Altanta rappers DJ Drama and Don Cannon, famous for their Gansta Grillz Mixtapes, were arrested last night in a big bust of their so-called “bootleg” CDs. These were not counterfeited CDs as the RIAA claims, but instead freestyle rap mixtapes that were often used to hype new releases.

In the video we see a representative [...]

Hey kids, guess what? AOL is entering a new market—that of movie downloads. (Oh wait, they already tried this over two years ago.) Priced at $10-$20 each, no capability to burn to DVD, and Windows Media DRM, it’s sure to be a hit. (Oh wait, that won’t even work on your iPod.)**

First, when will [...]

In a recent Forbes article entitled “Don’t Marry Career Women,” you’d probably think it was more likely to come from The Onion:

Guys: A word of advice. Marry pretty women or ugly ones. Short ones or tall ones. Blondes or brunettes. Just, whatever you do, don’t marry a woman with a career.

Why? Because if many social [...]

Slashdot is running an article on the campaign to get rid of the caps lock key. Caps off, as the group is called, assures us that the world would be a far better place with a much more useful key in that position.

Hey, I’m all for it. When was the last time you purposefully used [...]

Okay, I know some of you love the Snakes on a Plane meme kind of thing, but do these cats really look like Hitler?! Or do I/they/we just have nothing better to do?!

Last week the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation made what was quite a startling announcement: it is donating $287 million to AIDS research, but only to those who leave their work open for sharing and collaboration. The Wall Street Journal reported that:

Frustrated that over two decades of research have failed to produce an AIDS vaccine, [...]

Apparently CBS is set to infiltrate American homes with advertising for their fall TV lineup. What’s the strategy? Egg-vertising. You got it. Basically they’ll use lasers to etch engravings into 35 million egg shells that consumers will view each time they open their egg carton—all the way until they actually crack that egg open.

The best [...]

I don’t want it … that way.

Our good old friends at the RIAA are at it again—reports have come in that they’ve sent cease and desist letters to creators of videos that make use of music to which the RIAA holds the copyright (the artists sign it over in their contracts). So watch out, next [...]