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I really like Moby as an artist and dude: he may be a geek, but he’s a cool and sincere one. He’s also very intelligent and talented, and he’s been around. I was very sorry to hear he was assaulted Wednesday night in Boston – quoting his site: Curious, Why? …

Just about everyone loves “White Christmas,” Irving Berlin’s beautiful, longing ode to snow and the Christmas spirit that captures both the celebration and underlying melancholy present for many at the holiday. While Bing Crosby’s version is the biggest-selling single of all time (temporarily elbowed aside by Elton John’s Diana-tribute remake …

With the headlong race to the lowest common denominator (and below) in reality TV programming, you knew this was just a matter of time: [Showtime] has greenlit a half-hour latenight reality series chronicling the life of adult entertainment producer, director and occasional performer Adam Glasser, aka Seymore Butts. The currently …

Last Saturday’s SNL was neither very smoothly performed nor memorably written, but with Robert De Niro as the (somewhat reluctant) guest host, it was certainly watched: The Robert De Niro-hosted Dec. 7 edition of NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” drew the largest audience for the latenight series since a Britney Spears-fronted …

Speaking of sound loops, I have indicated on several occasions that I am fascinated with ambient music: music designed to create a mood environment without resorting to elevator banality. Brian Eno’s Music For Airports is one of the seminal works of the field. Norm Friesen has created a site that …

Want a quick retreat without leaving home or office, and without the use of drugs? Check out these soundscapes from Denmark. My favorites are “camping” and “beach camping” – you can almost smell the scenes. You can also loop them for continuous soundscapage.

It is difficult not to notice the irony of two jurors suing for $6 billion worth of slander, slander associated with the award of exorbitant sums in civil suits. Poetic justice, that: A pair of Mississippi jurors have filed a $6 billion lawsuit against CBS’ “60 Minutes,” alleging that its …

Since we have a new house that doesn’t suck and drain the spirit from us all, and since it sits up on a hill overlooking a fairly busy road, and we’ve already had a couple of parties for which to prepare, we have decorated pretty profusely (for us) for the …

Norah Vincent has about as clear and succinct an answer to a very troubling worldview as one could wish for: The war on terror is a ploy. It’s not real. It’s not necessary. It’s just a horror show meant to keep us all cowed and passive while the government has …

Who is Tim O’Reilly? Tim O’Reilly is the founder and CEO of O’Reilly & Associates, thought by many to be the best computer book publisher in the world. O’Reilly also publishes online through the O’Reilly Network (www.oreillynet.com) and hosts conferences on technology topics. Tim is an activist for open source …