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ABC’s daily political semi-blog, The Note, written by Mark Halperin, Elizabeth Wilner and Marc Ambinder, has some interesting rules for political coverage as the November elections creep closer: We are writing on the ABCNEWS blackboard 1,000 times each the rules of political journalism that we hope to follow assiduously for …

Been jonesing for live Zappa action since Frank’s departure? Here is your chance to at least partially relive the madness: PROJECT/OBJECT REUNITES FRANK ZAPPA’s TOP VOCALISTS ON ENCORE COAST-TO-COAST TOUR Ike Willis, Napoleon Murphy Brock return to help band faithfully recreate the live Zappa experience Zappa percussionist Ed Mann added …

We have been following the Supreme Court copyright challenge closely. Now Lawrence Lessig blogs on his Supreme Court appearance: the aim Our aim from the start was to get this Court to view this case in the same frame that they viewed another important line of cases limiting Congress’s power …

When I ran the DJ company in LA in the ’80s, one of my regular gigs was DJing the post-game parties after the polo matches at the LA Equestrian Center in Burbank. It was a tony, money-and-horseys crowd that partied after the matches, with regulars including Sylvester Stallone and Brigitte …

I love A Confederacy of Dunces, one of the funniest, most empathetic looks at misfits and outsiders ever written, that blessedly never dips into sentimentality. Ignatius P. Reilly is a vexing, troubling, brilliant character who represents the late author’s alter ego, ultimately triumphant. The dialogue is brilliant and dead real …

NY Times mag piece on Barker’s new imaginary world for children: Walking into what Barker calls the inside of his head — that is, his private art studio — is like tripping into a punk-rock version of Oz. Brightly colored oil paintings, some of them as wide as 13 feet, …

Chronicler of WWll succumbs to lung cancer at 66: Ambrose spent much of his career as a relatively little known history professor until he burst onto the best-seller’s list with his 1994 book “D-Day June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II.” Based in large part on interviews …

Taiwan has refused to extend copyrights from 50 to 70 years – is the US Supreme Court listening? Taiwan has turned down a U.S. demand on Friday to extend copyrights on works including earlier Walt Disney movies for another 20 years as negotiators on both sides held talks on intellectual …

We’ve recently talked about Internet censorship in the Gulf States, and a crackdown on cybercafes in China. Western hacktivists are fighting the power: Western hackers are developing programs to defeat the Internet censorship barriers of repressive countries overseas — and you can take part in the effort. Software such as …

WaPo’s Jim Hoagland celebrates Imre Kertesz’s Nobel Prize in literature: Imre Kertesz is a Holocaust survivor, an East European who was persecuted under communism, a free man since 1989 and this year’s winner of the Nobel Prize for literature. Who says book critics never get it right? Sweden’s remarkable literary …