<I>Cartoon Brew</I> has come to the aide of those of us looking for the perfect Kwanzanukmas gift for animaniacs with its review of <A HREF="http://www.cinetecadelfriuli.org/pubblicazioni/Libri/publications_06.ht… Disney's Silly Symphonies: A Companion to the Classic Cartoon Series</I></A>.

Is Apple interested in getting into the satellite radio business? Why not?Nobody's made money at it yet&mdash;that makes it a natural for Cupertino.

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.

What? The writers who post blurbs on book covers haven't actually read the books? I'm shocked, shocked.

"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."