The Library of Congress adds 25 films to the National Film Registry – and the winners are: Alien (1979) All My Babies (1953) The Bad and the Beautiful (1952) Beauty and the Beast (1991) The Black Stallion (1979) Boyz N the Hood (1991) Theodore Case Sound Tests: Gus Visser and …

Shocking no one, segregationist Trent Lott removed himself from Senate Majority Leader-to-be status, which should have allowed the tempest to blow itself out. But no, because there is at least one member of Congress seems to follow Uncle Trent lemming-like over the precipice. Check out this numb-nut: Responding to Sen. …

It isn’t that a radio comedy couldn’t work as a change of pace on NPR’s Morning Edition, segments from Harry Shearer’s Le Show is featured as part of the news fairly often and work well. But this week’s radio serial I’d Rather Eat Pants doesn’t work because it is rancid …

If TV was any more self-referential, it would disappear up its own sphincter: ARSENIO Hall is returning to host a rival version of “American Idol” for CBS. Hall, who hosted “The Arsenio Hall Show” for six years and co-starred on “Martial Law,” will host CBS’ “Star Search,” an updated take …

It is this simple: consumers should be able to make copies of their own DVDs. Period.

Software to turn your floor wax into a dessert topping: the GNU Radio project has made good on its promise. Blossom and development partner Matt Ettus have developed a software program that can make a PC receive two radio stations simultaneously. The only additional hardware components needed are a low-cost …

Photos, music, videos, etc. from computer to DVD player via wireless. Oooh: Sonicblue is looking to solve all your PC and DVD needs. The Santa Clara, Calif.-based consumer-electronics maker on Monday announced its new DVD player, the Go-Video D2730. In addition to playing DVD movies, the new player will be …

ChronWatch quotes Roll Call: When Senators and their aides tune in to Channel 5 on the chamber’s internal television system each morning, they normally get a replay of the previous night’s edition of ”Nightline” or a dry tutorial on parliamentary procedure conducted by the Congressional Research Service. But on the …

I just don’t know how I feel about this: I want my freedom and privacy, I don’t want to be blown up or doused with smallpox. I want the Feds, once they latch on to a miscreant, to be able to track them across the system but I don’t want …

Many have been explaining, if not justifying, Trent Lott’s tin ear for social commentary on his upbringing, the environment in which he grew up. There is some merit to understanding that Lott’s archaic views did not arise in a vacuum, but one should not be deflected from the primacy of …