I knew this story was coming. We ran this report a couple of days ago about how bad things are for the major record retailers, and at the time I thought to myself, “I’ll bet some of the big used record stores and the stores that feaure hard to find …

CNET reports: The Seattle-based software company is unveiling Helix DRM, digital-rights management technology designed to be format-agnostic protection for the delivery of content to PCs, home appliances and mobile devices. The technology supports the emerging video standard MPEG-4 and H.263; audio formats MP3, AAC and Narrowband AMR audio; and its …

Dude is concerned about his johnson, writes in to MSNBC sex doctor: Lately I’ve been seeing a lot of advertisements for penis enhancement pills, some claiming to increase size up to 3 inches in less than three months. But before I spend my money on such products, I’d like to …

Seven figure deal for the controversial Supreme Court Justice’s memoirs from HarperCollins: Multiple publishers vied for the rights to Thomas’ autobiography, which he started writing in 2001, but Thomas liked the package offered by the New York-based HarperCollins, including the editor assigned to work with him, people in the publishing …

If our family is any kind of example, I can understand why the retailers are weeping about the holiday season just past: Dawn and I spent less than we have in many years on gifts. Yes, our financial situation is unstable and we just bought a new house so we …

Read my name, now tell me I’m not going to celebrate a new site – by a Blogcritic no less – called Viking Pundit. Man, I miss the days of pillaging and plundering – how did a people who terrorized Europe and sailed to the New World 500 years before …

Blogger Richard is deeply frustrated by the Chinese government’s new anti-blog policy: the big bad communist government of China has BLOCKED ACCESS TO ALL BLOGSPOT SITES. That, since yesterday afternoon, 36 hours ago. Well, I am mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore. I live in …

Cory Doctorow’s sci-fi novel Down and Out In the Magic Kingdom is in bookstores today. In keeping with the open source tradition, you can also download the whole flipping thing, as well as check up onn ews, reviews, press and whatnot on the book at Cory’s site . Here’s a …

Sprint and Warner hook up for streaming music clip service and new ring-tone features on cell phones: Selling ring-tones, or musical jingles that play on cellphones, is giving a little boost to the otherwise gloomy music industry, which is grappling with a protracted slump in CD sales and struggling to …

Scott Berinato writes in CIO: In 1984, the state methodically stripped the population of privacy and individual identity. This Orwell got wrong. In 2003, it’s largely corporations doing it. (Give the state time, though. The Total Information Awareness effort within the Department of Homeland Security, and aspects of the USA …