I don't have any idea what that guitar guy is writing about, not being a musician, but you're right- his sales pitch is so hostile, it's hilarious.

Now the whole world is stuck on stupid

I love that! :D

I like his page, and he's pretty spot-on about balanced tension. I switched from a low-end set of violin strings to a higher-end set (where the string tension was "optimized") during my senior year of high school, and it made a huge difference in the tone and ease of playing.

But one thing that doesn't make sense. He claims that if a thick string and thin string tightened to the same tension, the thin string will feel tighter and the think string will feel flabbier. So to "balance" the feel of the strings, so they all respond the same, he makes the low-note strings tune to a lower tension than the high-note strings, incrementally. As Johnnie Cochran knows, This does Not Make Sense.

Oh, I'm an idiot. Disregard my post. He increases the tension as the tuned pitch decreases.

His product name "ZOG" also overlaps with some pretty awful stuff.

I'd like to purchase his special strings, for my Guitar Cube.

I ran into the distillery site while searching Google to see if it's possible to distill a grappa-like liquor from the stems and leaves of the, er, indian hemp plant, and whether or not the resulting product would have inebrial qualities beyond those commonly associated with alcohol. Though this site didn't answer my question, its description of grappa-making leaves me wondering how to get enough water into the plant material to make such tinctures possible, not to mention potable.

This is also interesting.

Hugh, those sites remind me of the Lindsay Publications site. They have a couple of books on distilling, by the way.