly niched topics like this, though.
• The rights issues are a little weird. This wouldn't be a problem in forming a community whose purpose is noncommercial naturally. But I'm not sure the Twitterverse would respond well to aggregators that make money off their posts without their knowledge or consent. (To be clear, KidTwits is not and never will be a commercial projectit's just a fun experiment.)
• Auto-retweeting feels a bit wrong. I wouldn't be surprised if the KidTwits account gets banned. But I have explicitly included the source and clearly labeled each Twitter post with RT' to be clear about what I'm doing. I'm not building traffic to my account, the web site, nor am I intentionally misrepresenting anything.
• By adding RT @userid I've killed the first 10 or so characters of the post that I'm retweeting. This means the punchline is often dropped which kills the meaning of the retweeted post.
• Some conversational Twitter posts get through which include @replies to another user. When the KidTwits retweet of that post goes out it's very confusing.

The potential here, among other things, is in creating cohesive topical communities around what people are saying on Twitter. You can easily imagine thousands of communities forming in similar ways around highly focused interest areas.

In this method the community doesn't necessarily have the typical collective or person-to-person dynamics to it, but the core Twitter account can act as a facilitator of connections. It can actually create some of the authority dynamics people have been wanting to see. It becomes a broker of contextually relevant connections.

In a very similar way the web site serves as a service broker or activity driver. It's a functional tool for filtering and fine-tuning the community experience at the edge. The web site is not a destination but more of a dashboard or a control panel for the network.

The experiment feels very unfinished to me still. There's much more that can be done to create better activity brokering dynamics across the network through the combination of a Twitter account and a web site, I'm sure.

It's not the latest. Nor is it the greatest. But if you're on the market for a budget NAS, $40 is hard to beat. (Shipping looks to run about $8 - $15.) This refurb Buffalo LinkStation Live incorporates a single 320GB drive and is supported by a 90 day warranty. Assuming the unit is similar to an earlier version I owned back in 2005, the Linkstation is powered by Linux, great for tweakability, and supports a variety of media serving and networking options out of the box. (Though, hopefully with a quieter fan.) At the very least, you'll be able to use this networked drive as part of a backup strategy and/or to centralize an iTunes collection. Once you've picked up the LinkStation Live, head on over to Buffalo Tech's support site for the latest device firmware and desktop utilities. Thanks for the tip, Jon!

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The Jayhawks - Blue (live on Jon Stewart, 1995)

Love that bridge. Chills.