Corey Dietz has uncovered a double secret probation scheme by the RIAA to go after illegal secondary users of car radio: Lawyers for the RIAA maintain that the radio in each car was never meant to be listened to by anyone else except the original owner of the vehicle. Therefore, …

Speaks to Salon from the airport: [Puts the phone in the tray and it goes through the X-ray machine. It is quiet in there, with occasional sounds of fumbling. Clatter as Franken picks up the phone again.] OK, so we were talking about why you get under the skin of …

I admit I have lulled into hoping one more time that peace could be negotiated between Israel and the Palestinians, especially if it could avoid yet more bloodshed in the bloody region. But the terrorist attacks keep coming, the innocent Israeli dead keep piling up, even as the Palestinian leadership …

Hypocritical blather from the Phantom of the Men’s Stall. George Michael doesn’t think a new generation of pop stars has the gravitas to record a Band-aid-style charity song: Michael said today’s chart stars were too manufactured and trivial for any song to carry weight. There were fewer credible artists around …

Our friends at the RIAA seem hell-bent on ramming their worldview down every customer, former customer, or potential customer’s throat. I see this as a problem from a marketing, customer service and legal standpoint since their methods infringe upon the privacy and civil liberties of everyone who uses the Internet, …

Cleveland’s own O’Jays just wrapped up a 20-city tour, and they acted in the upcoming film The Fighting Temptations with Cuba Gooding Jr. and Beyonce Knowles. JoAnne Allen interviewed them for Reuters: It is not the first time the O’Jays have appeared in a movie, but it is the first …

Anna is pretty hot and all, modeling her new sports bra on Amazon. But Anna is no longer in the same league with Serena Williams, who is not only the top women’s player in the world, but has begun an acting career and is every bit as hot as Anna, …

We dig TechTV, with all kinds of useful, entertaining and strange information on matters tech (especially since they picked us as a favorite blog – thanks Sarah!) Now it’s for sale: Paul Allen, the entrepreneur and co-founder of software maker Microsoft Corp. is looking to sell his technology-related cable channel …

Bud Powell (b. 1924), though hardly unknown, doesn’t receive the recognition he deserves from the general public as one of the piano greats in jazz history. He helped create bebop (a name he disliked) in the ’40s independetly of Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, before a long slow decline related …

It’s ALL ambiguous right now. Hollywood asked that the DVD decryption code be declared a trade secret and banned from the Internet – they got part of that: The case has pit freedom-of-speech arguments against an entertainment-industry effort to protect what it says are trade secrets. Hollywood is happy because …