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…on the History Channel. It’s their answer to Shark Week, I suppose. I’ve still managed to avoid both the movie and the book, though I did accidentally read  The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail,  one of whose co-authors appears, dressed like D-Day from Animal House,  in this evening’s greasily compelling conjectumentary Beyond the da Vinci Code. So while I figure out how to create a podcast with my DAW looking like this, I’ll leave you with the brilliant Andrew Maxwell’s review of Dan Brown’s bafflingly popular tome.

Caught Otros Aires, the modern Argentinian tango ensemble, at Lula Lounge last Sunday night. Took some pictures. Check out the video for “Milonga Sentimental” on YouTube. Click on the photo for some of my pictures from the show.

Google’s oft-quoted credo “don’t be evil” started looking rather quaint last week with the appearance of a gentle suggestion on the Google blog that we try to refrain from using “Google” as a verb, particularly to signify an action taken on a competitor’s search engine. Apparently it makes the trademark lawyers uncomfortable. And you can almost hear the unwritten line that follows, “and you wouldn’t like our lawyers when they’re uncomfortable.”

As defenses go, this one is a few paces shy of “vigourous.” So I wouldn’t start calling Google an “evil empire” quite yet, in spite of their recent Katamari-like consumption of the staggeringly popular video site YouTube. But this is certainly the dangerous end of the “vigourous defense” wedge, the same sledgehammer with which Intel crushed the fly-like non-profit San Francisco fitness-for-ex-cons (I’m not making this up) outfit Yoga Inside, and the same legal logic that led some poor schmuck of a copywriter to pen the line “stop sweeping and start swiffering,” when it’s obvious to anyone who claims a passing familiarity with the English language that what one does with a device called a swiffer is “swiff.”