Here's one from my friend Kevin, with whom I grew up on the plains of Kansas. We were two of the biggest dorks in this little town, loving comic books and science fiction and computers. He sent this article from Wired:

Press 'Scan' to Play Old Albums?

With a few hours to kill one evening, a 22-year-old Israeli student writes a program that "reads" sounds from scanned images of vinyl records. The resulting audio is interesting, but not quite true to the original. few hours I called out for a bullshit emergency at my then job for InterTrust and I never got to go back. It pissed me off badly that I never got to enjoy this great con, that the emergency wasn't even a problem (short version - a system speced to deliver 2 transactions/second with peaks of 10/second was failing under a sustained load of 50/sec; file that under "no shit, Sherlock") and within a month I was laid off anyway. I meant to go back last year but they seemed to both fall of the stick on publicity and I fell off on figuring out when it was. One Sunday morning I found myself asking "When is that thing this year?" only to find out it was that weekend. April 11-13, must remember, must remember! This year I'll even reassemble my comic want list so I have some idea what I want to buy in a giant room full of things to buy.

Anyway, where was I? Chris Snider, I remember. I see him at Dragon*Cons now and he's always pleasant to talk to. Check out his zine, it is fun. The March issue is out now.