At one point Martin breaks into a flourish of fancy operatic runs, complete with leaps, trills and daring top notes.
John Gruber tackles private APIs again on Daring Fireball, noting that even some homegrown solutions to mimic iPhone private API calls has been banned inexplicably by Apple.
The Associated Press similarly characterizes this as something of a daring stunt, noting that the "architects of [Bush's] plan" believe the super PAC's "ability to legally raise unlimited amounts of money outweighs its primary disadvantage, that it cannot legally coordinate its actions with Bush or his would-be campaign staff".
Jones is also noted for such daring minimalist efforts as High Note (1960), featuring animated musical notes, and The Dot and the Line (1965), the tale of a love triangle between a dot, a straight line, and a squiggle.
Teaching is the art of evanescence, writing in water, with no performance ever the same, and if you're daring, burning your notes at the end of each year to keep yourself fresh for next year's students.
His campaign pamphlet, entitled "A Strategy for America's Future" (note the daring italics), says unfunny and unconvincing things like "Tie the value of the dollar to a fixed measure".
The unpublished letters show the ardour of Byron's fans, who often laced their notes with daring sexual undertones and breathless fantasies.
As Daring Fireball's John Gruber noted yesterday, it's not just that the iPhone 4 has four times the pixels of the earlier iPhones, it's that much of the distance between the glass you touch and the pixels have been removed as well.
The final phrases of this daring interpretation ended on a note of ambivalence, as if to say, "I may still be here, but at this point, what does it really matter?" The performance received a standing ovation.
But the outstanding discovery was Carl Tanner who, as the card-fixated Hermann, detonated each high note with bright, daring accuracy and delivered this maniacal role with exactly the right reedy, nasal Russian-style tone and lumbering physicality.
