Bills' offense flounders in third straight loss

"I don’t want to shortchange the defensive effort by the Patriots, especially the play of the front seven, but the Bills offense continued to be anemic in a 20-10 loss to New England. That makes three straight...

England thump South Africa in 2nd ODI

"Stuart Broad returned a career-best five for 23 to help England thrash South Africa by 10 wickets in the second ODI at Nottingham on Tuesday. The visitors thus went 2-0 down in the five-match series after collapsing to 83 all out in 23 overs, their second lowest total in a...

GOP Stunned By Loss in Mississippi

"In a major blow to national Republicans, a Mississippi congressional seat that once voted for President Bush by a twenty-five point margin elected a Democrat on Tuesday. Prentiss County Chancery Clerk Travis Childers beat out Republican candidate Greg Davis, the mayor of...

Charles Manson releases free album online: scared?

If anyone has the guts to listen to the album--I'm sworn off sociopathic music--please review it in a comment below." Well, Charlie don't surf, but he does pay attention to modern trends. Convicted mass...

Who's the Indy-est? Reznor vs. Radiohead

Wired has a great comparison of what two industry breakers have taught us about the future of music distribution."Reznor vs. Radiohead: Innovation SmackdownBy Eliot Van Buskirk Email 03.27.08 | 12:00...

NIN: New Album Pulls In $1.6M In First Week

As we reported last week, Trent Reznor's mixed price point distribution model for the latest NIN album has been paying off in spades. Initial estimates put the first few days of sales at $750,000.Now that dollar...

Trent Reznor makes $750k by giving music away

Is this a viable new model for selling music? Post a few freebies, circulate some cheap digital tunes, and then offer an ultra-mega-super-uber-deluxe package for a few hundred a piece. Where it failed for Niggy...

Can Artists Be Labels? Reznor, Radiohead, and the Mass Market

While artists rail against exploitative labels, those labels do fulfill a role in the entertainment-biz ecosystem: basically, everything other than actually recording and performing the music. However, thigs are...

Trent Lott to Resign by End of Year

Another Republican Senator to retire, this time it's the #2."Sen. Trent Lott of Mississippi, the Senate's No. 2 Republican, plans to resign his seat by the end of the year, congressional and Bush administration...

Artist implants ‘third ear’ on his arm

 We have respect for artistic freedom and integrity but could you have thought of a better place to put that ear?"Performance artists are known for pushing the bounderies, but one Australian has astonished...

Young inventor perfects drug and explosives scanning technology

Rockhampton local Trent Pohlmann is one of the most accomplished scientists in Queensland boasting a Bachelor of Science degree, a First Class Honours degree in Applied Science majoring in Chemistry and this year has accepted an Australian Postgraduate Award to complete a...

Floods swamp farmland and roads

"Flooding has caused more problems for farmers and drivers in southern Derbyshire, England. There are warnings in place on the River Trent between  Yoxall, Burton-on-trent, Staffordshire and Clay Mills, and at  Cavendish Bridge, Shardlow, Derby. Farmland near...

Tanker Explosion Destroys Oakland Interchange

Fortunately the driver survived, and was the only person injured. However, in a region plagued with traffic congestion, this will be the worst infrastructure disaster since the 1989 earthquake. "A section of...

Sri Lanks Tops Ireland: World Cup Super 8

UPDATE: Ireland must now bow out of World Cup contention..."Ireland's World Cup came to a sorry end as Sri Lanka thrashed them by eight wickets with 40 overs to spare in their Super 8 clash in Grenada. The Irish were bowled out for 77, mainly thanks to Farveez Maharoof (4-25)...

What Trent Lott Brings to the Party

"The election of the once disgraced politician as the number two Senate Republican may mean that the G.O.P. has no intention of getting along too well with the new party in power. To some observers, the choice of Trent Lott as the new number two Republican in the Senate may...

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