USA Today goes WAY out on a limb and picks six sequels, all from wildly popular series, as holiday season hits. Their seventh pick for blockbusterdom stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Tom Hanks, and is directed by Steven Spielberg – hmm, sounds risky: In each of the past two holiday seasons, …

I don’t much like prefab faux-R&B teen pop, so you can imagine that I’m not a real big ‘NSYNC fan – I don’t hate them or anything, but they’re just not really on my radar screen. But I have an impression that they are not bad guys, that they have …

Happy Halloween – the scariest thing that happened was when our server went down for a couple of hours. That blew chunks. Dawn is off trick-or-treating with Lily and Lily’s bestest little friend, Maddie. Maddie and her mommy are moving away very shortly, very sad. My son Chris is off …

The Free Network Project: What is Freenet? Freenet is a large-scale peer-to-peer network which pools the power of member computers around the world to create a massive virtual information store open to anyone to freely publish or view information of all kinds. Freenet is: Highly survivable: All internal processes are …

Isn’t this the kind of thing the War on Terror is supposed to be fighting? Didn’t they learn anything from the Who Wants to Marry a Whore fiasco? Reaching deeper into the pits of despair, and back in time to the feudal era, Fox has come up with a new …

Center for Democracy and Technology Executive Director Jerry Berman writes this week in the Legal Times on the need for more consumer input into all of the legal and governmental maneuvering going on over digital copyright protection: In the first week of its new term, the Supreme Court became the …

Stuntman lost and presumed dead after shooting a scene for upcoming Bruce Willis action film Tears of the Sun. As of late Wednesday, the Coast Guard was still searching for Michael Barber, a day after he and seven other parachutists leapt from a plane and were supposed to land on …

Matt Welch and Dave Pell reflect opposite ends of the fan emotion spectrum. Matt glories: Mostly, I’m just real happy, happier than I remember being in a long time, as goofy as that sounds. Cubs and Red Sox fans? You’re in for a treat, when your day comes. We had …

Norah Jones and Chris Isaak this weekend on PBS: AUSTIN CITY LIMITS presents two artists who mix aspects of several genres of American roots music to form their own original sound. Chris Isaak’s exciting rock ‘n’ roll has been winning fans for decades and sultry songstress Norah Jones’ jazzy pop …

Run-DMC DJ Jam Master Jay (Mizell) was murdered last night. See reports here and here. Even though he has been around for 20 years, he was only 37. Here are tributes from the Run-DMC website: I’ll never forget that fabulous concert from front row seats in Washington DC in 1986: …