I am not overly amused by the “misheard lyrics” phenomenon, seeing getting the lyrics wrong as an error to be corrected not celebrated. I don’t believe anyone would confuse “scuse me while I kiss the sky” with “scuse me while I kiss this guy,” unless they were gay or something. …

Hardly, with at least three paid moles for Saddam: On Tuesday, when al Jazeera fired its director general, Mohammed Jassem al-Ali, the world was reminded once again of one significant reason–Saddam Hussein’s regime infiltrated media outlets throughout the region, including al Jazeera. According to a dispatch from Agence France Presse, …

Sen. Lieberman outlines tech policy and picks up support: Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (D-Conn.) outlined a technology-friendly economic program in California yesterday and picked up the endorsements of several prominent tech leaders in Silicon Valley for his presidential campaign. The biggest catch was venture capitalist John Doerr, who has been …

Palm and Mute have put out CDs with unprotected MP3s as well as standard CD audio tracks on them. You can either work with the digital revolution or you can try to fight it. What do you think will more productive in the end? Palm, working with a small independent …

Italian composer Lucian Berio has died at 77: Luciano Berio, an Italian composer whose many compositions, ranging from chamber music to large-scale orchestral works and from operas to songs, combined innovative imagination and analytical depth with a richly sensuous feeling for sound and form, died yesterday in Rome. He was …

More whiny-ass musing on the indelibility of youth and dangers of overabundance. This What Do I Know dude is worn out physically and emotionally by packing 5,000 CDs and wondering if he has gained anything over when he had 60 cassettes he knew by heart. He’s a flipping piker: I …

STUN singer stage dives in the wrong direction: Christiane J, lead vocalist for Geffen’s ultra-hot new band S.T.U.N., is already noted as somewhat of a mad man while onstage, but last night was the first time he suffered injuries severe enough to take him to the emergency room. On tour …

New tax package bonanza: Among the provisions of the tax package just approved by Congress is an increase in the deduction allowed for small-business equipment purchases, which rises from $25,000 to $100,000. That means real estate agents, lawyers, doctors — anybody who files a Schedule C or corporate tax return …

Not an indictment under the DMCA, but an indictment OF the DMCA by Jay Sulzberger of New Yorkers for Fair Use: Computers today are printing presses — and it’s shocking! I have certain conservative tendencies; I am also sympathetic to the socialists. But the idea that everybody who’s a member …

Listen.com reduces online song price to $.79: Listen.com, which offers Internet radio broadcasts and other programming for $9.95 a month, is lowering the price for burning digital music onto compact discs to 79 cents per song, the company said Wednesday. The move comes just one month after Apple Computer Inc. …