The company that started life as <i>Now Hear This</i>, but later decided to go with their acronym, has <a href="http://www.cepro.com/article/now_hear_this_nht_shuts_down/" target="new">decided to cease business </a>as they've known it, effective this coming Tuesday, March 31, 2009. I first became aware of NHT when Corey Greenburg put them on the map in the mid nineties in his <a href="http://www.stereophile.com/standloudspeakers/804/" target="new">Beavis and Butthead tinged review</a>. I had a pair of towers from them, the 2.5, and loved them to death for a while. Lots of "there there" as they used to say.
When iTunes introduced their one-price-fits-all model for selling music, many record labels were unhappy with the situation. The ability to buy a single song for a dollar made full records a hard sell for some artists. But it was a hit with...
The bad news, at least for some, is that AT&T will begin sending warning notices to its internet service customers who engage in illegal file sharing. The good news is that this is the Recording Industry Association of America's new alternative to filing mass lawsuits.
<A href="http://www.bowers-wilkins.com">B&W</A>'s Nautilus speakers are not new—they were introduced in 1993—but they remain unequaled in the sheer beauty of their design. And that design isn't merely for the sake of visual impact—it's a classic case of form following function.
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<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/sevenpounds.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT>Ben Thomas (Will Smith) is an unremarkable IRS agent who has the power to change seven strangers' lives. But when he meets Emily Posa (Rosario Dawson), everything changes as he realizes he's in love with the beautiful woman. Should he alter his plan and seek personal happiness or continue the quest for his own redemption?
<IMG SRC="/images/archivesart/quantum.jpg" WIDTH=200 BORDER=0 ALIGN=RIGHT>Picking up shortly after the end of <i>Casino Royale</i>, Bond (Daniel Craig) pursues those responsible for killing the woman he loved. The quest leads him to a mysterious criminal organization known as Quantum and one of its members, Dominic Greene (Mathieu Amalric), an environmentalist who brokers the overthrow of a South American country in exchange for the world's most valuable resource. Along the way, he partners with hottie Camille (Olga Kurylenko), who's in search of her own vengeance.
