Rolling Stone is changing its format; I haven’t read it in years, but for a while in the late 1970s I was a subscriber. I was reading it in LAX once at the gate, and was so absorbed that I missed a flight. Fortunately, that was in the days when you could walk across the way and exchange your UAL ticket for a Delta one on a flight leaving 40 minutes later. Icons of a different sort: Texas longhorns at auction (don’t even think of eating one)!

Here’s a blog: Choice Cuts, from the folks at Agency.com, the Marketing group of Applied Concepts Lab. And here’s another, this one called Neuroprosthesis News. It’s a new venture from the Neuroprosthesis Research Organization: “Our goal on the long term is to strive towards developing biomorphic external control of robotic devices and/or functional electrical stimulation while requiring the minimum possible in terms of invasive implants to obtain neural intention signals for artificial motor control.” The person who updates the blog found mine (see comments below), and I followed it back. It doesn’t surprise me that there is such an organization (de Tocqueville called Americans “a nation of joiners,” after all), but I never expected to be exposed to it! Starting a blog is an innovative way of getting news out to both members and the rest of the populace, I’d say.