Caroll Spinney, Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch for 34 years, has written a book: The 156-page book (Villard, $16.95) is for adults, not children, but Spinney figures most of his readers will have grown up with Sesame Street, or have children who watch it. At 69, he says he …

Webcast live here. Play-by-play from MacMinute here: Welcome to MacMinute’s live coverage of Apple’s press event! 1:00 Online Apple Store down 1:05 Event has begun Steve Jobs is going over recent annoucments — 12″ PowerBook, 17″ PowerBook, Safari, Keynote, iLife Final Cut Pro 4. “Today we are going to innovate …

We’ve found the former Iraqi Information Minister, again making quixotic remarks (“My feelings are as usual, we will slaughter them all”), this time for the recording industry (in reponse to the Grokster ruling): “One thing is clear, it’s not over,” said Allen Dixon, general counsel at the International Federation of …

Move over Peter Arnett, here comes Ashleigh Banfield on the fast track to Arab satellite TV: NBC News correspondent Ashleigh Banfield has ripped television news networks, including her own, for their “glorious” coverage of the Iraqi war and a lack of focus on international news overall. In a speech Thursday …

Bonnaroo 2002, and the upcoming 2003 show in rural Tennessee have been tremendous financial successes: June 13-15 on a 600-acre farm near rural Manchester, Tenn. That event sold out in 17 days, moving all 80,000 available tickets strictly via the festival’s Web site. The gross is estimated to be $11 …

Former pauper J.K. Rowling, who wrote the first Harry Potter book living on welfare in a two-bedroom apartment in Scotland just 10 years ago, is now worth more than the Queen: Rowling, 37, has more than quadrupled her personal fortune in the past two years, according to the survey by …

Okay, so you finally joined the third millennium and got a DVD player – in three years you’ll be out of date again: Don’t panic; any future player also will handle the discs you buy today. But just as DVDs are of higher quality than TV, digital TV and high-definition …

WiFi continues its rampage: The phone, being announced Monday, is intended for those who move around in the workplace, like nurses and warehouse workers, San Jose, Calif.-based Cisco said. It is not the first phone to use WiFi, but the announcement from networking giant Cisco bolsters the already considerable momentum …

Harry Shearer, now co-starring in Christopher Guest’s A Mighty Wind, as always The Simpsons, and his radio show, Le Show, has a strategy for the RIAA: Here’s a business model with a future: sue your customers. That’s what, as of this month, the recorded-music industry has been doing. It filed …

The Chipstah (!) has exclusive coverage of France’s breathtaking victory in IronyFest2003: Their lead never was in doubt, but their documented support for Iraq with intelligence on US plans and helping Saddam crush dissenters that was revealed yesterday while simultaneously claiming to stand for fairness and the rule of international …