If yesterday’s news about a new, ad-supported service to offer free digital music downloads seemed too good to be true, it was. For consumers, SpiralFrog’s free downloads will come with many more strings attached than Apple’s paid ones do. Users of SpiralFrog will have to sit through advertisements, and will be prevented by special software [...]
I’m back! With huge, breaking news! SpiralFrog, a new music download service, on Tuesday said it would make Vivendi’s Universal Music Group’s catalog available for free legal downloading in the United States and Canada. The new advertising-supported service, due to launch later this year, joins the ranks of rivals battling for a piece of the [...]
I would like to register a complaint! NFL referees are getting new uniforms this year, and as Uni Watch says, It ain’t pretty. For comparison, here’s what we’re all used to seeing. And here’s the new attire — short-sleeve, long-sleeve (the extra black areas appear to have been influenced by the NHL officials’ jerseys), rear [...]
The Register, on the feasibility of blowing up an airplane using simple household liquids: First, you’ve got to get adequately concentrated hydrogen peroxide. This is hard to come by, so a large quantity of the three per cent solution sold in pharmacies might have to be concentrated by boiling off the water. Only this is [...]
Rumors of Bill Cowher’s potential retirement are gaining steam. His contract runs out at the end of 2007, and he and the Steelers have historically extended their agreements two years before expiration, but at his request they’re not doing that this time around. Cowher is only 49 years old (he’ll be 50 next May), and [...]