] DETROIT (Reuters) %u2014 Rap superstar Eminem, who claims
] he could fetch more than $10 million for endorsing a
] product, is suing Apple Computer on grounds it used one
] of his hit songs in a TV advertisement without
] permission.
]
] Eight Mile Style, music publisher of the artist whose
] real name is Marshall Mathers III, filed the copyright
] infringement lawsuit last Friday in U.S. District Court
] in Detroit. It also names Viacom, its MTV subsidiary and
] TBWA/Chiat/Day advertising agency as plaintiffs.

NEWS FLASH FOR EMINEM - Just a hunch, but suing MTV PROBABLY isn't going to do wonders for future exposure on their networks.

Eminem sues Apple, MTV over iTunes ad

Commercials from the Super Bowl - without all those damn "game breaks".

LB

IFILM - Super Bowl Ads

] The day before yesterday, my wife came home with a new license
] plate frame for my car: "My other cars are on Mars."
  . . .
] I just finished working the Martian night (which today happened
] to be daytime at JPL), planning Spirit's activities for Sol 5,
] the rover's fifth day on the surface. The uplink team is doing a
] great job of getting a lot done in a short amount of time. The
] rover seems to be getting more sleep than we do...
 . . .
] I'll make additions to this site as often as living on
] Mars time and exploring an alien planet permit...

This is a new blog page that was created by my childhood friend Andy Mishkin. In it he's documenting some of the day-to-day activities at JPL. Fun reading!

Mars Roving: Andy Mishkin's Blog

] California (Reuters) -- Corpses littered the weekend box
] office in North America, but this time they weren't the
] remains of overhyped, costly flops.
]
] Instead, they belonged to hapless victims in the top
] three movies, led by teen horror "Freddy vs. Jason,"
] which shocked the industry with a surprisingly strong
] $36.4 million opening.

Damn! $36 million is unheard of for a horror flicks opening weekend. That kind of figure is more indicative of its ENTIRE box office run.

'Freddy vs. Jason' scares up weekend win

] A blur of platted hair, arms and legs dives into the pile
] of dirt and rocks, searching for hidden treasures.
]
] It takes only seconds before the first high-pitched voice
] screams, "I found one!"
]
] "Hey, here's another one," cries out a young girl. "I'm
] finding lots of them."
]
] Within minutes, plastic freezer bags are stuffed with
] chunks of gray rock containing trilobites, brachiopods
] and horn corals -- Devonian-era fossils from creatures
] that inhabited the Earth 350 million years ago.
]
] Fossil Park, which has been built in an abandoned 5-acre
] (2-hectare) quarry about 10 miles (16 kilometers) from
] downtown Toledo, is open for its second full season this
] summer.
]
] And visitors can keep what they find.

Cool!

Finding trilobites by the bucket, for free

] The office that treats mental health patients in
] Multnomah County had included Klingon on a list of 55
] languages that could be spoken by incoming patients.
]
] But the inclusion of the Star Trek language drew a spate
] of tongue-in-cheek headlines.
]
] And now the county has rescinded its call, stressing that
] it hasn't spent a penny of public money on Klingon
] interpretation.
]
] "It was a mistake, and a result of an overzealous attempt
] to ensure that our safety net systems can respond to all
] customers and clients," Multnomah County chair Diane Linn
] said in a news release.
]
] County officials had previously said that no patient had
] ever come in speaking only Klingon, but that the county
] would pay a Klingon interpreter in the unlikely case one
] was actually needed.
]
] In recent years, Klingon has gone from being a fictional
] tongue for the Star Trek television and movie series to a
] complete language, with its own grammar, syntax and
] vocabulary.

Hmmm... I wonder how long before my local jr college starts "Klingese as a second language" courses?

Laughing Boy

Sorry, Klingon interpreters, Oregon's not hiring

] SYDNEY, Australia (Reuters) - Marijuana-scented cell
] phone covers caused such a buzz in Australia that the
] company selling them had to pull them out of a technology
] fair in Sydney Wednesday.
]
]
] Local authorities and New South Wales state Premier Bob
] Carr slammed the green, marijuana-motif covers as
] promoting drug use to young people.
]
] "A big over-reaction," said Robert Punch, founder, owner
] and CEO of Corporate Phone Covers.
]
] "It's a novelty. You wouldn't go and buy a big block of
] chocolate after smelling the chocolate one," he said.
]
] Made in China and arrayed next to chocolate, strawberry,
] blueberry, cherry and rose-scented snap-on covers, the
] marijuana version sold well, though only to the over 18s,
] Punch said.
]
] "It sells better than the strawberry, much better," he
] said.

Marijuana-scented phone covers cause hangup - May. 8, 2003

Road trip anyone? :D

] The much-ballyhooed roller coaster, opening to the public
] Sunday, soars 420 feet - a third higher than the
] current record holder. And it hits 120 miles per hour,
] nearly twice as fast as most coasters.

Laughing Boy

Roller coaster lovers get a new high - 420 feet