same as it ever was

Live Phish, a new online paid music service, delivers soundboard-quality live Phish shows only days after the concert. Leave it to a neo-hippie band to come up with an Internet music service that makes both the band and its fans happy. By Danit Lidor. [Wired News]

James Speth has decided to give iCommune a new future. According to the iCommune site, here’s what the next version will be:
* a stand-alone application that manages network accessible music libraries
* able to generate and manage playlists for your favorite mp3 player
* […]

This is excellent news: Homer, Bart and the rest of The Simpsons gang will be sticking around the tube for a while as Fox announced Friday it has reupped the classic cartoon series for two more years. Dismissing talk that… [Jeremy Zawodny’s blog]

Nice picture on the Warren Zevon home page: “Warren being attended to by his personal physician, Dr. Hunter S. Thompson” [a joshua tree in every pot…]

A flurry of legislation seeking to ban or curtail the Total Information Awareness program — whose goal is to develop ways to track patterns in databases of Americans’ private info — hits Capitol Hill. Privacy advocates cheer. By Ryan Singel. [Wired News]

The heck with wondering whether Chuck Barris actually worked as an operative for the CIA as detailed in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, I’m wondering about more important things. Have you ever seen Chuck Barris and Lou Reed in the same room at the same time? I thought not.
[Dog Door of Death […]

The town of Soap Lake, WA, is building a 60′ lava lamp to promote tourism.
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(Thanks, Zed!)
[Boing Boing Blog]

M’s sign infielder Colbrunn
The Mariners signed infielder Greg Colbrunn to a two-year contract Friday, the first step in upgrade a depleted bench.
Colbrunn, 31, spent the last four years on the bench in Arizona, where he was a reserve at both third base and first base. In 2002, he hit .333 with 10 homers in just […]

phishPhish played a new years eve prank, and provide proof that we live in a ‘cut and paste’ journalistic world. [Adam Curry: Adam Curry’s Weblog]

He fought the law (and the law won)It was great to have Joe Strummer back, even if he sold “London Calling” to Jaguar. Now he’s gone, reminding us that rock doesn’t matter anymore. [Salon]