In music news, Gibson is marketing the first self-tuning guitar. The article points out that it's frustrating for beginner's to tune at first. A pro says it will help him get alternate tunings quickly in a concert. I have to wonder if it's the first step toward what happened with the piano in the 18th century, I think, when players stopped tuning their own pianos and left the art to professional tuning men.

If you're interested in Chavez and what's going on in Venezuelan politics, here's an interesting take on the weekend's electoral setback for the Prez.

And here we've got a chimp who can beat college students on a memory test. I'm not sure I'm convinced that it means the chimps are waiting in the wings for humanity's final bow, but I have been interested in the idea of co-evolving species, and how we humans can help our fellow creatures up by their bootstraps, to who knows what end?