The Bottom of the News
Next month, Starbucks plans to stop selling audio CDs at the checkout counter. Great, now where am I gonna be able to get my music?
+ Slate’s Fred Kaplan proudly outs himself as an audiophile: “I appreciate high-quality phono-cartridges. I recognize a good digital-to-analog converter. I care about the capacitors in my amplifier. I will not apologize for this.”
+ Humans can only distinguish between about 30 shades of gray. (Most guys can’t last through more than 13-14 anyway.)
+ What’s the heaviest burrito in San Francisco. (This is oddly riveting.)
+ Kim Jong-un: A Haircut Odyssey.