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Doug Morris and David Geffen think we portable digital device owners are thieves. <I>GigaOm</I> sez just say no to UMG.

The RIAA's Cary Sherman tells us we're all wet about fair use.

Imagine that&mdash;Microsoft is touchy about negative reviews. The interesting thing is that it thinks it can prevent negative reviews by preventing the use of its logo.

"In [Daniel Kehlmann's] first novel translated into English, the 31-year-old literary wunderkind's breezy, sometimes charming and ultimately inconsequential work follows the actual lives, careers and eventual intersection of two of Germany's brightest scientists: explorer, geographer and naturalist Alexander Von Humboldt and the astronomer and aptly crowned 'prince of mathematicians' Carl Friedrich Gauss."

Why we love to hate Paris Hilton&mdash;not that most of us would behave any differently had we been given the chance to grow up entitled and ignorant.

Ever been stuck for a word&mdash;say, you know exactly what it means, but you just can't remember <I>le mot juste</I>? A good reverse dictionary can help.

Jeff Wong sends along a link to the Oxford University Press's "Ask the Experts" page. I like the "Jargon Buster" grammar feature, but this page on symbols is cool, too.