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I felt a lot smarter about my 1,000-CD music collection — about 70 percent of which consists of heavy metal and hard-rock discs — after reading that linguistics expert Martin Jacobsen has launched a college course based upon the genre.

In the days when it took a minute or two to download a 50-kilobyte photo, dial-up was the norm and you impressed your friends with a flip phone that could store 100 numbers, GIF animation was out there with Ally McBeal, dancing on the Internet's cutting edge.

Need proof that the Super Bowl remains an immutable force in a highly mutable cultural landscape? Consider this: U.S. Internet usage dropped 15 percent during the Feb. 3 broadcast of the Baltimore Ravens’ victory over the San Francisco 49ers, according to a report by the blog Sandvine and cited at TheNextWeb.com.

I've been scribbling my random thoughts about journalism on this blog for the better part of four years, and I would estimate nearly a quarter of my posts have dealt head-on or tangentially with the concept of "bias." I'm on record acknowledging media biases - some of which are actually quite useful to readers - including a liberal political bias, which is neither us