In a stunningly ironic turn of events, tapes of the BBC’s new ROBIN HOOD series have been stolen from a Hungarian production company. The BBC says the theft, while inconvenient, will not deter the show from premiering as scheduled in the same Saturday night time slot that has been occupied by DR WHO.
I find that [...]

After the jump a complete list of Emmy Winners. Hat tip to Daily Variety. Don’t say I never gave you anything!

Robert X. Cringley writes about Sony’s strategy to minimize the damage they will take from file sharing, by buying a P2P network called grouper. Pay attention to Robert. He can see the future.

You have probably seen more than a few movie trailers recently that seemed to be the exact same movie: talented unknown actors, ghosts in computer screens. The angry dead using electronics to wreak havoc on the living. I’ve seen this same premise 5 times in the last year. As far as I know, the dead-live-in-your-networks [...]

Read the comment to this post! Though I encourage you to take anything you read on the net with a grain of salt, this sounds credible. Remember kids, never join a band that you’re too young to have any knowlege of!

As if it wasn’t hard enough making a living as an actor (just ask Tom Cruise) there as been a problem with slow delivery of residual checks. And with the exception of westerns, any actor will tell you that slow delivery just kills the scene.
The checks are often delayed by several months according to Daily [...]

PARAMOUNT LETS TOM CRUISE LOOSE, CITING ERRATIC BEHAVIOR
You’re next, Gibson!
APPLE, CREATIVE SETTLE PATENT DISPUTE
Finally Apple has exclusive rights to creativity again…. Creative was threatening to sell them to Microsoft!
SNAKES SPOTTED IN THEATRE SHOWING SNAKES ON A PLANE
But they weren’t spotted snakes. They were plain.
STUDIO TO ATTEMPT ACE VENTURA SEQUEL WITHOUT JIM CARREY
Who could resist after [...]

Racism is one of humanity’s worst problems, and certainly one of America’s. It’s so ugly that we don’t want to acknowlege it, so it’s great news to see a mainstream American TV show taking it on. Unfortunately, that show is SURVIVOR.
Next season’s episode will start with 4 teams - Asian-Americans, African-Americans, Hispanics and the pale [...]

Apple Computer, maker of the mighty iPod, has settled 5 lawsuits with Singapore-based Creative, which makes several thousand different mp3 players but will probably stop now because they no longer need the money.
Creative held a patent on a hierarchal user interface in which you navigate to a folder, click on it, click on a folder [...]

I hear (via Molly) that DON’T DOWNLOAD THIS SONG ain’t nothing compared to YOU’RE PITIFUL. NPR tells the story of the misbegotton parody of James Blunt’s YOU’RE BEAUTIFUL; how W. Al got the artists permission to put the song on his next album but “suits” at Atlantic Records insisted that it not be included.
Al, who [...]