So, DJ Face, why don't you just give us a little bit of the evolution of the laptop now being used in conjunction with, you know, the old wax, the old turntables?

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The new (ie, old) wax has proved a faithful model of the earth's surface, and the researchers have seen features other than faults that remind them of real plates.

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Racers wax their boards with an old-fashioned preparation called "dope, " whose original recipe called for spermaceti--a fatty substance produced by sperm whales.

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Even though we may wax nostalgic for the good old days of vinyl and DVDs and the dust-collectors in the garage, just remember that owning an album never bestowed unlimited rights.

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Ms. Hayden suggests old-fashion grooming wax for mustaches, but adds that all facial-hair fans should consider their overall look before leaving the house in the morning.

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"Because designers are jumping from one house to another so quickly, we wax nostalgic for collections that are not that old, " said Cameron Silver, co-owner of the Los Angeles vintage store Decades.

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The best distillers of their day, such as Pernod Fils and Edouard Pernod, were so concerned with knockoffs they used intricate wax seals and foils on their bottles, which, now 100 years old, are nearly impossible to fake, says David Nathan-Maister, a London rare-spirits dealer who specializes in absinthe.

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