You know, you can’t go to a concert in Norway anymore without a helmet: A flying sheep’s head hit a concertgoer and fractured his skull at a concert of metal band Mayhem. The band, part of Norway’s death metal music scene, was carving up a dead sheep as part of …

When we started back in August, I told the writers I was going to fold my old site and concentrate on this one. All of the other writers have their own sites to take care of – this IS my home site. So since I used to write a lot …

Digital music format for GPRS: 02 today claims a world first for a music download service on GPRS, or 2.5G, networks. It’s early days yet – O2 is at test stage only, but it works like this: you choose your music from the latest chart hits – the service is …

McDonald’s to offer wireless Internet access: In a further sign of the spread of wireless Internet technology, McDonald’s restaurants in three U.S. cities will offer one hour of free high-speed access to anyone who buys a combination meal. Ten McDonald’s in Manhattan will begin offering wireless WiFi, or 802.11b, Internet …

There has been mucho discussion of late regarding protest music or the lack thereof regarding war with Iraq. Nothing along those lines has really struck a chord here in the US, perhaps because the majority of Americans (and growing according to NY Times report today) support military action to disarm …

This is an interesting little tale about freedom of speech. Charlie Daniels sent out “An Open Letter To The Hollywood Bunch”: An Open Letter To The Hollywood Bunch Ok let’s just say for a moment you bunch of pampered, overpaid, unrealistic children had your way and the U.S.A. didn’t go …

In an act that may speak of innovation, flexibility, desperation, or disgust with the cost of marketing via radio (or all of the above), a major label is going to introduce songs on a video game rather than through radio for the first time: The goal is to lure young, …

Blondes – it’s always the blondes, but what is it about them? Chris Cotner just put up a post about smoking hot BLONDE softballer Jennie Finch replacing super hot BLONDE Anna Kournikova as the Hottest Female Athlete. Coincidentally, the NY Times ran a story about blonde power over the weekend: …

Yoko Ono is 70 – wow. This time around the carousel of fame, the club crowd has embraced her idiosyncratic caterwauling: A few weeks after her 70th birthday, Yoko Ono took the microphone in a throbbing downtown disco over the weekend, doing that warble thing that inevitably unravels into orgasmic …

With the Oscars only two weeks away, Hollywood’s pulse is quickening. The NY Times has a very nice special section of the Oscars present and past here. Profiles of Daniel Day Lewis, Julianne Moore, Peter O’Toole, and features on digital animation, the tradition of Oscar campaigning are all fascinating; but …