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Check out Classic TV Ads for just that. Set in a very slick and smooth-running simulated vintage TV set, see about thirty ads from the ’50s through the ’70s under hte headings of “Eat” (the 5th Dimension for Jell-o!) “Drink” “Smoke” (dig that crazy little dancing Alpine people Tareyton ad) …

Jam Master Jay is buried/Top 10 Run-DMC

This whole mobile entertainment thing still isn’t getting that much attention in the U.S., but it will – another reason to rethink the entertainment/communication paradigm. Maybe music will become communication content: Zingy, the largest mobile entertainment provider in North America, launches Phonemates, an audio based community that extends chat rooms …

May speed implementation, but consumers still don’t want it: Macrovision, a Santa Clara, Calif.-based company, said it will acquire Israeli company Midbar Tech, with the intention of joining the rival anti-copying technologies from the two companies. Both companies’ products have met resistance from consumers and record labels, and together they …

Johnny Cash is 70 and his voice is getting a little shaky, but his spirit is strong and his musical reach is perhaps wider than any other major performer in popular music. Morning Edition has interviewed Cash the last two mornings, playing excerpts from his new CD, The Man Comes …

I guess 15% of any group of people are idiots. James Traficant, a convicted felon who campaigned from his prison cell, still received over 27,000 votes for the new U.S. House District 17 seat in Northeast Ohio. What other explanation is there other than brain damage? Young Democrat Tim Ryan …

Ah, Top Ten Lists: is anything more a part of Pop Music? Ever since the first Top Forty Countdown was initiated, pop fans have been conditioned – whether by Your Hit Parade or Casey Kasem – into quantifying their likes and dislikes in list format. Like the gang at Championship …

No, I’m not talking about the elections: I’m talking about a cool online survey comparing CD and digital music download usage: This is the first page of a questionnaire designed by Aram Sinnreich, a doctoral student at the Annenberg School of Communication at the University of Southern California. I am …

As a sign that the national mood has begun to shift away from the zero tolerance, “just say No” mantra that first took root in the late ’70s, voters in three states and Washington D.C. (too late for a former mayor) vote today on measures that will decriminalize drugs or …

Jon Stewart’s Daily Show will make it up as they go along in “Indecision 02” special: To ready himself for election night coverage, CBS News anchor Dan Rather has been studying the issues for weeks. To prepare for his completely made-up election-night coverage, comedian Jon Stewart jokes that he starts …