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BLUES LEGEND ROBERT JOHNSON may have been recorded at the wrong speed.
CAMPER VAN BEETHOVEN has its gear stolen…again.
FUEL singer Brett Scallion dropped the f-bomb at Tuesday’s Inaugural Youth Party (albeit in a Team America: World Police sort of way). Jeff Goldstein reflects on the deeper meaning of this event.
THE NEW YORK TIMES denies that it's getting into bed with a Swedish porn distributor; others are skeptical.
ON THE PITCHFORK: Details of Sleater-Kinney's debut on Sub Pop.
LOW CULTURE has unintentionally funny photos from the Golden Globes — one of Hugh Hefner in particular.
E! NETWORKS apologizes to child actress Dakota Fanning.
BOB MARLEY AND VOGUE EDITOR ANNA WINTOUR were jammin', according to a forthcoming biography of Wintour.
PORTIA de ROSSI has been sitting in the audience for every taping of her galpal Ellen DeGeneres's talk show since on Jan. 5th, even communicating with Ellen during her opening monologue. Gay or straight, that's a little weird.
WD40 is not a normally associated with combating illegal drug use, but the Guardian newsblog reports that British police are advising bar owners to spray the cleaner and lubricant in their bathrooms to put an “invisible film” over toilets that absorbs cocaine when anyone tries to snort it off them, turning it into a congealed mess.
WHY ARE THE TV NETWORKS lavishly covering the Inaguration? You might expect that question from a liberal journal, but it's being asked by the Washington Times.
DO YOU WANT TO LIVE FOREVER? Aubrey David Nicholas Jasper de Grey believes mankind can achieve virtual immortality by 2030.
ARTIFICIAL LIFE is brewing in East Lansing, Michigan. I thought that when I went on a job interview there years ago, but this story is about something else.
QUENTIN TARANTINO VOTED FOR MEL GIBSON for the Golden Globe; Virginia Madsen cried at meeting William Shatner.
FBI DISCONTINUES CARNIVORE for internet surveillance; Orin Kerr explains why that's not a big deal…and maybe never was.
STAN LEE, creator of Spider-Man, is awarded ten percent of the proceeds Marvel Enterprises has received since November 1998 from movies, television shows and movie-related toys by a federal district court. Marvel intends to appeal.
PHISH HEADS AND NATIONAL REVIEW columnist Jonah Goldberg mull the possibility of President Bush quoting Phish lyrics in his Inaugural speech and parallels between Bush and Woodrow Wilson. Strange bedfellows, indeed.
AMY'S ROBOT compiles the best albums of 2004 from an international list of lists. I think I may prefer Amy's own list.
THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL admits it inflated the number of estimated obesity deaths in a much-hyped study claiming that obesity was poised to overtake smoking as the top preventable cause of death. Some critics maintain the numbers are still too fat.
FROM THE “WHERE ARE THEY NOW?” FILE: Thomas Dolby is creating and scoring ringtones for cellphones.
RELATED STORY: JENNA JAMESON is teaming up with Wicked Wireless to provide “moantones” to Latin American cellphone users.
