The Sex Pistols hit the road this summer – will the road hit back? It is pointless to try to confront an antagonist such as Lydon in an interview format, especially a timed interview format: As first reported here, the cross-country, 13-date trek will launch Aug. 20 in Boston. The …

We mentioned back in May this was coming. In the interim they seem to have addressed the disposal problem: Set to roll out in September with eight titles in four markets, Disney’s new EZ-D DVD self-destructs 48 hours after the purchaser opens the special airtight package. The disc is composed …

I can think of worse ways to spend a few days in central Texas in August: Raz on the Braz August 7 – 9, 2003 Buck’s on the Brazos It’s Terry Rasor’s Birthday Bash! Performing: Billy Joe Shaver / Davin James / John Nitzinger / Larry Joe Taylor /Tommy Alverson …

We recently mentioned software that finds, chops and recombines parts of spoken word into odd pastiches. Now a Northeast Ohio contrarian has assembled a collection of TV and radio ads “remixed” to subvert their original message: The commercial’s banjo melody is instantly familiar, but the words are different. “Armour hot …

Our buds at Amazon are creating a searchable database of thousands of nonfiction books: Executives at Amazon.com are negotiating with several of the largest book publishers about an ambitious and expensive plan to assemble a searchable online archive with the texts of tens of thousands of books of nonfiction, according …

Forbes compares the media legends and finds the Times still ahead in key categories, but the Post had a good year and the Times suffered through its worst in some time, maybe ever: Then came The New York Times’ annus horribilis. The Jayson Blair scandal germinated quietly enough, with the …

ReplayTV caves to content industry: new model will drop two key features – it will no longer be able to skip entire commercials automatically, or send recorded programming over the Internet. Sonicblue Inc., the former owner of ReplayTV, was considered the company in the digital video recording industry that most …

Brad Stone thinks he knows why The League film sucks: One of the film’s problems, and the comic book’s strengths, is enormously relevant in an age of rampant online file-sharing and courtroom wars over extension of the copyright term. In the comic book, Moore shows the benefit of having a …

Apple’s Wozniak is doing it for the children and dogs: The co-founder of Apple Computer, Stephen Wozniak, recalls that it began with a series of lost dogs – a runaway husky, a roving Shar-Pei, a wayward bichon frisé. The problem led inexorably to a Wozniak solution: wireless location-monitoring technology that …

Several FCC commissioners, including Chairman Powell, figure the private sector looks pretty good about now: In the Senate last week, seven Republicans joined 28 Democrats to schedule a rare “resolution of disapproval” to overturn new FCC rules that would let companies like News Corp. and Viacom expand their media holdings …