Charlie Crist, outgoing governor of Florida, is considering pardoning Jim Morrison, the late lead singer from The Doors, who died in Paris in 1971. As some may recall, the controversial figure was charged with indecent exposure and profanity after a concert in Miami in 1969 ( Read more... )

Not content with Rick Astley's rick-rolling of 44 million people during the Macy's Thanksgiving parade, Zug has now rick-rolled the whole planetThis sort of escalation cannot end well. Somebody's gonna rick-roll Alpha Centauri, there'll be a cultural misunderstanding, and before you know it the First Intergalactic War will be upon us, all because ( Read more... )

Sony has announced that they are no longer making the Walkman cassette player, after some 30 years of providing portable music to the masses.

Mike Edwards, a former cellist with ELO, was killed in a freak accident when his van was crushed by a 600-kilogram hay bale in England.

This one's not Klingon Opera, but it's still pretty strange. When you die, you can now have your ashes baked into a vinyl record, via a company called And Vinyly. You can have the record play your favourite tunes, your own voice from beyond the grave, or even your last will and testament.

How does it work? The process of setting human ashes into ( Read more... )

Klingon Opera. Enough said.

Prince: The Internet is totally over
The Internet: Prince? Who's that?

The RIAA and MPAA, as well as the BSA, like to squawk about how much money their respective clients lose to piracy every year. However, there are legitimate channels for use of otherwise-copyrighted material, known as "fair use". How much of an impact does "fair use" have on the US economy? How about $4.7 trillion in 2007 alone? This is ( Read more... )

It's the burning question - whose fans on Twitter are dumber, those of Sarah Palin or Justin Bieber? And there's an answerOn a related note, I was in an HMV store the other day, and I heard one guy commenting to another that "I'd like to smash his face in!" Looking over, I saw that he was pointing at Justin Beiber's latest CD, so I pointed out ( Read more... )