NBC’s Dateline will do what we did here in early December, follow the twists and turns of Michael Jackson’s face over the last twenty years, a grim undertaking for sweeps week Feb. 17: An NBC News publicist later told Reuters the “Dateline” special would trace “the rise and fall of …

Online video wherein a squirrel sing/speaks very quickly about the adrenaline rush of “Weeeeee!” before slowing down for a philosophical assessment of childhood – moving.

Jesse Walker interviews Mickey Mouse about the Eldred decision in Reason: Mickey’s own reaction to the decision was less enthusiastic. Telling his keepers that he was going on an “ice run for the boss,” the mouse made his way to a dive bar a few miles outside Disneyland, where he …

Siva Vaidhyanathan states in Salon that the most important aspect of the Eldred case isn’t that Eldred/Lessig lost, but that it will be a rallying point for consumer activism, having already helped move copyright onto the front page and into public awareness – I agree: In response to this growing …

The editors of the NY Times see the Eldred decision as an ominous step toward perpetual copyright and the death of public domain: The court’s decision may make constitutional sense, but it does not serve the public well. Under that 1998 act, copyright now extends for the life of an …

North Korea’s Kim Jong Il is every bit the deranged anacronistic puffed-up potentate that Saddam is, and he has nukes: Since Kim is an absolute ruler, he can put on any show and act in any role he wants. A well-rounded 5 feet 3, he cuts a slightly ridiculous figure …

Howard Kurtz reports in the Washington Post on a new poll reaffirming that the public wants the press to stay out of the military’s nutsack when the bombs are flying: Two-thirds of the public believes the government should have the right to stop the media from disclosing military secrets, says …

Jandek is a mysterious Houston “recording artist” who has been self-releasing albums since 1978. Some call him a genius, many more call him a psychically dyslexic agoraphobic with no discernable musical talent beyond an uncanny ability to irritate. Demonstrating that not all radio is geared toward the masses, Harvard’s WHRB …

I haven’t seen the Rolling Stones on this tour, nor have I seen them live since, I think, ’89: just haven’t had the heart the take the chance that they would seem old and feeble. Since they are performing live, as in really live at the time of the performance, …

Jackson Browne doesn’t like the way he was portrayed in the TBS JFK Jr. biopic. According to Reuters: Browne’s attorney, Lawrence Iser, said that he demanded in a letter to TBS that it “cease and desist” airing the program again “until false and defamatory scenes accusing Mr. Browne of assaulting …