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Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, and other greats recorded at Sun Studio in Memphis, TN. It's still there (after a spotty history, including resale and re-opening in the late '80s) -- and it's still analog. Mostly analog, at least; a Pro Tools system is there for people who don't want to pay for an all-analog production. Thousands of tourists (I met a family from Norway who'd come to visit Graceland and Sun) descend on the old building each year just to see the place, and others come to record in the legendary space and what has become a boutique recording studio. I got to chat for a while with Sun recording engineer Matt Ross-Spang about working with the studio's lovingly gathered and restored recording gear, some of it nearly three times as old as he is. (An unexpected bonus: hanging out for a few hours in the Sun control room is a good way to bump into Fluke Holland, former drummer for Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash, who stopped in just after we stopped shooting.) Be warned: there are some bursts of rock-and-roll to listen through.

kickabear asks: "I'm working on an independent (that means I'm poor) film. I'm looking for a site (or a book, I'm not picky) which reviews various non-linear video editing packages. I've found a few sites but I can't really find anything that does a side-by-side comparison of the features and capabilities of products such as Premiere Pro or Avid Xpress Pro or the 20 projects listed on Sourceforge. The project will be filmed using a brand new Sony HVRZ1U HDV camera, so if any comparison sites lean toward HDV/HDTV, that would be favorable. Any information, war stories, or advice would be appreciated."

First off, various website and software announcements: Rik van Riel wrote in to say that the The Linux Memory Management home page, including the More than 1GB Faq, as moved. Jennifer wrote in to tell us that eterm now has its own domain. Rak wrote in to send us a link to a new site aiming to keep up with GNOME Development. chrism wrote in to say that Brian Paul of Mesa Fame is looking for a new home for said software. Email if you can help. Now that the straight stuff is out of the way, some fun stuff: kweiheri tron wrote in to send us a link to a telescope that you can control online. Eli sent us a link to the Bonsai Potato. It's just crazy. Jamie Wilkinson sent us a link to www.retards.com. It's not what you might think it is. A couple of other folks have written in recently and mentioned Smartass.org. It's a nifty site. Check it out.

Chomsky writes "This is taken from email correspondence with Brian Paul, the maintainer of Mesa, (the openGL-like library which talks to voodoo glide among other things). I'd love to see support for 3Dnow in Mesa. I don't know Intel assembly so someone would have to contribute the code. In the next version of Mesa I plan to rewrite some of the transformation code to optimize vertex arrays. That would be a good time to add 3Dnow support."