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Michael Brecker has passed away Arguably, one of the most influential saxophonists of all time, he has lost his fight against myelodysplastic syndrome. Truly a major loss for the jazz and rock worlds.
posted on Jan-13-07 at 5:10 PM

now available! As someone who loved T1 & T2 this looks like mostly a rehash of those two. What's your take?
posted on Feb-7-03 at 1:17 PM

Music CD Settlement website now available. You'll get between $5 and $20 back, unless more than 13MM people respond, in which case the $67MM pool goes to charity.
posted on Dec-14-02 at 1:06 AM

Trafficant vows to get re-elected from prison. I guess if Marion Barry could be re-elected, why not Trafficant?
posted on Jul-31-02 at 11:18 AM

Microsoft must include Java with XP and IE. Sun sues Microsoft for including Java, then sues Microsoft for not including Java. Fascinating.
posted on Mar-8-02 at 11:06 AM

Pinocchio Fetish? Ok, now what's the attraction with women who look like they've told too many fibs? Well… that's hard to say. It's just sexy...
posted on Mar-6-02 at 10:57 PM

Kazaa halts downloading at least until a court decision. Does this really matter, as you're only blocking distribution of the client from the kazaa site. The "servers" still run, and people can still download the client from any other site.
posted on Jan-18-02 at 1:32 PM

eBay scum take advantage of xbox launch. Check out this and this auction. Do these people have no ethics?
posted on Nov-15-01 at 9:55 AM

Is the GPL a binding legal contract? If so, who would be able to (and could afford to) bring necessary legal action against groups who choose to ignore the terms?
posted on Sep-17-01 at 1:11 PM

Via to donate $100M to WTC? Um, seems like it was a bad typo. Taipei Times' article now reads "$1M". Seemed too good to be true.
posted on Sep-17-01 at 10:55 AM

Low Brow is really fun. Sit there and hit the reload button to hear people's tales of woe, misery and wild times. Some pretty funny tales there.
posted on Jul-19-01 at 12:12 PM

School Girl banned from using sign language. Why do I feel theres more to this story than the article is providing?
posted on Apr-26-01 at 2:47 PM

Clippy dead - news at 11. Anyone who has had to deal with "Clippy" in Microsoft's Office products will appreciate this new spin Microsoft is placing on the animated character.
posted on Apr-11-01 at 11:01 AM

Microsoft announces the product names for the next version of Windows and Office. They'll be called "Windows XP" and "Office XP", respectively.
posted on Feb-5-01 at 10:22 AM

Songs that you'll never think of the same way again.
posted on Jan-31-01 at 4:58 PM

Can you make change for a $200 bill? Looks like one store was able to.
posted on Jan-30-01 at 9:53 AM

Broken Arrow: Goldsboro, NC. On Tuesday, 24 January 1961, at about 12:30 a.m., two hydrogen bombs fell to earth near the tiny farming village of Faro, NC...

An interesting read.
posted on Jan-8-01 at 6:14 PM

Jack Chick Parody Site is up. Not surpringly, Chick Publications isn't pleased.
posted on Jan-8-01 at 3:48 PM

The Opera Browser is now ad-supported freeware. What does this mean for Internet Explorer and Netscape?
posted on Dec-10-00 at 10:57 PM

Everything's a collectible... on eBay, anyway.
posted on Nov-14-00 at 11:25 AM