The news cycle spins fast and flimsy these days. Late Friday night, TechCrunch posted an unsourced rumour that CBS-owned Last.fm handed a "giant dump" of user data to the RIAA. The music org was said to have requested the data, which could be used to find users who are listening to as-yet-unreleased...

Sometimes good intentions don't allow you to have your cake and eat it, too. Governing.com: 13th Floor: The End of the Bake Sale: posted by Zach Patton Bakesale When I was growing up, bake sales were a fact of life for school, sports teams, academic clubs, whatever. There was even one especially...

south27thstreet.com. How much did THAT name cost? And these clever guys went out and locked down all the domain names with "Boomgaard" in it, and were prepared to pay giant money to the holder of domain rights to one particular version of the name. Whoever thought of south27thstreet.com - ...

WMD: OK, I haven't blogged in a long time, a common setback for bloggers. Work kept me more than busy, sometimes drained, and owning your own apartment and being on the strata takes more time than you realize. I needed the time off. But back now, with catching up to do -- rebuilding my small but fai...

I hate to feature the same guy twice in a row after ignoring his stuff for so long (he gets efficiently skewered pretty regularly at Folkbum's and Brew City Brawler, after all), but local right wing cheerleader/columnist Patrick McIlheran opens up such a can of "What the...!" in his latest...