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My son just got an Xbox for Christmas – the guy at Wal-Mart said the Xbox had a lot more of a future than did Playstation 2. I guess he was right: Project Dreamix will turn the Microsoft Xbox into the ultimate home entertainment center. Right now we are in …

Robbie Williams is one of those British pop stars who will never cross the ocean because he is just too middling in every way. I have listened to at least three of his albums at various times and I have absolutely no impression of him whatsoever: not bad, not good, …

This is one of those intellectual products that is either sincere or a brilliant parody, or some odd combination of the two, and the fact that we don’t know which of the above it is makes it that much more interesting. On the one hand we have a very high-minded, …

In today’s Washington Post, Frank Ahrens has a very long opus on XM satellite radio, the history of FM, and the person in whom they intersect, Lee Abrams: Why does radio sound the way it does today? Why does it sound like it’s been prepped, packaged and served up in …

In what could be a major philosophical shift, RIAA chairman Hilary Rosen says the ISPs should have to pay for enabling file sharing: “We will hold ISPs more accountable,” said Hilary Rosen … in her keynote speech at the Midem music conference on the French Riviera. “Let’s face it. They …

Wired reports that the webmaster of Planet Replay, a ReplayTV user’s site, shut down the section of his site that facilitated sharing recorded programs between ReplayTV owners: On Thursday, Chad Little closed the sharing section of Planet Replay after being deposed by an attorney representing the entertainment companies that are …

Now that the Donnas are on a major, they are turning up in all the right places: TRL last week, SNL last night. Although I am not thrilled that they have turned in the direction of the chunky hard rock of Kiss or AC/DC and away from their punkier beginnings, …

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 …