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Audible.com getting rave reviews, this one from the International Herald Tribune: The Internet offers an alternative to buying or renting audio books by mail: Download the books you want to hear. This, however, presents a copyright problem – think of Napster and its successors. Publishers are reluctant to make their …

DVD technology the big buzz.

Homeowners pissed.

In what sounds like a kind of StarPolish for film, Kevin Spacey’s TriggerStreet.com debuts today: Trigger Street Productions, Inc., was formed in 1997 by Kevin Spacey to develop and produce entertainment in a variety of mediums. Realizing that the path to his own success would have been much rockier without …

Mullah Omar or myself are the last people to be writing about video games, but I don’t think Omar can write so it’s up to me. To the best of my memory, the last video game I played was at my son’s 8th birthday party at a Chuckie Cheese’s – …

Phil Donahue is not long for this TV world.

I am a big fan of found art – in fact, our family makes weird little sculptures from bits and pieces of man-made and natural objects. As a result, I find this photo series of juxtaposed and overlapping posters, stickers, graffiti and stencils from SoHo particularly evocative and appealing. Billie …

Myopic, self-centered, gross overreaching for a startling metaphor, and very stupid: Star Wars producer Rick McCallum equates the fight against file sharing to the War Against Terrorism. Other than little things like the loss of thousands of innocent lives in an attempt to destroy a way of life for a …

Arab TV network al Jazeera comes under scrutiny once again for its broadcast of the latest bin Laden bile-fest. An update to our coverage can be found here.

Jacko’s in court looking pasty and more freakish than ever. If the metamorphosis continues at its current rate, in 20 more years Jackson will be an albino Chinese girl. Joal Ryan reports from the scene: the King of Pop has regained his regal stride, testifying in his $21 million breach …