David Hardy analyzes Michael Moore’s Bowling For Columbine as a “documentary” per the Academy’s own rules and finds it wanting: The Michael Moore production “Bowling for Columbine” just won the Oscar for best documentary. Unfortunately, it is not a documentary, by the Academy’s own definition. The injustice here is not …

You know, I’m all for recycling and “sustainable” living measures, and reduced resources depletion devices like efficient toilets and whatnot, WITHIN REASON. Among the many reasons why we hate our builder: During the walk through, he mentioned very quietly to me (everyone else was marveling that house had walls and …

New GPS-enabled mobile phone: NTT DoCoMo announced today that it will introduce it’s first Global Positioning Service (GPS)-compatible handset F661i, at the end of April. The GPS mobile phone enables users to determine their location at the touch of a button, and download location specific information via i-mode like graphical …

The US recording industry appears ready to shoot itself in the foot once again.

The legal foundation of P2P is “substantial non-infringing use” – here’s a pretty substantial use and the only people being “infringed upon” are Iraqi troops: Various forms of peer-to-peer technology, which allows computer users to bypass central servers and connect directly with one another, are being used to plan battlefield …

I woke up today smiling, which is very unusual because I am a “morning person” only in the sense that I am a person and there is such thing as morning. Ususally it seems as though there is some force-field that oppresses me when it’s time to get up no …

Media consultants are encouraging radio and TV stations to concentrate on patriotism and support of the troops. Dissent doesn’t sell: Now, apparently, is the time for all good radio and TV stations to come to the aid of their country’s war. That is the message pushed by broadcast news consultants, …

Bootleg recordings of live shows used to be of very poor quality and had to be distributed manually. No more: The day after Tori Amos shocked fans in England with a piano rendition of the Eagles’ “Desperado,” MP3s of her performance showed up in Nashville, Tennessee, where David Mobley downloaded …

That’s March in Ohio for you: I walked out the door into a stiff, damp wind-slap of about 35 degrees this afternoon and it was hard to believe that this was the same planet as last night. We’ve had a pretty crazy time of it lately: the war has weighed …

Southern rock came along in the early ’70s, spurred by the success of the Allman Bros, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Marshall Tucker Band, Molly Hatchet, Wet Willie and others: bands actually from the south, many associated with Phil Walden’s Capricorn Records. An amalgam of boogie, blues, country, bluegrass, Western swing, and improvisational …