A big thanks to Kevin at The Comic Box for his fast and efficient service in shipping back issue comics halfway around the planet
Australia’s 1.5 million pay TV subscribers will have access to more channels under a landmark agreement struck yesterday between rivals Foxtel and Optus to share their content
The World Wrestling Federation failed this week in its latest bid to be allowed to share the trademark WWF initials with the World Wide Fund for Nature
Chuck Jones, the Oscar-winning animator who helped bring Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig and Daffy Duck to life and personally created Wile E Coyote and his fruitless hunt for the Road Runner, died Friday of congestive heart failure at age 89
Sacha Baron Cohen, the actor who plays Ali G, has been branded an embarrassment to his Jewish religion because of his trademark insults and political incorrectness. The founders of jewish.co.uk, Britain’s largest Jewish web site, have sent comedian Sacha Baron Cohen an open letter saying his recent acts were damaging to their community
Sad news for Xena fans at the passing of New Zealand actor Kevin Smith. He died in a Beijing hospital after being critically injured in a fall
The DJ-I, Robot Sound System, has come out of the Media Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It’s a box of tricks — a computer spinning vinyl to the beats randomly accessed from its memory
The ACCC has stepped into a Federal Court case to challenge the international agreement on regional coding of DVDs. If the commission is successful in its bid, the result is likely to have serious global ramifications for several other major companies involved in the DVD games and movie industries
Australia’s pay-television industry, bogged down by high programming costs and weak subscriber numbers, may soon be reshaped by the potential sale or merger of Austar United Communications
Stephen King, one of the world’s most successful and imitated authors, may finally be putting down his pen. King has no desire to keep on writing for writing’s sake
The file-swapping heir to the pirate Napster web site, KaZaA, which amassed 30 million followers after Napster was shut down by the courts, has been sold to a Sydney company after being itself threatened with legal action in Europe
This time, the Force wasn’t with George Lucas. The Jedi mastermind’s Lucasfilm empire has struck out in the first round of its legal battle with some upstart pornographers. At issue: the X-rated Star Ballz cartoon
Crocodile hunter Steve Irwin will sing and dance on The Wiggles’ next CD and video in one of Australia’s dumbest show-business mergers
Record companies’ efforts to protect CDs against digital copying are beginning to draw scrutiny from lawmakers concerned that the plans might violate the law
Science may rewrite history if bones found under an Italian church prove to be those of Cannibal Count Ugolino, one of the darkest historical figures to make an appearance in Dante’s Inferno
As hundreds protested nearby, the extremely backward Christ Community Church in New Mexico burned Harry Potter and other books
A plan to turn the Harry Potter train, the Hogwarts Express, into a tourist attraction appears to have been thwarted by the threat of legal action by Warner Brothers
Prime Minister Hun Sen, who has launched a stern crackdown on Cambodia’s night life, unveiled a new punishment Wednesday for rogue karaoke bars — destruction by tanks
Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson is reportedly concerned about the title of the second film in the trilogy, The Two Towers, but won’t try to change it
Grand Theft Auto 3 is now officially banned in Australia, following a second analysis by the OFLC’s Classification Review Board. The game will be removed from retail shelves and it is now illegal for it to be offered for sale
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